Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, the "father of Congress," delivered what is said to have been the greatest speech of his life in the United States Senate, April 17, on the Philippine question.
The following message of sympathy, signed by twenty-two thousand pupils of the Philadelphia public schools, was sent to President Kruger by a special messenger, who started April 9:—
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.
