The citizen., 1913-06-06
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.


his the time to pass currency leeis.
latlon, and ] think we are in a sense
bound in loyalty to the country to pass il
so that any attempt To create artificial
disturbance after the tariff shall have be.
come law may be Offset by free system
of credit which will make 1t possible for
men, big and little. to take care of them.
selves in business. "
The most searching investigation ever
undertaken into the private affairs and
business connections of members of tie
United States Senate will be the out
growth of the lobby investigation" which
IS TO open before a subcommittee of the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
The investigation will be conducted
openly in the public hearing room of the
Judiciary Committee in the Senate office
building
While President Wilson's recent decla-
ration that a powerful lobby is at work
attempting to influence action on the
Tariff bill forms the basis for the Senate
investigation, questions prepared by the
committee, to be asked of each member
OF the Senate, are such as to carry the
Investigation far outside of tariff matters
Each Senator will be required to tell
under oath whether he has any interest
In any OF the matters affected by any bill
now before Congress, or that has been
before the Senate in his term. and wheth-
er or not he has ever tried to influence
any other Senator to vote for a measure
in which he was interested.
An attempt to limit immigration from
Southern European and Asiatic coun-
tries, without the use of the "literarv
test, upon which President Taft placed
his disapproval in the last session Of Con
gresS. is embodied in a bill to be intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Dllling-
ham, chairman OF the former Immipra-
ton Commission and Joint author Of the
Burnett-Dillingham bill vetoed by Presi-
dent Taft.
Senator Dillingham's bill will propose
a restriction upon the number Of immi-
grants from any country TO be fixed at 10
per cent OF the number of persons of
similar nationality who were shown to be
residents of the United States at the time
OF the last census. The Senator esti-
mates that this new method of limiting
immigration would greatly reduce the
annual influx from Italy, Austria Hun.
gary. Greece and Turkey and would ut
the same time allow an increase in the
number of immigrants who might enter
from Germany, Great Britain, Sweden.
Norway and all countries of Northern
and Western Europe.
A statement issued from the office of
tn Commissioner General of Immigra
ton declared that the present immigra-
ton law scarcely excludes any except
those afflicted with serious mental or
physical defects, and has but little effect
in reducing the great influx of aliens
Notwithstanding the mandatory provi
Sions OF the law" said the statement. it
has been difficult in the past to deport
even when aliens are mentally or phvsic-
ally defective II has become necessary
for friends or philanthropic societies to
appeal in behalf of rejected aliens and in
taking such appeals little or no consider.
alton is given TO the merits of the case"
During the last fiscal year, the state |
ment added, I,o32,2I2 aliens applied for |
admission and only ~ per cent. were |
excluded Tor all causes, while the indica-
tons were that even a greater number |
would be admitted this year.
Resolutions involving changes IN the |
evangelical work and the financial system |
Of the denominations were adopted at |
the conference OF Seventh Dav Advent |
lists of the World at Tacoma Park, Nd. |
One resolution called for the raising of 20 |
cents week from every member OF The |
Church for the support OF missions and |
FOR the liquidation of its debts The other
released all ministers from the nstitu- |
Iional affairs of the denomination to de. !
vote their entire time to the specific work !
Of preaching.
A feature of the days session was an
address by Professor w. w. Prescott.
head of the American Religious Liberty
Association, on True and Counterfeit
The confirmation of J. Wilbur Latimer,
nominated by President Wilson to be
Judge of the Juvenile Court OF Washing
ton. has been protested against by
number of Maryland Democrats. Mr.
Latimer is from Montgomery county
These members assert that Mr. Lat-
ner is not a Democrat. They say he
has voted in Republican primaries and
was strong supporter Of President Taft
Their protest is now before the Judiciary
Committee of the Senate.
The appointment Of Mr. Larimer is
accredited in Washington to
the influence of State Senator BLAIR Lee
Delegates arrived TO attend the twenty
sixth annual convention of'the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-
ginemen, which opens a 2S day session.
President Wilson received the delegates
Wednesday.
A widely-voiced protest against divd-
ing the Belmont estate in this city into
lots has revived the proposal to
have the government maintain an official
residence for the Vice President OF the
United States.
The proposition comes from Mrs. John
A. Logan. widow of the famons soldier
and statesman, whose residence. now oc-
cupied by Secretary of State William Jen-
nings BRYAN, adjoins Belmont
A massmeeting will be held Saturday
TO further plans for raising SIS, 900 to OBJ.
tain an option on the estate until Con-
gress can pass on the project to purchase
it for a Vice -Presidentill residence.
Belmont is situated on hill at the
junction Of Florida avenue and Four
teenth street. well within the present
limits OF the capital city 1t was built by
the late A. l. Barber, president of the
Barber Asphalt Company, and was sold
recently to builder.
With Fraley as executive and a
Board of Aldermen made up of
men of good common sense, prac-