Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette'I
Washington, d. C., Sept TO-

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60 far have shown b. II. Colbert, mar
sbal for the southern district of Indian
Territory and personal friend OF the
President. in bad light. District At
torney Pliny l.. Sopher admits his COD
nection with the suspected company ou'
denies all knowledge of wrongdolng:
The War Department has formulated
the general plan of the manoeuvres TO
no held at West Point, KY. They will
becin on Friday, September % and con
time until Sunday, October Is. They
will be participated in by troops from
several places, among which will be those
from Fort Myer, Va, and Washington
Barracks. d. c., three regiments OF IN
fantry and a battery of field artillery.
Minister Leishman has informed the
Department of State, by cablegram, that
he has secured the release of About
Kader Mathaney, a naturalized citizen
of the United States, borne at Trlpoll,
Syria. who. soon after returning to his
native country in 1901, committed an
oHense for which he was sentenced by
the Consular Court of the United States
at Beirut to a term Of six months IN the
Smyrna Jail. In the early part OF the
current year he was arrested at Inpoh
and condemned by the local court, for
the same ohense, to three and One-hali
years Imprisonment. Minister Leish-
man promptly protested against this vio-
lation of the rights of an American cti-
zen.
Up to date 10 national banks have
been designated by the Secretary OF the
Treasury as new repositories OF govern
ment money or as banks whose present
deposits are to be increased. Not all OF
these banks have yet qualified by deposits
of bonds to secure the money which Is
to be placed to their credit. That pro-
cess is proceeding from day to day, but
the amount of government money that
has actually been placed in the banks
since the Secretary's announcement that
he had $40, 900, 600 that could be used
in case of emergency is only 81 400, GOO.
Nothing but government bonds has yet
been offered as security. From the ~,
500, 600 which the secretary offered to
deposit in the ST. Louis banks, only
$500. 600 has vet been taken, and the
bank which took that amount did not
avail itself of the power of putting up
State and municipal security, asst might
have done, but preferred to deposit gov
eminent bonds. So far it has not been
necessary to draw upon the $40, 600, 600
emergency fund. The demands for
money have been met from the current
internal revenue receipts. The forty
million is still reserved, as it was intend
ed to be when accumulated, to meet the
extraordinary conditions should they
arise. SO far no New York bank has
applied for, or been given, any additional
government deposits. 1t is the primary
purpose of the Secretary to put the money
in localities where the exigencies OF mer-
camille business or crop moving require
ments are such that, without government
assistance, the people might find diff
Guilty in having their wants supplied. 1t
is not the purpose of the Secretary to
cater to the speculative desires of Wall
street.
Minister Beaupre at Bogota has in
formed the State Department that two
of the dispatches which were sent him
in August and which were supposed to
be lost have finally reached him. Three
others are still missing. At the State
Department there is now no disposition
to blame the Colombian government for
the delay in the transmission of their
messages. For period of several
weeks the cable company, because OF a
dispute with the Colombian government
regarding the extension of its concession,
refused to transmit any cablegrams
whatever. When the cable Offices were
finally opened there was, Of course, an
accumulation of messages and among
them those from the State Department to
Minister Beaupre. 1t is explained that
new dispatches that were received were
given precedence over those that had
been DELAYED from this cause, and this
is believed to account for the receipt by
Minister Beaupre of recent c0mmuni-
cations and his failure to receive former
ones. 1t is declared that the accumu-
lation Of messages is being worked off as
fast as possible and it is expected that
the missing ones will be found among
them. 1t is pointed out that there
could not possibly be any advantage to
the Colombian government in purposely
holding up communications from the
United States government to its Minister
at Bogota, and officials of the State De-
partment acquit it of any such intention.