Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-07
LEAKEsyIiLE GREENE COUNTY, MISS FRIDAY, OCT 1904

/ III would appear tnae pronounce
change has occurred i'll the volume
immigration to the United States
Iiudging from the latest available H.
ures on the subject. The immigration
Bureau has just completed the com
pilation of reports from all parts OF
the country for the month of July
and it seems that there was falling
off in the total arrivals in that month
Of almost ter thousand, as compared
with the same month of 1908. The
most encouraging feature is the fact
that nearly all of the reduction is In
the immigration from countries that
send us the least desirable aliens
Austria and Italy. There was a de-
cline of S906 in immigration from
Austria in July, and Of 451T from
Italy, as compared with July year
ago. Another cheering indication
was in increase in immigration from
England, which sent us 1922 more
aliens than was the case in July 1903.
Small gains were also reported from
Ireland, Scotland and Finland. New
York city is the goal for the great
est portion of foreigners who seek our
shores. Of the total number Of az
rivals in July, 57,949, about three
fourths, or 1905, landed at the port
of New York. The inspectors are
keeping sharp lookout to bar all
alines afflicted with diseases of con-
tagious character and in the month
of July SS2 were turned back for this
and other causes.
What is described as tho biggest
graft in violation of the Interstate
Commission law that has been uncoy-
cred since the revelations regarding
the rebates given by the railroads to
the beef trust is to be investigated by
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. The later will try to break up
the private car line evil, which has
rcwn from a very SMALL beginning
into gigantic industry, involving the
operation of huge transportation sys-
te rs which are exempt from the re-
strictions of the interstate commerce
acs. The inquiry is to be held in Chi
eago, which is the heart of the evil,
beginning on October TO- BY thor
oughly ventilating the system it is
hoped to break up the whole business
of giving private rebates and allow
ances to the owners of private car
lines, or at least place them under
the control of the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
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The White House is not safe
place for stranger with hobby, or
even with a cranky notion which may
be entirely harmless, to visit, because
if there is anything about his appear
ance to excite the least suspicion of
the secret service men who guard the
doors, or if he cannot tell a straight
story, if closely questioned, he prob
ably will find himself either in st.
Elizabeth S Insane Asylum, or in Jail,
before he is day older. Such was
the experience of an aged negress,
Matilda Stuart, Of Louisiana, who
walked to Washington on a righteous
mission, attempted to plead her cause
before the President, was pushed into
van, which finally landed her at the
asylum, and is now travelling home
at the expense of the district.
An interesting controversy, in
which the firm of Paul Gelpi & Bro,
of New Orleans were parties, has just
been decided by the Treasury Depart
ment. The firm alluded to made sew
eral importations of cordials from
Europe upon which a large amount
was charged in excess of what they
believed they were rightfully entitled
to pay as duty. The decision of the
collector of customs at New Orleans
was appealed from by them, and was
subsequently reversed by the Board
of General Appraisers sustaining the
claims of the New Orleans importers.
! President Roosevelt reiterated to
Representative Cooper, of Wisconsin,
his expressed determination not to
participate in any way in the fac
tional trouble now in progress in that
state. Mr.. Cooper informed the presi-
dent that in his opinion the Republi-
can national ticket would receive the
support af all Republicans in Wiscon-
sin, despite the unhappy factional
differences which exist in the state,
and that those differences would not
affect in any serious degree the ma
| tional election.
The Navy Department has accept
ed the protected cruiser Des Moines,
now attached to the European squad
ron. This vessel was built at Quin-
cy, Mass, and fell a little short Of
meeting the complete contract re-
quirements in the matter of speed.
Pay Another S500,000.
st. Louis. Another semi-monthly
payment of $5O0,O0O on the $4,6O0,-
900 government loan was made this
week by the management of the Loui-
siana Purchase Exposition. The total
amount paid up to date is So, ,408, ,149.
George Kerr Dead.
Louisville, Ky.-George Kerr, fa-
nous few years ago as cartoonist
and. illustrator, is dead at the Sol