The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-06-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.
News Items of Interest Culled at the
Capital and Telegraphed
Abroad.


terly shorn of sensational features
just now, since both houses of Con-
gress have settled down into CON
servative groove of unvarying mo-
notony, not even ripple of ex-
citement being visible in the entire
government service.
No other member of the Cabinet
has earned as high regard from
members of opposing parties as has
the Postmaster General, Mr., Bis
sell, who is regarded, from purely
non-political standpoint, as about
the best man in the Cabinet as a
civil service reformer He is not to
be bullied or cajoled, He will not
allow a good postmaster to be re-
moved, nor will he appoint men to
office just because they are good
politicians and have performed po-
litical services, He has been a
stumbling block in the way of many
congressman, for he is as independ-
ent, and, as some people describe
it, as pig headed" as the President
himself.
Richard Hatton, the only son of
the late Frank Hatton, graduated
last week from Princeton Universe
ty and has begun the serious bust
ness Of life as a clerk in the Office of
the Washington Post, in which his
father owned a half interest. Mr..
Hatton's stock in the Post was pur-
chased with money borrowed for
that purpose, which has never been
repaid, but Mrs Hatton has an UNI
Outstanding with Mr. wilkins, the
partner of her late husband, under
which she is to retain the interest
and fund the debt so that it will be
paid in a few years by the earnings
of the paper
Mrs. Gresham, Mrs. Carlisle and
Mrs. Lamont are going to stay in
Washington to look after their
husbands during the hot weather.
Mrs. Lamont will place her children
in the care of their grandmother
at McGrawsville, N. Y. Mrs, Olney
goes to her summer home at Fal-
mouth, Mass. Mrs. Bissell and her
little daughter have already gone
north and are established for the
summer at Saugerties, N. Y. Secre-
tary Smiths family are summering
on a farm in the Shenandoah Val
ley Miss Herbert will make her
headquarters in Washington with
her father during the summer, but
has accepted 50 many invitations
from friends who have cottages at
the sea shore that she will find her
time very well engaged. Miss Nor
ton will 90 to her home in Nebraska
next week.
Col Stump, the superintendent
of immigration, has gone to New
York under instructions from the
secretary of the treasury for the
purpose of investigating the pa
drone system of importing Italian
laborers. The house committee on
immigration is over there on the
same business. 1t is regarded as
somewhat singular that Secretary
Carlisle at the very same time when
the House committee should be in
New York inquiring into all mat
ters relating to immigration should
appoint committee consisting of
the very officials who are charged
with the enforcement of the immi-
grafton laws to investigate and re.
port to him the reasons for their
non-enforcement in the case OF
Italians imported by the padrones.
Col. Stump is the superintendent OF
immigration Dr. Senner is the
commissioner at New York and Mr.,
McSweeney is his assistant. 1t is
the duty of each of these officials
to enforce the laws and keep out
contract laborers.
Meanwhile the great government
establishment at Ellis island is kept
up at an enormous expense, and it
is believed that the head-tax inn
posed upon the steamship compa'
MES will be insufficient to defray
the expenditures. The immigration
commission is nothing but a polite
al machine, chiefly controlled by
the labor organizations, who are
fully represented among its army
of employees, and under the present
system and management there
should be no surprise that abuses
creep into the administration
There is growing feeling in an(
out of congress that this branch OF
the public service should be entire
| ly divorced from politics and trans