Show IMPORTANT EVENT review of important Import fint events 13 vents at rome home and abroad the nations financial and currency systems lave have been the alie prevailing topic in in both houses of congress during 1 the week the attack by representative breckinrid c on representative heard friday during a dispute over the llie formers for attempt 0 to take the floor ildah the latter prevented was the sensation in the lie house mr gorans Gor Gorm minx ns speech in which lie pointed out the llie gravity of the financial condition of the lie treasury was the sensation in the senate the senate at once passed three important resolutions calling on secretary carlisle for information concerning every detail bearing on oil revenues reserves deficiencies etc A special order was invoked in the house of representatives to bring the bill to repeal the one tenth of a cent differential duty daty imposed by the new law on sugars imported from bounty paying countries and it was passed without amendment by a vote of to 31 the house took up the reilly bill to fund the debt due the government from the union pacific and kansas pacific railroads with three per cent fifty year bonds senator peffer introduced a joint resolution for a special popular election to ascertain the will of the people on financial questions A warm debate took look place in the senate on party ex trava gence mr chandler mr platt and other republican senators asserted that the appropriations for this congress would reach a million in in excess of the billion appropriated by the fifty first congress the senate committee on foreign relations decided to report a bill for the reorganization of the consular service the bill will extend civil service rules to this service service Cona congressman ressman wilson was elected senator from washington I 1 the deadlocks in delaware idalio idaho and oregon continue warren P putnam ex cx president of the exeter national bank of concord N H who was found guilty of was sentenced to five years in state prison his defalcation wrecked the bank joseph Green greenhut but president and E B lawerence were appointed receivers of the whisky trust the will of james G fair disappeared from the county clerks office in san francisco A deficit of two thousand dollars was discovered in the accounts of ex postmaster phillips of burlington N J judge E rockwood hoar died in concord mass and ward mcallister in new york FOREIGN the event abroad was the recent horrifying marine disaster the north germann lloyd lioyd steamer elbe Elb efrom from bremen for new york via southampton was sunk in collision with the british steamer CrR bratlie Cr atLie thic bound from rotterdam for aberdeen the disaster occurred in the north sea about thirty miles off the hook of haolland Ho olland it is estimated that lives were lost the japanese have captured wei hai wei another of the chinese strongholds strong holds an exiting discussion in ther the rench french 4 chamber of deputies was provoked by a motion to grant francs to defray the funeral expenses of the late marshal canrobert the grant was made bow however everl the vote standing ng to 1 A difference on oil the question his has caused the resignation of the norwegian ministry president faure of france in an address to the diplomatic corps said that ilat he be would devote his efforts to to maintain international peace the peruvian insurgents have seiz ed arequipa 1 I P A |