Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-04-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, d. c., April 20.

merce Commission leave for New YORK
TODAY. where tomorrow, in the federal
building, they will begin an investigation
to determine whether or not the coal
roads are violating the interstate com
merce law. The action in question was
brought about some time ago by VIM.
r. Hearst. the New York editor and
congressman. Mr. Hearst's allegation
is that the coal roads are operated under
an agreement which is in restraint of
trade. If this point should be found to
be well taken, the findings of the Inter
state Commerce Commission will be sub
mitted to the Attorney General for ac-
ton. In view of the recent decision in
the Northern Securities Company case
the Hearst case has taken on additional
importance and interest.
Ex-Speaker Henderson will become
the president of land company at sal
ary of so, 600 a year, with headquarters
in New York.
While it was not the intention of the
Navy Department at first to send the
European squadron to Kiel, now that the
unofficial announcement has been made
that the squadron would go there it
will be necessary to send it in order
O avoid wounding the feelings of the
sensitive Germans. 1t is said the reason
that the invitation was declined was APP
prehensive that friction might result be-
tween United States and German sailors
when the former were granted liberty to
go ashore.
The Supreme Court of the United
States today decided that although
railroad brakeman takes certain risks
and must expect a certain amount OF
humping of the cars on which he works,
he isn't expected to be prepared for the
kind of bump that threw Abe Behymer
off the top of a Texas Pacific freight
car, to whose ice covered top he had
climbed to release the brakes. The fact
was mentioned with due solemnity that
in his decent Behymer's trousers caught
on a nail. The railroads culpable
negligence is established and the verdict
of the lower court for damages in favor
of Behymer is affirmed.
The mystery of the Attorney Generals
recent Disappearance" has been solved
by the Generals return to Washington
today. When he left Pittsburg last
week, he says, he took District Attorney
Young of that city with him and went
to Castalia, Ohio, on a fishing trip.
General Knox found himself head over
heels in work on his return today and
Immediately went into consultation with
Solicitor General HOyt and VIM. a.
Day, the assistant Attorney General in
charge of the merger and other trust
litigation.
In the Supreme Court today the case
of VIM. Watts and David A. Sachs,
Louisville attorneys who were sentenced
to jail for sixty days each by Judge An
derson OF the Indianapolis Federal |
Court, was argued. The complainant
attorneys, who sue for writ of habeas
corpus and certiorari, we're sentenced |
for alleged refusal to turn over to a
receiver appointed by Judge Anderson
for Zier & Co. of New Albany, Ind,
property belonging to the latter, their
clients They contend that they could |
not obey the order because they were
under contrary orders from the State
Court, in which similar proceedings had
been begun, which resulted in the APP
pointment of another receiver by the
State court. The contention Of the gov
eminent is that Judge Anderson was
within his rights and that his orders
should have been obeyed.
Hilda Atkins, % years old, Of 1907 |
G street northwest, attempted suicide
early this morning by drinking car5olic
acid The doctors at the Emergency
hospital say she will recover.
There were 10 admissions to practice
in the Supreme Court of the United
States today, among them Mrs. Florence
King, of Illinois, and Josiah I. Settle,
Of Tennessee, a colOred man.
J. H. Veirs, engaged in the grocery
business in Georgetown, committed sui
eide shortly before noon in his Office by
shooting himself
Democratic leaders who have been in
Washington recently, including Senator Cor
man and Mr. William j. Bryan, have told
heir friends that they consider the prospects
1fsuccess for the democrats in the next presi-
lential election TO be steadily improving,
largely because the republicans do not pro-
pose to have any tariff revision before the
presidential campaign. The possibilities In
antitrust agitation efforts are also regarded
o1I &c 10, |
against the trusts, as more favorable to the
democrats than TO the republicans. But il is
admitted that if President Roosevelt had been
by his party in his announced
course against the trusts-and had there been
no halt in the execution of his programme,
he advantage might not have been with the
democrats as would have been the
Ease If no active steps had been taken by
the administration. On the other hand, the
loss of the campaign contributions that would
be naturally expected from the trusts by the
republican national committee is counted ON
by demo ratio campaign managers as of i'm
portance in estimating the campaign forces.
The engagement of Miss Frances
Marvin Fairfax, the youngest daughter
Of the late John Contee Fairfax, of
North Hampton, Prince Georges
to Mr.. LOwndes Rhett, of New
York, has been announced. Miss Fair
AK makes her home with her sister,
Miss Caroline Fairfax, in Baltimore.
Her father was eleventh baron of Cam
sron in the peerage of Scotland. Mr..
Rhett is a stockbroker in New York
and a member of the South Carolina
amily of that name.