Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-12-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
[Corrsspondsnoe Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington. December 10.

that the future course OF the subsidy Dill
will he smooth and easy. II his expec-
tations are not realized and opposition
should still develop against the bill he
proposes to serve notice on its enemies
that they will continue their aDtsgon-
ism at the peril of their reelection.
Either they will cease fighting the
ship subsidy or they will have to meet
a personal fight of their own in their
State legislatures. frightened at the
growing opposition in the Senate to
this measure Senators Hanna and Frye
have sent out general alarm to the
ship owners. They have been instruct
ed TO "get together" Those who have
been provided for in the bill have been
told 10 consult those who have been
Lett out and TO reach compromise
which will unite all interests and COM
bne them 10 solid front in support OF
the measure. Senator Hanna spent
most OF yesterday in long distance
telephone booth, issuing his com
mands and giving instructions TO MS
lieutenants. AS result in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia ana
other important shipping centres
there was yesterday series OF
meetings in progress at which oil the
PRINCIPAL maritime firms were repre-
sented. During the Christmas recess 1t
is expected that the entire work Will De
completed aud the amendments all
drafted. These will materially IN
crease the present calculation OF nine
million dollars per year, Under stress
OF danger of not getting any SUBSIDY
bill at all no doubt is entertained that
complete agreement can be reached Dy
the shipping interests.
The Senate committee on agriculture
had hearing this morning on the SUBJ
iect of the bill increasing the tax on
oleomargarine when colored IN imita.
ton of butter. Ex-Governor Hoard. of
Wisconsin, and Representative circuit,
of Vermont, the author OF the circuit
bill, addressed the committee in favor
of the adoption OF that measure. Chas.
E. Schell, of Cinciunati, representing
the O aio butteriDe company, President
Frank NJ. Matterson and Rathbone
Gardner of the Oakdale Manufacturing
Company of Providence, and +. w. Ill
linehurst OF the Vermont Manuiactu1-
ing Company spoke against the Dill:
They claimed that the selling price OF
oleomargariDe was II 1-2 to II IL cents
per pound, and the net profit TO the
manufacturer only 1-2 cent per pound.
They offered to allow the committee
thereof to inspect their books. They
claimed that oleo did not enter into
competition with butter. Three-fourths
of the cleo sold went direct from the
factory to the consumer, and no manu-
facturer sold it as butter. The iuspec-
ton laws were so rigid that it was in
possible for any deleterious matter to be
used in making cleo and the only OH sct
IN coloring it was to please a popular
taste, plac also followed by manu-
| facturers of butter.
Growing interest in the proceeding OF
the Supreme Court Of the L nited States
| manifested itself on the third day OF the
arguments on the constitutional ques-
| tons arising out OF the cases now before
the court. A long line OF men and
women waited outside the doors. while
| the room was crowded with a larger
plumber of people than on the preced-
| ing days of this hearing. The inner
portion of the chamber was comfortably
filed by counsel in this case and other
members OF the bar, while the seats re-
served for casual outsiders were all fill
ed, and many people were standing.
The proportion of women was greater
than on MonGay and Tuesday, and 1t
was noticeable that they remained, not
out OF idle curiosity, but to listen. At
torney General Griggs resumed the ar
gument for the government. His al
| lotted time covered nearly all of We'd
nesday, and he will take advantage of
| eyery moment of it. In attacking the
argument ofthe attorneys for the plant
ifs, he insisted that this government
had the ri 2ht to acquire territory with
out the necessity OF applying to the u.s.
quisition the full terms of the constitu-
/ ton. "The government" he said,
(which has the power to obtain foreign
territory by treaty, has the right to
name the terms by which 1t shall rule
that territory"
Thirty million dollars Is the limit OF
( OF the reduction to be made In the war
taxes. That is the fat OF the Senators
who will have charge at that end OF the
Capitol of the revenue bill passed last
week in the House. Senators AldriciI
and Allen have recently had several
conferences with Secretary of the Treas
| ury Gage and as result are convinced
| that further reduction in the revenues
| of the government at this time would be
unwise There will be no further re-
| duction 10 the beer tax although the
brewers are preparing to make strong
attack upon the Senate to restore the
old rate OF 81 per barrel instead of Sl.6O
at which rate the House left it.
An Alexandria county man who is ill.,
terested in the B. & p. Railroad bill, be
cause it provides for carriage bridge
across the Potomac over which he can
drive without running the risk OF a
broken neck, here today, Gays he does
not understand why Virginia Repre-
sentatives should vote against their
own States interests. and yet though
the bill had received the approval OF the
| Virginia Senators, " no certainly are as
much interested in the welfare OF the
State as they are. and are urquestion.
ably as intelligent, four Of them yester-
day opposed that bill. He said there
was an anti Martin contingent in the
House last year, composed of Messrs.
Rixey, Jones, Lamb and Quarles, and
it seemed that they maintain their
soliaity and vote against the other rep.
resentatives from Virginia on all &C.
cssions, even if by so doing they injurc
the interests OF their own State. The