The evening times., 1896-06-16
ALIENS In THE OFFICES.
Clerks In a Hurry TO Become Natural
ICED CtfizrnS

ALIENS IN THE OFFICES.
Clerks In a Hurry TO Become Natural
tzed Citizens
Those who huid good soft. high salaried
positions in the various executive depart
ments of the government. but have never
considered it necessary to become citizens
in order to cement their grip upon these
lucrative places. are now making strenuous
efforts to put themselves upon a voting
basis.
The clerks down al the city hall have re-
Gently been ovcrrun with his class of busi-
ness, but nave been a / a loss to account for
the sudden and unexpected activity With
IN the past month alone fifty final nat
Uralization papers have been taken out and
thirty 1.-TWO persons have signed their names
IN big book, announcing their intention OF
becoming citizens OF the United States
This is seven or eight times the number
that in the same period OF time transact
the same amount of business. Three rea-
sons are offered in explanation Of this
sudden desire or So many people 10 be-
come bona fide citizens. The first is that
a patriotic organization of this city decided
10 take vigorous action in the matter of
aiieus holding government Positions, and
committee was appointed to ascertain tile
number thus employed, and institute an
inquiry as TO why 1t was that foreigners
could obtain these positions to the dctri-
Inent OF natural born American citizens.
The second IS that Gen. Grcsyenor intro
duced in the House Resolution, which was
passed, cnlliDg upon the head of each
Executive department to furnish Con gress
with complete list of ull aliens employed
under their supervision. This caused many
clerks, who had permitted their first dec
larations to slumber, to become panic
stricken. and they b1stened before the
Judges authorized to act in such cases and
took cut their final papers. with a degree
OF haste that would have been more COIN
neDdable at an earlier date.
The third reason is that every arrival from
the erfete and oppressed old world is seized
immediately upon landing with an irresisti-
bic ambition 10 hold office. So he rushes to
the nearest clerk of United States court
and announces his intention of accirnating
himself politically, as well as otherwise.
1t Is trilic singular that. although n
month elapsed between the Introduction of
Gen. Grosvenor's resolution and tile ad.
journinent OF Congress. only the Secretary
of State and the Attorney General had trans
mitted replies. stating that their skirts were
clear and no aliens were employed in their
respective departments.
or the fifty-siX who have within the IA st
month taken out their final papers the
names OF eighteen have already been To-
catedin the Government Blue Book sho wing
that they have for varying periods of time,
been receiving lucrative salaries from the
United States, although their allegiance was
else where bestowed Those eighteen names
are as follows:
George W. Watson OF Canada. appears as
chief clerkof the Navy Yard and there is no
other George W. Watson in the city dfrec-
tory.
Gregory Nuetzel, of Germany. took out
his first naturalization papers during last
month. He is clerk in the hydrographic
| office OF the navy.
Peter II. Geddcs, of Scotland, was
| naturalized during the past month, and is
an employe in tie Coast and Geodetic Sur
yey.
William c.. WillenhGcher, of Germany,
was naturaiized during the past month.
| He is iii tie Coast and (ieodetic Survey.
c. L. Kelsey. of England. was nIturalized
during the past month, and lie is an 81 800
| clerk III the office of the judge advocate
general of the Navy Department.
! Among the other newly made citizen:
whose names also appear in the Blue Pook
are Charles L. Walker of Canada, office
| of the inspector general OF the War Depart
| ment; Michael Gallagher OF Ireland, u 10
i barer i'll the State, War and Navy Building;
Emile L. Cupfer of Switzerland, who ba,
| beea for many years an employe of the Post
| office Department; Robert L. Allan of Can
| ada, office OF the Bureau of Engraving and
| Printing; John Fegarty, Ireland, office of the
| Surgeon General; John A. s utherlana,
| Scotland, assistant chief of the accounts
| division, Supervising Architects Office
| jeremiah Cullinan, Ireland, Bureau OF
/ Engraving and Printing; William G. Wild
| ing, England, Bureau of Engraving and
! Printing; l.. Morisey, Ireland, War Depart
| ment, Bureau of Pensions; Thomas McCabe
l T~nl nj N
| War Department; William H. Connolly
clerk Interstate Commerce; Ernest n. El
! liot, Nova Scotia, idraughtsmaD, Super
| vising Architects Office; Gustav Rous-
| seau, CaDada, Bureau of Engraving ant
| Printing.
| The tpirty-twe who have within a month
| filed their declaration at the city hall
| are as follows:
Carl BlanbocS, thirty-o -one years old. &
native OF Russia: Anthony Wynn, forty-si,
| years cid, of Durham county, England
| Timothy Sullivan, twenty-four years, q
1 Ireland. Camille Delucco, thirty-seven, o
| Italy; Plus Stang, forty-four, OF Germany
Robert Dragon, twenty-five, of Jamaica
James Ridy, twentysix, of Ireland; Pat
rick Carey, tswenty-two, of Ire
Russia; Frederic Charles Pratt, twenty
seven. of Londcn, England; Hyman Bern
stein, -thirty-nine, of Russia; Mary A
| Kelly. thirty-two. OF England; Florence
Pollock, thirty-seven, Of Dublin, Ireland
Johanna Kelly. fifty, Of County Limerick
Ireland: Daniel 6arvy, twenty-nine o
Kerry. Ireland; James Calvin, twcnty-four
of Ireland; Francis D. Rrass, fifty, OF Eng
land; Margaret Coleman, sixty-five, OF
| Meath, Ireland; Alfred johnson, twenty
| two, of II e isingburg. s weden; Jafnes
Roman, twenty eight. Of Ireland; Jolannal
j Collins, fifty-five, Of Limerick county
Ireland; Lizzie RiordaD, forty-seyen, ot
County Glare, Ireland; Michael McCor-
| mick, fifty-three, of Ireland Henry swfvers
| fifty-one, Germany; Dominica MornendeIlo
Comm uted the Sentence.
The President today in the ease of Jane
Compton conyicted in the DiStriCtuf petft