Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-02-20
From Washington.

Senators and members of Congress are
beginning to number the days Of the
present session. Prophesies seem to
vary from the middle to the last OF
April the majority Of the experts ap-
parently inclining to the latter date
There is no excuse for Congress re-
naming in session beyond the first OF
Nav" said Senator Quarles OF Wiscon-
sin at the White House today. 81 look
for An adjournment about the middle Of
April" said Senator Lodge OF Massa-
.husetts afte- he had had talk with
he President. 1T the House will do
work with the dispatch II might -
il Senator Dry den. of New jersey,
xe could get through with the sess on
6 ON after April first or by the middle
q the latest"
The House committee on postoffices
and postroads finished work on the post
office appropriation bill this afternoon
and will eport to the House next week
The most important new provisions in
the bill is one for the increase OF salaries
to rural free delivery carriers, making
the maximum 1920, instead of $500 per
annum. This increases the cost by So
$50, 600, bringing the total costof rural
Tree delivery up to $40, $50, 900 per an
nun. which is about the same as the cost
of the city delivery. The total carried
in the bill is 1859, 997, 5S8, as compared
with Sl53, 511, 549 last year, andSl, 9ll,-
81S in excess of the estimates submitted.
Under the provisions of the bill, rural
carriers are prohibited from soliciting
business or receiving orders of any kinds
tor any person, firm, or corporation.
This takes the express and news agent
privilege away from them. The largest
appropriation in the bill is $45, 900, 600
for the railway mail service. The bill
provides for the appointment by the
President of a purchasing agent for the
department at a salary of $4,000 per
year.
Judge OdliD, presiding over the court
of northern Luzon, Philippine Islands,
is still putting to death natives for their
crimes of murder and brigandage. At
a recent session he tried more than three
hundred cases and many of those whom
he then condemned to the scafiold have
not vet been executed. The latest adj
vices by mail to the War Department
tate that three men, Pedro Perez,
Apolinario Reyes and Graciano Buena-
ventura have just suffered by the garrote.
The execution was transformed into
kind of a spectacle for the crowd.
The platform on which stood the In
strument of Spanish torture, now un-
fortunately adopted by the Amerl-
cans, was erected in the centre OF
the public plaza, open to the inspec-
lion of the morbidly curious. There
too, in the presence of the holiday max
ing crowd occurred the farewell between
Indemned and their wives and families.
The executioner, callOus wretch, re-
Gently convict, laughed and joked as
he performed his horrible task, apologize
ing for giving pain but explaining that
he received S25 for turning off each job
and saying that he had never before
made SIS so easily. The peals OF
church organs, the saying of masses by
priests and the shrieks of relatives OF the
condemned mingled.
The House committee on approprla-
tons today began work on the sundry
civil appropriation bill, which, with the
IS the last of the large supply bills to be
considered. The District OF Columbia
,ill has been finished and will be report
Il on Monday.
Mrs II. q. PAYNE. wife Of the Post
i,s,er Grnera', has reported to the
,Ire the hen from her apartments in
ne A Ington 81 81 500 worth Of jewelry
4ud $3.50 IN cash, also the coincldental
.isappearance of her maid. She missed
The iewelry and money from her trunk
afternoon, since which time
the maid as not been seen. -Four local
detectives have been assigned to the case
and the police of other cities notified.
Steps have been taken by the State depart
msnt looking TO the safety of about 100
Americans employed at the smelters Of the
Drlentdl (OnSOlludlcu MlnlHB COMPANY near
Anju in the vicinity of the Yalu river in
Korea. Upon the representations of II. c.
Perkins, the president of the concern, who
called yesterday upon the President, the de-
partment has instructed L. S. Minister Allen |
to look after the safety of these Americans, |
md prevent, if possible the destruction Of
he cOmpany's property.
The President today sent to the Senate the |
nomination of Fred d. Fisher, of Oregon, to |
be consul at Tamsui, FormOsa.
Ratification Of the Panama canal treaty is
the important work before the Senate next |
week. Under the agreement recently reach
I'd the final vote will be taken sometime |
Tuesday evening. All the republicans and
II of the democrats will vote for the treaty, |
hus ensuring its passage. On Monday,
farewell address will be read TO
he Senate by Mr. Hepburn After the canal
reaty is disposed of, Tuesday, the rest Of the
week will be devoted 10 the consideration of
appropriation bills. In the House, Monday
sill probably be District of Columbia day.
IN Tuesday consideration Of the naval appro-
1riation bill will be continued and on We'd
lesday or not later than Thursday the meas
ire will be passed. The Indian appropria-
ion bill is ready to follow it. Nearly ali the
,ther appropriation bills will be in shape for
before the end of next week.
Fifty-Eighth Congress.