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Summary of the Week's News

This article presents news briefs of the year 1887. Representative George E. Adams of Illinois has introduced a bill in Congress for the exclusion of alien Socialists, which provides in substance that any alien attempting to overthrow the laws of the United States, or to incite to what the Constitution calls domestic violence by advising murder or unlawful destruction of life or property, shall be removed from the United States. The annual report of the Brooklyn Bridge trustees shows that the receipts for traffic for the year were $850,724, against $743,539 for 1886. The Dutch Government introduced in the Second Chamber, December 20, a bill requiring the Dutch East Indies to contribute 4,000,000 forms annually to the exchequer.