Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-12-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
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Correspondence of the Alexandria Ga1ette.I
Both Houses of Congress will ia ke a
recess this afternoon for the Chr stmas
holidays, to meet again on January 4.
In the House 8,426 bills have been in
troduced while 2, S24 have been presented
in the Senate. Thousands of petitions
have been received in both Houses on
all kinds of subjects. During all this
time but one important piece OF iegisla-
ton affe citing the entire country has
been adopted by Congress and sent
to the President for his sigma
ture. 1t is the Cuban reciprocity
bill. The Senate has ratified the i'm
oortant Chinese commercial treaty but
that did not require action by the House.
In the House the pension appropriation
5iIl has been passed. Party lines have
,een drawn in both Houses and prepare
ION mad The outlining OF the issues
Of the presidential campaign this year.
The administration of the Panama policy
has been attacked and defended in both
Houses and it is pretty certain that 1t
will be heard of in the campaign. Tariff
talk has not been brought prominently
forward vet, but it is expected that more
will he heard on that subject later in the
session.
A rumor reached the President that
Senator German was lining up his forces
against the canal treaty and although as
sistance has been previously brought to
the executive that at least twelve or
thirteen democrats we're sure to vote for
the measure when the time came, the
report was sufficiently disquieting to
cause a hurry call to be sent to several
of the republican leaders and the result
ing conference in the Presidents office
reminded one of the grave days Of the
Spanish war The republicans need
but three democrat "yeas" to get the
required two-thirds vote to pass the
measure and they claim that they have
several more than that.
The Navy Department cipher experts
are vainly trying TO read cablegram
received from Admiral Glass this morn
ing. Not a sentence can be read, and
Admiral Taylor Chief OF the Bureau CT
Navigation, has asked Admiral Glass to
repeat the message.
The correspondence on the Panama
canal convention with Colombia sub
mitted to the House today by President
Roosevelt contains many interesting
letters and kilograms, most of them from
Minister Beaupre at Bogota.
The first link in the new cable between
the United States and Germany has just
been completed and as a reward the
company will receive $17S, 500 for the
year 1908 from the German government
According to a report just received from
United States Consul-General Guenther,
at Frankfort, the line was brought to
land in the Azores and communication
with Borkum successfully established.
The whole cable must be completed by
January |, 1905, when the line is ex-
pected to be in working order at the
New York end.
Senior Don Philippe Bunau- Varilla,
MinisterEof Panama, opened the steel
casket recently received from Co'7n IN
Washington today. One of the papers
in the casket was the treaty which was
presented to Secretary Hay.
The War Department has received word of
| the sailing yesterday of the San Francisco
| from Beirut TO Alexandrietta with Consul
Davis, who was recently assaulted by the local
police at that place, aboard
The Army and Navy Register, a weekly
| journal, in its leading editorial this morning
demands the immediate courtmartial Of Gen.
Leonard Wood or Lieut.. James E. Runcie.
The Peruvian Minister informed the State
Department today that his country had recog-
nized the new Panama republic.