Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-03-26

Guavsms on the 3lst of last October.

Guayama on the 3lst of last October.
All were convicted, but the penalties Of
thirty were suspended pending action
of the q. g. Supreme Court 10 Baez'e
case. He Is serving thirty days at hard
labor, his sentence having begun on the
18th inst. The solicitor general object
cd to Immediate issue OF . writ, desiring
time to make answer 10 McKenney'f
brief. The Supreme Court gave the
solicitor general q week and Mr.. NC
Kenney three days to apply. BY thai
time Baez's time will have practically
expired, but the principle involved car
still b. adjudicated for the thirty
others, who were under the same sen
tence.
The finding In the investigation o.
charges OF drunkenness and negligence
on the part of the officers OF the cruiser
Charleston when that vessel was wreck
ed off the coast OF Luzon Is that the
court ia OF the opinion that the captain
and officers are exonerated from all
blame or responsibility, and that nc
further action should be taken 10 the
matter of the wreck Of the vessel.
Comptroller OF the Currency Dawes
today issued u statement showing AZ
national banks, each with Q capital Of
$25 900 or more, have been organized
under the new law.
The commissioners of the District oil
Columbia, all OF whom are now repub'
licans, and some republican U. 8. SEN
ators, say a part of Alexandria county
in which some of them are interested,
should be retroceded to the District. 80
that the laws of that district could be
enforced in them with sslutary mora
effect. And yet whole large section
of this city is given up to abandoned
women, and, even on Sundays, 10 man
has any difficulty in getting oil the
LIQUOR be wants, or INDUCING In any
card game that he may fancy.
Marie Howard, aged 20, and William
Wallace, an insurance agent OF Wash
ington, attempted suicide by taking
ais mic 10 Mr., Towards room at the
Ipdisna House this morning, Both
will recover, having failed to take
enough of the poison to cause DEATH
Mrs. Howard says she is the wife OF
lieutenant 10 the army, now serving 10
the Philippines.
Samuel w. Gompers, president OF the
American federation OF labor, argued
this morning before the House commit.
tee on judiciary 10 behalf OF the bill
limiting the power of the courts IN the
issuance of iDjuDctions 10 labor ques'
tons.
Congressman Rixey was at the Postofice
Department this morning and obtained 9
promise that the people living in the neigh
borhood Of WsrreDtoD, Virginia, should have
free deliv,ry mail service about the first o.
May.
People here today from down the Potmst
are laughing at recent newspaper cut repre-
sentng the line of the imaginary new rail
road between this city and Richmond BY
mesns of bridge across that river ct Some
point either in w, stmoreland or King George
county They say the engineer who sug
re, ted any such scheme has more wheels IL
his head than the rsiIrosd company will have
ON its care. Short railroad bridges are bad
enough, but one four or five In les long, 0vel
wst,r thirty or forty fee! deep they say
would cost great deal more than 1t would
come to, besides destroying nav CATION.
The House com nittee on territories today
decided not to strike out the paragraph in the
Hawaiian bill which gives Hawaii one dele
ate in Congress. The suege ton to strike
out was maze by Representative Hill of Con
necticut, who is said to represent the wishes
Of Senators Hanna and Lodge in the matter.
They do not want Hawaii 10 get delegate
because it might he accepted as . precedent
for Porto Rico and al I'd, they explain, TO avoid
more differences in the House, which viii DC
made evident by this proposition.
The arguments in the senator CLARK brib ,.
~ case before the Senate elections committee,
will convene on Wednesday. Mr.. Birney
for the memorislists will make the opening
argument, and former Senator Edmunds Will
close the case. FoImer Senator Fsulkntr
md Anthony Rogers Foster, will both address
the committee on behalf Of Mr.. Clark.