Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-06-19
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Events of Interest from the Seat
of Governmrnt.
III }. y. JONES.
"Finished Abroad"

| n ic" years dSO MUCH stress was
laid upon that class of education
which was finished abroad" but
abroad" appears to have been moved
from Europe to The United States. 1t
IS shown by official figures that the
| United States furnished only 351 stu
Tents for German finishing schools"
! md other educational institutions in
! 1912. OF these 1928 were from north
ern states and %. from southern
states. The number of foreign stu
dents enrolled at 275 American uni
versities, colleges and technical
schools in the year 1913 not only
reached the surprising total of App,
but this was an actual increase of SIT
over 1911. Travellers upon the boats
going to or coming from South Amer
lea, are impressed with the number of
young men whose mission to the
United States concerns the matter of
their education. These young men
after graduation, have proven their
benefit to the foreign trade of the
United States through the demand
they have created for the American
articles to which they have become
accustomed, and in their business and
official life they quite universally
s pecify American equipment for for
eign enterprises.
There are 100 foreign students
enrolled in the under graduate and
graduate classes of arts and sciences
in the United States. The next lar
gest number is in courses in engineer
ing, sol. Medicine follows with 339;
800 in dentistry, 275 in agriculture.
and 256 in theology.
Canada sent 653 students; China
594; Japan, 336; Mexico, 223; Great
Britain and Ireland, 212; Cuba, 200;
India, 1852; Finland, 1924; Germany
1913. Every Latin-American country
except French Guiana has representa-
tves in this group of foreign students
The numbers range from two in the
case of Uruguay and Paraguay
through 43 for Argentina, 113 for
Brazil, to the Mexican total of 223.
May Modify Tariff.
There is growing impression in
well-informed circles here that the
tariff plans of the administration as
embodied in the Underwood bill will
be modified in one important particu-
lar at least. The rumored change is
one that can be made very easily II
the president and congress are sc
minded for it will consist merely IL
eliminating the proviso at the enc
of Schedule F which declares tha
after May 1, 1915, sugar shall be ad
mitted duty free. Two factors arr
said to be influential in inducing thu
Democratic leaders to look favorabl.
upon this course. The first is thu
consideration that the revenue o
nearly $4O,00O,00O from sugar, al
ways the best revenue producer O.
the tariff list, will be needed to hell
fill the growing gap between govern
ment income and expenditure. TIL,
second is the result of investigation!
which the department of commerce,
has made into conditions in thu
Louisiana sugar fields and which arr
now being extended to the sugar bee
states. 1t is reported that the fig
ures collected by the government ex
perts show that the home sugar in
dustry will be badly crippled by FREE
admission of foreign sugar. While
the president is not likely to commi
himself until the reports of his in
vestigators are completed it is note
worthy that most of the talk of ,
possible amendment of the suga
tariff comes from Democratic sour
ces.
Cleveland and Wilson.
The older politicians purport t.
see something of a similarity in the
conditions surrounding Presiden
Wilson with those which brought 81
much trouble to Grover Cleveland
and Senator Vardaman Of Mississip
pi in his speech upon the canal ques
ton, suggested that the president has
heard too much fiattery and too little