Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Harrison will probably spend next Sunday at Cape May, and later in the week will move the family to Deer Park, where h e has leased the cottage Of ex-Senator Davis. The house is of wood, and exceedingly unpretentious. It is~fwb~ apd "a "Balfstories in height, and is painted a sage-green tint, with a roof of red shingles. The broad piazza is provided with hammocks, in which the President can rest fully or nap when inclined to do so. The furnishing of the cottage is exceedingly plain, but none the less comfortable. Straw matting and Smyrna rugs cover the floors, and the bedroom suits are of the most rustic pattern. Willow wickers, with bamboo tables, are to add to the convenience of the President’s family. The White House gardener is beautifying the front piazza with running vines. The President’s nearest neighbor will be Stephen B. Elkins, of New York. The American commissioners to the Samoan conference at Berlin have received instructions from Mr. Blaine, in relation to the nrotocol d rawn up by the conference. Mr. Blaine disagrees with several provisions’of the protocol, and also is of the opinion that England and Germany have not gone for enough in respeet to the rights conceded to the United States. Judging from what has passed, and especially in view of the American declarations the commissioners have probably a large amount of work still before them There is a material difference of opinion on various points between the three powers. The Secretary of the Treasury, Wednesday, appointed John Hughson, a skilled laborer in the Treasury Department at a $720 per annum. Hughson was porter of one of the Pullman cars caught in the flood at Johnstown, Pa., and it was main tv through his efforts that Mrs. E. W. Halford and her daughter were enabled to reach a place of safety in the mountains. His appointment is due to the efforts of the Presitlen t'sprivatrßecretaTyr"~““"*'“ The following consuls were appointed, Baturdky: Wakefield Ttrye, of Maine, at Halifax; Joseph A. Leonard, of Minnesota, at Shanghai; Zachary T. Sweeney, of Indiana, at Constantinople; Oliver H. Dockery, of North Carolina, at Rio de Janeiro; Oliver V. H. Simmons, of Colorado, at St. Petersburg; George W Roosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Brussels; Levi W. Brown, of Ohio, at G lasgow. A very decided effort is to be made in Congress the coming session to extend the interstate commerce law so that it will take in the express companies. While the law has compelled railroads to carry freight for a short distance for as low a rate as it carries it for a longer one over the same route, the express companies are still exempt, and their extortions are sti 11 carried on. Senator Hoar says that the impression that the fortifications at Esquimalt, Vancouver, were a menace to the United States, were unfounded, as the Island has not the natural advantages necessary to make a formidable fortification. He was satisfied that the ties of affection between Canada and the United States are a guarantee of peace.