WASHINGTON LETTER Opinious on (lie Quarantine Quaran-tine Question. LABOR ORGANIZATIONS funded to the shippers, by the Canadian government." It is hardly necessary to say that Capt. Lund's views do not accord ac-cord with those generally held hero. No protest will be made by this govern nient against the seizure by a Russian war vessel of one American and font Canadian vessels caught sealing in waters wat-ers over which Russia claims exclnslve jurisdiction. On the contrary, officials here regard the seizures as entirely rlg"ht and proper, being the exercise of the same right which the United States claims to have acquired over Behriugs sea by its purchase cf. Alaska from Russia. Canada Will not Back Down, so Says Captain Lund of Ontario. Quito a sensation was created' here by the statement that President Harrison returned to Washington to call an extra session of congress for the purpose of passing a bill to prohibit immigration during the cholera epidemic in Europe. Senator Cullom, who is here, said: "It Is, in my opinion, only a sensation. I fall to see the necessity for any such law. If the health officers of the country do their duty and they seem to be vigilant wo can keep the cholera out. Should there be a promise of a great pestilence we might be compelled to resort to such a heroic measure, but there is no reason why we should do so at this time. Our officials have ample power to quarantine passengers passen-gers and to prohibit the landing of suspicious sus-picious cargoes." Assistant Secretary Spaulding, of the treasury department, was not so positive posi-tive as Senator Cullom abont there being no necessity for prohibiting immigration. immigra-tion. He said: "I will not express an opinion on a subject that should be left to the president. Of course the suspension suspen-sion of Immigration would materially lessen the danger, though it wonld be possible even then for the cholera to get here. We are doing all that we can. We have established a close quarantine to protect this country at every port. If It Is decreed by Divine Providence that we shall have cholera here we eannot prevent it. but it is as near impossible for it to get in as we can make it." State, department 4wetaiart-3ciei concerning the mission of the United States gunboat "Concord," which was this week ordered to proceed to Venezuela Venezue-la as fast as aha conld possibly got there.. They say the "Concord" has gone to Jook after AnXerlcan interests, just as though somebody might suppose she had been sent thereto look after - European interests. in-terests. As a mattof of fact the "Concord" "Con-cord" haax gone upon a" serious and dangerous mission. She Is under orders to Investigate the recent forc;d removal of political refugees from a vessel flying the United States flag by officials of one of the rival Venezuelan factions, and If the facts shall be as reported in the press dispatches her commander is to demand the return of these refugees, the taking of which was a violation of the ultimatum ultimat-um of this country long ago issued, and ably re-affirmed by Mr. Blaine in the Barrundia case, i. e. that a political refugee cannot be removed from beneath the United States flag. Naval officers consider the mission difficult, as an attempt at-tempt is certain to be made by both factions in Venezuela to nse any recognition recogni-tion they may get by an official demand rrom ine commauuer ol uia touuoru as a weapon in their local fight. Besides that, the yellow fever la epidemic in Venezuelan ports and the cholera threatens threat-ens to become so by the time the "Concord," "Con-cord," get there. No naval officers envies those on the "Concord." The labor organizations of Washington Washing-ton are doing something that is not likely to be pleasing to the twenty-seven twenty-seven members of the house who antagonized. an-tagonized. the eight-honr bill when it was before that body. A pamphlet ad. dressed to "The Worklngmen of the United States," has been prepared, giving giv-ing a brief history of the eight-hour legislation, from the Introduction ef the original bill in 1866 to the signing of the law enacted at the last session o' Congress by the president, and the votes for and against it in Congress. 5,000 of these pamphlets are to be distributed at once among the worklngmen in the districts of the twenty -seven members who opposed the bill in the honee. The pamphlet requests all who receive it to see that the new law is rigidly enforced in their locality, and says: "This law covers all the labor employed directly by the United States and by contractors and sub-contractors on government work including all' public buildings, dry docks and river and harbor contracts entered Into since. August 1st, 1892." If Capt. Lund. of Ontario, at present !n Washington, speaks by the card Canada has no. idea of ; flunking. He jays: "Canada will not. back down In the maintancc ot her policy on account of the presidents retaliation dacree. The only effect of the proclamation will be to push the work on our . canal, the construction of which will . be- pushed through the coming winter, . so that in the spring Canada will be independent of the Sault Ste Marie" canal, . Mean- while the twenty cents a ton toll 1m-I 1m-I posed on Canadian vessels will be re-