The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Happenings st the National Capitol Due
 ing Che Fnss week.
4 NEW CABLE
To the west Indies is Proposed wm Bry shs Portage Cansls-- At the rrsasury
 Department.

Washington, dispatches of the 25th say: A new cable to the West Indies is among the probabilities of the near future, MT. F. N. Claiborne, the electrician of the government of Canada, having recommended the construction of new line after visiting all the West Indies and collecting statistics as to the volume of business that may be expected from each island. His re- port has been submitted to . London syndicate. and 1t is under stood that the necessary capital is at hand. The line recom- mended will be an extension of the cable between Halifax and Bermuda, and will terminate at DeInarara, touching on it's route Fortune Island and the Island of Jamaica, and pass ing through the Caicos Passage. It is expected that the rate from New York or London to Jamaica will be 3 shillings . word, while the rate from London to Demarara will be 1 shillings word.
 Assistant Secretary Grant. of the war department, has reviewed the papers in the Portage (Lake Supe- rior) canals case and has decided to accept the canals for the government and begin Improvements on them. He has sent the papers to the treas- ury department to have the allot- ment required for the purchase ap- proved. The title to some of the land is not entirely clear, but if the treasury will make the allotment the war department will take the canals immediately. The government will pay $350, ,000 for the canals.
 Applications for authority to or ganize the Farmers' and MerchaDts' National Bank, of Cowens City, Kan, has been filed with the comp troller of the currency.
 The comptroller of the currency has appointed John c. Goodloe, ST., of Barton, Ala, receiver of the Flor ence (Ala.) National Bank.
 Mrs. Susan Gale Cooke, who suc- ceeded Miss Phoebe Couzins as sec- retary of the board of lady managers of the Worlds Columbian Exposi- ton, has filed voucher for $38A at the treasury department for salary up to June 30. The voucher is accom- panied by a certificate from the sec- retary of the commission. The doc uments were referred to the solicitor of the treasury for an opinion as to the legality of the claim.
 At the request of the British min ister the secretary of the treasury has directed a suspension of the order for the deportation to Chiua of a China man recently convicted at Port Hu- ron, Mich, of illegal entry into the United States, pending further in- vestigation of the case. It is asserted that the Chinaman had acquired . legal residence in Canada, and should pc allowed to return to that country.
 A letter has been received here by the representatives of the insurgent party in Chili from Fierro, formerly Cnilian minister of state, member of congress and minister to Brazil un- der Balnlaceda, saying that he has severed his official connection with the Chilian government on account of Balmaceda's vicious acts. Mr. Fierro is now in New York and will shortly come to Washington.
 Assistant Secretary Spaulding has issued . circular 10 custo ms officers, which he says that lottery tickets and the printed advertisements, etc., which usually accompany them, are liable to seizure and forfeiture as prohibited importations. They should be held and treated as forfeited goods.
 The representative citizens com mittee, selected for the purpose, has prepared an address extending to the G. A. R. 8 hearty invitation to hold it's national encampment in 1892 in this city.
 There is very spirited contest going on in the treasury department at the present time over the moro or less lucrative and fancy office of chief clerk of the department. MT. Bracket, who has been filling the of- flee of chief clerk for some time past, is about to retire, whether volrnta- rily or in response to Q suggestion, is not exactly known at the present time, but it Is believed that he Is go- ing in response to sug- gestion. The principal candi- dates for the place are Maj. Dan McCauley, formerly mayor of Inc dianapolis, and Charles Hedges, who calls himself of Texas. Hedges re- cord was for coupls of years in Texas as an agent of the Associated Press. While there he dsbbled somewhat in the negro Republican politics of that state. During the campaign of 1888 Hedges was sent to Indianapolis as the agent of the Associated Press to do the service of the Republican party, and, of course, received promises of great offices and much patronage in return in the event of Harrison being elected.
 We'll, Harrison was elected and Hedges came on to Washington on the same train with him. Hedges swelled around here immensely and
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