The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-22
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 cOuccs.
sion for building u railroad from the
City OF Mexico to the Pacific COast have
deposited S2O,OOO in bonds with the Na.
tlonaI Treasury as required under the
terms Of the concession. The builders
Of the road ARE 10 receive subsidy Of
! $4,000 u mile.
Asa result Of the controversy between
Mark W. Harrington, chief Of the
weather bureau, and j. y. Mclaughlin,
chict 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 inmbordina-
| ton and recommended 10 the Secretary
for dismissal. Mclaughlin responded
| 10y filing charges Of corruption against
! Harrington. An investigation by the
management OF the bureau will bc made
| ut once.
| The United States has taken vigorous
action in regard 10 the outragc- on
! American citizens AT MarsOvan in the
Turkish domnions and the violations of
| the mails OF the United States legation.
Secretary Gresham has cablcd 10 Minis
! ter Thompson at tOnstantuoplc strong
/ expression Of the Presidents views on
| the ouragcs and demanding not only
prompt rcparation Tor 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 effort IN 10 be relaxed in
securing the legal rights Of our citizens
in Turkey.
Secretary Carlisle has received from
Edwin Walker, Chairman OF the Com
mittcc on Legislation Of the Worlds Co
| lumbar Exposition, Il letter raising
certain questions in regard to the -undry
/ civil 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 50 ,OO0,O 600 souvenir half
dollars for the benefit OF the fair and
afterwards passing an act declaring the
exposition must furnish security for the
payment OF 500 $50 appropriated for
awards, etc The directors Of the expo
rition are in doubt ~ to how to construe
these acts. Secretary Carlisle referred
the question to the Acknowledgement for
decision.
United States Consul Seymour ut Cam
ton, China has cublcd the State Depart
mcnt that 10000 Chinese actors, etc.,
belonging to rival companies, have LETT
Shanghai for the United States to visit
the Worlds Fair, where they will land
at Vancouver, Tacoma, Portland, San
Francisco and other places. In accord
ancc with this information Assistant
Secretary Spauldng OF the Treasury De-
partment has telcgraphcd the customs
officers on the Pacific Coast and North
crn frontier to exercise the closest scru-
tiny that none but bona-iide exhibitors
or employees whose services are required
by the exhibitors ut the Worlds Fair
Exposition be permitted to enter this
country. This exemption rs to the Chi
ncse exclusion act in favor OF exhibitors,
etc, was made by Congress to cover just
such cases rs this.
Chicf-Justicc Fuller has announced
the decision of the Supreme Court OF
the United States in the ease OF the
Northern Pacific against Charles Walker,
County Auditor, ct al, from the Court
of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The
railway company in 1890 began suits
against the Auditors of twelve counties
in North Dakota for injunctions to re-
strain them from assessing taxes against
certain lands, the title to which vests in
the county. The Chief Justice stated
the amount involved in any one county
was not sufficient to give the Circuit
Court jurisdiction, and indeed the rec
ords show that the total amount in the
| twelve counties is not sufficient. The
Judgment OF the Circuit Court was there
fore reversed and the cases remanded for
further proceedings. No disposal was
made, the Chief Justice explained, for
the reason that by the time the cases
are returned the amount involved may
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 Il
| dozen counties.
The Assistant Secretary OF State has
been directed by Secretary Gresham
to examine more thoroughly than has
been customary into the personnel of
the State Department, with the view, it
is understood, of determining the fitness
of the employees for the positions held by
them. 1t is reported, and on good au-
thority, that tradition and precedent
will not obtain in the State Department
during the incumbency of Secretary
Gresham, and that there will be less red
tape and greater dispatch of business
hereafter. Secretary lloke Smith has
already begun to carry into effect his
policy of dispensing with the services of
all incompetent clerks in his department,
or those appointed purely for political
reasons. Under the direction of Chief
Clerk Wardle, the individual record of
the clerical force of the census Office is
being thoroughly examined, and all the
clerks found to be deficient will be dis
missed. 1t is Secretary Smiths belief
| that the work OF the census should be
completed by the end of the calendar
year without asking an additional appro-
priation from Congress, but to do this
he is convinced there must be not only
economy in expenditures, but each en-
ploye must do good and efficient work.
1t is understood, also, the clerical force
of the general land office will soon un-
dergo the process of renovation, after
which some attention will be given the
pension and other bureaus, with q view
of putting them on strictly business
basis.