Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-22
FROM WASHINGTON.

Washington for Philadelphia at o:oO
this morning over the Pennsylvania
railroad. Secretaries Hay, Moody, Root,
and Attorney General Knox were unable
to make the journey on account OF the
press of official business. Upon reach
ing Philadelphia the presidential party
will be escorted to the new building to
be dedicated by the board of Education
as the Central High School for boys.
The President will make an address to
the students and then go to the home OF
former Postmaster General Smith Tor
luncheon. In the evening he will be
the speaker of honor at the annual BAN
ouet of the American League Club men
toned. At midnight the President and
his party will start on their return trip.
The legislation of the coming short
session of Congress and especially what
should be done with respect to the ques-
ton of trusts and that of tariff revision
will be considered by President Roose-
welt and republican leaders of the two
houses at conference next Monday at
the White House. The President yes
terday talked with members of his Cabinet
about various points of his message 10
Congress. and finally decided to have
talk with the House and Senate leaders
before completing his recommendations.
ATTORNEY General Knox has prepared
amendments to the Sherman antitrust
law in the line of his statements in his
| Pittsburg speech, and the President, ~
is understood, will submit this measure
to the conference on Monday.
President Roosevelts forthcoming
message to Congress will be important
particularly in two essentials, to-wlt;
its recommendation relative to the
regulations of trusts and its discussion
of tariff revision with an accompanying
recommendation that a permanent tariil
commission be created. President
Roosevelt has been at work on this mes
SAGE. off and on, for anumber ofmonths,
and although the finishing touches are
vet lacking, it is practically complete
But little, if any, attempt has been made
to keep from the public a general know
ledge of the contents of this important
State document. The President has
shown excerpts touching upon various
questions to the leaders in those
particular lines of thought. The
evils which the President will ask Con-
gress to regulate by means OF the
elaboration of the provisions OF the
Sherman Antitrust act, are over
capitalization; lack of publicity of opera
ton: discrimination in prices to destroy
competition; insufficient personal re-
sponsibility of officers and directors;
tendency to monopoly and disregard OF
the rights of the people. The remedies
which he will suggest will embody re-
ouirements upon corporations to do
business in every State and locality upon
precisely the same terms and conditions;
prohibition of discrimination in prices
and preference in service; requirements
upon public carriers to keep the avenues
of commerce free and open to all npon
the same terms; and requirement upon
corporations upon which the people
depend for the necessaries of life to con-
duct their business so as regularly and
reasonably to supply the public needs
Reciprocity with Cuba, recommendations
concerning the banking and currency OF
the country, affairs in the Philippines,
&C., will constitute prominent features
of the forthcoming document.
The reported killing of William A.
Fitzgerald, of Grand Rapids, Mich, by
w. Godfrey Hunter, jr., at Guatemala
CITY. is regarded at the State Depart
ment as the outcome of long and vexa-
tious series of scandal and complaint
made by American residents in that
country against Minister Hunter, his
family and his general administration of
affairs in Guatemala. Acting upon the
theory that as a rule American citizens
who expatriate themselves in Central
and South American republics are to be
handled with caution when they COM
plain against a representative of the
United States, the department contented
itself for a long time with superficial in
vestigations of the stories which drifted
to Washington and the protests which
we're directly made. This state of at
fairs has continued almost from the time
when he took charge of the legation in
1897. His son was charged with having
alienated the affections of another man s
wife, with having caused the suicide OF
second wife through stories he had told
her of her husband, with being under
the ban of public opinion in Guatemala
because of his refusal to fight duel
with supposedly wronged husband and
Consequently driven from the country
and finally with conducting a mercantile
business wherein he imported merch-
andise under cover of his fathers dip
lomatic frank. Americans doing bust
ness in Guatemala denounced the senior
Hunter as inefficient and in trafficking
with his official position. Lastly he
was charged with being party to a
government railroad deal. Then he
was informed by the State Department
that his resignation would be acceptable.
His adoption of this suggestion was
made public few day ago and Leslie
Combs of louisville, KY, was appoint
ed his successor.
The Department Of State this after.
noon received cablegram from Consul
General McNally, at Guatemala City de-
claring the killing of Fitzgerald, by
Hunter to have been a cold-blooded,
premeditated affair.
Rear Admiral Casey, commanding
the United States naval forces in Colon
bian waters, today notified the Navy De
partment of the termination Of the civil
war in Colombia.
Notwithstanding the many appoint
ments recently made among enlisted men
and civilians to be lieutenants in the
army there still about forty vacancies in