THE PINEHURST OUTLOOtf.
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AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON!
President Brought Up Against the South
em Republican Situation.
Omnibus Territorial Hill Inaugurates
Hitter fig-lit in Senate Immi
gration ltefttrictions
Other New.
( From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, Dec. 16, 1902,
The President has recently been
brought face to face with the Southern
republican situation by the case of S. II.
Vick, candidate for the postmastership
at Wilson, North Carolina. Mr. Vick is
a colored man and is opposed by Senator
Fritchard, because of his opposition to
Senator Pritchard's organization in that
state. Mr. Vick says that he opposed
the Senator's organization because it had
for its end the elimination of the colored
citizen as a political factor in the state.
The President has said that, in no
instance, would he regard mere color as
a bar to office holding and the Senator
has made the additional charge that Vick
is unwelcome to the citizens of Wilson,
a charge which can be made in the case
of every colored officeholder in the
Southern states. The President has the
matter under advisement and the out
come is awaited with much interest.
While comparitively little has appeared
in the press in regard to the matter, the
defeat in the house of the London Dock
bill was a matter of grave importance.
It is the custom of London dock owners
to collect a tariff of 42 cents per ton on
every ton of freight unloaded from
vessels coming from ports in the United
States. With a view to preventing this
discrimination, Parliament passed a law
prohibiting the charge, but the dock
owners got around that by having the
charge ' stipulated in the bill-of-lading,
which, as it was negotiated on American
soil, was beyond the jurisdiction of Par
liment. The bill just defeated had for
its object the prohibition of the contract
on this side of the water. Originally,
the milling, lumber and packing interests
supported the measure, but suddenly, the
two latter withdrew their support and so
accomplished its defeat. There are many
ugly rumors afloat which connect the
new Shipping Syndicate and its Wash
ington lobby with the withdrawals and
consequent loss of the bill. It is intim
ated that an arrangement could easily
have been made with the large industries
named for a refund of the charge and
possibly for a share in the profits made
by assessing the tariff on the smaller
shippers.
An important rumor has its source at
the White House. It is to the effect that
Governor Taft of the Philippines is to be
nominated to succeed Justice Shiras on
the Supreme Bench, it being certain that
Mr. Shiras will retire in the near future.
It is anticipated that the appointment
will take place before the end of the
present session of Congress. It is also
said that Vice-Governor Wright will be
promoted to the head of the Philippine
Commission and that W. W. Itockhill
chief of the Bureau of American Repub
lics, and Arthur W. Ferguson, secretary
to the Philippine Commission, will be
added to the Commission, the latter to
succeed Prof. Dean C. Worcester, whose
resignation is expected soon. It is further
understood that should a vacancy occur
in the Chinese mission Mr. liockhill
would be the President's choice for that
important position.
One of the bitterest fights the Senate
has known for years was initiated when
the Omnibus Territorial bill was called
up. Ever since the report of Senator
Beveridge's committee was made known,
the lobbies and committee rooms have
been the scenes of passages at arms and
now the contest is transferred to the
floor of the Senate. As republicans
are fighting republicans, it is a case of
"when Greek meets Greek." Senator
Quay is leading the fight for the bill as
passed by the House and has let his
intention, to block all legislation until
the Territorial bill is acted upon, be
known. "Commercialism in legislation"
is the favorite term of opprobrium with
which the opponents assail the bill and
the Senator from Pennsylvania. They
allege profit to Senator Penrose's broth
er, who owns the majority of the stock
in an Arizona mine, and the Senator is
himself accused of being interested in
railroad properties which would be
enhanced in value by the passage of the
bill. Senators Hanna and Beveridge
claim that the bill should be considered
in caucus, but Senator Quay protests that
a caucus has no right to repudiate pledges
made in a republican national platform.
The Senate has adopted the educational
qualification for immigrants in the Immi
gration Bill now before that body. By
this means, it is believed, that it will be
possible to exclude that mass of undesir
able immigrants who crowd the cities
and make the most undesirable citizens.
If the bill is passed, as now seems prob
able, every immigrant will have to read
intelligently not less than twenty words
of the constitution in such language as
he may prefer. There has been a strong
pressure against the measure brought by
the railroads and corporations who de
sire to comand quantities of cheap labor,
but it is claimed that the recent coal
strike and the violence which attended
it, has aided the promoters of the ed
ucational test.
THE PINEHURST KENNELS!
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been erected in which they are quarter
ed. Each dog has a box stall of his own,
not to mention a big yard in which to
romp and play, for exercise. Special at
tention is paid to caring for and feeding
the dogs and as a result, the Pinehurst
dogs are a well-fed prosperous and hap
py community.
The Kennels are but a short distance
from the Power House and Mr. Gray is
always glad to welcome visitors, espe
cially the children who find never-ending
pleasure here.
The Kennels also make a specialty of
caring for the dogs which visiting
sportsmen bring with them, and they are
an important and necessary equipment in
making the Pinehurst Preserves among
the finest in the South.
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