Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Sept. %, 1897.
TsPEoIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF rHB MoNlToR.l

try. Our immigration laws are not as
specific as they might be in prohibit
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 immigration COM
missioner Powderly, who is being act
lively assisted by the diplomatic and
consular branch of the government
service. The officials of several Eu
1opean governments are also lending
their assistance to the efforts that are
being made to prevent anarchists
even makind 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 en-
tiers our ports in violation of the law,
through the ignorance of the inspect
ors, may be returned at the expense
of the transportation company which
originally brought him here This
law throws great responsibility on the
ship owners, who must not only bear
the expense of transporting the anar
chists, or any other Illegal immigrants,
back to the place whence they came,
but must maintain them between yoy-
ages. 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. Bntterworth, commits
sioner of Patents, has taken another
long step forward in the work of pur-
flying and elevating the practice be-
fore the y. S. Patent Office, by decid-
ing upon the disbarment from practice
before that Office of John Wedderburn
& Co., concern which, in addition to
the introduction of lottery methods
into the soliciting of q. S. Patents was
after an unprecedently long and
careful hearing, found guilty of vari-
Gus fraudulent practices. The official
order disbarring Wedderburn & 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 company, firm or corporation, as
it has been variously called was also
the head and originator of the Exam
liner Claims Bureau and the Press
Claims Company, both of which left
unsavory records when they ceased to
exist, and all three of which have left
numerous souvenirs in the shape of
certificates of stock i'm the hands of
newspaper publishers who were per-
suaded to accept the same as a pay
ment for advertising, without which
neither of them could have existed
three months. A number of inventors
are also left with worthless souvenirs
in the shape of receipts for advance
fees paid to Wedderbnrnq &c Co. to
prosecute their applications for pat
ent. 1t is needless to advise those
who have lost their money: they will
be more careful hereafter, but it would
be we'll for others to take the lesson
to heart and be sure they know the
sort of men they deal with hereafter.
The postofffce authorities have been
asked to put the National Recorder, a
paper published by Wedderburn &
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
rQnnhlioan uhn
much alarmed over the official an
nounce1nent of the present Sixth
Auditor, Hon. Henry A. Castle, of
his right to compe every man SO
promoted to prove his right to draw
the increased salary by the record of
his work, or to be reduced to salary
in keeping with his working record.
Ex-Delegate Flynn, of Oklahoma,
who is on 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 lob.
I have had occasion recently to visit
a number of the states and territories,
and everybody is feeling good Ok
lahoma is probably today the most
prosperous section of the United
States. Our people win export 25,-
900 bushels of wheat, and fully
5000, 600 bushels of castor beans. We
have an excellent corn crop, and
have outrivalled California in fruit so
far. The South Sea Islands grow the
only co ton that surpasses the fibre
of Oklahoma. Our cotton is a little
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