Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-14
FROM WASHINGTON.

Offlce Department. ~ IL
today with First Assistant Wynne, VINO
for six weeks has been acting Postmas.e1
General The business of that Penod
was cone over in detail and Mr.. Payhe
was made conyersant with the develop
rnents in the investigation of the depart,
ments in so far as Mr.. Wynne nau
any connection Herewith. Inc fos'-
master General congratulated Mr..
Wvnne upon the efficient manner III
which he executed the orders that
had been left for him. Among the
first papers placed in Mr.. Payne's
hands were the resignation of Judge
Tyner. Assistant Attorney General, and
George w. Beavers, Superintendent OF
the Salaries and Allowances division.
Both had been Immediately accepted.
Mr. Payne endorsed the action and an
nounced that he would desire little time
before taking up the matter of selecting
SUCCESSORS. There was also called TO
his attention a communication from the
President directing the assurance OF an
order forbidding officials and employees
of the Postofice Department from al
lowing their names to be used in pro-
noting mining or other stock companies
and prohibiting any postoffice oiticial
from soliciting any employe OF the
postal service anywhere to subscribe for
or purchase stock in any such corpora
ton.
Captain Eugene H. G. Leutze, of the
battleship Maine, made personal report
today to the Secretary of the Navy ON the
damages done to his ship by firing the
six inch guns. Captain Leutze said that
the ship was not structurally weak IN any
particular but that the damage was due to
a weakness in the emplacement of the SIX
inch guns. He expressed the belief that
the ship could be repaired in ample time
to allow of her participation in the sum-
mer manoeuvers. The Maine is now at
Hampton Roads, and naval constructors
TAYLOR and Smith have been sent from
the Navy Department tOmake thorough
examination of the vessel.
Archibald Roosevelt has developed a
case of measles, contracted in the school
where there have been a number of
cases. He is not seriously i'll. Miss
Alice Roosevelt, accompanied by Captain
and Mrs. Cowles, left for Asheville, n.
c., last night after an informal dinner
10 a number of friends at the White
House. The party will be among the
house guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Vanderbilt at Biltmore for several days
Senator and Mrs. Depew will also be OF
the party.
Hallet Kilbourne, famous as the man
who was imprisoned in the Capitol build
ing for month by order of Congress,
died today in st. Elizabeth's Hospital
for the insane. During President Grants
administration Kilbourne was interest
ed in the "real estate ring" the opera
tons of which caused gigantic scandal
and called for a congressional investiga-
ton. Refusing to submit the books ofthe
"ring" to the investigating committee,
Kilbourne was held a prisoner for a
month.
Secretary of the Navy Moody said to-
day that, much to his regret, pressure of
business would prevent his going to
Newport News Saturday to see the
launching of the West Virginia.
Former Congressman Abner Taylor,
of Chicago, died in this city last night,
aged "A years. He had been III for sew
era weeks with a complication of dis
eases.
Assistant Attorney General Day,
speaking for the Attorney General, says
that any statement to the effect that the
Government is preparing to prosecute the
trusts until after the Supreme Courts
decision in the merger case, is without
authority, and does not emanate from
the office directly or indirectly.
The Easterly storm of the past three
days caused unusually high tides in the
river this morning. The sea wall cover
ing the flats was under water, and all
the low lands on the Virginia side of the
river above Jackson City was flooded.
The Central Yellow Pine Association of
| New Orleans, which manufactures and ships
yellow pine lumber in and from LOUISIANA,
| Mississippi Alabama and Georgia, today filed
complaint with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission against the VicksbuTg, Shreveport q
Pacific Railroad Co.. the Kan"as City South
ern Railroad Co., the st. Louis Southwestern
Railway Co. and the st. Louis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern Railway Co. The allega-
ton IS that the defendant companies run
through or into the yellow pine region or
connect with those that do so run, having
Joint traffic arrangements with each other,
and that they give undue advantage over
complainant TO manufacturers OF yellow
pine lumber having their plans located along
the lines of the defendants railway companies,
by giving disguised rebates, which some
times amounts to a. much as 3 cents per 100
pounds, or $l5 per carload average.
Representative Claude A. Swanson, of Virg
ginia, passed through here yesterday on his
way to New York TO attend the annual Jefler-
son banquet of the Harlem Club. Mr.. Swan
son favors Senator German as the next dem
ocratic presidential nominee.
ON business for certain Of his constr
tuents before the departments At present
Senator Martin is for Judge Parker for the
presidential nomination in 1904.
This was a bad day for the Bennlng races,
but despite the rain fair crowd attended the
closing of the spring meeting there.
Admiral O'Neil has sent to Secretary Moody
the preliminary report Of the board of inquiry
on the recent explosion of the II inch gun on
the Iowa. The report merely states the facts
and does not attempt to explain the reason Of
the explosion.
Chicago postoffice clerks affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor have protested
10 President Gompers on account of the ex-
ira service. over the eight hour day, they are
forced TO perform Secretary Morrison laid
the matter before the postoffice officials today
He said that the clerks are working from q
half hour to an hour and half without extra
nav. The matter will be investigated by the
PostCfiice Department
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