The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 81, 1897.
q Editor nf The RpIublicap

made by the administration to keep
try. Our immigration laws are not
as specific as they might be in prohibl
! iting the landing of anarchists, but
as there are more ways to kill dog
than by hanging, so there are more
ways than one to keep anarchists
away from the United States, and all
of them are being utilized by immi-.
grafton commissioner POwderly, who
is being actively assisted by the Dip
| lOmatic and consular branch of the
government service. The officials of
several European governments are
also lending their assistance to the
efforts that are being made to prevent
anarchists even making start for
America. All Of the steamship com
panies 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 inspectors, may be
returned at the expense of the trans
| portatiOn company which originally
brought him here. This law throws
great responsibility on the ship own
ers, who must not only bear the
expense Of transporting the anarchists
Of hAr, i1laCrn1 ,+c,I al
to the place whence they came, but
must maintain them between voya-
ges. The penalty for failure to com
ply with this law is $500 fine in each
case, and the vessel cannot leave port
until the fine is paid
Hon. Benz. Butterworth, commits
sioner of patents, has taken another
long step forward in the work of
purifying and elevating the practice
before the United States Patent
office, by deciding upon the disbar-
ment from practice before the Office
of John Weddeburn & Co., a concern
which, in addition to the introduction
of lottery methods into the soliciting
of United States patents was, after
an unprecedently long and careful
hearing, found guilty of various
fraudulent practices The official
order disbarring Weddeburn g. Co.
will be published in next weeks issue
of the Patent Office Gazette, together
with an elaborate opinion giving the
reasons therefor in detail Mr. John
Wedderburn, the head of the compa-
ny, firm or corporation, as it has been
variOusly called, was also the head
and originator of the Examiner
Claims Bureau and the Press Claims
Company, both of which left unsa-
worry records when they ceased to
exist, and all three of which have left
numerous souvenirs in the shape of
certificates of stock in the hands Of
newspaper publishers who We're per-
suaded to accept the same as payment
for the advertising, without which
neither of them could have existed
three months A number of inven-
tors are also left with worthless souve-
Mrs in the shape of receipts for
advance fees paid to Weddeburn &
Co. to prosecute their applications
for patents. 1t is needless to advise
those who have lost their money;
they will be more careful hereafter,
but it will be well for others to take
the lesson to heart and be sure they
know the sort Of men they deal with
hereafter. The postOflice authorities
have been asked to put the National
Recorder, a paper published by We'd
derburn & Co., on the fraud list.
Those Democratic employees of the
Sixth Auditors office who secured
promotion under the last administra-
ton solely because they were Demo-
Gratis, each man promoted displacing
a Republican who was reduced, are
much alarmed over the official an
nouncement Of the present Sixth
Auditor, Hon, Henry A. Castle, of
his intention to compel every man so
promoted TO prove his right to draw
the increased salary by the record of
his work, or to be reduced to a salary
i'll keeping with his working record.
EX-Delegate Flynn, of Oklahoma,
who is on a business trip to the east,
stopped in Washington for several
days. Speaking of the condition of
the country he said THE prosperity
we promised has struck the country.
The store box whittier is out of q lob.
| have had occasion recently to visit
a number of the states and territories
and everybody is feeling good. Okla
hOma is probably to-day the most
prosperous section of the United
States. Our people will export 49,
100000 bushels of wheat, and fully
5000, 900 bushels of castor beans. We
have an excellent corn crop, and have
rivaled California in fruit so far. The
South Sea islands grow the only
cotton that surpasses the fibre of
Oklahoma. Our cotton is little late
and We'll market 250, 900 bales. West
ern cattle are as good now as the
KlOndike gold mines No I'm not