News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-16
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

IL begins to look as though there might
not De any Worlds Fair in 1892. The con-
tentlon between the four cities OF New York,
washington, st. Louis and Chicago, and the
growing belief that there is hardly time to
PrtPare LOT u, are having their effect on
members IN th OF Congress. Outside the partisans
OF the TOUR cities named there seems to be
growing Indifference on the subject
Mr.. Springer's bill providing for the adj
MISSION VI TOUR more Territories, includes
Idaho. 1t Is not supposed that any objection
would De made OH the part of the Mormon
residents OF that Territory, but one of their
representatives turned up before the Senate
committee on Territories and asked that
consideration of the bill for the admission of
that Territory to the Union rs State be
postponed III order to allow attorneys for
The Mormons to appear and present their OBJ
Jections to the admission of their Territory
under the recently adopted Constitution,
which virtually excludes MOrmons from citi-
Zenship by reason of it, osth provisions.
The indications are that the national Gov
ernment is about to make all important
change in the matter of the management of
immigrants who arrive at Castle Garden.
Secretary Window, it is said, has decided to
give the State OF New York the sixty days
notice required by law, and to itself assume
the charge of the immigrants. Such change
will interfere with the rings which have been
proving upon the immigrants and save them
from being robbed.
President and Mrs. Harrison gave their
first State dinner last nj ht in honor of Vice
President and Mrs. Morton and the members
of the Cabinet and their wives.
New congressman are regarded as being le-
gtimate prey by flock of harpies who in
fest the national capital and hardly a day
passes that some new device for obtaining
money is not practised upon those unaccus-
toned to Washington's ways. 1t seems to
have heen the practice of the confidence man
TO locate himself in some obscure corner OF a
district, the name and description of which
he had previously obtained from a gazetteer,
and trust to luck that the congressman to be
vctimized had not visited it often enough to
he well acquainted with all the voters. No
section of the country seems to have been
neglected, and the returns of victims are not
in yet. The point that the fellow seems to
have made good Use of motto. sp=~A~ss~con-z
gresham at the Eapitoi, Biz III ...4z.' = II
his residence, after dinner when the average
statesman is inclined to be In good humor.
The President has invited the representa-
tives of the press to attend the receptions at
the White House.
Chairman Boutelle of Maine Is devo ting
himself to the study of pl,ns for the impr owe
ment of the navy.
Representatives of the rival cities of New
York, Chicago and st. Louis presented their
claims as sites for the Worlds fair before the
Senate committee.
Notwithstanding the very strong oppo-
stion which will be made to the renewal of
the lease to the Alaska Commercial Company
for the taking of seals in Alaska for another
period of years, there is nothing to indicate
that the present company will fail to secure
the contract.
1t Is current gossip in diplomatic circles
that the Secretary of State is now in nego-
tiation with the British Minister here for the
adjustment of the Behring Sea difficulty, and
that perhaps before the new contract for the
taking of seals on our islands shall be let the
result of this negotiation NAV be announced.