The Washington critic., 1890-03-15

tual labor. In books alone free foreign
labor is encouraged to supplaut Ameri-
can labor
SOME DISTRICT BILLS.
1tis right to give this Fifty first Con
gress all the credit it deserves for the
interest 1t has already shown in District
questions and for the activity which IL
has manifested in coming to their con
sidcration and solution
THE Critic has on previous occasions
referred to the different eypedi 'nts
which have been proposed both in the
House and Senate in regard to a settle
mcut of the railroad problem. 1t has
also referred with approval to Senator
Edmunds bill to establish hospital
for dipsomaniaCs in this city. Senator
Faulkncr's measure for the erection of
a Central Dispeusary and Emergency
Hospital is of like character and will
win universal support Scnstor In
gals bill for the regulation of the
practice of medicine in the District,
however, suggests plan about which,
in the minds of those most concerned,
there will, beyond question, be much
difference of opinion. The various
branches of the medical profession have
not yet reached that degree of mutual
complacency which will Justify any
sanguinc expectation of their agreeing
TO submit TO a common regulation and
management.
The street railway interests of the city
are receiving careful attention. The
Lexington electric road and the cable
system now being introduced on
Seventh street have elected warm com
mendation. Mr.. Brewers bill to amend
the incorporation act of the George
town Barge, Dock, Elevator and Rail
way Company" would, if successfully
carried out, do much to improve the
river front; while General Lees plan
for constructing a road in Alexandria
County between the Chain, Aqueduct
and Long Bridges and the National
Cemetery at Arlington will, when ac-
complished, greatly benefit and beau
tify the country On the other side.
Altogether it would seem that the
District is likely to fare better at the
hands of this Congress than it has done
for several years in the past.
The ANNOUNCEMENT is made that on
Thursday last forty women graduated
as Doctors of Medicine from reputa-
bic and reliable Pennsylvania college.
Looked at closely this statement is not
so alarming as those that come annually
from the hundred and one medical col
leges of the country where male stu
dents are passed and turned out to eX-
pertinent on long suffering com
munity The fitness Of women for the
practice OF medicine and surgery has
lorg since been demonstrated, aud
there are cases that constitute, as il
were, special demand for them in that
line. The field Of the woman physician
is wide and is constantly enlarging.
VERY SOON THE Navy Of the United
States will cease to be mere name
and will take its place among curren,
and contempory institutions us a poten
reality. by The end of the present yea
six new vessels will be ahoat The
next squadron of evolution to visi
Europe will make a showing that will
be highly creditable, and in measure
tn t.
sailors An American fleet manned by
aliens and strangers will always be at
anomaly Things must be so arranged
that the youth of the country will bt
induced to enter the service with thu
hope of promotion and fair treatment.
The BLAIR EDUCATIONAL BILL i
said to be so dearly rendered in tn
heart of Senator Hoar that that reverend
statesman is alleged to nave been be
trayed into saying that he would cheer
fully close his public career and retire
to private life if the bill were passed
and its expected results were realized
One-half of the comment on this sayins
is taken up in showing that the Sen
ator's official career is in no danger o
abridgement by reason of the suggested
contingency, and the other half implie
that his promised retirement is the bes
argument yet offered for the passage o
the bill referred to.
The DOWNFALL of the French Min
istry has not been wholly unexpected
The fact is the Tirard Cabinet has no
been regarded as internally harmoniou
or externally strong The probabilit,
is that De Freycinet, the present Minis
ter of War, will be the new premier anC
that he will be able TO persuade some o
his old colleagues to remain with hin
in the government. The constitutions
system which the French republic ha
adopted in imitation of that of Englan
is a mere experiment and may fail. /
would not be wonderful if somethin,
like the Constitution of the United State
might be attended with greater success
IT LOOKS As THOUGH Americans wer
abandoning Vermont farms. A com
pensation for this is found, however, il
the fact that Swedish colonists are TAX
ing them up. What the hardy sons o
Vermont could do in the way of econ
omy and thrift is hard to surpass. Bu
the industry and thrift Of the Swede
are proverbial, and the Green Mountai
State may find in these new settlers