Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-03
WASHINGTON news.

There is some talk of appointing j. G. Du-
nne, who recently retired from the position
of chief of engineers, to be superintendent of
the coast survey, an Office that has been va
cant for over three years.
Gen. r. B. Ayres, colonel of the Cd United
States artillery, has lost his mind. and is now
confined in a private asylum in New York
1t is not thought that he can live much
longer
The Washington Sunday Herald says: "a
rumor has gained circulation around the
navy department that some unpleasantness
has again sprung up between Secretary
Whitney and Rear Admiral Luce, growing
out of the pOstponement of the Joint army
and navy manpuyres. No particulars are
obtainable, but it is the belief of those in a
position likely to know that Rear Admiral
Luce will shortly be relieved from the COM
mand Of the squadron
The members of the house committee on
rivers and harbors and of the senate COM
mittee on comm rec are holding the river
and harbor bin at the Capitol until the presi-
dent returns II the bill had been sent to
the president when it was ready last week.
the. 10 days would have been
from his fishing trip. Then he would have
had to examine the bill in a hurry. They
want him to examine it carefully, so they
are keeping it back until he returns. They
believe that he will sign it, large as the
amount is. They say it contains none of the
schemes he objected to in the river and har
Dor bill of last year.
The state department has been informed of
the establishment of telegraphic communica-
ton between the Dutch colony of Curacao
and North America. Congratulatory tele-
grams over the event were exchanged be-
tween the president of San Domingo, the
governor of Curacao and Secretary Bayard.
The senate committee on library agreed to
report favorabIy Mr.. McPherson's bill APP
propriatng $50, 600 to be expended by the
Princeton Battle Monument association in
erecting on the battlefield of Princeton a
memorial monument, provided the associa-
ton shall first raise $50 900 for that purpose.
The president vetoed the bill granting a
pension to Bridget Foley, widow of a sol
! dier, on the ground that his death was in no
wise due to military servica The president
also vetoed the senate bill 2644, granting the
right of way to the Fort Smith, Paris &
! Dardanele Railway company through the
Indian territory from Fort Smith, Ark, to
or near Baxter Springs, Kan, on the gene
| raj ground that it is in violation of the spirit
of the treaty of 1866 with the Cherokee ma
! ton.
The senate on Thursday resumed the con-
sideration of the army appropriation bill,
! the pending question being on the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Hawley, appropriating
$75OGO0 FOR an armory gun factory at
Watervlet arsenal, N Y; S., 900, 900 for the
purchase of steel for high power coast guns;
$500, 900 for the purchase of submarine
mines, and 800, 900 for submarine controlla-
Bile torpedoes. The amendment was agreed
to without division, and the bill was re-
ported back to the senate.
The house passed on Friday Leopold
Morses bill authorizing the government to
accept trust companies guarantees of the
the government The bill is similar to the
acts passed by a large number of state legis-