Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-28
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, March 20.

Hotel for over month, a bad case OF
grip having developedinto equity rheuma-
tism. In conjunction with these all
ments, the patient was attacked with
acute nervous indigestion from which he
has been asuferer periodically for thirty
wears. 1t is believed that the Postofflce
Department may not see much OF Mr..
Payne for several months to come, II IN
fact his official connection with the adj
ministration is not severed.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections will resume its investiga-
ton of the case of Reed Smoot, of Utah,
and the general relations of the Mormon
Church to the United States government,
on April Il. BY that time, it is expect
ed that the witnesses for whom sub
poenas have been issued, will have been
secured
The President sent to the Senate today
the nomination of Joseph ". j. Lee, OF
MARYLAND, to be secretary Of legation at
Panama.
Rather than interfere with the con-
sideration of appropriation bills, the
democrats of the Senate have resolved
to postpone their demand for a con-
gressional investigation of the Postoffice
Department, until after the general APP
preparation bill for the support of that
department has been disposed CT. The
request for the adoption of one of the
resolution providing for ADMINISTRATION
of the department now pending before
the committee on postoffices, was again
urged by them at the meeting of the
committee this morning, and the republi-
cans again voted down the motion.
Most of the time of the committee was
devoted to the consideration of the post
Office appropriation bill which was about
half completed, without developing any
strong points of difference. Such mat
tiers as seemed likely to provoke con-
test were passed over to be taken up
later.
The Navy Department this morning
received a cablegram from Rear-Admiral
Wise, at San Domingo city, reporting
that all is tranquil in San Domingo and
that the Morales government now has
control of every port in the island with
the exception of Monte Cristo. Senior
Sanchez, the special envoy to the United
States of the Morales government called
at the State Department this morning for
the purpose of saying goodbye to the Of
ficials there. He informed Assistant Sec
tary of State Loomis that he would re-
turn Immediately to San Domingo and
take up his duties as Minister of Foreign
Affairs for the Morales government.
Charles G. Forster, until recently a
clerk at the White House, and brother of
Rudolph Forster, one of the President S
two assistant secretaries, killed his wife
and committed suicide by shooting him
self this morning at his home in Ken
sington, Nd, a suburb Of Washington.
Mr.. Forster had been suffering from
insomnia on account of financial troubles
and the illness of his wife. His brother
was informed by telephone at the White
House of the tragedy and went at once
to the scene.
The House committee on industrial
arts and expositions today heard dele
CATION headed by Representative May
nard, of Virginia, who asked govern
ment aid for the jamestown sea and
marine exposition in 1907 The exposi-
ton is to be commemorative of the first
permanent English settlement in this
country. Congress is asked for an APP
of $3,000,000. Former
Congressman Goode and John Temple
Graves, of Georgia, made the principal
speeches in favor of the appropriation.
Mr.. Gillette, on behalf of the minority
of the House committee on the judiciary,
has prepared his report on the charges
against Judge Swayne, of the Northern
District of Florida, and will submit it to
the House this afternoon or to-
morrow. He says that he has rea-
sons to believe that his report in
stead of being a minority report it
will really represent the majority Of
the committee against impeachment.
The Gillette report declares that Swayne
has made good record as a judge and
that the hatred against him was all in
spired by one man, who was committed
by Judge Swayne for contempt There
port emphaticaly denies that any charge
of corruption against Judge Swayne has
been sustained by the testimony.
News of the conviction Of Senator
Burton, of Kansas, on the charge that
he was a paid attorney for "Get-Rich
Quick" concern in st. Louis occasioned
interest at the Senate end
of the Capitol this afternoon. 1t is
taken for granted that he will attempt to
fight the case further on appeal so that
it is not probable that the Senate will be
called upon to act in the case at the
present session of Congress if at all.
The law under which he has been con-
victed today declares that upon convic.
ton he shall be deprived of the right to
hold office under the government There
is difference of opinion as to whether
it works automatically or not. The
general belief is, however, that action by
The Senate will be necessary.
Race War in Arkansas.
A dispatch from Dewitt Ark, says;