Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-06-20
FROM WASHINGTON
Correspondence OF the Alexandra Gazette.

Henry RectiD, the default nR uleDuIbe'
mer clerk Of the department OF justice,
ap. ca ed 10 the Police Court this morn
iug charged with missppropristing
S. 900 OF government funds IN his 9TH
cial capacity. he pleaded not guilty.
and waived examination. The case
will be given to the grand jury. de
was released on 81 900 bond furnished
nv the Citizens Trust Compapy,of West
Virginia.
The House committee on Industrial
arts and expos tons has decided to re-
fuse the request of the Charleston Ex-
posItiop Company for en- appropriation
of 5000 to help wipe out the detcit
growing out of the fair.
A new compromise on the Cuban
reciprocity question Is suggested by the
beet sugar men today aud they are
urging its adoption by the adminislra'
ton Senators as an easy and profitable
way out tf the dilemma. The idea 10
that the United States should ADOPT
couniervailing duty against the cartel
OF Germany and Austro. Hungary. The
effect. il is claimed, would be to almost
Immediately increase the price OF raw
sugar the world over about one cent
Mound, and bring iustaLt prosperity TO
the sugar growers not only oil Cuba, put
Louisiana, Hawaii and Porto Rico. II
ia declared that the cartel, which has
for its principal object the raising Of
| the price Of gugsr to the home consum'
er for the purpose OF forming q fund to
| enable the sugar which is sold to q
| foreign consumer to be exported OF q
price below the cost OF production, hes.
during the two years it has been In
operstion, reduced the price OF raw
sugar 10 the world by Ill cents per
pound. A definite proposition EN- body
| ing the idea has been drawn up by the
beet sugar men and will be presented
to the republican conference this alter
noon. The administration Senators OBJ
| iect to the plan on the ground that II
might provoke retaliatory tariff legisla-
on by Germany. -,
The conferees on the sundry civil
appropriation bill pre- ented a partial
report u the Senate t)dsy. They
have agreed TO appropriate a 995 400,
which is the amount required Tor I'M
mediate expenditure to carry out the
provisions OF the omnibus public build
Ing bill recently psssed By Congress.
For repairs to tire White House sn sp'
propristiou OF 1910 AS was added to
the bill, and $50. 1876 is made avail
able for the Presidents tempo
rary offices. The totil amount
carried by the bill is now $50, 499 700.
The items for light house, military
D ,sts, Memorial bridge across the
Potomac, the Hall OF Records, are still
subjects OF disagreement. The public
building at Lyncbburg, Va, will have
to get along without sn elevator.
The Presidents reiteration of his
unalterabe determination to provide
for q tariff reduction on Cuban imports
hss revived talk Of an extra session.
There are those who believe that II
the matter is not attended to at the
present session of Congress the Presi'
dent will reassemhe the law makers in
extraordinary session this summer. 10
o conference st the White House last
night with q half dozen leading ad-
ministration Senators, the President
told his guests that he proposed to keep
himself perfectly free to call an extra
session should Congress fail to pass the
Cuban reciprocity bill before adjourn
ment. The President hopes to effect
his purpose without resorting TO such
means. II he finds that the insurger
element Is dtt9rmioed 10 continue its
campsiga OF delay and that the 3D.
ministration crowd is becoming luke.
warm, he may arrange treaty during
the next week or ten days and send II
to the Senate.
The House has net yet been canvas.
sed on the Isthmisn canal situation,
but the opinion OF mott OF the leaders
is that the Spooner amendment passed
by the Senate will in the end be &C.
cepted by the House. When the bill
comes over from the Senate 1t will be
referred to the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce OF which Mr..
Hepburn, author of the bill which
| passed the House, is the chairman.
Mr.. Hepburn stands by bic bill, pro-
vidiDg for the Nicaragua route, and
bis committee today informally auth
| orized him to move in the House, ct
the proper time, that the Senate
amendments to the Hepburn bill be
non.copcurred In and that the bill lie
sent to conference ss requested by the
Senate. The fight between the
Nicaragua and Panama adberents will
therefore be predetermined in cor
ference. The report Of the conferees
will probably foreshadow the action
OF Congress.
The House today on motion of Mr..
Hepburn, Iowa, agreed 10 non.coDcur
| 10 the Senate amendment to the Nicara-
qua canal bill, and to send the bill to
conference. Messrs. Hepburn, Fletcher,
and Davey, we're appointed conferees
on the part of the House.
The Italian ambassador called on
Secretary Moody, OF the navy this after
noon for the purpose of ssceltainiBg
whether the text OF the record in the
csse of the trial OF the officers Of the
Chicago agreed With thst published in
newspaper dispt tohes.
Ex-Presi1eut Cleveland's harmony"
speech yesterday s much discussed by
leading democrats here today. Mr..
Richardson, Mr.. Patterson, Mr.. Stay
den, Mr.. Cooper and others endorsed 1t
In the msin, but MIR. Cochran was rather
severe in his structures on the late Presi.
dent, charging bin with betrsying his
party. He looks upon him as sn in
mate OF the political grave yard.
Mr.. Flood, of Virginia, 10 the House
yesterday submitted minority report
against ibe passage Of the oil provid-
ing'for the appointment of commits.
sion TO investigate the condition of the
negro race. All The Information need
ed, he says, can be obtained from the
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