The age-herald., 1899-06-11
HOT AND QUIET
 IN WASHINGTON The MCMilIan-Alger Fight EatHTS Social
 Circles. Ah,KIMl lENATTCMnc MLEnnlMH
M'KlNLEY ATTENDS WEDDING
The Cabinet is Developing Into Galf
 CFankS.
THE ACCOMPLISHMENT CHAMPION
Tourist Tells an Interesting Story of the Colony at Liberia Says the Negroes Falling Back Into
 Semi-Barbaric State

Negroes Falling Back Into
 Semi-Barbaric State
 Washington, June 1o-(Special.) )-The week past has been the hottest and the quietest in Washington since the adjourn ment of congress. Very few people have left the city as yet and the gay circle which is outside and part of the political set has been unusually busy with marrying and giving in marriage. The highest offi- cially and the richest socially were brought together at the Anderson McA1illan we'd ding at St. Johns church last Wednesday, around which was grouped many enter tainments. The president and all his cab met with the exception of Secretary Alger the latter making it a point not to be here, were in attendance at the wedding The president does not often accept invi- tations of this character, and some sig nificance attaches to his presence at the Anderson ceremony and reception.
 The groom is the second son of Senator McMillan, of Michigan, whose seat in the senate Is now being contested for by Sec retary Alger The secretary in order to BSl SoiiS dufdHldSe Ol oeHdlOI Acaiildn in announcing his candidacy referred to the fact that Senator McMillan was not Mckinley man prior to his entrance to the white house. As one was in the senate and the other in the cabinet the latter was supposed to express the opinion held by the president. The president could not take an opportunity to say aught against this statement, but it is we'll understood that he was very indignant with the sec retary of war for dragging him into the controversy. No special invitation was sent him and the Anderson family was said to be In ignorance whether he intended to accept or not. Just before the wedding party entered the church the president en- tered, however, and on the arm of General Corbin was escorted to a seat in the sec ond row. Later he attended the reception as to emphasize the fact that he took no part whatever in the Michigan contest. In this way he make known his friendship for McMillan without appearing to rebuke the secretary.
 The Contest Nin Be Bitter
 The contest in Michigan is going to be a bitter one, as both parties are wealthy and both anxious to represent the state in the senate. Secretary Alger evidently intended to make McMillan's anti-MciI<nley senti- HieHt Ol the past u strong argument III the campaign. Since the president has seen fit to announce publicly that he and Sen ator McMillan are friends it will be difficult for the seeretary-of war to get much capi- tai out of the charge. The families have been most intimate in the past, but as usual when their interests clash politically their social attitudes are also affected. The Michigan colony in Washington is one of the wealthiest and influential here and lans and Algers in the past have some lins and Algers in the past have some trouble in remaining in the neutral zone. The president has led the way, however, and shown how this can be done. even with the head of one faction in his official household.
 Society Late Leaving Washington
 One reason why the fashionable element is late in leaving Washington is that 1t has the best golf links in the country in the vicinity of the capitol. The craze has reached that point now when no summer resort can hope for fashionable contin- gent unless 1t can boast a good set of links. Here in Washington nearly every ono plays. There are several clubs, but those at Chevy Chase of the Country club are by far the best. can remember the time when Comptroller of the Currency Echols was the only official in Washington who played the game and he used to be unmercifully guyed for it. New Secretary wilson ana Ine pOSIIlldSleT general dTS lue only members of the cabinet who are not experts at driving and putting.
 officials Have Golf Craze
 The attorney general has long been a devotee, and he keeps a regular challange, 1t is said, posted in the cabinet room to play any other member for any sum who thinks he can be defeated. Be this it may, or it may be one of the presidents jokes for 1t came from him, the attorney
 H 1.- days for the reason that he spends the early hours of the day on the Chevy Chase links. Secretary Gage has taken up the game and in the right way, too. He has a professor who teaches him how to hold his irons and the good form drive. Secretary Gage has taken home in Mary land only few hundred yards from the links.
 The other day Justice Harlan entered the handicap tournament and came within one of winning the prize. On the last "ap> proach' and put" he was defeated by a young social tiippant Considering the lt-' tie time he has for practicing he is very proud of his record.
 One of the best golf players is Secretary Hay He learned in England and has done some playing on some of the most cele- brated links in Scotland. Secretary Will son tells the yarn that some times interna- tional affairs come to standstill in cabi-
 
 a majority of his household to cease dis cussing the game. The president says that where so much talking is required to play the game that it must require good deal of study to learn it, and he has not the time to devote to it as present. Attorney General Griggs does not despair. however, of getting the chief executive in- terested in the game yet and predicts that as soon as the president tires of his new hobby. namely driving, he will be willing to take to golf.
 The Colony at Liberia
 I recently met Captain Rogers, who is just back from cruise of several years, during which time he has seen a good deal of the dark continent of Africa. By all means" he said, lone of the most inter- csting places I visited was the American colony in Liberia. This colony was found- ed in the time of Monroe and the principal town and the capital is called, after him, Monrovia.
 "It was begun, of course, to establish homes for slaves who were able to buy tbair freedom, and who might desire to