The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-03-20
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
To Remove Wreck of Maine.-A r,
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navy for data regarding the removal
! OF the wreck Of the battleship Maine,
and 10 provide for the burial of the
! dead now in the hulk.
Race Suicide Again--lt happened at
| a dinner given a few evenings ago by
| Representative and Mrs Augustus p.
! Gardner 10 the members OF the Mas
sachusetts delegation, in their II
street residence Mrs. Gardner re-
! marked that the three Boston Demo
| Gratis were all bachelors. oh said
| Senator Lodge, amid general laughter,
that is to show their opposition 10
/ the presidents policies
Would Double Naturalization Fee
| If the house and senate concur in an
| action taken the other day by the
! house committee on immigration and
| naturalization in reporting the Bur
nett bill, it will cost $40 instead OF 50
! after July /, 1908, for foreigner TO
] become a citizen Of the United States.
| So great has become the bulk OF nat
uralization business, especially in cen
| tres such as New York, Boston. Phil
| adelphia and Chicago, that the discov-
| cry has been made that the lawful
! fees are insufficient TO cover the ac-
| tual cost OF the clerical work, and as
! a result some courts have practically
| refused 10 have anything 10 do with
the business.
Mothers Better Than SoIdiers-Ihe
! White House was the scene last week
| OF the formal opening Of the first in
! tcrnational congress on the welfare
! of the child which is being held under
! the auspices Of The National mothers
! congress. The POO delegates, repre-
! senting all the states and territories
! and a dozen or more Of the leading
countries Of the world were received
! at the White House. President Rooae.
! Welt delivered an address 10 them, IN
! which he declared that hc placed the
! society ahead OF the civil war yctcr-
ans. because. he said, in the final
! ANALYSIS IT is the mother only who i5
"A better citizen than the soldier, VINO
! fights for his country.
Opposition to Root-Bryce Treaty
! Irish opposition which. IL IS asserted,
! defeated the arbitration treaty ncgo-
! tiatcd by Secretary Olney and Lord
! Paunccfote IL years ago now menaces,
! officials say, the new arbitration
| treaty which has been evolved by Sec
retary Root and Ambassador Bryce.
] Already the state department has
! been deluged with remonstranccs and
protests from Irish patriotic organiZa-
tions, all directed against the new
convention 1t is said that this oppo-
sition has developed before anything
specific as 10 the nature and scope OF
! the new treaty has been made known
Officially. officials say there has been
nothing more than reference TO the
subject in the British parliament and
! some statements i'm explanation based
upon that declaration in American
newspapers.
Only Americans for Consuls-De-
! Clariug il to be the opinion OF busl-
ness men everywhere that the United
States consular service. while inn
proving. is far from being uniformly
efficient and should be organized on
the merit system by law, Austin \.
Burnham of Chicago, general secre-
tary of the National Business league
! of America before Senator Cullom as
chairman of the senate committee on
foreign relations. recently urged the
massage of bill to effect the rehablli-
! tation of that service. Mr.. Burnham
smoke of the service having been bur
dened with some incompetent oii-
cials and asserted that only from the
/ practiCal view point of the exporter
and importer could n true estimate
of the American consular service De
obtained. He protested against for
ciepers being employed in the consul
lar service. THE folly of this sys-
tenn" he said "of American represen'
tation by proxy was recognized moro
than 100 years ago by one OF our
greatest statesmen
Census Figures Mslesd-Charges
of official dereliction in duty are made
, against :. y. ID. North, director of the
census, in letter which has been re-
ceived 10y President Roosevelt by Her
man Riddcr. president OF the Am'rl-
can Newspaper Publishing associa-
tion. MIR. Ridder charges that in a
letter written to Representative Dal
zell on the subject Of news-print pa
per prices for period of 10 years, Di-
rector North gave n series OF false
and misleading figures He charges
that the director tailed TO exercise
/ diligence in seeking for Information
and that he used worthless and sec
ondary sources of information. THAT
letter has been used on the floor oil
congress as an Official publication,
SAYS Mr. Ridder in his communication
to the president. "and it was declared
by Chairman Payne of the ways ana
means committee TO be as accurate
as accurate can be-. | charge that
the director OF the census has issued,