The debt in this passage is refering to the US's debt.
The two areas that benefited the most from Morse's invention of the telegraph and the speed it brought to communication were commerce and news. Telegraph is the long-distance transmission of messages, so of course news would travel a lot faster than the messengers at the time. Hope I helped. :)
I think it was 11 countries
Like Czechoslovakia ,Austria ,Poland Denmark ,Norway ,Belgium ,The Netherlands,France, Britain the Chanel Islands,The Soviet Union ,and Italy!
They dissolve every seat in the white house and an election is held
