Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette


hone. will not only avoid threatened and
internal dissentions over the tariff issue,
but will strengthen the party III the
places where the recent elections showed
il to be the weakest. In place of a
general tariff revision the administration
Is to inaugurate an antitrust and anti
monopoly campaign with special refer
ence to railroad mergers and comblna-
tons. The idea was first brought to
President Roosevelt's attention during
his recent efforts to bring the anthracite
coal strike to an end. At that time he
was struck with the evidence presented
to him of the tremendous power exercised
by the coal carrying roads. Since then
the elections have occurred and the re-
suits obtained have been the subject OF
careful consideration by the President
with his Cabinet advisers as well as
senators and congressman who have
called upon him. The result of these
conferences may, it is said, be summed
up as follows: The administration Is
convinced that if the party is to succeed
in 1904 the demand of the people for
relief from the high cost of living due, as
they believe rightly or wrongly, either TO
the tariff or to the existence of railroad
combinations and trusts controlling food
products, must be met.
For the first time in history, the
President of the United States has set
apart a room adjoining his own offices
for the exclusive use of the press. In
the new Office building west Of the
White House the correspondents have a
separate room provided with huge oak
table, chairs and three telephones for
their convenience. The room adjoins
the big central waiting room where all
callers gather before they are admitted
to the offices of the President or Secre-
tary Cortelyou. The door of the press
room stands open and the man of conse-
quence in politics, business or rank who
escapes without being interviewed is
feet of foot indeed. In the White
House before it underwent its remodel
ing process when the President and his
clerical force were all quartered on the
second floor, the newspaper men whose
duties took them there were obliged to
content themselves with table placed
at the eastern end Of the general waiting
room.
President Roosevelt will leave Wash
ington tonight to be absent 10 days.
He will spend tomorrow in New York
as the guest of the chamber ofcommerce.
He will attend the dedication of the new
exchange building at noon and the
annual banquet of the Board of Trade in
the evening and will leave for the west
and south at midnight The same
special train that conveys the President
from Washington will be used in the
entire trip, the line of the route being
from New York to Memphis by way oil
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Louisville.
No stops will be made en- route except
such as are made necessary in the opera
ton of the train. Memphis will be
reached Thursday morning. During
the following five or six days President
Roosevelt will trough it, down in the
Mississippi cane brakes hunting bear
and other game. The President will re-
turn to Memphis on the morning of the
10Th to participate in the exercises in
honor of Luke Wright, Vice Governor
of the Philippines. Late that same
evening, after making speech at a
banquet, the President will start home,
reaching Washington on the morning of
the DIST. On the morning of 22nd he
will be again on the move, going to
Philadelphia, to attend the Union
League Club banquet that evening. He
will return to Washington on the mid
night train.
Mr.. Carroll d. Wright, recorder of the
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, to-
day received from President Baer the
answer of the Reading Coal and Iron
Company to the statement or complaint
submitted on behalf of the miners by
President Mitchell. 1t covers six print
ed pages and goes into all the details of
the controversy. A copy has been sent
to Mr.. Mitchell. 1t will reach him to-
morrow and will be made public at that
time. The answers of other operators
have not yet been received but are ex-
pected today or tomorrow.
The President today denied Is appli-
cations for pardon; granted 3 pardons to
restore civil rights of petitioners who
have served out their term Of imprison-
ment; RENTED one forfeited recognizance
in the District of Columbia, and granted
one communication of sentence and one
pardon. The pardon granted is in the
case of Henry w. Miller, who was con-
yicted of murder in the western Dis
trict of Arkansas, on February 2, 1889.
The races at Bennings, under the
auspices of the Washington Jockey
Club, opened this evening with large
crowd, while the weather was all that
could have been desired. They will con-
tinue until the Doth, and good cards are
promised for every day. Horses are
here, representing the best stables in the
United States and unquestionably this
will be the most successful race meeting
ever held in Washington. A number of
Alexandrians and people from the sur
rounding counties in Virginia were here
today. The first race was won today by
True Blue, 15-1; Maiden, second, and
Benckart third
William G. Rae, local druggist at 9TH
and L streets, aged SO years, who had been
married less year, killed himself this morn
ing by sending bullet through bis temple
Dependency due to ill health was the cause:
Society at the capital is much interested
over the fiat just issued by the President
which opens the season" half a month ahead
of the regular time. Invitations have been
issued for the first State banquet on Thurs
day, December IS. This function is usually
given after January /. The President has
advanced the White House season this. year
in order to give Mrs. Roosevelt and the ladies'
of the official set an opportunity to give all