The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-12-10

shown man he was thinking about for the
eabinas
4
Mckinley is reputed to be a man who never
forgets promise. and q recent letter written
to w. j. Arkell. the we'll known publisher.
corroborates this even when the promise is
that of a Cabinet portfolio. Some time before
Mckinley became an active candidate for tho
Presidency he attended dinner at which Mr..
ArkeIl was present. In an ofter-dinner speech
Arkell said all he expected of Mr.. Mckinley
when he was elected was the place at the very
foot Of the Cabinet. Mr.. Mckinley replied to
this sally. assuring Mr.. Arkell that his wish
should be granted Since his election MT. Nc
Kinley has written to Mr.. Arkell referring to
the promise, aud asking if he regarded it as
serious. Mr.. Arkell enjoyed the letter quito
as much as he did the original promise He
had never looked upon the promise as any.
thing more than joke. He accordingly an
swered that he had never attached the slight
est Importance to the affair, and had regarded
it as q pleasurable circumstances of a good
dinner.
VIZ Ting Fang has been appointed Chinese
Minister to Washington to succeed Yang Yu.
He is man of about so So years of age. He
has spent considerable time in England, where
he studied law and was admitted as barristcr.
He had previously been educated at Hong
Kong. where Ems institutions are promi-
nent and when he returned to China he To-
Gated at Hong Kong, where he acted as Police
Magistrate. He has been in the service OF the
Chinese Government for the past 10 years,
assisting. among other duties, in negotiating
the Japanese commercial treaty. He is also
. Governments Director of the railroad build
ing from Tien Tsin.
4
An interesting paper is the report OF Col. ].
W. Barlow, of the International Boundary
Commission, announcing tho completion Of the
work assigned to it. The Commission WIS or
ganized under treaty between the United
States and Mexico for the purpose Of Surveying
and re. marking the boundary between the two
countries west of the Rio Grande. The report
shows the complete marking by series of
stone and iron monuments of the entire divis-
icnal line, from the Rio Grande to the Pacific
Ocean, distance OF about 700 miles. The
Commission erected 25S monuments in all, in
GLIDING ali the old ones that could be put in
good condition. Most of them are Of cast-iron,
but the principal ones are Of stone. The stone
monuments are about II feet high and the iron
monuments are about six and half feet high.
They are arranged that they are within
sight of one another from one end Of the line
to the other.
Capt W. g. Baldwin, Chief Detective Of the
Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, was In
the city the other day. and talked Interestingly
about the Hatfield Mccoy vendetta. which
broke odt afresh on election day in little
West Virginia town near the Kentucky line.
Capt Baldwin said: "Capt. Hatfield claimed
that he was fred upon first rife bullet clip
ping off piece of one ear and another grazing
opponent, and then his I4year- old son took a
hand in the game and used his gun with deadly
effect killing another member Of the attacking
party, and also an outsider who had nothing to
do with the fray, but who happened to be in
range when the boy fred the second time. II
this youth keeps on improving he will evcntu-
ally become a worthy descendant of bis grand
sire, Old Anse' Hatfield. and of Cap his
father. Last Tuesday week ago two of my
Deputies in trying to arrest parties connected
with the aforesaid killings had Q shooting
match. in which my men were obliged to kill
couple of the natives in order to save their
own lives. Altogether there are lively times
in the mountain regions. and q man that
doesn't know how to handle . Winchester
| pretty clevsrly had better stay away from
those parts"
Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster is in
the city again after his brief visit to Hawaii.
He reports strong sentiment among the
Americans and some of the British and Ger.
| man residents in Hawaii in favor of annexa.
rule oppose the proposition, principally be.
cause annexation would abolish the contract
labor system now in vogue in the islands.
Under existing arrangements the Japanese
labosers in the islands. to the number of 20 600
or whereabouts, are all under longtime con.
tracts, which make them practically the sub
jects of the planters by whom they are en-
ployed. The American planters, who also use
the contract system, do not as a rule believe
that il is well for the country, and their argu-
ment Is that what is bad for Hawaii must be in
the end bad for themselves. They are willing.
therefore, to relinquish what temporary bcnes
fit they may get from the system for the ulti-
mate good which they beiieve will necessarily
follow. Gen. Foster believes that the United
States should take some definite action speedily
with reference to Hawaii. 1t is not right. he
says, to leave them in their present uncertain
position. We ought either to annex them, he
thinks, or announce to the world that We have
no further concern in their affairs. The for
eign element in Hawaii is very largo, and
sooner or later it must become Q dangerous
menace to the present peace and prosperity of
the islands.
1t is interesting to note disposition on the
part of italian authorities to restrict unde-
| sirable emigration to this country. Commits
sioner-Genersl Stump, who has Just returned
from the other side, has stated to the Secretary
| Of the Trsssury that the Italian Ministry ex.
pressed to him its earnest desire that persons
who would not be permitted to land in the
| United States should be restrained from EN-.
| bark alton. and that such regulations Is the
Ministry had authority to enforce should b
promulgated with view to preventing further
| undesif able immigration, and at the same time
II, s..t~ l>1 49,