New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-20

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assured, The House committee discreetiy
voted to-day to limit the bill to this amount
but If the Senate should happen TO add a
few buildings the matter probably could be
adjusted through the appointment OF I'D
eral conferrees, who might wink the other
eye at bill of some s25,OO0,000 or $780,
600, OOO.
HELD UP.-A considerable number OF
diplomatic appointments mostly for minor
officers and many of them transfers. are
being held up In the Committee on For
eign Relations because the members OF
that committee regard them as Ill advised
and cannot perceive any good reason for
the wholesale shift that is proposed. The
appointment or transfer on which most OF
the changes appear to hinge and the one
to which there IS most objection, is that OF
Arthur Buily- Blanchard, now secretary OF
embassy at Paris, to be secretary OF EN-
bassy at Toxic. 1t IL asserted that MT
Blanchard has been so long secretary al
Paris that he has become almost fixture
there; that he is very nearly indispensaole
TO ambassador at that post; that being q
Louisianan, he speaks French Ike ma
tive; that his transfer TO Toxic for when
capital he has no special qualifications
would effect no good to the service, anu
that. finally. after his long service he Is
entitled to remain where he Is, unless IL
is decided TO give him promotion, when
could be effected only by transferring him
TO London. There is some suspicion that
the determination Of the Department OF
pIor n
may have had something te do with Robert
Bacon's decision TO retire from the dlpio-
matte service. Pending settlement OF the
difference between the Committee IN For
eign Relations and the Department OF
State all the nominations and transfers
which accompanied that OF Hr. Blanchard
TO the Senate are likely to be held up.
A MAN WITHOUT 4 COUNTRY.-In
behalf Of "a man without country Rep
resentative Gardner. Of Massachusetts in
troduced a bill to-day providing that Con-
gress by special enactment grant American
citizenship to Eugene Prince, Of Nose W
Mr.. Gardner says the case Of Mr.. Prince Is
unique. the story dating back 10 the time
when his great grandfather was an oificer
in the American navy. As young man
George Henry Prince, grandfather OF the
man without a country" left the United
States for St Petersburg 10 represent his
relations. the firm Of W. Ropes e Co. ex-
porters of petroleum He married an Eng
llshwoman and had six children. The NTH
child John Henry Prince was born at ST.
Petersburg on November 6. 1862. He has
always lived in St Petersburg, representing
American arms among others the Niles
Tool Company, Of Hamilton. Ohio. and the
Carnegie Steel Works He has retained his
american citizenship to this day. and is
registered by the Russian government as
an American citizen doing business In St
Petersburg under a billet de seJour
Eugene Prince. his son, has been employed
in the offices Of the international Harvester
Company. in Moscow lie came to America
a short time ago to take up his citizenship
and enter the Chicago office Of the Harvest
or company. Under the revised statutes
Section 1898, Eugene Prince cannot be rec
oenized as an American citizen because his
father never lived in this country. on the
other hand. under the Russian law. he can
not he recognized as a subject Of the Car
He. therefore. has no standing In the eyes
Of any government in the world. He can
not obtain a passport as an American ciu-
zen or as a Russian subject There Is only
one nrecedent for the granting Of American
citizenship by special act Of Congress. Mrs
NeIIia Grant Sartoris. General Grants
daughter. was admitted 10 citizenship in
the United states by special act approved
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