The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-05-09
WEEKLY LETTER
FROM washington.
SOCIAL, POLITICAL and GENERAL
news items GATHERED In The
CAPITAL CITY,.
(From Our Regular Correspondent }

WASHINGTON, d. c., May o.
This has been a lively week for
Washington from social and spec
tacular standpoint. The visiting
naval officers at jamestown have
been entertained at the White House
and at lhe several embassies, and
there has been a constant succession
of liberty parties of foreign sailors
in Washington from the various
foreign worships visiting the exposi-
tion. The officers have been always
in citizens clothes on the streets so
they were not conspicuous. But
the sailors have been in the uniforms
of the navies to which they belong
ed. One has run across them in the
hotel lobbies, on the street cas- and
at the theatres constantly. There
is not so much difference between
the uniforms OF sailors the world
over, only miaor points such as
buttons and pipings. But it would
seem there had never been so many
sailors IN the city before, and the
cap ribbons show them to be from
Great Britain, Austria, Germany,
Italy and France and possibly some
other countries. They have all been
models of deport ment and have add
ed to the gaiety of the street scenes.
Receptions and dinners have been
given the officers at the Germans,
British and Austrian embassies, and
there are more entertainments in
prospect.
There is every prospect that the
Dominion Treaty against which such
fight was made in the last session
of Congress will be ratified
by San to Domingo in the course of
a few days. The event is awaited
with good deal of interest at the
State Department and it will mean
several years more of work for thi:
government in Strengthening out the
finances of the little republic and
putting it on ITS feet again smong
the nations of the void. One OF
the changes that will follow the
ratification of the treaty is that
Minister Dawson of Santo Domingo
who has engineered the negotiations
all Through and who has visited
this country three times in the
interest of the treaty, will be trans
ferred to Columbia as minister in
succession to John Barrett, now the
director of the Bureau of American
Republics. This will be a decided
promotion, and Is given in recogiii,
tion of Minister Dawson's work.
Of decided interest to the travel
ing public is the decision of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
that the Railroads cannot grant
special rates to theatrical troupes as
has been the custom IN the past
The decision may or may not affect
all of the travelling public. That
is as the railroads take it The
present law provides that there
shall be no discrimination IN pas
senger rates, and it is held that
there is discrimination If the rail-
roads allow special rate to theatrl-
cal organizations and not to other
associations of people. If the theat'
rical rate is kept in force, than an
association of ten or more other per-
sons of any calling can demand and
receive the same treatment. This
will be nice for the travelling public
and will be aptt TO make cooperative
travelling the faaion.
There is quite a crowding at the
counter for the position of Commls-
sloner Of Patents that will be left
vacant by the resignation of the pres
ent Commissioner, Frederick | Al.
len. Many of the candidates are
patent lawyers from various parts of
the country, and while naturally a
patent lawyer would be of some ad-