Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-09
welt does not get the United States into
trouble through foreign entanglements
il will not be his fault.
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, Jan. g..

Il
as to whether the Senate committee on
postofices should make su Investigation
of the frauds in the Postoffice Depart
ment the Senate has agreed to take a
vote on the latter on Monday. The prob
abilities are that the Senate will decide
that the investigation already made by
the Postoffice Department itself is sufh-
Gent and that further inquiry is unneces-
sary. The report on General WOOD
nomination has been made but no action
will be taken upon it in the Senate un-
Ill after Senator Hanna returns towards
the end of next week. The foreign re-
lations committee expects to report the
Panama canal treaty on Monday or
tuesday and its consideration in exec
Itive session will he pushed as early as
possible. The canal situation VIII also
.,e discussed IN open session during the
week in connection with various reso-
lutions Of inquiry proposed by Senators
Hoar and Morgan. On Monday the
House will be ready to take up District
of Columbia business if there should be
any to transact. The legislature, exec
utiye and judicial appropriation bill
will be reported on that day aud taken
up for consideration Tuesday. Pract-
cally all the remainder of the week will
be devoted to it.
Although it is entirely improbable
that the United States will become in any
way implicated in the difficulties between
Russia and Japan, the administration is
keeping close watch upon developments
and American ships Of war arein position
to fully protect American interests Ill
Korea and elsewhere in the Orient.
The suggestion that the President be
directed to use bis good. Offices by way OF
meditation is regarded at the STATE De-
partmeut as impracticable at the present
stage. The precedent in such matters is
only at the request Of one of the interested
parties, although there have some times
been delicate hints conveyed that the
United States was willingt to so act. The
hope in State Department circles that
there will be no war is strengthened
today. This is based upon advices received
from government agents abroad which
are said to be practically unanimous.
The answer of Reed Smoot, Senator
from Utah, to the charges filed against
him by various individuals and organi-
cations throughout the country, was sub
mitted today to the Senate committee on
privileges and elections. II is a docu-
ment of about 6, 900 words and discusses
the matter fully in all its phases. Two
serious charges are preferred against Mr..
Smoot. viz: That tho respondent is
polygamist, and that he is bound by
some oath or obligation which is in con-
sistent with the oath required by the
Constitution, which was administered to
him before he took his seat as a Senator.
Both these charges the respondent denies
in lengthy refutations. The answer Is
signed and sworn to by Smoot. AS to
the charge that he is polygamist, the
respondent SAYS that he was married on
the 10th day of September 1884, to
Alpha May Eldridge. She is still his
wife and has never cOhabited with any
other woman. As to the charges that
the respondent is bound by some oath or
obligation controlling his duty under
oath as a Senator, the respondent says
that he has never taken any such oath,
or in any way assumed any such obliga-
tons.
Lawyers who have watched the pro-
gress Of the Northern Securities cases in
the Supreme Court of the United States
are inclined to believe that the court
will hold, in the action brought by the
State of Minnesota, that it has no juris-
diction.
Congress was not in session today.
The meeting Of the democratic national
committee in This city next TUESDAY is looked
forward to with much interest, as 1t will 70
+ gree, he the real opening of the campaign
or the presidency. The meeting will select
the time and place Of the next national con
gention. Senator Jones will not be the chair
man of the next committee. His successor
will he chosen when the committee meets
in the convention city, wherever that may be.
The Comptroller of the Currency received
advices this morning that the Alya National
Bank. of Alva, Okla, had not opened for
business tOudN, anu nc HAS dppOiheCu A'o' 'h"A
Bank Examiner NJ II. Sturtevant as receiver.
The resources and liabilities of the bank, ac-
cording to the last statement made November
II, were Sl55, SS2.05 each.
An amendment will be offered TO the
Panama Canal treaty which will be accept
able alike to republicans and democrats. The
object will be TO augment the receipts by the
Republic of Panama from the canal when 1t
shall have been constructed. As the treaty
now stands the compensation to the new re-
public would not be equitable.
The Navy Department today received the
following dispatch from Admiral Coghlan:
THE Dixie's marines landed. No news"
Senator Martin, who has been indisposed
for a few days, expects to be able to resume
his seat in the Senate on Monday.
ANIMAL FAILURES Commercial