Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-02

contributed voluntarily. The executive
committee will also discuss plan of
pro-labor legislation for the coming ses-
sion of Congress. President GomPers
will leave Saturday for Ottawa, ILL.,, to
address a Labor Day meeting Monday.
Emigration is necessity for Italy,"
saws the Italian Commissioner General
of Emigration in his annual report, ex-
tracts from which have just been re-
ceived by the Department of Commerce
and Labor. "If it were not for this
safety valve grave disorders would oc-
cur against the public peace, for the
reason that the existing territory and
capital in Italy are not sufficient to give
occupation to the mass of people"
Continuing the consul general remarks
that its fortunate for Italy that the United
States can always employ large num-
Der of Italian workmen. The United
States, he says, is in a period of extfaor-
diinary expansion and there are
no signs that this prosperity is likely to
decline. But, he points out, if the IL
literacy clause had been inserted in the
u. ). immigration law lately passed, Ital-
ian immigration into the United States
would have been reduced one half. In
order to overcome difficulties in case an
illiteracy clause should be added to the
present U. S. immigration law, he pro-
poses to provide elementary instruction
for adults in provinces in which emil
grafton is greatest, so that emigrants be:
fore leaving may at least learn to read
and write. TO this purpose he suggests
an appropriation OF about $50, 900 to
engage teachers in the communes where
there is the greatest need. About one
ouarter of the total number OF Italians
who came to this country from Sept. 1901
to March 1904 travelled Oh tickets pre-
paid for them by friends here. The
Bank of Naples had lasi year Al
branches in the United states, which
received SO, $685. OF immigrants
money.
A delegation from the lower Austria
Manufacturers Association, fifty strong,
arrived here this morning. They repre-
sent the best and the richest of the busi-
ness men and merchants OF their coun-
try, and are making thorough and
systematic tour of the United States,
visiting all the large cities in the East,
with view to studying the business
methods of America.
Complaint has been filed with the
Inlestate Commerce Commission against
the Southern, the Atlantic Coast Line, the
Charleston and Western Carolina, the
Seaboard Air Line, the Central OF Georgia
railroad companies and the Clyde, Old
Dominion, and Ocean Steamship COM
panies, charging them with extorting ex-
cessive rates on manufactured cotton
goods sent to New York and other nor
them points. The complainants are the
Warren and the Granitevil'e Manufac-
turing Companies of South Carolina, the
Augusta Factory, the Sibley Manufac-
turing Co., and John p. King Manufac-
turing Co., of Augusta, Ga. They claim
that up to 1897 the rate on cotton goods
to New York was 81 cents per hundred
pounds. 1t is now Al cents and one OF
The principal factors accounting for the
increase is the exorbitant terminal charges
at Charleston, Savannah and Norfolk
and another is the unreasonable marine
in surance rates.
Colonel John Glen, quartermaster of
the Philippines, has angered many army
officers and officials of the War Depart
meut. The other day, the fiscal year
having closed upon June 80, he turned
back to the Treasury Department as the
unexpended balance of a War Depart
ment appropriation the sum of $42S, 900
and under the statutes this money, much
needed by the department, is forever lost
unless Congress sees fit to Inappropriate
it and the officials say til hard enough at
all times to get an original appropriation.
Now they will be forced to explain to
curious representatives that this return
of cash was all mistake and they would
like very much to have it back. The
particular grievance which his superior
officers have against Colonel Glenn is that
early in the spring he drew on the de-
partment quite heavily, for about $780,
600 in fact, on the supposition that this
amount would be needed for the trans
portation Of troops, particularly in the
Moro country where conditions were
threatening. But the trouble did not come
off and of the entire sum only a portion
was used. They say he should have re-
turned the balance to the department in
order that it might be expended in other
quarters.
The POstofiice Department this MORN
ing issued a fraud order against VIM.
Farr, dean, and the Nashville College
of Law, American College of Law, Uni
versity of Washington, Washington Me-
mortal University, American Law and
the Washingtonian. In barring the
mails to Farr the department charges
that these institutions are sham.
The aged woman who gave her name
MS Mrs. Cartwright when admitted to
Emergency Hospital August Is, died
last night from injuries received by fall
ing from street car.
Mary s. Fogg has been appointed
postmaster at Lotto, Rappahannock
county, Va.
Death of Judge Riley.
Iudna William Garnett Riley died at |