Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
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The Navy Department received us
patch from Commander Mclean OF the
Cincinnati this morning from Barcelona,
Venezuela stating that Barcelona was
occupied by revolutionists. They have
imprisoned all civil and military officials
and are in possession Of the entire
district. Some pillaging has been done,
but everything now is quiet; 20 business
houses, mostly foreign. and 10 private
dwellings were sacked. This dispatch
| is somewhat at variance with one re-
ceived by the department of State this
morning from Minister Bowen, which
is to the effect that the sacking Of Bar
celona continues and that foreigners
today are being held up by the reyolu-
tionists who demand money for as
surances of personal safety. 1t is pos
sible that Bowen's dispatch was filed be-
fore the arrival of the Cincinnati and
that the presence of that warship caused
i cessation of pillaging.
When Congress, in 1898, under the
war tax act, assessed a tax of 81 per
81, 900 on the undivided profits of banks,
Attorney General Griggs held this tax
to be a non c0llectable one When Com
missioner of Internal Revenue Yerkes
assumed Office, he took the opposite
view. The case was carried into court
and pending a decision the commits
sioner directed that the assessments be
made but the collection be suspended.
/ The circuit court of the southern dis
trict of New York having now over
ruled the contention of Attorney General
Grigg and sustained Commissioner
Yerkes, the latter has sent orders to the
collector of customs to collect the tax for
the last fiscal year. The war tax has
been repealed, and the tax in question
can not be collected in the future. The
commissioner has the right to 60 back as
far as 1898, but for the present he will
content himself with the collection of
last years tax. The amount involved is
estimated at about $500, 600.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes ruled today that obscure and
illegal marking and branding on
the stamp heads of wholesale and re-
tail liquor dealers packages requiring
the closest scrutiny to decipher are not
in compliance with the laws and regula-
lions. Packages thus effectively marked
hereafter sent out will be subject to
seizure, OH the theory that an illegal
brand or mark is no brand or mark tall.
A cablegram to the Navy Department
from Commander McCrea dated Cape
Haitien today says that the blockade has
been admitted Intellectual by Killick and
has been abandoned.
In political circles here the gOssips
say that Ohio republicans are bound to
keep in the lime light; that if they can't
do it with Hanna presidential boom,
they will for Foraker vice-presidential
organization. Some contend that Fora
ker is persona grata with President
Roosevelt because he was the first of the
great men in the country to advocate the
nomination of Roosevelt in 1904 and he
wOuld. therefore, be peculiarly eligible |
for second honors. Mr.. Foraker, how /
ever, never had any aspirations to play |
src)nd fiddle and it is believed that only /
the presidency itself has requisite at /
fractions for him.
News of the release of Gaynor and /
Greene by Judge Caron at Quebec /
which reached the Department of Justice |
shortly before the closing hour yesterday,
has caused no perciptibe excitement, nor
will the high officials in the department,
wi O re- now here, admit that it came
entirely unexpected. One of the officials
declared that this by no means ends the
effort to extradite Captain Carter alleged
associates. In the opinion of the depart
mclt the decision of Judge CarOn was
based on technicality and nothing
stands in the way of ording Greene and
GaynOr's rearest. The information in
he case would then be amended as 10
confirm with Judge CarCn's charge is
an indictable one under the extradition
t eaty between Great Britain and the
United States.
Secretary Cortelyou began work on the
itinerary for the Presidents trip to New
England, which begins on the 22nd of
his month, also on the western trip,
which begins on the 10Th of September
Cortelyou will be in the city
)nlv a short time
Chief Wilkie Of the Secret Service received
word today of the arrest at Marble Falls
Texas, by Dallas operatives, of Harry Bryan ,
md Henry Brown on charges of counterfeit
ng. The men had a complete outfit for max {
ng quarters, which was confscated Both &
prisoners had counterfeit money in their po-
Is S, IN as well as at their home.
TIE time in which army officers must be
quippcd with the new regulation uniform !
vas today by orders of Adiutant General Cor
in extended from January I, TO July /, 1908.
This has been made necessary to enable man. Y
Ifacturers to comply with the requirements. Y
Vice Chancellor Stevens filed n ii u