The critic., 1891-03-23
CURRENT PRESS OPINION.
To he vigorously Enforced.

From ne omaha Bee.
II is the intention of the Administra-
ton to vigorously enforce the new Immi-
grafton law, which provides some addi-
tional restrictions upon the admission Of
foreigners. This Is, of course, to be ex-
pcctcd and desired. The country has had
no administration in late years that
showed n more conscientious recognition
of this than the present Administration
has done.
The new immigration law imposes no
conditions that will keep out foreigners
who come here freely and are COMPETENT
to take care of themselves. II puts no
obstacle in the way of the immigrant who
is mentally and physically equipped to
earn his own subsistence and to become a
good citizen, and whose character is free
from repronch. II proposes to exclude
criminals those who are mentally or
physically defective, and those who come
under contract to labor. IL will also keep
out paupers who may be shipped away
from foreign countries Mt public expense.
One Laudable Feature.
From ne Chicago Mttcs.
One of the finest things about Sena-
torial career is the advantage IL offers for
picking up unique and interesting bits of
information in pleasant and not fatigu-
ing way.
For example, there is the Senate Naval
Committee. 1t will visit all the navy
yards in this country and Subcommittee
of five will go to Europe to inspect navy
yards and boats and other matters there.
In order to bestow the greatest happiness
upon the greatest number the committee
will probably be composed of men from
the interior who never saw navy yard.
so that everything may have the charm
of novelty to them. Besides, really
larger mass will be added to the sum of
Senatorial information If number of
men who now know nothing at all about
ships learn the most easily acquired facts
AS, what the general shape and plan of
q ship is; that the bore OF a cannon goes
on the inside; that passengers must not
go aft of the binnacle-than would be
added if few men who know q good deal
about the subject were to learn little
more.
The Verdict Against Lingo.
From he Ihiiddeiphia Times.
The conviction of the negro Lingo of the
murder of Annie Miller will be surprise
to most of those who have followed the
reports of the trial in the newspapers.
However strong the presumption against
Lingo-a local ne er-do-well who has been
curiously associated with two murders that
bad many points of resemblance-the evi-
dence did not seem TO be of a character to
carry conviction. There was no such
chain of circumstance and motive drawn
around him as was drawn around Leconey
in the former case; and yet Leconey was
acquitted and Lingo is found guilty.
II is hard to repress the thought that
Lingo has been convicted on general prin-
ciples; because he was bad niger" and
was probably guilty of something, or be-
cause the jury had made up their minds
that this thing must be stopped and it had
become necessary to hang somebody.
The Chickamauga Park.
From the Neao York Times.
The visit of Secretary Proctor to the
West and South will doubtless lead to the
arrangements needful for carrying out
the act of the last Congress. setting apart
the Chickamauga National Military Park.
j, ssibiy, therefore, the work of prepar-
ing the ground may be advanced, so as to
have some sort of celebration there next
September, on the twenty-eighth ami
versary of the great two days battle.
Certainly no better choice could have
been made of a ground which shall be to
the West what Gettysburg is to the East.
1t was pointed out in Congress that as
the most sanguinary of all the engage
ments at the West Chickamauga merited
this exceptional distinction, and further
more, since the roadways leading from
Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountsin are
included in the park system, the entire
autumn campaign Of 1868 in that region
will be commemorated, and that cam
paign as whole undoubtedly closed with
Union success. There is also no question
Of the great interest which both Southern
and Northern soldiers will take in tracing
out the lines Of battle and setting up the
various marks and Monuments.