Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-30
From Washington.
Cor. espondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington. ID. c., July 30.

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Infantry the President is called upon TO
determine whether or not there shall he
any exceptions to his rule that chaplains
shall not be retired with rank higher
than that of major. The applicant IS
the senior member of his corps and he
also presents the fact that he is a civil
war veteran, having entered the army as
nurse in 1862 and during the same
year enlisted in the navy at Cincinnati.
This records makes him eligible to re-
tirement as a Northumberland. The
grounds for his application are his age,
sixty-two years, and physical disability.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
is preparing for important work to be
taken up later in the summer and early
in the fall. A good deal OF testimony is
being taken in cases which are con-
sidered of prime importance and general
public interest. Chief among these, per-
haps, is the discrimination charge made
by the city of New York against rail
roads carrying freight from the west de
signed for export. The case against
the anthracite coal carrying roads,
which was Instituted by VIM. Randolph
Hearst, will also be taken up in Sep
tember and pushed to a conclusion. An
other one of the important cases pend
ing is that of the the Planters Compress
Cotton Co., in which the demand is
submitted that the so-called "round'
bales of cotton be transported at lower
rate than the "squares" bales.
1t is said here that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor will sanction the strike
of the textile workers i'll New England
and will lend financial support to the
members of the union now out OF work.
President Golden, of the United Textile
Workers. came to Washington last night
to see President Gonpers, of the a. +.
of H.. but the latter had been called out
of the city. The matter will be taken
up officially by the federation on the re-
turn of Mr.. Gompers early next week.
President Roosevelt had conference
over the beef strike and Illinois political
matters this morning with Senators Gull
lem and Hopkins. Soon after the Sena-
tors left Speaker Cannon and Repre-
sentative Oyerstreet, secretary OF the
republican congressional committee,
dropped in.
The Department of Agriculture today
made positive announcement OF the Ell
fectiveness of the recently discovered
Guatemalan ant in destroying the boil
weevil with which Texas cotton is now
infested. The conclusions reached are that
the ant destroys the weevis, and that it
INJURIES no form Ofvegetation. The only
questions unsolved are as TO whether the
ants will survive the winter in Texas.
State Department officials are await
ing an answer from u. ;. Minister
Bowen regarding the facts in the re-
ported seizure of the asphalt properties
in Venezuela of the New York and Ber'
mudez Asphalt Co. Until this report Is
received it is not likely that the depart
ment will take any action.
The Treasury Department today re-
ceiyed check for 81, $50, 554.5l from
the Central Pacific Railroad Co. This
is in payment of the eleventh of the
twenty notes given by the railroad Feb
ruary first, 1892 in settlement of its in
dehtedness to the government. The ar
rival of this check together with receipts
from customs of over million dollars
and ordinary income from other sources
made the total Treasury receipts for the
day "a, 907, 101 while the expenditures
we're only 81, 247, 900. The result is to
reduce the deficit of the government for
the month to ST., 800, 600 whereas it was
about $22, 900, 900 a week ago.
Naval officers must pay their debts or
quit the service. This is the ultimatum
issue bv Paul Morton, the new Secretary
of the Navy, and in effect is only extend
ing to officers the rule which has held
with civilian employees of the depart
ment for years. The decision was drawn
out bv the case OF a staff officer who ran
up a bill at the Huzar's Club in Sa-
wanna, Ga, and left town without pay
ing it.
The National Grange will name the
new Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
to succeed the late j. H. Brigham. Presi-
dent Roosevelt virtually promised the
position to that organization this morn
ing when he was VISITED by the members
of the executive committee of the
Grange. The President told the Changers
10 "get together" on candidate for the
nlaee and he would "cOnsider" it.
President Roosevelt today appointed
Rear Admiral Geo. A. Converse Chief
of the Bureau Of Navigation to succeed
the late Rear Admiral Taylor.
The Postmaster General today an
nounced the appointment of J. +. Dano
as postmaster at Charleston, West Nir-
ginia.
Just before the beginning of the new
fiscal year the contract for the hire OF
horses and wagons for carrying the mails
for the House of Representatives was let
to T. c. yelling for 81, $50. yelling
is employed in the Washington Navy
Yard as superintendent at 81 day.
Frederick s. Young, also of this city,
who bid g, 500 on the same contract.
protested, but without avail, against the
letting OF the contract to government
employe.
Steamboat Line Merger Qniescent,
The reported deal to merge the Queen
Anne's Railroad and the Weems Line
then have them absorbed by the Baltimore
Chesapeake andAtlantic Railroads. quies-