The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-11
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON


N'Hfy Is tIdNtll
nounced from Washington that the
compulsory tests of the army ration.
having proved that IL is satisfactory.
VIII be discontinued because OF the
complaints of the soldiers who have
been subjected TO IL. This means. OF
course. that the army ration is Gil
right when the army can't get any
thing else TO eat.
Five Control Stations.-Capt. John
son Hagood OF the coast artillery re-
turned from Newport, where he has
been investigating the installation OF
a fire control system in the artillery
district OF the Narragansett. Capt
Hagood will report that 100000 will
be necessary TO Dc~te and build %
fire control stations in the district
and connect them with each other and
with the batteries. Congress will be
asked for this appropriation next
winter. While in the Narragansett
district Capt. Hagood had confer
ence with Maj. w. c. Davis. who is
working out plan OF searchlight
equipment in each OF the coast artil.
lery districts. The two officers made
their plans harmonize. IL is believed
that $4,000 will be required 10 equip
the Narragansett district with 16 &c
20 searchlights.
Plenty Of Money.-Persons passing
big new bank building at the corner
OF 18th and III streets are attracted by
ctr
In the front and at the rear. They
are sentry boxes to accommodate
guards who are watching over mil
lions of government money stored Ia
the vaults of the bank The treasury
vaults are overflowing into the bank
vaults, not with coin, but with emer.
gency national bank currency that
has been prepared under the new
Aldrich-Vreeland financial law. Day
and night the bank Is patroled by
heavily armed guards. IL is not like
ly that the bank would be robbed
but the government takes no chances
In the treasury building itself there
are scores Of armed guards surround
Ing the vaults. Such precautions ara
considered even more necessary when
government funds are stored in an
outside building. Under the law the
treasury department had to prepare
5000 200 900 OF emergency currency for
the 6S24 national banks in the UniteA
States, so that the money will Ds
ready Tor them should stringencS
In the money market occur.
The Mormon Question.-The dc
partment OF commerce and labor has
received a number Of protests agains.
the exclusion OF any more Mormon
immigrants at Boston from Senators
Smoot and Sutherland, Gov. Cutler
Representative Howell and other
prominent Utah people. Relative to
the fear of the immigration authori
ties that many OF the Mormon immi
grants would become public charges
II admitted into the United States
Senator Smoot stated that there
would be no difficulty OF that sort. az
the members Of the Mormon church
or which he is an apostle, will take
care OF their friends IL they should be
In want Asked about the senator's
claim that Mormons do not become
public charges, high official of the
department said today that a number
or aliens who have become charges
have been deported from Utah liz
each case the papers show that the
persons concerned had no religion
but In the case OF an alleged insane
person before the department today
1t. was stated that his delusion was
that, although unmarried, he had two
wives diving at Ogden, Utah. The IN
ference drawn from his official state.
ment was that persons elected from
the Mormon church do become public
charges. Secretary Straus saws that
the religious belief OF aliens has moth.
ing TO do with the settlement OF their
cases by the department. A Mormon
Will be admitted as soon as a member
OF any other church II he complies
with the laws, the secretary said. II
Mormon or any body else believes in
or practices polygamy he cannot un.
der the law be admitted.
Story Amuses Wu.-Wu Ting.fang.
the Chinese minister, shown the dis
patch from Pekin recently stating that
the government was considering the
question OF his recalI because OF india.
Greet utterances and mentioning the
name OF his probable successor, de- 4
clared that the Pekin government had
not In any way intimated TO him that
IL was dissatisfied with anything that
he may have said. He appeared rath-
er amused and puzzled over the state
ment that the government had been
embarrassed by his attitude "aS q
public character In America" and dis
position was TO smile in talking about 1
It. The minister added: What few
speeches I have made since my re-
turn to America have been mainly to
colleges and universities, and have
been educational In character and In
a H.y-o % r.