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Show iVa.sliiujtou Ailvlces. Washington, 27. Enlistments for , the marine corps have been stopped, j The corps is below the number au- ; thorized by law. The monitor Mohawk, at the navy yard since the war, will be taken to New York and fitted for sea. Chicago, 27. A Washington special says the Oregon opponents of the confirmation con-firmation of Williams are renewing their efiurts during the recess. They have not as vet filed any additional charges, but declare his rejection certain. cer-tain. There is but little doubt that he will retire from the cabinet in the event of his rejection. The same special say3 information informa-tion baa reached here that the U. S. naval and military officers who were sent last summer to report upon the Pearl river harbor, in the Sandwich Islands, obtained a draft from that Government ceding the harbor to the U-S. for a naval station, but that the proposed treaty was revoked through British influence. Congressmen Wilson, of Indiana, and Eldredge, of Wisconsin, of the sub-committee (appointed by the judiciary ju-diciary committee of the House, left Washington to-night for New Orleans, Or-leans, to investigate the charges brought against U. S. district judge Durell, by parties seeking his impeachment. |