Show General Capital News Washington 28lhe ways and means committee has 8greed vj favorably fa-vorably report the je olutijn providing pro-viding for the appointment cf a committee of five members to Inn vestiga e the claims between the Aiaska Commercial Company and the United States the object being to learn whether the compioy baa complied and is now complying with its contract with the govtrnment Secretary Frelioghuysen has received re-ceived a cable message from C csul Mason at Marseilles as follows Four deaths in Toulon The cholera chol-era has reached Mars Wps Six deaths ta Saturday at noon Weather Wea-ther very warm A general exodus from the city ha began Kembers of the Siamese embassy called at tte White House and Department De-partment of State today and took official leave of the President and Secretary of Slate prior to their departure de-parture for 8i m They leave Wash igton for New STerk tomorrow The President appointed E C Ferguson eoccmssiorier to represent the Territory cf Washington at the New Orleans centennial excoaitiou with A P Sharp as alternate The committee appointed by the House to ascertain if W H English had used improper means on the floor of the House to influence members mem-bers to vote to seat his son as a member from Indianaj decided today to-day to reopen the cage When Millard Mil-lard asked English daring his examination ex-amination before the committee if he had gone to members at tbeir homes to urge them to vote for his son it was objected to and the question ques-tion was ruled out After the case had closed the Democrats thought over the matter and decided that the failure to answer the question would be looked upon as an admission that the accusation was true and it would be an injustice to Mr Eng lish to not let him reply So on Tuesday next the case will be reopened re-opened and English will be put on the stand The Postoffice Department has been informed by the Italian government gov-ernment that in view of the outbreak out-break of Asiatic cholera in France mails from this country intended for delivery in Italy must be eaM closed in tarred sacks This precaution pre-caution is regarded necessary because be-cause Italian malls from this country coun-try pass through England and France The postmaster in New York has b en instructed accordingly accord-ingly The majority report of the House committee on appropriation t appropriated > ap-propriated 3270000 for fortifications fortifica-tions The minority report sgned by all the Democrats on the committee com-mittee except Ellis and Hancock appropriated 595000 The minority minor-ity give as a reason for the emaller appropriation made that it would be useless to waste public money to enter upon the construction or alteration al-teration of fortifications in advance of a determination of the exact character of armament to be po vided for them |