PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.

December 6.-The regular session of the Fifty-fifth Congress is opened; President McKinley's Message is read in both branches, and adjournment is taken in respect to the memory of Senator George and Representative Wright.

December 7.-In the Senate Mr. Money (Dem., Miss.) is sworn in....In the House an attack is made on the civil-service law by Representative Grosvenor (Rep., O.).

December 8.-Bills to prohibit pelagic sealing are introduced in both branches. In the Senate Mr. Allen (Pop., Neb.) criticises President McKinley's Cuban policy....In the House the pension appropriation bill is introduced.

December 9.-The Senate adopts a resolution requesting President McKinley to order a postponement of the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad....The House debates the pension appropriation bill.

December 10.-The House of Representatives only in session; the pension appropriation bill is passed.

December 13.-The Senate reaches an agreement to take a vote on the immigration bill January 17....In the

ATTORNEY-GENERAL M'KENNA, OF CALIFORNIA.
(Nominated for U. S. Supreme Court.)

House the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill is reported.

December 15.-The Senate passes the bill prohibiting pelagic sealing by American citizens....The House debates the legislative appropriation bill.

December 16.-The House, by a vote of 148 to 78, passes the Senate bill to prohibit pelagic sealing....An appro priation of $175,000 for relief of suffering in the Klondike region is voted.

December 18.-The Senate and House agree to the conference report on the Klondike relief resolution, appropriating $200,000....Both branches adjourn for the holiday recess.

NOMINATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.

December 2.-Blanche K. Bruce, of Mississippi, Register of the Treasury.

December 16.-Attorney-General McKenna, of California, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, Comptroller of the Currency.

December 17.-William W. Thomas, Jr., of Maine, Minister to Sweden and Norway; Hamilton King, of Michigan, Minister to Siam; Nathan B. Scott, of West Virginia, Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

December 18.-William Penn Nixon, of Illinois, Collector of Customs, Chicago.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-AMERICAN. November 29.-The aldermen of Brooklyn, N. Y., vote grants of valuable street-railway franchises.... Boston Republicans nominate Edwin Upton Curtis for mayor.

November 24.-The Austrian Reichsrath closes a riotous session.

November 25.-The disorder in the lower house of the Austrian Reichsrath is resumed.

November 26.-Spanish royal decrees extend to Cuba the suffrage law of 1890.

November 28.-The Austrian ministry resigns office; Baron Gautsch von Frankenthurm is directed to form a new ministry.

November 30.-In his speech opening the German Reichstag, Emperor William emphasizes the importance of increasing Germany's naval strength....The members of the new Austrian Cabinet, with Baron Gautsch von Frankenthurm as Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, are announced.

December 1.-The city of Montevideo is placed under martial law, and several prominent citizens are exiled by decree of Señor Cuestas, President ad interim of Uruguay....M. Darlan, Minister of Justice in the French Cabinet, resigns office....Because of continued rioting the city of Prague is declared under martial law.

December 2.-M. Milliard, Senator for the Department of Eure, is appointed Minister of Justice in the French Cabinet to succeed M. Darlan....The Italian Chamber of Deputies appoints a commission to investigate the charges against ex-Premier Crispi in connection with

BARON VON HOLLEBEN.

(New German Ambassador at Washington.) November 30.-Boston Democrats renominate Mayor Josiah Quincy, and adopt a platform favoring city ownership of gas plants and street railways.

December 6.-All the members of the Louisiana Board of Health holding office by virtue of the governor's appointment tender their resignation on account of friction resulting from the enforcement of the yellowfever regulations.

December 7-Elections are held in a number of Massachusetts cities.

December 13.-Chicago aldermen pass an ordinance raising their salaries from $3 a week to $1,500 a year.

December 14.-Democratic members of the House of Representatives resolve to oppose all efforts to retire the greenbacks or to extend the privileges of the national banks.

December 15.-A call is issued for a conference of the two wings of the Populist party at St. Louis, January 12, 1898.

