The Louisville Courier-Journal, which was a gold Democratic paper four years ago, has announced that it will support the regular Democratic ticket this year.
The bill to appropriate $2,095,455, being the amount of customs collected on Porto Rican imports, to be subject to the will of the President for the prosecution of public improvements in Porto Rico, has become a law.
Gold became the sole monetary standard of the United States on March 14, when the President signed the new finance bill, which was finally passed in the House the previous day.
The answer of the State Department to the House resolution calling for information regarding certain charges made by ex-Consul Macrum was transmitted to the House February 21 by the President.
State Senator William Goebel, contestant for the office of Governor of Kentucky, was shot down on the State House grounds at Frankfort, January 30, by a hidden foe.
Senor Mabini, the strongest counsellor of Aguinaldo and his Congress in the Philippines, has addressed a letter to the correspondents in the Philippines in which he request that Congress either nominate a civil commission which may put itself in contact with the influential Filipinos, or permit a commission of Filipinos to come to Washington to express the desires of the people.
