The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-07-28
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Cen
eral Topics from
the Capital.
,July %. 1905.

lar as Jne STATISTICS are cOHCtIHou'
The preparation of the crop re-
ports are to be placed In the hands
of a board. AS soon as the re-
turns from the field come in, they
will be locked mp in vault by
the Assistant Secretary, who will
be the chairman of the board.
On a given day he will hand the
reports to the other members of
the hoard who will be four division
chiefs and let them figure averages.
An average will then be taken of
their averages and the report
issued. The work will be done in
an inside room of the Department
and Secretary Wilson is response
BILE for the assurance that leak
of any sort will be absolutely
impossible. The late statistician
Mr.. Hyde has been giving that
same sort of assurance for at least
five years past. Possibly how
ever, the Secretary's assurance
Will be more assuring.
The Government is on the point
of opening bids for the importa
ton of the coolie laborers to the
IsthmuS to work on the Canal
that will be built sometime with
the permission of the Chagres
River and the trans continental
railways There will be between
5000 and 10000 able bodied cool
les, HindOOS and the like, landed
by the contractors on the ISthmus.
The laborers will be selected in
their homes and shipped to the
LIST hmus by the contractor. He is
expected to make his profit out of
the transportation of the labOrers,
which ought to assure the labor
ers of palatial accommodations EN-
route. The deal will be shorn of
any semblance of servitude by the
comedy of each la borer coming up
to the pay shed and asking in a
wondering tone whether the build
ers of the canal can give him a
Job. The probabilities are that
after being brought three or four
thousand miles for that particular
purpose that job will be found
for him, and he will thereupon
make an individual contract with
the Government. After his con-
tract term is over, if he is not
dead in the meantime. which is
probability also, he will be return
ed to China or wherever he came
from by the contractor, that is if
he does not migrate to the United
States by way of the Texas border.
The chances for Chinese importa-
ton over that border are large
and the remuneration is fully pro-
portiOnate to the risks.
China has sent an identical note
to the powers on the subject of
Manchuria. Moo cares particu-
larly what China says on the sub
ject of Manchuria but the note has
arrived in Washington and has
been forwarded to the President
at Oyster Bay. China declares
she will not be bound by any
agreement entered Into by Russia
and Japan at the coming peace
conference that does not recognize
her sovereign rights in Manchu-
ria. This is chiefly interesting
from the fact that Japan has
loudly proclaimed that she did
not intend to do anything with
Manchuria but return it to China.
China's note seems to indicate a
lack Of faith in Japan's assurances
and it is just possible that if any
result is reached at all by the
Russian and Japanese ENJOYS at
Portsmouth it may be of such a
nature as to awaken the fears of
all the powers, including the
| United States that have the terri
torial integrity of China at heart.
Chinese diplomacy is not usually
asleep at critical juncture, and
it is just possible that she may
have gotten a hint of the propos-
ed Japanese terms before anyone
else outside of Japan.
The will of the late Secretary
Hay has been submitted for pro-
bate in the District Court. 1t is
a short document and with the ex-
ceptiOn of three personal requests.
leaves the whole of the estate to
Mrs. Hay. The amount involved
is said to be we'll over million
dollars.
The question of tariff revision
at the coming session of Congress
is retiring further into the back
ground as the leaders of the two
houses intended it should. There
must be some legislation to meet
the growing deficit OF the Treas
ury, but it probably will be of
makeshift character, such as re-
imposition of the Spanish War
taxes or an increase OF the tax on
beer. The threats of the admins
tration seems to have had no other
effect on the "stand pattersn than
to make them stand patter. The