December 16.-The National Civil Service Reform League meets in Cincinnati.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-FOREIGN. November 22.-The Greek ministry is defeated in the Boule on the question of appointing a committee of inquiry relative to the war with Turkey.

BARON GAUTSCH VON FRANKENTHURM. (The new Austrian Premier.)

the Bank of Naples and the alleged illegal traffic in decorations.

December 4.-The French Chamber of Deputies confirms the authority of the judgment rendered in the Dreyfus case.... The Italian Cabinet resigns.

December 6.-The German Reichstag begins debate of the naval bill....King Humbert intrusts the forming of a new Italian ministry to the Marquis di Rudini. December 10.-The budget is submitted in the German Reichstag.

December 12.-The entire Haytian Ministry resigns. December 14.-The Chilian Cabinet resigns. December 15.-The Ministry of Holland is defeated in the Chamber of Deputies on a motion to authorize the building of new warships.

December 17.-The French Chamber of Deputies fixes ten hours as a day's work for railroad employees.

December 18.-Trial of French Deputies for complicity in Panama Canal scandals is begun.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

November 22.-The United States consents to suspend sealing on the Pribilof Islands for one year, as a condition to secure the suspension of pelagic sealing for that length of time.

November 23.-A party of English tourists, including Robert Barr, the novelist, is seized by Turkish soldiers at a small port of Asiatic Turkey near Antioch, imprisoned, and grossly maltreated. Great Britain remonstrates with Turkey.

November 26.-The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approves the treaty for arbitration of the boundary dispute with France.

November 27.-Canada replies to the proposition for the suspension of pelagic sealing that such action can be taken only by the British Parliament.

November 29.-Baron von Holleben, the new German Ambassador to the United States, presents his credentials to President McKinley.

December 1.-Minister Angell renews the demand of the United States for indemnity from Turkey for the pillaging of American missions in Armenia.

December 2.-Negotiations for a treaty of reciprocity between the United States and Peru are begun.

December 3.-Two hundred German marines take possession of the Chinese city of Kiao Chau.

December 4.-The final treaty of peace between Turkey and Greece is signed at Constantinople.

DR. CAMPOS SALLES.

(Leading candidate for Presidency of Brazil.)

COUNT GOLUCHOWSKI,

Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs.

December 6.-Two German cruisers at Port au Prince present the ultimatum of their government allowing Hayti eight hours in which to pay the Lueders indemnity; Hayti complies with the demand.

December 8.-It is announced that France and Great Britain have reached an agreement as to the Upper Nile territory in Africa.

December 9.-It is announced that China complies with Germany's demands and that the latter will receive as a coaling station the Lam-Lah Inlet, opposite the island of Formosa.

December 16.-The treaty of peace between Turkey and Greece is ratified by the Sultan and by the King of Greece.

December 18.-A Russian squadron enters Port Arthur with the consent of China.

INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, AND FINANCIAL DOINGS.

November 23.-The Buffalo City Gas Company is incorporated, with a capital stock of $7,000,000.

November 24.-In London a conference is begun between representatives of the striking engineers and their employers....The stock of the United Traction Company of Pittsburg, amounting to $20,000,000, is sold to a syndicate of capitalists.

November 26.-The wage-scale of the Missouri Pacific system of railroads is restored to what it was before the reductions of 1893.

November 28.-Two steamers bring to Seattle from Alaska about $130,000 in drafts and gold-dust.

November 30.-Worsted manufacturers in and about Olneyville, R. I., restore the wage-scale of 1893 in their mills, thus granting an increase of 20 per cent. in the pay of about 25,000 operatives.

December 1.-The New England Gas and Coke Company signs an agreement with the Dominion Coal Company for the delivery of 800,000 tons of Nova Scotia coal annually in Boston.

December 3.-A company with a capital of $3,000,000

is formed in Buffalo, N. Y., to make and sell illumi

nating gas.

