Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-06-04
Washington Letter.
(FI0m our Regular Correspondent.
Washington. NAV 20. 1891.

/ promise made more than a year ago
when circumstances compelled him to
recall half acceptance of an invitation
to do so on last Memorial day. He viii
leave here in the morning and return
the same evening.
After waiting until he was heartily
tired to receive the answer of the Brit
ish government to Secretary Blaine's
proposition for a closed season in Ben
ring Sea the President called the cabinet
together and decided upon the policy of
this Government for the present season
without regard to what may or may not
be the wishes of her msjesty's govern
ment, and sailing instructions were
telegraphed to the revenue cutters Bean
and Rush. Nothing official is known
of those instructions, but there are reas-
ons for believing that they do not differ
materially from those of last season.
which were in short to prevent Illegal
sealing as far as possible, but to make
no seizures outside of the three mile
limit. Secretary Blaine was in tele
graphic communication with the Presi-
dent while The cabinet consultation was
going on.
Many rumorS are floating around this
week about the resignation of General
Raum, Commissioner of Pensions. one
of them being that the President had
spoken to some of the prominent New
York republicans who were here early
in the week about rendering the position
/ to First Deputy Commissioner Davidson,
of that State, and that the same thing
has been proposed at cabinet meeting.
No member of the cabinet would con-
firm this, and Commissioner Raum and
Deputy Davidson both profess ignor-
ance of it. The general impression here
is that General Raum viii resign as soon
as his successor is agreed upon.
The immigration question is daily be-
coming more important to every citizen
of the United States, and some good
results are hoped from the investigation
of the commission recently appointed
by Secretary Foster Representative
Grosvenor of Ohio, who is chairman of
that commission, says on the subject:
"Just what is specifically expected of
the commission do not know, for we
have not yet received our instructions,
but do not know that there is pressing
necessity for action on the part of the
authorities. Never was any country
the receptacle for such stream of i'm
migration as is pouring in on us now;
all our previous records as a receptacle
are being eclipsed. The increase, which
has become so apparent of late, has its
origin principally in Southern Italy,
and as most of the material now arriv-
ing is non assimilative something must
be done to decrease the volume. The
labor organizations complain that sui
ficient employment cannot be secured
for the people already here, and there
is very general demand for more rigid
immigration laws. The country is be-
coming to strongly tainted with foreign
odors. Take Wisconsin as an instance
"a state that is almost a European
province. The people there demand
the conduct of the public schools in a
foreign tongue and give other marked
evidence of their alienism In little
while they will insist on having the rec
ords of their legislature kept in their
non-American language and on top of
that will come an endeavor to have the
courts operate IN the language or Ian
guages native to other lands than ours.
This is all wrong We cannot afford to
welcome those who will not be of us. -
Senator Hiscock and ex-Senators
Plat and Miller were among the dis
tinguished New Workers here tins week.
They all spoke encouragingly of repub-
lican prospects in the empire state.
Ex-senator Reagan, of Texas, who is
in town, gives Cleveland rap by say
ing that the Texas delegation to the
democratic national convention will de
mand the nomination of western man
for President. He evidently torgets that
Texas is entirely too reliably democratic
to WELD much influence in the conven-
ton. 1t is no secret among Mr. Reag-
ans friends that he deeply regrets hav-
ing been compelled to retire from the
Senate.
The Attorney General has decided
that the Secretary of the Treasurery has
authority to issue silver certificates
against the $4,000. 600 which has been
gained as seignorage from the coinage
of bullion, and it will be done at once.
Secretary Foster is also considering a