Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-31
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The comptroller of the currency has Az
thorized the Colebrook National bank of
New Hampshire to begin business with
capital of $75, ,000
News from San Francisco is to the effect
that while there is reason to believe that the
new cruiser Charleston will ultimately sue
ceed in fulfilling the contract requirement,
much remains to be done upon the vessel
The present air pump must be replaced by
pump of another type. The defective slides
must be altered in design and other changes
made. As the same troubles were expert
enced in the case of the Naniwakan, the
Charlestons prototype, the inference is that
they arise from faults in the drawings fur
nished by the English designers.
Attorney General Miller has given an
opinion to the secretary of the treasury that
there is no provision of law under which
national banks can be established in Okla
homa at the present time. One of the re
quirements of the national banking law is
that three-fourths of the directors of a new
national bank shall have resided in the
state, territory or district in which the asso-
citation is to be located for at leasto year
preceding their election as directors 1t is
impossible Of course to meet this require
ment in the case of Oklahoma banks, as that
territory has been opened to settlement only
about month. An effort will probably be
made to secure legislation on this subject.
The United States revenue steamer Rush
will soon sail for Behring sea, where she will
protect our interests in the Alaskan seal
fisheries.
Capt. P. B. Borden of New Bedford who
has been appointed superintendent of the
proposed refuge station at Point Barrow,
Alaska, has received his final instructions
He has left for San Francisco and will take
passage in the revenue steamer Bear, which
will sail for Point Barrow about June g. He
will select two asst tants in San Francisco
L new station is open to navigation for
two months only during the year and the
three men who keep it will be isolated en-
| tirely from the rest of the world during the
remaining 10 months of the year.
The secretary Of state is in receipt Of a
dispatch from Mr.. Bragg, the United States
minister to Mexico Of the Sd inst. enclosing
a communication from the Mexican secretary
! of the treasury to the Mexican congress,
showing that the house of Bloichroeder, had
accepted the option for the 81, 900, 900 to
complete the 6,800000 loan.
The secre ary of the treasury has accepted
the bid of Crane & Co., of Boston to furnish
distinctive paper for United States securities
for the fiscal year 1890 at 3S18 cents PER
pound. They hold the present contract, and
put in the only bid that was received.
! lU mas Deen ueClueu at Une navy depart
ment that it will be impossible to grant the
request of the superintendent of the Naval
academy, that the vessels of the North At
lantic squadron be sent to Annapolis at
the time of the graduating exercises. The
vessels are pretty widely scattered, and
those now near at hand are being over
hauled.
The navy department has completed and
will soon issue advertisements calling for
proposals for the construction Of three new
cruisers, sli shtly larger than the Yorktown
and of 1000 tons burden. The limit Of cost
fixed in the appropriation act is $3.50, 600 for
each vessel. As they will be longer than the
Yorktown, it is expected they will be more
powerful and faster.
The ordnance bureau of the Navy depart.
ment has completed two of the 10-inch steel
breech-loading rifles for the monitor Mianto-
nomah. These are the largest and most pow
erfully built guns yet turned out for the
navy. One of them is at Annapolis await
ing trial. The other has been fully tested
with gratifying results, as it compares favor
ably With ihe best products Of renowned
European ordnance works.
Secretary Window has signed the sailing
orders of the revenue steamer Rush. direct
ing that she sail Immediately upon receipt Of
her instructions to Ounalaska, and then to
cruise diligently in Behring sea for the pur-
p7se of warning all persons against entel ing
such waters for the purpose of violating
section 1856 of the revised statutes, and ar
resting all persons and seizing all vessels
found to be or to have been engaged in any
violation of the law of the United States
therein.
Tee u. S. S. Boston, now at New York,
will be ordered to Hayti in day or two in
command of Capt O'Kane. Secretary
Tracy says that the orders are in pursuance
of his policy of relieving frequently the YES
sells on the West India station, when they
are exposed to yellow fever.
The secretary of state is in receipt of a
letter from the Hawaiian king, expressing
the deep-felt sympathy of his government
and people with those of the United States
in the loss of so many brave and devoted
officers and seamen at Samoa. This letter has
been suitably acknowledged by the president.
1t has been decided at the navy depart
ment that the remains of the inventor Erics-
N shall be given ack to his native land on
a national ship, and it is understood that the
Chicago, the finest of the new vessels, will
take them across the Atlantic. This fine
ship will then join the European squadron
as the flagship of Commodore j. G. Walker,
the present head of the bureauo Of navigation,
who will be assigned to that command next
autumn.
The president has appointed b. f. Gilkeson
of Pennsylvania, second comptroller of the
treasury; S. B. Holiday of Pennsylvania
commissioner of customs treasury dApart-
ment, and David Martin collector of internal
revenue for the Philadelphia district; G.. s.
Zane of Utah to be chief justice of the SUI.
preme court of the territory of Utah: j. w
Heron of Ohio to be attorney of the United
States for the southern district of Ohio
The Canadian Pacific Railroad company
has applied to the secretary of the treasury
to be bonded as common carrier between
ports of the United States, and the applica
tion has been referred to the solicitor of the
treasury for examination and report.
The first three places in New England t.
be selected as points at which new life sta
tions will be built are Willis Sands, N. H.
Cuttyhunk, Mass, and Plum Island, neal
Newbuiyport Mass. The plans as already
prepared contemplate stations costing be
tween $4,000 and $5000
An attempt is being made in Washington
to modify the civil service rules by exempt
ing laborers- elevator conductors, ETC., from
its operations.
The secretary of the navy has given tn,
commandant of the Mare Island navy yarC
discretionary powers as to the disposition O
the officers from the Samoan wrecks.
H. E. Fiz of Maine, has been appointed
postoffice inspector. He IL the first post
office inspect r appointed since this brancl
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