December 7.-A company is organized in Chicago to maintain a permanent exhibition of the products of Western States and Territories.

December 8.-The cotton manufacturers of Fall River vote to reduce the wages of about 25,000 employees, on account of the depressed state of the market....Claus Spreckels announces the purchase of 12,000 acres of land in Monterey County, Cal., much of which will be devoted to the growing of sugar beets.

December 9.-The price of December wheat is forced up to $1.09 on the Chicago market....A thousand cottonmill operatives strike at Atlanta, Ga.

December 13.-The ballot taken by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers of Great Britain is practically unanimous against accepting the propositions made by the employers.

December 14.-The National Board of Trade meets in Washington, D. C.

December 17.-The conference between the striking engineers and their employers, in London, reaches a provisional agreement....The Monetary Commission in session at Washington closes its deliberations.

December 18.-Western woolen goods manufacturers form an association to fix the price of raw wool.

THE LATE MRS. NANCY ALLISON M'KINLEY. OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH November 22.-Fire destroys property in the ware house district of Melbourne, Australia, to the value of $7,500,000.

December 1.-An explosion of fire-damp in a mine in Rhenish Bavaria kills 30 miners and seriously injures 40 others.

December 3.-Yale wins the intercollegiate debate with Harvard.

December 6.-Two soldiers make an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the Sultan of Turkey.

December 16.-A. C. Harmsworth presents his ship, the Windward, to Lieut. R. E. Peary for use in arctic exploration.

December 17.-The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court approves the tunnel plan of rapid transit, but requires a bond of $15,000,000 from the con

tractor.

December 18.-Pardee Hall, at Lafayette College. Easton, Pa., is nearly destroyed by fire.

OBITUARY.

November 21.-Charles Edward (Baron) Pollock, a judge of her majesty's High Court of Justice, 74.... Gen. Albert Ordway, in command of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, 55.

November 22.-Mrs. John Boyle O'Reilly, 46. November 23.-Mrs. Barnabas Brough, the English novelist, 95.... Gen. Sir Arthur James Herbert, 77. November 25.-Dr. Miner Raymond, one of the founders of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 70 ....Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore, K.C.B., tired, 75.

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December 1.-Col. W. D. Chipley, a well-known railroad man and politician of Florida, 60.

December 2.-Prof. Alonzo S. Kimball, of the Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute, 54.

December 5.-Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins, poet, novelist, and critic, 50....Admiral Baron von Sternect, commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

December 6.-Marie F. O. B. de Fourtou, former French Minister of the Interior, 62.

December 8.-Chief Justice Asbury B. Conaway, of the Wyoming Supreme Court.

December 9.-Rear Admiral Joseph F. Green, U.S.N., retired, 86....George Julian Harney, English Chartist leader, 81.

December 10.-John Loughborough Pearson, English

THE LATE ALPHONSE DAUDET. (Distinguished French author.)

architect and member of the Royal Academy....Asa W. Tenney, United States District Judge of the Eastern District of New York, 64.

December 11.-Gardiner G. Hubbard, director in the Bell Telephone Company, 75....Daniel William Powers, banker and prominent citizen of Rochester, N. Y., 79. December 12.-Nancy Allison McKinley, mother of the President, 88.

December 13.-Charles Butler, New York philanthropist (see page 54), 96....Mrs. Janet Carlyle Hanning, sister of Thomas Carlyle, 85.

December 14.-Alexander McDonald, of Virginia, former United States Minister to Persia, 70. .... Prof. Arthur Palmer, of Trinity College, Dublin, 56.

December 15.-Gen. Sir Henry Lynedoch Gardiner, of the British Army, 77.

December 16.-Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and dramatist, 57.... William Terriss (Lewin), a favorite English actor, 46.

December 18.-Washington Hesing, proprietor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung, 48.

December 19.-Sir Frank Lockwood, Liberal member of the British Parliament, 51.