Secretary Root has been in correspondence with Governor Taft regarding the construction of a system of railroads in the Philippine Islands, amounting to some six hundred miles.
Acting Secretary Loomis has been notified by the Russian Charge d' Affaires that hereafter passports issued to American citizens who expect to visit Russia will be vised only at the Russian embassy in Washington and the consulates in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Injunction proceedings, it is reported, will be begun if any further attempt is made by Philadelphia city councils to send the old Liberty Bell on further excursions like the recent one on the occasion of the celebration of Bunker Hill Day at Boston.
Last week week the European squadron of the American Navy, after the conclusion of its visit to the manoeuvres of the German fleet at Kiel, proceeded to Portsmouth, England.
