Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-10-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
A STERN EFFORT TO
KEEP OUT ANARCIi-
lists.
The Patent Office Takes a
Stand.
Prosperity Claimed.
tFrOm Our Regular Correspondent
WA.uIraroN. sent 2z. lsaz

AShAS6ION, sept ~ 1891.
Extraordinary efforts are being
made by the administration to keen
European anarchists out of this coun-
try. Our immigration laws are not as
specific as they might be in prohibit
ing the landing of anarchists, but as
there are more ways to Kill a dog than
by hanging, so there are more ways
than one Co keep anarchists away from
the United states, and ali of them are
being utilized by immigration Com
missioner Powderly, who is being ac-
lively assisted by the diplomatic and
consular branch OF the government
service The officials OF several Euro
pean governments are also lending
their assistance to the efforts that are
being made to prevent anarchists even
making q start for America. All OF
the steamship companies have also
been notified that they must comply
strictly with the act of 1891. which
provides that any foreigner who enters
our ports in violation of the law
through the ignorance of the inspec-
tors, may be returned at the expense
OF the transportation company which
originally Drought him.
This law throws great responsibility
ty on the ship owners, who must not
only bear the expense of transport
ing the a7archists, or any other illega,
immigrants, back 20 the place whence
they came, but must maintain them
between voyages. The penalty for fail.
ure to comply with this law is $500
tine in each case, and the vessel can
not leave port until the fiue is paid.
DISCARDED FROM PRACTICE.
l hon. Benjamin butterworth, Com.
missioner OF Patents, has taken anoth
er long step forward in the work o.
purifying and elevating the practics
before the United States Patent or
flee. by deciding upon the disbsrmen
from practice before that office o
John Weddenburg and Company. ,
tconcern which. in addition to the in
PRODUCTION OF lottery methods into tn,
soliciting of United States Patenr
was, after an unprecedently long ant
Icareful hearing. found guilty OF variou
fraudulent practices. The official or
der bisb4rring Weddenburg and Com
ipany will be published in next week.
issue or the Patent Office Gazette, to
gether with an elaborate opinion Civ
John Weddenburn, the head of tn
lcompany, firm or corporation. as
has been vRriously called, was also tn
head and originator of the Examine
IClaims Bureau and the Press Claim
lCompany, both of which left unsavor
records when they ceased TO exist, an
all three of which have left numerou
souvenirs in the shape of certificate
of stock in tie hands of newspape
publishers who were persuaded TO &C
Icept the same as payment for the ad
! vertising, without which neither {
them could have existed three month,
WORTHLESS SOUVENIRS.
A number of inventors are also lei
with souvenirs in the shape Of receipt
for advance fees paid to Wedd el bur
x Co., to pre- secute their application
for patent. Itis needless TO advis
those who have lost their money the
will be more careful hereafter. but
would be we'll for others TO take th
lesson to heart and be sure they kno
the sort of men they deal with herea
= ter. The Post Office authorities haV
n been asked TO put the National r,
, cordAr, paper published by Wedde
burR & Company, on the fraud list.
z AsAD DEAL
Those democratic employees of II
Sixth Auditors office who secured Or,
lmoJion under the last administratic
solely because they were democrat
each man promoted displacing a r,
Q publican who was reduced, are muc
I alarmed over the official announc,
ment of ;he present Sixth Audito
j Hon. Henry A. Castle, of his intentic
: to compel every man so promoted
= prove his right TO draw the increase
salary by the record of his work. or
: be reduced to a salery in keeping vii
!; his working record.
ri PROSPERITY.
% Ex-Delegate Flynn, of Oklahom
lwhois on business trip to the Eas
3 stopped in Washington for sever
, days. Speaking OF the condition
the country he said "The prOsperi
we promised has struck the countr
p The store box whittier IS out of a 10
. have had occasion recently to visit
: number OF the states and territorie
: and everybody IS feeling good. Okl
i hOma is probably to-day the mo
prosperous ectiOn o1the United State
Our people will export %, 200 600 bus
els of wheat, and fully 100000 bus
els of castor beans. We have exec
lent corn crop, and have rivaled Ca
J. fornia in fruit so far. The South s.
d Islands grow the only cotton that su
s | passes the fibre of Oklahoma. O
l. cotton is little late, but we'll mar
h ct $50. .OOO bales. Western cattle a
as good now as Klondike gold mine
No, Pm not talking politics, 1 ha
found it impossible to find many De
pie willing to acknowledge themselv
democrats or populists. hence, Or
le sumo they all voted the republic
L ticket. Our people are well satisfi
$ with the national ADMINISTRATION.
70 BURROWS SPEAKS.
nj Senator Burrows, of Mich. ia
= Washington on business with the T
10 partment Of State, but when he "
aske d, just after he had had a confe
ence with Secretary Sherman, WI
the nature of the business was,
laughingly declined TO say whether
was public or private. Mr.. Burro
says prosperity is in full swing in !
IN chigan, just as it is everywhere else
n has been since Congress adjourned.
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