The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-04-21
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
Ten Thousand Chinese Actors Leave
Shanghai on Their Way to
the Worlds Fair.

The State Department has been in
formed that the owners of the conces-
sion for building railroad from the
City Of Mexico to the Pacific Coast have
deposited 100000 in bonds with the Ma
tional Treasury as required under the
terms of the concession. The builders
Of the road are to receive a subsidy Of
81, 900 mile.
As a result of the controversy between
Mark w. Harrington, CHIEF Of the
weather bureau, and ]. B. Mclaughlin,
chief Of the executive division OF the
bureau, Mr.. Harrington has demanded
OF Secretary Morton an immediate and
full investigation Of the administration
Of the bureau. Mclaughlin was sus-
pended by Harrington for insubordina-
ton and recommended to the Secretary
for dismissal. Mclaughlin responded
by filing charges of corruption against
Harrington. An investigation by the
management OF the bureau will be made
at once.
The United States has taken vigorous
action in regard to the outrages on
American citizens at Marsovan in the
Turkish dominions and the violations of
the mails OF the United States legation.
Secretary Gresham has cabled to Minis
ter Thompson at Constantinople strong
expression Of the Presidents views on
the outrages and demanding not only
prompt reparation for the burned semi
nary, but the punishment Of all parties
guilty in the matter. The Minister is to
act promptly and advise the department
by cable. No effor. is to be relaxed in
securing the legal rights Of our citizens
in Turkey.
Secretary Carlisle has received from
Edwin Walker, Chairman ohthe Com
mittee on Legislation Of the World's Co
ilumbian Exposition, letter raising
certain questions in regard to the sundry
Ieivil act, in which is included the appro-
priation for the Worlds Fair. He asks
especially for the construction OF the
Congressional action authorizing the
coinage Of the $5,0O0,000 souvenir half
dollars for the benefit OF the fair and
afterwards passing an act declaring the
exposition must furnish security for the
payment Of s570, $3.50 appropriated for
awards, etc. The directors Of the expo
sition are in doubt as to how to construe
these acts. Secretary Carlisle referred
the question to the Acknowledgement for
decision.
| United States Consul Seymour at Can
ton, China, has cabled the State Depart
ment that 10000 Chinese actors, etc,
belonging to rival companies, have left
Shanghai for the United States to visit
4 the Worlds Fair, where they will land
at Vancouver, Tacoma, Portland, San
Francisco and other places. In accord
anee with this information Assistant
Secretary SpauIding OF the Treasury De-
partment has telegraphed the customs
officers on the Pacific Coast and North
ern frontier to exercise the closest scru-
tiny that none but bona-tide exhibitors
for employees whose services are required
BY the exhibitors at the Worlds FAN
Exposition be permitted to enter this
country. This exemption as to the Chi
nese exclusion act in favor Of exhibitors
etc, was made by Congress to cover just
such cases as this.
! Chief-Justice Fuller has announced
the decision Of the Supreme Court O
the United States in the case Of the
Northern Pacific against Charles Walker
County Auditor, ct al, from the Courf
Of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The
railway company in 1890 began suit'
against the Auditors Of twelve counties
lin North Dakota for injunctions to re
strain them from assessing taxes agains
certain lands, the title to which vests il
the county. The Chief Justice stated
the amount involved in any one count,
was not sufficient to give the Circui
Court jurisdiction, and indeed the rec
ords show that the total amount in th'
twelve counties is not sufficient. TIL,
Judgment Of the Circuit Court was there
fore reversed and the cases remanded fo
further proceedings. No disposal wa,
made, the Chief Justice explained, fo
the reason that by the time the case
are returned the amount involved MAJ
be sufficient, in some one Of the counties
to give the court jurisdiction, but it can
not obtain jurisdiction, he said, by com
bining the amounts Of issue in two or
dozen counties.
The Assistant Secretary Of State ha
been directed by Secretary Gresham
to examine more thoroughly than ha
been customary into the personnel 0
the State Department. with the view, i
is understood, Of determining the fines
Of the employees for the positions held b,
them. 1t is reported, and on good au
thority, that tradition and preceden
/, will not obtain in the State Departmen
during the incumbency Of Secretar
Gresham, and that there will be less re,
tape and greater dispatch Of busines
hereafter. Secretary Hoke Smith ha
already begun to carry into effect hi
policy Of dispensing with the services Q
, all incompetent clerks in his department
or those appointed purely for politica
reasons. Under the direction Of Chic
: Clerk Wardle, the individual record q
. the clerical force Of the census office