People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Unless the Turkish government makes prompt reparation for the burnng of the American mission buildings at Harpoot the indemnity of $400,000 demanded by this government will be collected by force. The seizure of the mstom house at Smyrna is talked of. In the senate Thursday Mr. Baker, the new republican senator from Kansas, introduced a resolution that the Monroe doctrine is the policy of this government. No reference was made to Venezuela,, but its plain meaning bears on thip dispute. Mr. Livingston as Georgia introduced a red-hot resolution on the boundary dispute in the bouse which, if adopted, would result in most serious complications. The resolution referred directly to the reported advance of Great Britain on the territory of Venezuela. The subject of the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands was broacl'.cd in the House at Washington Wednesday by Mr Spalding (R„ Mich.) in the form of a resolution. Senator Caffery of Louisiana has made a letter public written to him by President Cleveland the night before the bond issue was made. The president admits that he had taken steps to inform himself of the best methods of selling bonds, but he indignantly denied that any arrangement whatever ha<| been entered into with the Morgan or any other syndicate.