Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-05-13

or to practice law. Congress must
hurry home. Porto Rica can wait.
The people were promised that trusts
would have terrible over-hauling.
But the trusts have given notice that
they can wait. Republicans felt that
to tackle any of these matters was
playing with fire-dangerous business.
Besides they hadn't time.
1t has been settled at last that Mr..
Hearst is not confined to the Journal
and american as means of expires.
sion. He was cornered in the Judi.
ciary Committee the other day to de.
fend his resolution calling for the
punishment Of the more rapacious
trusts, and he showed clearly, in a few
we'll directed sentences, that he knew
what he was talking about and could
give the committee variety of points.
He was self-possessed, tactful, and Wig
orous, was not too digniied to use
slang or too grave to crack jokes,
keeping the purpose of his resolutions
all the while in mind. 1t was dis.
covered that he had vocal organs and
even lung power. and was not merely
"yellow peril" His epigramatic re-
mark about the Attorney General hav.
ing sat on the coal-trust evidence for
eighteen months like an old hen try.
ing to hatch a door knob" has taken
it's place among the tropes OF history.
Columbian University in this city is
being revolutionized. To avoid the
ambiguity occasioned by the resem-
blance of its name to the Columbia
University of New York City, the
trustees have resolved that it shall
hereafter be known as the George
Washington University. Moreover, it
will be moved from its present site
half a mile southwestward down back
OF the State. War and Navy Depart.
ment and it will get enough for its
old building opposite the Shoreham
to erect several far finer ones on the
new locality. Eight magnificent mar
BILE buildings will be constructed sur.
rounding the site OF David Burns cot.
tage, and it is believed that the Uni.
versity will assume a new position
among the educational institutions of
America.
The old Riggs Bank, opposite the
Treasury is being demolished and the
historic structure is now little more
than a memory. It was built by
Nicholas Biddle during Monroe's ad.
ministration and sheltered the famous
United States Bank. Its public func-
tions ceased when Roger B. fancy by
direction of Andrew Jackson removed
the deposits. On its site will be
erected the most spacious financial
temple in Washington.
A couple months ago Governor Taft,
proconsul TO the Philippines, told your
correspondent that he was in favor OF
freedom when the Filipinos were eft
for it," Now, he charges the hundreds
of statesmen, scholars and college
presidents with intermeddling" be-
cause they favor self government there.
Intermeddle, indeed upon what meat
doth this our Caesar feed? Is this the
Language Of a servants Of the republic?
The enforcement Of the exclusion
act against Chinese immigration is
accompanied with serious abuses. A
case is before the immigration Bureau
here OF the editor OF Chinese paper
in San Francisco. After living in this
country many years he went to Pekin
on business and on his return was for
hidden to land, on the ground that he
was "neither a teacher. student, q
merchant, nor a tourist" as the law
requires. He protested that he was q
teacher, being an editor. and also the
teacher Of a Chinese Sunday school.
Knox and Cortelyou have combined
to turn him down, and he is at this
moment imprisoned on the wharf at
San Francisco almost within sight of
his property, and has been there for
four months.
Another case is even more exasper-
ating. A Chinese boy was brought
here by his parents when a child. He
went to the public schools, then to the
higher schools, and grew to be man !;
married an American girl, became the
father of large family of children,
attained the position OF banker, OF
wealth and standing. His business
affairs made a trip to Alaska necessary,
and on returning from Skagway by
steamer he vas forbidden TO land in
the city of his residence, for he had
been over three miles from shore and
therefore out of the countryi 1t
seemed incredible to him. al am an
American" he protested. 81 speak
English almost exclusively. My inter-
est are all here. My family is up yon-
der. My father and mother are here.
My banks is but four blocks away.
All my property is here. All my ac-
quaintances are here. ! know nobody
in China or out of the United States"
The authorities decided against him
and this very administration has com.
PEELED him to sacrifice his property, to
leave his home parents and friends,
and with his wife and children cling
ing to him to 60 from our shorea an
exile TO China, strange country
where he has no interests whatever.
How is this for story OF grievous
wrong?
Miss Clara Barton is very anxious to
get ont Of the tangle resulting from
not reporting or auditing the Red
Cross funds. She is willing to CON-
promise ii she can remain President.
Senator Burrows committee inves.
tigating the Smoot case has adjourned
its hearings indefinitely but will go
lunketipg to Utah, Dem,