The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-05-29

Jones has four times been elected Mayor
against the strongest opposition and de-
spite the fact that he refused to commit
himself to any party, declaring that party
should cut no figure in municipal politics.
The last time he was elected he received
100, 900 votes.
Secretary Cortelyou, of the Department
of Commerce, is not saying much these
days but he is doing a heap O thinking
about Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
who has passed along to the new Cabinet
member a most difficult and perpleXing
problem, that of employing women immi-
grant inspectors. The six inspectors, who
were appointed some time ago at the in
stance of certain religious and philan-
throplc associations, served ninety days
and were then dismissed CD the recon-
mendation of Immig grafton Commissioner
Williams, who did not consider that they
performed any useful office. Now, Rev.
Josiah Strong, president of the American
Institute of Social Service, Mrs. Margaret
Dye Ellis, of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, Miss Sadie America,
of the Woman's Municipal League and
Mrs. Florence Kelly, formerly an Illinois
factory inspector, have come to Washing
ton to secure the reinstatement of the dis
charged female inspectors. They called
on Secretary Shaw and with a manner
that was %"childlike and bland' the Secre-
tary referred them to Secretary Cortelyou,
under whose jurisdiction the Bureau of
Immigration will be after July. A COM
mittee of women will descend upon the
young Cabinet officer with their logic of
rccrimination and tears.
The Department of Justice has located
half a million dollars worth of the prop
erty of ex Captain Carter, who is serving
a term in the Leavenworth penitentiary
for enlightenment from the Government.
The Department has been working very
quietly in the matter and this fact was
learned without the approval of the Off
Gals who have the case in charge. Atten
ton is now being turned to the Greene
and Gaynor property and it is believed
that airra " some clues to their holdings
have been secured. When the evidence
regarding all the property is secured and
properly prepared. another effort will be
made to extradite Green and Gaynor and
a new trial in the federal courts in Chicago
will be commenced, by which it is hoped
the Government will be able to recover a
large portion of its loss from the Carter
enlightenment.
There is great qualification at the State
Department over the news that the per-
manent treaty between the United States
and Cuba has been signed at Havana.
This treaty Incorporates all the provisions
of the Plat amendment. The treaty still
remains to be ratified ard, although rati-
f~ication by the Senate of the United States
is certain, there is some question as to the
ACTION Of the Cuban Senate. The title to
the Isle of Pines remains to be settled by
a subsequent treaty. The provision which
permits the United States to establish
naval stations at Guantanamo and Bahia
bay are regarded by American officials as
the most important provisions of the new
convention. The specific location of these
stations is not included in the treaty but a
selection of the points named has been
the outcome of subsequent negotiations.
Another scheme for deluding and prob
ably d%efrauding negroes, an evident out
growth of the Hanna ex-slave pension
bill, has Just come to light. 1t is a circu-
lar issued by the "executive committee of
the Civil Liberty Party" The circular
begs assistance in destroying partisan
slavery among the negroes, in securing
the passage of the Hanna bill and requests
the appointment of delegates to attend a
mammoth convention of negroes to be
held in Cincinnati next May.
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