Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-02-23
WASHINGTON LETTER
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. !

! public exhibition in the State De-
partment Library, made into roll and
/ placed in a tin box for filing with the ar
chives of the government. The rapid
fading of the text of the declaration and
the deterioration of the parchment on
which it is engrossed, from exposure
TO the light and on account of age,
rendered it impracticable for the lie
/ partment to allow it to be exhibited
or handled longer. In lieu of the orr
! ginal document fac-simile will he
/ placed on exhibition.
BKNHAM's COURSE APPROVED
Admiral Benham's course in Bra
iii has been fully approved by
! the house committee on naval affairs
in report on the resolution intro
duced by Representative Money of
| Mississippi, q member of the commit
tee on foreign affairs The resolution
was:
"REsoLVED, That the house Of representa-
! tivcs OF the United States of America regards
with pleasure and satisfaction the prompt
! aud energetic action Of Admiral Benham In
the harbOr Of Rio Janeiro in the performance
Of his duty to protect Americans and the
commerce the United States
Our YOUNGEST Diplomat. - John
Barrett. of Oregon, who was sp-
pointed minister to Siam, is ~ years
old, and the youngest man selected
for the diplomatic service by this adj
ministration He is native OF Yer
mont, and his father has been promi-
nent in politics i'll that State.
UNCLE SANS SHOPPING BILLs.-The
secretary of the treasury sent to the
senate, i'll answer to resolution,
letter showing that the value of tex
tile fabrics purchased for the army,
the navy, the Indian bureau and the
marine hospital service for the fiscal
year 1898 amounted to 81 1854, 779.
HAWAII LEFT Our The secretary
of the treasury urges the necessity of
providing the full amount of his esti-
mate for the contingent expenses OF
foreign missions. No mention is made
of the expenses connected with the
Hawaiian incident, for which members
of congress eagerly scanned the secre-
tary's statement.
To MAKE RAILROAD TRAVEL SAFER.
Representative Draper has intro
duced bill to compel railroad corpor-
ations to use the most perfect appli
| ances on trains for the safety of their
! passengers and employees.
The BEHRING SEA AGREEMENT. -
| III, g,1,n,. gn,npl n1. Of hnfh
parties to the Behring sea arbitration
discloscs the fact that the agreement
! reached by the arbitratols is not en-
tirely satisfactory to either the United
States or Great Britain. 1t appears,
however, that the dissatisfaction is
based rather upon matters of detail
than upon any objection to the broad
principles upon which the arbitration
! was based These matters are the
cause Of concern to the two
nations, and for months past
there has been much corre-
spondence between Secretary Gresham
and Ambassadors Bayard and Psunce-
fote, with view TO their adjustment.
One of the flaws which Secretary
Gresham is said to have found, is
failure to provide penalties for infrac-
ton of provisions, and as it would be
of little avail so capture pelagic seal
ing vessels, only to have them turned
loose again upon the seal herds as
soon as the cases could be brought be-
fore the courts, the secretary is trying
to have this defect cured. The United
States is able to punish sealers brought
before its courts, but the Canadian law
is defective and thus an international
agreement is desirable.
BosToN OFFICE SEEKERS Mr.. Silas
Daggett has filed an application with
the secretary of the treasury for the
position of local inspector of hulls at
Boston, and Charles J. Collins has
made application for assistant APP
praiser at.the port of Boston.
SEVEN MONTHS RECEIPTS. The Off
cial statement of the receipts from in
ternal revenue for the first seven
months of the current fiscal year shows
a decrease of S12, ,265, 7S4 as compared
with the corresponding period of 1898.
The principal sources of internal rev.
enue were: Spirits, $47, 1862, 1922, de-
crease of 80, 3l3, 964 tobacco, $l6, 432, =
149, a decrease of 50, 7S7, ,436; fer
mented liquors, $1S, ,565, 56S, a de-
crease of 1913, 343, and miscellaneous.
$83, 1856, decrease of $26,177 The
aggregate receipts for January, 1894,
were 1896, 709 less than for January,
1893. The treasury balance is now
$3.50, All, $40, of which $l05, 645, 1922
is in gold.
The RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
The River and Harbor bill will be re-
ported to the House on March l. The
committees work is farther advanced
in this Congress than it has been for
many years The bill will carry an
appropriation of about 80, 900, 900, ex-
elusive of SO, 900. 900 in round num-
bers in the Sundry Civil bill. This
latter appropriation is expended under
the contract system, which the COM
mittee have found to be both q wise
and economical method of completing
, public works. The work on eighteen
rivers and harbors is now carried on
= by contract. Under this system con.
, tracts are made in advance and the
moneyls appropriated as the work
progresses. In many cases saving
4 of from 25 to 90 per cent. is made
under this system as compared will
the methods of previous years.
l WALKERS IMMIGRANT BILL. Repre-
sentative Walker has introduced bill
excluding immigrants who canno
speak English or rcad or write som,
4 other languages provided that familia,