Capital News

NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Washington, Sept 6.- Albert F. Childs, of Ohio, has been appointed chief clerk of the Census Office. Washington, Sept. 7.- The President has made the following appointnients: Thomas H. Anderson. of Ohio, Minister Resident and Consul-Oeneral to Bolivia. Consuls- Joseph T. Mason, of Virginia, at Mannhelm; Bernard C. MacAuley, of New York, at Managua, Nicaragua: Auleck Palmer, of the Distr.ct of Columbia, at Dresden; John D. D Little, of Texas, at Bristol. Secretarles of Legation - Edwin Dun, to Japan; Arthur W. Barrett, of Massachusetts, to Venezuela; William B. Gardner, of Indiana, Second Secretar? of Legatlon to Japan. Washington, Sept 7.- The State Department has issued a circular containlng the text of the law authorizing the holding of the International American congress here In October and also a list of the American deiegates to the same, as follows: John B. Hendersou, North Carolina; Corneiius N. BUss and Charles E. Flint, New York; Clement Studebaker, Indiana; T. Jefferson Coolidge, Maseachusetts; William H. Trescott, Bouth Carolina; Andrew Carnegie, Pennsylvania; Henry G. Da vis, West Virginia; Morris M. Estee, California, and John F. Hanson, Georgia. ■Washington-, Sept. 7.- Minister Eyan has informed the State Department that Mexico has increased the dutles on American cattle imported into that country In retaliation for the differential duty collected by the United States on Mexican vessels and Mexican eilver. Washington, Sept. 9. - PreBident Harri6on has appointed Rev. Henry G. Hall, of California, a chaplain in the array. Washington, Sept. 9.- The Cabinet adjourned at 1:45 Saturday afternoon af ter having been in session for nearly three hours. Only one questlon was discussed, that of holding an extra session of Congress. It waa decidcd not to cali a speoial íeeston. Washington, Sept 10.- The State Department has received numerous clipplng from forelgn newBpapers forwarded by United States Consuls, all of the samo tenor and against the International Americam congress which is to meet in this city next inonth. These journals profess to see in the congress a well-directed efïort to divert trade from Europe and a general menace to European industries. Washington, Sept. 10. - Eef erring to certaln newspaper statements that during the months of July and August of this year the public debt had been increased over $7,000,000, while during the same months In 1888 the debt had been decreased over 11,000,000, Secretary Windora said the iact was that the public debt had been decreaBed $20,910, 1S0 during Ju!y and August of this year. The statement, he said, arose doubtless frotn the peculiar forin of the monthly public-debt statement in which the amount of debt is given "lesa cash in the Treasury. " By this form any increasa of the cash in the freasury shows an apparent decrease of the debt; and disbursements for any purpose other than the purchase of bonds at par value, show an apparent increase of the public debt equal to the amount of such disbursements.