Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-04-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
fCorrsspondence Of the Alexandria Gaseete.
Washington. April IL.

the House CON mlttee Oh IlNofe snu os'
| bors this morning in behalf Of the pro-
iect to improve Boston harbor by pre-
yidipg a passage TO the ses 35 feet deep
and 1900 feet wide through Broad
sound chsOueI.
E.P. Wilson, of Cincinnati, secretery
| of the NatioDsl Association OF MANU-
fscturers, addressed the House commit
tee on interstate and foreign commerce
| 10 favor of the bill to incorporate the
| association. 1t ia the desire oil the a.
ISOLATION 10 have this bill become IL"
| before the annual meeting, which Is 10
| ~ hsId AZ Boston On the 24ih instant.
| W, Fuller, representing the railway
| EMPLOYEES, argued IN favor OF the Dill
| recurring common carriers to report On
| accidents 10 the interstate commerce
commission.
President Mckinley has sent mee-
sage to Congress recOmme ending s25..
600 appropriation to meet expensts and
sal rics of United States delegates to
the proposed conference of American
republics. Secretary oil Treasury Gsge
recommends s. 900 appropriation for
the woman commissioner 10 the La
fsyeite statue unveiling at Paris, also
s. 900 appropriation for the salary OF
the resident commissioner from Porto
Rico to toe United States provided for
oy the Porto Ricsn bill.
Investigation into the charge OF cor
ruation made against the officials OF the
New York barge Office will be conclud-
ed By the end Of the week. The result,
| 1t 10 said, will be frat the decapitation OF
a prominent government official con-
nected with the barge Office and then
The Indictment Ct several Of bis subor-
dinates. II has been openly charged
at the trial that this Official
mas been making 10 the neigh
borhood OF $4,000 year out
of position that pay only IS, 600 This
week the identification OF the crooked
employees is being made by the Wit
oesses-that Is the immigration officers
who have accepted brides are being
pointed out by the men who either did
the paying or had first hand knowledge
of rascality. 1t is said at the Treasury
Department that the charges made have
been more than substsntisted.
The House committee on the ju.
dietary will mex. week take up the bill
proposed by the Attorney General,
growing out the decision OF Judge
Brown, Of New York, 10 the Gayn0r
casee. This bill has passed the Senate.
1t provides that extradition shall be
70 ade on pre- sentation OF Indictment,
| eliminating the provision which makes
it necessary to prove probable guilt.
The Georgia people favor this measure
| for i! is the State OF Georgia which
wants the Gsynors. Chairman Ray, OF
The committee, a New York man, is
| outspokenly opposed to the bill.
When some folks cool of on tbis," he
| .aii," they will see it 10 another light.
| If it were New York that wanted a
man from Georgia, all those Georgisns
| would b, on hand with their shot guns
| TO see that justice ia done"
People engaged in the Potomac shsd
and herring fishery, here today, say that
herring are so plentiful that they inter-
iere seriously vito the operation Of the
shsd gill nets, as 10 their attempt to go
through those nets they get thread
| in their mouths, and 10 trying to get 1t
out 30 twist and tie up the nets az to
/ render them useless until taken up and
| straighteDed out.
The future government Of Porto X :
co was the theme discussed at the cabi.
oct meeting today. As this will he the
last meeting for at least q week may
routine matters were disposed of. Sec
rotary Long Of the navy told the cabi-
net the plans his arm OF the service have
IN ade to insuaurate Governor Allen.
rhe North Atlantic squadron headed
by the New York and Texas will be at
San Juan to fittingly celebrate the
event. The cabinet agreed 10 the belief
that the first Porto Ricsn legislature
cannot meet before next fall or wiuter.
All the machinery Of election must be
planned and put ia motion 10 the ISL
and before it's members can be chosen
and this is likely to be allow uudertak-
ing.
Unless the Senate appropriations
committee shall come to the relief OF
the bill for the Arlington agricultural
station, that bill will be OF no good,
az the Secretary Of Agriculture Gays he
will DO nothing with 1t pnless the re-
qusite funds be supplied.
The commissioner of internal reve
que recently notified cigar and tobacco
men that goods subject to internsl rev
enue must bear no other than revenue
stamps or Labels,
Congressman Brom well, OF Ohio, in
troduced bill today amending the law
30 az to allow the use OF the union Ia.
bel.
DR.. Hugh France, coroner of Sho.
shOne county. Idaho, took the stand at
the Couer d'Alene case this afternoon
He described the character of food
served and the treatment given patients
at the hospital.
Senator Hanna, who has been reported .,
DICK, was in bis seat In the Senate today, look.
ing none the worse, and paying sneeripg and !
contemptuous attention to Mr.. HoaI's speech
condemn ming the Presidents imperialstic
policy and deploring the departure Of The re-.
ubican party from the principles that won
for it the alleged distinction of being the high
moral Of the county.
Virginia republicans here today are very
wroth with Mr.. John Wise for the M amer in
which he speaks Of them. They say they /
took him up and gave him all he got when
the democrats would do nothing for him, and
that be exhibits bad taste % we'll % exc
crable manners In writing about them ~ he
now does.
In the Senate day Mr. Martins bill ~.
thorizipg the AZ ointment Of George Isari
Middleton engineer in the q. g. navy Was
taken up and passed.
month"; sojoura ID Cuba, here today, says he
thinks everything will be comparatively
quiet there until after the eoDipg election
that soon thereafter the two Cuban factions
will be ct each others throat, and that then