Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The President, tired of mob interference with United States officers in Florida, haa directed Marshal Weeks to enforce the' low, promising him the full support of the administration. Congressman Owen and Stomp and Senator Squire, of the sub-committee on immigration, have returned to Washington, Mr. Owen expects to have an immigration bill ready for Congress within thfc next! l two weeks. In speaking of the proposed | bill he said: “New York and New Eng land are suffering f?om the influx of a* class of emigrants who remain here only a] few years, living in the meanwhile likai paupers and intent only on hoarding and. scraping together every cent they can,’ and then returning home. This is particularly true of Italians and Hungarians,, and they do the country, far more harm than good. No emigrant should be permitted to land here who does not come with the intention' to build a permanent, home. The privileges of our institutions should no longer be offered to any. man who, after a certain tkne,: fails to' become an American citizen, j The bill will provide that the Seo-i retary of State shall forward to our con- j suls monthly the condition of our labor! market, so that it can be known abroad) whether there is any legitimate call for ( immigration labor. A radical ohange in j contract laws will be recommended. There* will have to be a system of inspection byj our consuls or by some other method on) the other side of the water, and the lawroust be changed soas to compel the of immigrants comiDg Into the country inj violation of law. There are probably fivehundred immigrants coming here every; week in violation of the intent of the contract labor law, and yet, under the present] letter of that law, it is impossible for the 1 inspector to detain them. In framing the] measure we Will have to consider that the character of our immigration has unfortu-1 nately ch anged, to a great extent, fnom-the-* hitherto wholly desirable class to a class, a 1 very large per centage of which, unfortu A nately, is not only extremely undesirabl e,’ but pernicious in its effect on our wage i system and our civilization. President Harrison sent to the House on the 29th a message vetoing the biLl to provide for the ereotion of a public building at Dallas, Tex. Postmaster General Wanamaker haa indorsed Cleveland’s executive order in regard to interference of offico holders in political matters. Henry Clay Gray, a prominent commission merchant of Washington, shot; himself through the head in a gambling house in Virginia Monday night, after heavy losses, The Hbuse has passed the bill providing for public buildings at various points. Indiana towns remembered include Lafayette, $80,000; Logansport, $50,000; Madison, $40,000; Richmond, $65,000, and South Bend, $75,000. There is apparently good authority for the statement that the governments of the United States and Great Britain are now further apart in their negotiations in regard to the question whether or not Behring, sea is a closed.sea than they have been at anytime. The United States maintains that it is a closed sea, and was made so by the treaty of 1835, while the British government contends that that treaty does not at all cover the case.;

It was stated in the room of the House committee on postofflces and post roads on the 30th, that no effort would be made to report a postal telegraph bill at this session. • It is not likely either that the bill pending for the construction of postoffice buildings, to cost $20,000, in .places where the annual postal receipts are $3,000 a year or more, will be passed at this session of Congress, bat members of the committee say it will probably become a law by the action of the next session. This bill car* ries an immediate appropriation of several millions of dollars, and contemplates an almost limitless expenditure in the future, and there is a fear that the appropriation will run up too high. The Southern Senators who are members of the committee on agriculture have fought with so much vigor the proposition to tax compound lard because it will injure the cottonseed oil industry, that there is very little prospect' now of any legislation of this character this year. Senator George of Mississippi and others contend that the proposition is unconstitutional in 'the first place, and, seoondly, they threaten to talk the measure to death it it ever comes up on the floor. Senator Paddock has hoped to have a general food bill passed, but there is little to. encourage him. President Harrison will go to Philadelphia on Decoration day, as guest of Meada Post, No. 1, G. A. R., the oldest organization on the Atlantic coast. He promised a year ago that he would make this visit.

The Director of the Mint reports that the gpld product of the United States was 1,587,000 fine ounces, of the value of $32,800,000 last year, against $33,000,000 in the preceding calendar year. Of the gold product of the United States, $32,959,047 were deposited at the mints for coinage and manufacture into bare. The silver product for the calendar year 1889 was approximately 50,000,000 fine ounces, of the oommerctal value of $46,570,000, and of the coining value of $84,646,474, against an estimated product for the calendar year of 1888 es 45,783,63$ fine ounces. lnaletter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives the' Secretary of the Interior estimates that it will require $83,905,758 annually to give a service pe iaion to every survivor of the late war not now on toe rolls; $6,642,617 annually to increase the pensions of those new on the rolls to $8 a month, and $7,776,768 to the widows ol deceased soUHfin, a total annual expend!* tore of $106,226(937. Postmaster General Wanamaker pro. paaes that the Government shall furnish bones to every house to saw the time of