Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

F. D. Higbee of Chicago and J. M. Brinker of Buffalo are in Washington to induce President McKinley, if possible, to pose for a heroic statue to be made of solid gold for exhibition at the Paris exposition of 1900. Charles W; Smiley’s wife, who is suing for divorce at Washington, alleges that her husband made out “a list of petty offenses against him. for which she should pay fines varying from 5 cents to sl, requiring her to agree to pay the same cheerfully and without appeal or argument as to the right or wrong thereof.” One of the most important features of the Bering sea negotiations, not heretofore disclosed, is that in the event that Great Britain and Canada consent to the suspension of pelagic sealing for one year the United States will agree to a suspension of all killing of seals for one year on the Pribylof Islands, constituting the American seal possessions in Bering sea. Cushman K. Davis, United States Senator from Minnesota and chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said that immediately upon the convening of Congress he would move the adoption of the Hawaiian annexation bill. He said he was confident it would be adopted, although he had made no canvass of the Senators to learn their sentiments. He said he was confident the report that only 5 per cent of the people of Hawaii favor annexation was incorrect, and he spoke with enthusiasm of the importance of the possession of the Sandwich islands by the United States.