Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, ID. c., October %.


Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, ID. c., October 20.
Mr.. Carroll d. Wright, commissioner
of labor. and recorder of the coal strike
arbitration board which is to meet in
this city tomorrow morning, today made
public the details Cor the preliminary
meeting as agreed upon between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and himself The conf
missioners will assemble at the temporary
White House at 10 a. m. Recorder
Wright will call the meeting to order.
Then a message from President Roose-
welt will be submitted and read by Mr..
Wright. 1t will contain such instruc-
tons as the President may desire to give
the board, among which will be one
urging the greatest promptness. Organi-
cation will follow and Judge Gray will
be elected chairman. Then the call OH
the President will follow and Mr.. Roose-
welt will add verbal suggestions to those,
contained in HIS written message. The
arbitration board will then repair to the
Office of the labor commissioner and take
up in an informal way discussion of
the work to come, which will be planned
in detail before the taking of testimony
at Wilkesbarre and New York begins.
The Agricultural Department opened
its chrysanthemum show yesterday.
There were 900 of the plants on exhibit
ton and these represent l22 varieties.
The largest of the big bunch is known
as the Black Hawk, though it is white
with pink center Its blooms meas
ure twelve inches in diameter Many
prominent persons visited the opening
of the show. One of the most en-
thusiastic was the japanese Minister
Mr.. Takahira. The department will
continue the show for three weeks.
The case of S. Martin VS.. the l.. q n.
r. r. was argued before the Interstate
Commerce Commission today. The con-
tention of the complainant is that rates
on lumber from certain points in Ten
nessee to Detroit are % cents a hundred
pounds, although they are but 20 cents
from Nashville to Detroit, longer dis
lance. Mr. Ed. Baxter, of Nashville.
argued on behalf of the defendant com
pany, his contention being that what APP
peared to be discrimination was neces-
sary in the interest of commerce.
The shadowy outlines of the features
of the late President Mckinley and Of
President Roosevelt are to vanish forever
from the walls of Statuary Hall in the
Capitol building. But recently they
were discovered there, in apparently
random lines among the innumerable
dotes and dashes required to give the
walls the appearance of genuine marble
The Capitol authorities have ordered the
shadow pictures painted out, for two
reasons-one, that the work was being in
terfered with; the other, that the pres
ence of the likenesses in the Capitol Of the
United States was not dignifed. So out
they went.
Senator Clark of Montana, has an
other heir. A baby was born on Sun
day to Mrs. Lewis Rutherford Morris,
daughter of the millionaire. The child
is even now heiress to nearly so, 600, 900.
There is no truth in the story wired
from Little Rock, Ark, last night to
several eastern papers, that Miss Alice
Roosevelt, daughter of the President, is
engaged to marry John Greenway, the
former Rough Rider.
Senior Don Emilio de Ojeda, the new
Spanish Minister, was received at the
temporary White House this morning
by President Roosevelt, Secretary of
State Hay introducing him. The
usual felicitous speeches were exchanged
between the President and the Minister
The Navy Department has received from
Commander Mason, of the Cincinnati, news of
the deposing of Governor Navarro at Cape
Haytien and the scattering of the insurgents.
All is now quiet ON the island.
The President has accepted an invitation to
attend the annual banquet of the New York
Chamber of Commerce on Nov. H.
The treasury committee on State and mu-
nicipal bonds decided this morning that il
would consider the bonds Of any State of the
union Of which the debt, exclusive of water
debt and sinking fund, is less than per cent.
o the valuation of the city for the purposes of
taxation. The treasury received this morn
ing in bonds offered in substitution Sl71 900,
bringing the total up to Sl4,2S5,OO0.