Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-16
From WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington, d. c., May 16.

Washington, d. c., May Is.
Prominent southern republicans take
exception to the declaration of Senator
Hoar that, where a southern State has
no republican representative in the
chamber, the President should defer to
the wishes of its democratic Senators in
regard to the distribution of federal
patronage. They take the ground of
opposition that, because a southern
State has no republican, Senator, it
should not be considered prima facie
evidence that it is not entitled to one,
and point to the peculiar election laws
of southern States, enacted soley for the
purpose of disfranching a sufficient
number of republican votes to permit a
minority party to control the election.
The Supreme Court today declared
the Beall local option law of the State of
Ohio to be constitutional. The case
came up from the Supreme Court of the
State on complaint of John Lloyd versus
Joseph B. DolisoD, sheriff of Guernsey
county. A writ of habeas corpus was
refused by the court below and the
affirmations of unconstitutionality in the
writ of error presented to the Supreme
Court of the United States are held TO
be untenable.
A fraud order was issued this morn
ing against the Mason Chemica! Manu-
factury Company of Syracuse, andT. w.
Galloway of Toledo, o., their agent, by
the Postoffice Department. The firm
advertised for agents to collect debts and
furnish ratings ETC., in their own local-
ties at big salary. After the applicant
had given a guarantee of $50 to "cover
agents samples" he was supplied with s.
worth of Carriers Vital Tabloids, which
he was expected to sell form $4S to 800,
his salary of 1928 a year depending upon
his success as agent.
Labor Commissioner Carroll ID.
Wright called at the White House this
morning to talk with the President
about the work done by the Cancellation
board in the anthracite region during
the last year. 'In the main the scheme
has worked admirably" said Col. Wright.
"Of course there has been some kicking
from parties that have not had their
own way, but it is evidently the best
solution OF mining troubles yetevolved."
William Turner, the British anarchist,
was rightfully excluded from this country
by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
The Supreme Court so held today, Chief
Justice Fuller handing down the opinion
of the court. He held that the order of
the court below affirming this exclusion
was the proper one. The power of Con-
gress to legislate for the exclusion Of
anarchists was fully sustained. Turner'S
speeches were held to be indictments to
the use of force against the prevailing
government and Turner himself was held
to be man dangerous to the public veal,
not desirable addition to the population
of the United States Turner, who is out
on bail, recently returned to Great
Britain.
President Roosevelt had a chat over
Missouri politics this morning with Ken
dali X. Randolph, of St. Joseph, a |
prominent republican worker OF western
Missouri. 81 am afraid" said Ran
dolph, "that with Folk at the head |
of the democratic State ticket, the re-
publicans will have very slim chances
of carrying the State. Had either
Halves or Reed been the democratic |
standard bearer, | am confident that we
would have had show Now that |
both HAYES and Reed have withdrawn,
it will be walkover for Folk to secure
the nomination, and as he will not have |
any material opposition except from the |
Butler Indians in St. Louis and as the
republicans may not even nominate a
| do not see how he can very |
easily be beaten. If the republicans |
put up man for Governor, it will be
Cyrus P. Walbridge, of st. Louis"
Former Postmaster General Charles
Emory Smith was an interested specta
tor at the.Tyner-Barrett trial this morn
ing. He has been summoned as a wit
ness by the defense, and is expected to
take the stand later today. l.. L. |
Kitchener testified that he had been
as an attorney for a number
of bond investment companies in 1897 |
for the purpose of getting from the law
branch of the POstoffice Department an