Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, d. c., Sept 10.


Washington, d. c., Sept. 10.
Minister Beaupre. the United States
representative in Colombia, has cabled
the State Department as follows from
Bogota, dated September IA: "Report
of canal commission has passed the SEN
ate unanimously on the first reading.
Senator Perez Sofa gave notice of
an amendment restricting the executive
absolutely to the terms of the proposed
law" The main features of the bill
reported by the committee pro-
vide for a payment to Colombia by
the United States of $50, 600, 600, a
rental of $3.50, 600 cash for 100 years,
renewable at an increase of 25 per cent.
for each succeeding 100 years payment
to Colombia of 100000 by the
Panama Canal Co., neutrality of the
canal zone and recognition ofCOlomblan
sovereignty over the whole territory and
inhabitants thereof.
The President has granted full and
unconditional pardons TO George ID. and
Barancas F. Cosby, convicted at Mont
gomery, Ala, for violation of the peon-
age law. These men were indicted for
holding one Pike Swanson in a con-
dition of peonage, pleaded guilty on
lime 80. 1903, and on the same day
were sentenced to imprisonment for n
wear and day in the o. 5. penitentiary
at Atlanta, Ga. They have been I'M
prisoned ever since. and today were re-
leased on Geographic instructions from
the Department of Justice. During !he
month of June more than eighty indict-
ments. against number eff individuals,
for violation of the peonage law (Sec.
1926 r. S.)were returned by the grand
Jury at Montgomery, and several con-
yictions were secured, the sentences I'M
posed ranging from the minimum, one
year, to the maximum, five years. The
President granted the pardons in the
above cases upon the earnest recommen-
dation of Judge Jones, who sentenced
the prisoners.
Memorial services over their dead
were Jointly held today by the National
Association of Railway Postal Clerks
and the Railway Mail Service Mutual
Benefit Association, both in annual ses-
sion in this city. 1t is most likely that
the conventions will meet in Boston next
year. John A. Kidwell, of Columbus,
o., will be reelected president of the
National Association without opposition.
John R. Mccoy, of Trenton, n. j., is
to be reelected president of the Mutual
Benefit Association. Secretary and
Treasurer Corning, of Chicago, is the
unanimous choice of the Mutual Benefit
Association for reelection.
The War Department has made pub
lie the annual report of Brigadier Gen
eral Frank ID. Baldwin, commanding
the Military Department of the Colo
RADIO. General Baldwin makes several
recommendations for the improvement
of the discipline in the array, among
which the most important relates to a
return to the sale of beer and light wines
in the army canteens.
The grand jury today resumed con-
sideration of the Postoffice Department
investigation matter.
An unconscious colored man arrived at the
Pennsylvania depot today on the train from
Culpeper. Fastened 10 his coat was a letter
signed by DR.. Lewis, of that place, who stated
that the man needed hospital treatment for
bullet wound in his shoulder. The wound
had been inflicted some time ago and gan
creme had set in.