... AMERICA. The Finance Committee of the Senate has reported against the bill for tbe abolition of the income tax. and against Mr. Sumner s bill substitute compound interest note* for legal tender, and for aWi-hing the office of Comnussioner of the Internal ...

... AMERICA. Washington, May 8. The House RoprcsentntiTes has passed a bill increasing the number of representatives to 292. The earnings of the Central Pacific Railway during the month of April amounted to 951,000 dots. ...

... AMERICA The monthly statement of the National Debt, issne«l on th> Ist iust., shows total, less money the Treasury, of 2 197,743,444) dels, being decrease during May to the extent of 12,688.088 dols. A bill repealing the import duties tea and coffee, ...

... TEMPERANCE IN AMERICA. On Tuesday night a large gathering of the members end friends of the Church of England Tem' mann Sir iety assembled at Prince's Holt, Piccadilly, to. welcome Archdeacon Farrar on his return from his visit b' the United State and ...

... UNEMPLOYED IN AMERICA. The unemployed in the United States numbered no fewer than a million at the end of last yeargannine working monody, not the criminal and idlers who are habitually out of work. This number, states the New York Christian Union, is ...

... THE POPE AND AMERICA. A letter from the Pope to the Bishops of America of the Latin race, dated Christmas Day, says the limes Vatican correspondent, was published in Rome on Wednesday evening. In looking back over his long pontificate the Pope says that ...

... CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA. A writer in The New York Freeman's Journal, Mr. J. M. Lucey, gives a very interesting account of the progress and development of Catholicism in the United States during the past year. He observes, among other things : ...

... THE IRISH IN AMERICA. Mr. Sarkville West, the British Munster at Wasfungton, has formally called the anention of the Government to the utterances et die Irish leaders in this cosetry. Hts corn mesicaties is couched in a friendly spirit, and contains no ...

... Louvain and America. The Rev. T. Jenkins, General Secretary of the National College of the Immaculate Conception at Louvain, gives the following account of the work done for America. The number of priests sent to the missions of North America, and, indeed ...

... THE CONTEST IN AMERICA. The contest over the passage of the Armstrong I aw, compelling New York railways to carry bicycles as baggage, began in November, 1895, when the chief consul of the New York State division of the League of American Wheelmen wrote ...

... ENGLAND AND AMERICA. a daily paper has given publicity to what Purports to be a letter addressed by Cardinal Vaughan to has brother, the Rev. Kenelm Vaughan, we think it right to give the letter itself. We imagine that the version referred to was a t ...

... THE POPE AND AMERICA. There has been issued, says The Aew York Freeman's Journal, an official statement in regard to a letter sent March 10 last by the Catholic Bishops of the province of New York to the Pope, expressing their gratitude for the letter ...