Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Thf. Treasury Department has decided that Chinese seamen may bo allowed to land on our shores without a certificate, for the purpose of shipping on a return voyage as soon as possible. The decision was brought out by the refusal of the Collector at Niirfolk to allow Ah Say, a Chinaman rescued from the ill-fated American ship Frank A. Thayer, and shipped by the United Stab s Consul at. Barbadoes, to land. Figures in-the office of the Commissioner of Internul Revenue, says a Washington dispatch, show that the collections thus fur during this fiscal year amount to $3,100,000 more than last year, while the expenses of collection have been considerably reduced. Had it not been for labor agitations the increase, it is thought, would have been much larger. The House Committee on Labor has agreed to report the Crain educational bill as a substitute for the Willis-Blair bill. The Crain bill appropriates $7,500,000 a year for ten years from the receipts of the sales of public lands for popular education within the States on the basis of illiteracy. Secretary Whitney haß written to the officers in charge of the now naval cruisers, calling attention to the delay in completing the Atlanta, and asking that, she be put in condition for sea ns soon as possible. Gen. Syr her, an ex-Congressman from New Orleans, testified in the Ban-Elec trio investigation, and confirmed Prof. Bell’s statement that the New York World newspaper article was composed by E. N. Hill, a lawyer-lobbyist lately from Arkansas. White!vw Rei<t, of the New York Tribune, testified that the first article concerning Attorney General Garland’s connection with the Pan-Electric Company had been prepared by Major Clark, one of-Gw Tribune » Washington correspondents. The Tribune had not paid anything for,,'the matter. T. C. Crawford, the Washington correspondent of the XewYork World, testified that he obtained "the facts on which he based Iris letter, printed in the World and headed “ Loud Call for Mr. Goode,” from a United States Senator. He declined to tell the Senator's name without his consent. He had obtained the original history of the case from E. N. Hill. IN the telephone investigation at Washing', on. Speaker Carlisle testified that lie was notified "of his election as a director in the Rogers Telephone Company, nnd that SIOO,OOO in stock had been placed to his credit for such services 'as he might render. He replied that while he remained in Congress he would not he interested in any enterprise requiring legislative action. Represent dive Samuel J, Randall testified that he had no distinct recollection of having received either a letter or stock; from Dr. Rogers. Representative Abram S. Hewitt testified that he had been solicited to emlwirk in the Pan-Electric Company and had helm offered a tenth interest, hut had declined.