Abstract

The Week

The article reports on some political developments in the U.S. The currency scheme, which proposes that the Government shall make a new issue of bonds bearing a very low rate of interest, and sell these to the public at par, has been mooted several times. Mr. W.D. Foulke, Chairman of the Civil-Service Reform League's Executive Committee, has addressed a letter to Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of the Census, over the national census issue, which puts that functionary in a very unpleasant light. The banquet to ex-Senator of Ohio on the occasion of his seventy-seventh birthday, was a merited tribute to a man who is highly honored throughout the country. The attempt to call in question the validity of the McKinley Tariff bill because of the omission of a paragraph in the engrossed copy of the bill has attracted some attention abroad.