The citizen., 1913-06-06
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Washington, d. c.. Tune ?, 1913.

currency the President wrote:
This the time to pass currency leeis.
lation, and ] think we are in 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 a 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 the
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 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 bv anv 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 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 bill to be intro
duced in the Senate by Senator Dlling-
ham, chairman of the former Immigra-
ton Commission and Joint author of the
Burnett-D Dillingham; bill vetoed bv Presi-
dent Taft.
Senator Dillinghams bill will propose
a restriction upon the number Of immi-
grants from anv 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
oil 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 Mt
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
TIL Commissioner General of Immigra
ton declared that the present immgra-
tlOn 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 phvsC-
ally defective. 1t has become necessary
for friends or phlanhropic societies to
appeal in behalf of rejected aliens and in
taking such appeals little or no consider.
alton is given 10 the merits OF the case. "
During the last fiscal year, the state
ment added 1882, ,2G2 aliens applied for
admission and only n 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
work and the financial system
of the denominations were adopted at
the conference OF Seventh Dav Advent
lists of the World at Tacoma Park, Md.
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 It's debts. The other
all ministers from the institu-
tional 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
Christianity"
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
of Maryland Democrats. Mr..
Larimer is from Montgomery county
These members assert that Mr. Lati-
mer is not 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
generally accredited in Washington to
the influence of State Senator BLAIR Lee.
Delegates arrived TO attend the twenty
sixth annual convention ofthe 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 divid-
ing the Belmont estate in this city into
building 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 Brvan, adjoins Belmont
A massmeeting will be held Saturday
TO further plans for raising S25, 900 to OBJ
tain an option on the estate until Con-
gress can pass on the project to purchase
it for a Vice Presidential residence.
Belmont is situated on a 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 sole
recently to builder.
With Fraley as executive and G
/ Board of Aldermen made up o
men of good common sense, prac
tical mechanics, and f1nanciers o