The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-03

ity they are both six-footers. Springer as a reg
ular thing makes Reed weary, but Rogers is so
cation returned to the Capitol the other day the
Speaker hurried over to greet him, welcome him
back, and thank him for coming so soon. While
to be Springered is bad enough. the Speaker
finds 1t immeasurably worse to be Rogered.
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The State Department has just issued new di-
rectory of the Foreign Legations in this city.
When Mr.. Price last December succeeded Mr..
Preston as Minister from Hayt, Baron de Fava,
the Italian Minister, became the Dean of the
Diplomatic Corps by reason of his being the min
lister of longest continuous residence here having
presented his credentials October 2S, 1881. The
Khan still appears the list as that of the Per-
sian ia Minister erin i5 good standng, although it will
United States in high dudgeon last year. de-
nouncing the rudeness of Americans and declar-
ing that sooner than come back to this country
he would commit harikari. The directory, how
ever, notes that he is absent" Mr.. Ghooly is
gone but not forgotten, and if he comes back no
doubt all will be forgiven The Oriental Lega-
tons now in Washington have more Oriental
ladies with them than ever before; The Japa-
two, and the big Chinese have three. For which
we are duly thankful.
have been requested to draw attention again
to the rules governing the press gallery of the
House of Representatives and to the manner in
which they are administered Speaker Reed has
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take the first and third, as follows:
~. Persons desiring admission to the press gal
lery snail make application to the Speaker, as re-
quired by Rule 81 of the House of Representa-
tlyes and shall also state, in writing, for what
paper or papers they are employed; and shall
further state that they are not engaged in the
prosecution of claims pending before Congress
or the Departments, and Will not become so en-
gagged while allowed admission to the gallery; and
that they are not, in any sense, the agents rep
resentatives of persons or corporations having
legislation before Congress, aud will not become
ThAt nj In llasKy
Visiting Journalists, who may be allowed tempo
rary admission to the gallery. must conform TO
the restrictions of this rule.
80 Clerks in the Executive Departments of the
government, or persons engaged in other occu-
newspaper correspondence, are not entitled TO
admission; and the press list in the "Congres-
sional Directory shall be confined to telegraphic
correspondents"
Now am told that gentlemen are admitted to
the gallery every day and have their names in
serted in the Congressional Directory in viola
tOn of both of these rules. Correspondents of the
highest standing-Lightner, of the Pittsburg
| Dispatch for instance-have been excluded
from both the gallery and the Directory" on ac-
count or holding positions in the Executive De-
parGments, while others who are also employed
IN the Executive Departments are admitted To
both. This is not fair. Men have their names in
the Directory" who could not truthfully sign the
regular application, and the standing Committee
of Correspondents know that And the man who
would sign such a document fraudulently should
be excluded not only from the gallery and the
Directory but from all decent society. No
profession, lay or clerical secular or religious,
can boast OF tairer, honester. cleaner man than
Gen. Boynton, the chairman of the Correspond
ents' Committee, and as he must be held partly
responsible he is expected to look to the fair and
equal administration of the press gallery rules
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The hayseeds at the Capitol say the Pacific
Ocean and the Behring Sea are ours that we
will put a fence around them and do what we
! please with them These hayseeds probably
| don't know where Behring Sea is. They Ger.
| tainly don't know what it is. In instructing the
Executive TO treat l3ehring Sea as closed sea
and to treat all other nations as trespassers
Gramps, and poachers there, Congress has set the
Executive pretty hard task. But the Execu,