Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-06-15
OUR WASHINGTON
NEWS AND NOTES
HMks OF INTEREST sRI9rL!
1noNIcLKD.
IS NOW CLOSELY GUARDED

Care is Being Taken for the Presi-
dents Safety. No One Is Allowed
About Entrance of White House
When Mr.. Roosevelt Goes Driving
Extraordinary precautions are being
taken in tn evicinity Of the White
House TO protect the President from
any possibility of danger. Plain
clothes men from the local detective
force, secret service agents and score
of uniformed policemen guard every
entrance and exit to the executive man
sion, and no one is permitted to loiter
about the grounds or gateways on the
north side of the inclosure, which is
q public thoroughfare. All the gates
at the east, south and west entrances
to the grounds are securely chained
and padlocked, and policemen in uni
form wait, apparently carelessly about
but keeping sharp lookout mean
while for stragglers.
This action is considered signifcan:
coming after the report from Oregon,
where anarchists were arrested, that a
plot to assassinate the President had
been discovered, and after the attempt
I'd assassination of King Alfonso of
Spain.
When the Plesiden starts for his
customary afternoon d 7e in tne open
vehicle which he pref, !, no one is
permitted to linger alb t the drive
way or the two PennsJ ania avenue
entrances. AS pedestrians approach
either of these places, an enc gate
but polite sergeant OF pelice waves his
:lub warningly, accompanying the ges-
lures with request for the e1riously
inclined to "keep moving, please, the
President is coming"
No fixed time is set for the depart
ure Of the Chief Magistrate for his
putting, the hour of departure being
changed daily so that nobody outside
of the guardians Of the White House
may know when to expect him to
come down the driveway. A double
team and open-seated rig, standing be-
Meath the high, covered porch of the
mansion, is generally the first intima-
ion that the President is getting
eady for drive, and usually there
ire a score Of tourists and others at
racted to the scene when they learn
Who is expected to. emerge from the
White House.
Bat nobody is permitted within fif
y feet on either side of the NTo en-
frances, and the curiously inclined
must content themselves with peering
through the tall iron grated fence
which surrounds the mansion and its
park.
AS soon as the President leaves the
Enclosure, plain clothes" men mount
ed on bicycles, ride two abreast in
front and two behind the vehicle in
which the President is seated and the
procession thus arranged proceeds to
the outskirts of the Capitol, where the
occupant of the carriage leaves it and
mounts a saddle horse, which has been
In waiting for him at an indicated To-
cality.
Or if a jount on foot is preferred
the carriage is sent back to the city,
the driver being first instructed to re-
turn at a given time to different
spot from which the start was made.
By this arrangement it is almost
impossible for any one to know with
any degree of certainty the wherea,
bouts Of the First Citizen of the re-
public when he is enjoing respite
from his official duties.
The success of the plan Of colonizing
the japanese in Texas has brought the
attention of the Bureau Of Immigra-
ton by Representative Slayden of
that State, in letter received from
one of his constituents engaged in ex-
tensive business operations In San An
tonic, and referred to the Bureau of
immigration. The writer speaks of
the natural qualifications of the Ja-
panese as horticulturists, and Of the
efforts now under way to import to
this country considerable numbers to
engage in that industry. Those now
located in Texas at Mitchell Lake,
have shown such aptitude as to en-
courage the belief that their migration
from California has been productive
Of good. Realizing, however, the diff
ficulties which might be encountered
through misapprehension of the gov
ernment officials that the prospective
additions from Japan to the Texas
colony were simply means Of evading
the contract labor law, the matter has
been put before the State Department
and Bureau of immigration, with the
view to establishing the bonafde ma
ture of the plan
The House Committee on Judiciary
BY vote of 10 to z referred all of
the seven anti-injunction bills to a
special subcommittee with instructions
to report to the full committee next
December. 1t was stated that the
question involved numerous important
legal principles on which steady leg.
islative action might be destructive
For this reason the course taken wal
deemed to be most wise and conserva-
tive.
John w. Foster, formerly Secretar,
of State has been honored by the Chi
nese government with an appointment
as its representative at the approach
ing Hague conference. There is onl.
one other case on record where tn
Chinese government has delegated t
citizen of foreign country such i'm
portant diplomatic functions, and tina