The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-08-07

his return, but he Is scheduled
!. return next Monday, and the il
: dictments are not yet forthcon
ing. Even the arrest of Geo. "
Beavers has not yet been accom-
: plished, although it is to be ez
pected that he will be again il
dicted, this time by the District 0
Columbia grand jury. Tomorrow
evening the statute of Limitation
will have run on every action 0
former Assistant Postmaster Gen
E eral Perry Heath, and as there i
no indication of his prosecution
it may be safely predicted that he
will escape the condemnation Of
the courts. AS sort of side issue,
Charles Emory Smith, through the
columns of his newspaper, and
Civil Service Commissioner Proc
tor have started up controversy
regarding the administration of
Smith when he was Postmaster
General which contributes consid-
erably to the gayety of the ma
tions. Mr.. Smith writes virulent
editorials filled with such express
slons as gangs of liars" etc., and
assures his ingenious readers that
his enemies are 'taking to the tall
TIMBER" but the only appreciate
effect of all this is to lead the lead
ing newspapers to deplore the fact
that Smith, after demonstrating
grave incapacitv as Postmaster
General, should now make such "a
pitiable spectacle of himself"
The longer the new immigration
law, enacted at the last session of
Congress, is in operation the more
apparent becomes the fact that
Senators Elkins and Gallinger, in
their endeavors to protect their
railway associates, managed to Sc
riously injure the measure and to
greatly facilitate the importation
of the cheapest and most undesira-
BILE class of European labor. =, 1t
has lust been discovered that the
wording of the bill relieves the
steamship companies and the sail
ing masters from the obligation
heretofore imposed on them of
having their sailing lists revised by
American consuls and paying a
fee of 81 for every sheet passed.
This precaution was a most wise
one and frequently resulted in pre-
venting the importation of con-
tract labor, immigration from in
fected districts, etc., and moreover
added considerably to the income
of the already underpaid and neg
lected consuls. If defects in the
bill continue to develop as time
goes on it will become neces
sary for Congress to pass a sup
Elementary measure, and when
that is done there is little doubt
but that the attempt to place an
educational qualification in the way
of illiterate immigrants will be
made.
Representative Livingston, of
Georgia, is in Washington and ex.
presses himself as highly indignant
at the charge made in some quar-
tiers that he profted by special
favors from former Superintend..
ent of Free Delivery Machen, In
that he secured the establishment
of numerous rural routes in his
district and that several members
of his family and relations are in
the employ of the Postoffice De-
partment, and especially of the
rural free delivery division. He
says that every one of these charges
is entirely without ground. He
declares that no route was estab-
lished in his district except in
strict accordance with the regu-
lations of the department; that he
has but one relation in the postal
service, and that he secured his
appointment through civil service
examination, being a stamp clerk
in the Atlanta postoffice. Mr.. Liv-
ingston is indignant at the manner
in which his name has been brOnoht