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

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Reports from Chicago regarding the
speakership contest, so far as they
foreshadow the immediate triumph oil
Congressman Cannon, of Illinois, are
cautiously received by the republican
members of Congress now on the scene.
These reports would make it appear that
Congressman Cannon is sure of the sup
port of the Iowa delegation as well as of
a large number from Wisconsin, who
will follow the Illinois mans lead rather
than that of Mr.. Babcock of their own
State. Friends of Congressman Bah
cock. now in the city, declare emphati-
cally that Wisconsin will give loyal sup
port to Babcock if he declares his
candidacy. They declare with equal
emphasis that Iowa will not be
for Cannon but will support Babcock.
In the meantime, in the east, the candi-
dacy of John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
is becoming more formidable Practi-
cally the entire east seems bound to
flock to his support, Notwithstanding the
candidacy of Mr.. Little6eld, Of Maine,
who thus far seems to command only the
four votes from his own State with a
struggling following in the west. The
announcement by Congressman Gros-
venor, of Ohio, that he is not candi-
date, has occasioned no excitement.
At the Colombian Legation it is said
that the negotiations for the canal
treaty are progressing satisfactorily.
Senior Concha, the Colombian minister, is
working on the details and will, before
the end of the week, give Secretary Hay
a complete memorandum ON the position
of his government in the matter. 1t is
expected that the treaty will be signed
at the State Department about the'2Oth
of this'month. The treaty will, in effect,
give the United States perpetual control
of strip of territory six miles across the
Isthmus of Panama. The language of
this treaty will lease this strip to the
United States for one-hundred years with
sole right of renewal.
General Thomas l. Rosser, of Char
lottesville, called on the President yes
terday in company with Mrs. Peyton, of
that city, to urge the appointment of her
son, Frank Peyton, to a lieutenancy in
the regular army. Mr.. Peyton was COM
mandant of the class of 1901-1902 at the
Virginia Military Institute, and grad
uated fourth in his class.
Despite the cloudy weather of this
evening there was another large attend
ance at Bennings and all enjoyed the ex-
citing races. Three track records were
broken there yesterday. The seven fur
longs was reduced to 1.26, the six
furlongs to lila 2-5 and the mile and a
sixteenth to 1:49 1-5. The first race
today was won by Emshee, -;
Val-Forge, 6-1, second, and Cornwall,
9-5, third. Time, 1:26 2-5.
Minister Bowen at Caracas, Venezuela,
cables the Department of State that
President Castro has arrived in the city;
that he is informed by the Minister
of Foreign Affairs that the Executive
branch of the government has been es-
tablished there, and that the revolution
is practically at an end.
General Bragg, former CONSUL general
of the United States at Havana, is in
Washington with Mrs, Bragg and was
at the State Department this morning.
He expects to leave Washington in
few days for his home in Wisconsin.
1t is understood that General Bragg has
explained the matter of his criticism of
the Cubans, which was made in a private
letter to his wife, and which resulted in
his recall from Havana, to the. entire
satisfaction of the State Department.
Zachariah T. Thomas, freight con-
ductor on the Pennsylvania railroad, was
run over by train while at work near
Benning today and died shortly after
reaching Providence Hospital.
A. A. Wingfeld, about SO years old,
who conducted a grocery store at 2l5
Thirteenth and-a-half street southwest,
dropped dead in his store this afternoon
a number of railroad companies made de-
PENDANTS in the complaint of the railroad COM
mission of Kentucky before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, on charge that the
railways in question have combined, under
the control of j. p. Morgan & Co., of New
States have sent their reports to the offices of
the Interstate Commerce Commission here
making denials. President Elliott Of the
Atlantic Coast Line, admits that he contract
ed with J. p. Morgan & Co. to purchase 30G,-
600 of the 100000 shares of the capital stock
of the l.. Il n and that the l.. & n has con-
sented thereto. The Southern Railway line
admits that the Southern Railway Company
and J. p. Morgan & Co. entered upon an
agreement to reorganize the Louisville,
Evansville and st. Louis Consolidated x. X.
Co., to the end that its control might be vest
ed in the Southern Railway Company in ex-
change for purchase money obligations of
said Southern Railway Co. The l.. & n.
denies that the line of the c. |. 4 l.. has ever
been purchased by it or the Southern, but
admits that, jointly with the Southern, it has
acquired a majority of its stock
J. Edward Addicks, leader of a republican
faction in Delaware was here yesterday and
had conferences with the President, Postmas-
ter General Payne and other officers of the
administration. Ii is said the purpose of Mr..
Addicks' visit was to have such influence
brought TO bear upon the republican governor
of Delaware as TO prevent him from calling
special elections in those legislative districts
where contests will be brought before the next
Legislature. Mr.. Addicks desires that those
contests be determined by the legislature
after its organization, In which event he ex-
poets, through the seating of his candidates,
to obtain controlling majority and thus in
sure his election 10 the Senate.
ANOTHER MAN GONE WRoNG.-J.
Sherbourne Singer, paying teller of the
Mutual Alliance Trust Company of
New York, was arrested yesterday on
the charge of having stolen 81, 100 from
the bank. Singer has wife and sew
eral children living in Philadelphia,
there is good reason to believe that the |
man has left them without support. !
When his desk at the bank was search