Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-21
man of the State committee. This agree
men was effected to avoid split.
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gaaette.l


continued its hearing of Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Bristow. First
Assistant Postmaster General Wynne
was present. The secret regulation
governing the allowance OF clerk
hire was not made known even to
members of Congress, Mr.. Brls-
tow declared. When members OF
Congress. he said, asked Of the
First Assistant Postmaster General the
details OF the regulation they were given.
In reply to questions he declared that he
did not know what clerks prepared his
report the First Assistant. Postmaster
General might be able to tell. He
promised to getinformatiOn as to the lden-
tity of the postoffice inspectors who were
instrumental in carrying on the investl-
CATION of the departmental the matter OF
| increased rentals, etc. As to whether the
report contained anything showing I'M
proper conduct on the part of members
of Congress, he could not say. So far as
he knew, it did not. In his previous re-
mort he dealt with the connection of Con-
.gressman with the salary and allowance
division. 81 was investigating Beavers,
he said, "not members of Congress
What | said about Congressman was
merely incidental. Perhaps some of them
overstepped the bounds of prOpriety. l
can recall no case. He did not mean to
imply, he exclaimed, that Congressman
made improper requests, knowing them
to be improper. During the examina-
ton Mr.. Bristow would not say that he
suspected Mr.. Perry Heath's integrity,
but he did not deny it very firmly.
President Roosevelt has invited the
members of the Panama canal commis-
sion. which will hold its first meeting
here tomorrow, to take lunch with him
at the White House. B. Nj. Harrod, OF
New Orleans, and G. E. Grunsky, of
San Francisco, two of the members OF
the commission, we're presented to the
President this morning.
Booker T. Washington, about whom
| much criticism was INDUCED because OF
his dining with the President some time
ago, was in conference with the Presi-
dent until midnight Saturday night.
Never before has social or friendly
visit at the White House lasted so late.
What the conference was about is not
known.
Panamais preparing tomake extensive
improvements which will make business
boom along many lines and interest
foreign capital in the new republic.
| According to u. S. Consul General
Gudger, who has just made report to
the department of commerce and labor,
telegraph lines connecting the capital,
Panama, with other parts of the country
and an extensive system of public roads
will be among the first improvements
made. Modern sewerage systems will be
built at Panama and Colon, and fine
public building to be known as the "Pres-
idential Palace" will be erected at Pan
anna.
Jacob Lavine, white, % years Of age,
proprietor of a small grocery store at
213 3rd street S. W., was struck on the
head with club while drawing cider to
sell to three negro customers who enter
ed his place of business about 7:45 this
morning He was taken to the Emer-
gency Hospital where an examination
disclosed the fact that his skull was frac-
tured. The doctors say that Lavine is
in a serious condition. Up to this time
the police have been unable to find a
clew which would put them on the track
of the desperadoes. Robbery supposed
to have been the cause of the murderous
attack.
Mr.. Rixey said today that it is posi-
BILE that point in Prince William
county, Virginia, between Manassas and
Broad Run, will be selected for army
maneuyers. He says that an army Off
| Ger who recently visited that section of
the county was so well pleased with it
for such maneuvers that he went back
there today, taking another officer with
| him.
Congressman Swanson, of Virginia,
who went to jamestown on Saturday,
says he was more than pleased at the
reception he met with and that every
body he saw there told him that that
| section of the State was for him for gov
| ernOr
The Virginians and in fact all the
Senators and Members who went to
jamestown on Saturday, are much
pleased with their trip and it is said
about the Capitol that an appropriation
for the proposed jamestown Exposition
will be made. Today Senator Martin
introduced a bill for the protection Of
the present wall at jamestown.
Republicans of the House and Senate
will gather in the hall of the House to-
night to select the congressional COM
mittee which is to conduct the next
congressional campaign. Most Of the
State delegations have chosen their rep
| resentatives on this committee in adj
vance. The new committee will organ
ize by re-electing Congressman Babcock,
of Wisconsin, as chairman, and Con-
gresham Overstreet, of Indiana, as
| secretary. Democrats in Congress are
already endeavoring to make political
capital out of the choice of Representa-
tive Babcock for that place by attacking
him for alleged friendliness to the rail-
roads that cross his district
Three cases of the Western Union
Telegraph Co. versus the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, involving the ques-
ton of the right of the latter, to exclude
the former from doing business along
its lines, were today in the United
States Supreme Court set for hearing for
the first Tuesday of next term.