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FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Philadelphia Chinese Propose to Defeat
the Geary Law by Means Of
Fictitious Photographs.

Senator Dolph has fled with the War
Department letter In relation to the
appointment OF board ~ examine and
report n site for gun factory on the Pa
ciBc Coast. lie requests that care be
taken in the selection OF the ofIicers,
that they may not DO rejudiced in favor
OF one sight as against another. This
precation, he says, Ia particularly neces-
sary, because some officers have privately
expressed their belief that Benicia Is the
proper location.
More than usual interest attaches TO
the forthcoming annual report OF the
Commissioner OF Pensions. The state-
ment has been made that the amount
required for pensions the next fiscal year
will nearly reach the enormous sum OF
5000, 900, 900. The work OF compiling
figures is, however, sufficiently advanced
10 show this estimate is in excess OF the
actual requirements. II is now thought
Congress will be asked 10 make an ap.
preparation of about $3.50, 1000, 900 for the
coming fiscal year, about $l8 200, 900 of
which is in antici patton OF an increase
Of that amount over the actual expendi-
Y
Of General Raum that, while this
amount is likely 10 be increased the next
year or two, yet he feels confident the
maximum limit has already been
reached.
President Harrison in his message, to
Congress will not turn his back upon
the present Republican tariff law. On
the contrary, he will give it an earnest
indorsement. The President said he did
not blame the Mckinley tariff law for
the recent defeat at the polls, and after
having given it his Endorsement prior TO
test of Republican principles at the
polls he was not inclined to reDudiate it
in the hour Of adversely. The President
believes that the Republican principles
OF protection will live longer and stand
the various tests of time with better sue
cess than will the present Democratic
supremacy. There has been consider
able curiosity expressed in certain
quarters as to what the President would
say in his message 10 Congress, which
he is now completing, in reference TO the
tariff law, as many Republicans are in
clined to hold 1t almost wholly RESPONSE
BILE for the recent defeat. There need
be no doubt in that direction. President
Harrison believes in protection OF the
character now afforded by the Repub-
lican party.
Word has reached Washington from
Philadelphia that the Chinese in that
city propose to try to defeat the Geary
law by means OF fictitious photographs,
the same as at Baltimore. 1t is believed
in Philadelphia and Baltimore that a
scheme is now on foot among the Chi
nese all over the country to defeat the
purposes of the Chinese exclusion act.
The promoter OF it is the Hip Sin Tong,
a powerful fraternal society, which has
six branches-Junk, Lee, Chang, Shu,
Young and Mock-embracing every State
in the Union. The Hip Sin Tong is hav-
ing photographs turned out by the thou
sands to supply any Chinaman who may
need one. The colony in Washington
has been notified that batch of pict-
ures would be sent to them in few days,
from which they can select as many as
they wish and return the balance. Poo
tographs are being sent all over the coun-
try, and in few weeks each colony will
have enough on tap to meet any demand
that might be made upon them. 1t is
reported that the Chinese are trying to
secure the services of Robert G. Inger-
soil and General B. F. Butler to test the
conatitutionality of the Geary law.