The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 2S, 1873.
Cohn, the Washington labor agitator, is
abroad again, parading our streets with
several hundred savage looking followers,
mostly negroes, threatening strikes, riots
and so on. He has been arrested again,
fined S. for disturbing the peace. set at lib.
erty and started again on his vicious way.
He makes speeches, Kearney-like, passing
round the hat at the close of each, and is
said to be making So day at it. A large
police force is watching his movements and
no incendiary language is allowed, his
banners and illuminations only publishing
the sentiments he is afraid to utter. His
crowd is composed of the lowest characters
this District produces, all being men out
of employment, chiefly negroes we have
said, with light sprinkling of white
tramps. Most of these are outlandish and
many are ex x-convicts. Of course their
conduct is that of madmen, but when we
see their condition and know how easily it
might be changed, we can scarcely wonder
at their recklessness. Money was appro-
| priated by the last Congress, which if ex-
pended upon the public works, as it should
have been, would have given employment
| to every idle workman here. Sorely enough
| they needed the work, sorely enough are
they and their families suffering for want
of it. And not only would have that class
been benefited, bu, indirectly the mer-
chant, lawyer, doctor and all other pro-
fessionals. Trade would have been revived
| in the city and throughout the surround
ing country, and much yisable good would
have been accomplished. But instead OF
this, the officials having the money and
business in charge have, for some uncom,
prehensible reason, remained comparative.
ly inert, and when June comes again the
funds will be turned into the Treasury
the officials will draw their salaries, but
the poor man will have no money and his
children will have no bread. Such is life
in this official, political. ncn-voting Dis
, trict Of Columbia
Tomorrow has been set for the forma
presentation of the Chinese Embassy t.
the President and Cabinet DIPLOMAT,
presentations at the White House are usu
ally conducted simply and unostentatiousl.
and this one will doubtless he so, though
there is so much curiosity prevailing il
regard to the quaint costumes worn by tn
Orientals that large crowd will be at
! tracted to the Executive Mansion.
limited number only will be admitted II
the east room, where the Embassy will b
L received, and those by card but the cor
:. ridors, steps, and grounds will be thronge
= by persons trying 10 gain sight of tn
Mongolians as they pass from their cal
riages through the vestibule and into tn
y mansion. Yung Wung, or Wing, the SEE
y ond in power-Vice Minister or Ministe
e. Resident in his superior's absence fro1
q Westinghouse celestial we'll known i
this country, having come here when quit
e boy and received a fine education, grad,
'e ating with honors at Yale. Our admin
tration anticipates no difficulty in agreeing
"a through this Embassy, with the Chimes
Government for a modification of the Blu
lingame treaty, thereby limiting the nun
lr Der of Mongolian immigrants to tn
e. country.
pc President Hayes and family have on
this week returned to Washington. I'll
Cabinet members have also returned, al
re Secretary Schnrz no longer commands II
fort alone. They have all been makil
he campaign speeches throughout the count
- excepting Judge Key, Postmaster Generi
:. and Secretary Evarts. The governme
IN clerks are struggling back from their sui
Ii mer vacations and the city is taking on
ce more lively appearance than she has wo
,u for the last dozen weeks. RICHARD