The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-03-24
WASHINGTON
The City Of Magnificent Dis
tanCeS
Collection CT Events Occurring Among
the People Of The Capital of This Great
and Glorious Nation and Conden sed for
the Hasty Perusal Of our Many Readesr
tanCeS

Special Correspondence THE APPEAL.
Washington, March 21st--A vigorous
protest has been lodged with the Dis
trict Commissioners against the cree
ton OF proposed Afro American
apartment house on Ward place. be-
tween New Hampshire avenue and
Twenty-S street northwest, by
the property owners and residents Of
that neighborhooi d..
The protest is in the form of a pc
tition signed by Charles H. Raub, of
l240 New Hampshire avenue, and
about thirty others, all OF, whom are
residents of the immediate vicinity. It
declares that the proposed apartment
would greatly depreciate the value OF
their property, and asks that the Com
missioners instruct Building Inspector
Ashford to refuse the permit when the
matter is brought to his attention.
Building Inspector Ashford states
that no permit has been applied for up
to this time, but that in case applica-
ton is made he would have no author.
ity to decline it, as the law gives him
no discretionary powers.
Of course Mr.. Raub cannot prevent
the erection of a fiat for Afro-Ameri,
cans but the petition shows the
strength OF race prejudice in this city
Lieut.. Thomas H. R. Clark lectured
on THE Colored Soldier in the course
of free lectures to the people at the
Armstrong school, Lieut.. Clark who
ic f.1n h1 ,,t,,
is Spanish war veteran. Cadets Of
the Armstrong and M Street High
School acted as hosts for. the occasion.
He told the history of the Colored
troops in all the wars of ancient, medf-
eval and modern times, showing by
historical instances the ability of the
Colored man to command and to obey.
He took the lives and records of such
men as Hannibal; Diaz, the liberator
of Brazil; Toussaint L'Ouverture, An
tonic MAGIC and Gen. Alfred Dodge for
illustrations
Rev. w. H. Scott, OF WOburn, Mass,
called on the members of the House
Committee on Industrial Arts and
ExpOsitions and on behalf of the Mas
against the appropriation of money for
the Jamestown Exposition unless
assurances are given that Afro meri-
cans will not be Disseminated against
While visiting the exposition
Yesterday the President sent to the
Senate:
To be placed on the retired list OF
the army with rank of lieutenant
colonel, Major Allen AlIensworth, chap
lain, Oath Infantry.
Speaker Cannon gave dinner at the
New Willard Saturday night in honor
of the Gridiron Club Of Washington.
to which he invited distinguished men
from many sections of the country
Mr.. Cannon has been one of the Grid,
iron Clubs favorites among public men
for years, and has graced with his
presence it's dinners and entertain
ments many times. Saturday night
the tables were turned and the Grid
iron Club became guest instead of host.
The Senate has passed g bill author
izing the erection of monuments to the
memory Of John Paul Jones, Dorothea
Lynde Dix, and Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow within the limits OF the
District of Columbia. Appropriations
of $4,000 for the John Paul Jones
monument, $4,000 for the Dix monu-
ment, and $4,000 for the Longfellow
monument are provided for in the bill.
At the meeting OF the Mems League
of the Calvary Baptist Church, Justice
Wendell Phillips Stafford of the SUI
preme Court of the District, made the
address Of the evening on whittier,
the Poet Laureate of Freedom The
remarks were enthusiastically receiv-
ed. The speaker dwelt upon the part
taken by Whittier in the anti-slavery
agitation, of which he was the poet
laureate, claiming that this was his
highest and most enduring title TO
fame.
When mob in Chattanooga Monday
night lynched Ed johnson, an Afro
American under sentence of death. the
majesty of an order staying the execu-
ton entered by the Supreme Court OF
the United States was outraged.
For the first time in the history Of
the country mandate of the Supreme
Court was nullifed. 1t is believed that
Chief Justice Fuller and the Associate
Justices Of the Court will take imme-
date action to determine where the
contempt lies, and Marshal Weight,
probably assisted by the Department
of Justice, will be instructed to visit
the castigation of the court upon those
guilty of laxity in permitting aspar-
son, protected by the order of the tri-
bunal, to be put to death IN violation
of law.
Commissioner of Pensions Vespasian
Warner is contemplating making fin
al move toward perfecting the Pension
Office force on a purely business plane
by the beginning of the next fiscal
year. To do this he proposes to elm
mate the positions of seyenty-eight
employees with salaries ranging from
$1,000 per year down to 5000. The
change would result in a saving Of
$91 500 salary expenditures annually
to the bureau
In making this move the Commits
sioner would not discharge single
employee. Following out his well-formu-
lated plan he would SO reorganize his
force that the positions he would drop
would be those resulting from yacan-
cies now existing.
B House Elections Committee No. |
has begun hearings in the Legare-Prio-
leau, election contest for the seat in