The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-16

ly appropriate when one stops to con sider that on this avenue was formerly the Chinese legation and the Russian embassy. while every pleasant Sun day may be seen on the avenue the high officials of every nation.
 The new census which will be finished this year will make twenty-five vol tunes. or about 22,000 pages, of which there are now completed over l4,ooo pages. and the copy is ready for all but about 2,000. Half of the 14,0oo pages referred to have been completed since Commissioner Wright took hold of the work a year ago. While 1t will take some time to print and circulate these enormous volumes which com prise the census the facts have been disseminated from time to time by bull letins that have been sent out as the work progressed. The completion of the work will throw about six hundred clerks out of employment.
 While Kansas Is supposed to take the lead in women imbued with the idea of voting and other mannish ideas, Wash ington is the first city to have a full fiedged Women's club, owning their own club house, from which men are barred. It is known as the and handsome new quarters on street just across from the University club will be ready for occupany by the first of the month. The club was originally started as a reading circle by some dozen Washington ladies, and in the last three years has grown until a club house was needed and purchased some S20,00O being subscribed by members for the purpose. The club has now some two hundred and eighty mem- bers, among them many of the leading ladies of Washington, and are reg ular organized corporation managed by a board of governors. Men are barred from the club, and here the la dies enjoy club life undisurbed to their hearts content.
 The decision in the Miles Planting Co. case against Secretary Carlisle for writ to compel the treasury depart ment to supervise and inspect it's su- gar product ending June 30, 1895, will probably be rendered this week, as Judge McComas, of the district court, has heard the arguments and now has the matter under consideration. The case is for two years bounty on sugar under the old law, and the general feel ing is that it should be paid. General Bent, of Maryland, who appeared for the petitioners, in his argument held that the Mckinley law showed clearly that from the time the government is sued a license for the manufacture of sugar the government participated in the manufacture of the product, and it was its duty to inspect the present crop, as the license had already been granted and could not be revoked.
 Edward B. Whitney, assistant at sisant attorney general, who is a son of the late Professor William D. Whit ney, of New Haven, appeared for the United States. General Whitney held that two questions arose in consider ing the bounty matter: first. whethSr thera ever was any law directing. the secretary of the treasury to inspect the Louisiana sugar factories, and second whether, if therr was such a law, it had not been repealed. Secretary Car lisle claimed th;re> was no such law; but even if it did exist according to General Whitnsy,. the secretary could not order an iflspaction without pay, as the United States laws forbade that. MT. Whitney also held that the secretary of the treasury was not au- thorizad to pay out money for inspec- tions because mere s-ltute said so. There must be. an appropriation for that purpose, and the secretary had said thsre was no such appropriation. He also contended that the provisions for granting licenses and giving boun- ties had been repealed, and while the inspection provision had not been ex- pressly repealed, it depended on the other clauses, and was therefore null and void. CAPITOL,