Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-15
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Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, March Is.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington, March Is.
The House committee on military
affairs today, by vote of five to four,
turned down the resolution of Mr.. Alex
ander, permitting Col. Symons, U. S. A.,
superintendent of public buildings and
grounds. to serve as member of the
New York State Canal Commission.
Secretary of War Taft, President Roose-
Welt and Governor Odell Of New York,
approved the bill.
Postmaster General Payne has been
confined to his bed for week, and his
friends are expressing anxiety lest his
recovery be indefinitely delayed. In ad-
dition to grip, Mr.. Payne suffers greatly
from govt, his left foot being especially
painful.
Besides her general proclamation of
neutrality, China has sent a special dec
Iaration to the United States, called forth
probably by Secretary Hays circular
note, to the effect that it is her purpose
to remain entirely and strictly neutral
throughout the Russo-Japanese war.
The cabinet meeting today resolved
itself into jollifcalion over the merger
decision in the Supreme Court yesterday.
Attorney General Knox received the
personal congratulations of every mem
Der present. Outside Of this feature,
the meeting was barren of matters of
general interest, only routine depart
mental affairs being considered.
Representative Dick, of Ohio, who
has been elected to succeed Senator
Hanna in the United States Senate,
appeared in the House today, for the
first time since his elevation to the upper
branch of Congress. He received the
congratulations of his colleagues. He
refused to say anything for publication
bearing on the differences existing be-
tween himself and Senator Foraker. 1t
is the intention of General Dick to clean
up certain matters of public business
that keep him interested in the affairs of
the House this week, and to take his
seat in the Senate early next week.
The House committee on naval affairs
today requested the Secretary of the
Navy to report on the practicability of
raising Commodore Perry's flagship and
to place it on exhibition. The Foss
bill creating a naval militia and a naval
reserve was considered.
The Senate committee on agriculture
today decided to take up for cOusdera-
ton the good roads bill at a special
meeting week from Saturday.
The President today sent to the Senate
the following nominations To be sec
retaries of legations, Henry W. Shoe
maker, of Ohio, at Lisbon, Portugal,
and Nelson O'Shaughnessy, of New
York, at Copenhagen, Denmark. To
be consul of the United States, Louis A.
Dent of the District of Columbia, at
Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada.
To be register OF wills for the District of
Columbia, James Tanner, of the District
of Columbia.
The congressional examination of the
Postofice Department appropriation es-
Inmates will, it is expected, lead to a
more searching analysis than the bill has
experienced in many sessions. One item
which has already been attacked private
" is the appropriation of not to exceed
$40, 900 additional compensation" to
the Oceanic Steamship Co., of San Fran
sico, for transporting mails from that
place to Tahiti. To the charge that the
department is extravagant in this item,
it was answered today that an inyestiga-
ton of the matter should go back to the
original appropriation of the money,
which was made by the committee on
postoffices and post roads without depart
mental advice.
Various bills looking to the govern
ment Of the Panama strip were again
considered by the House committee on
interstate and foreign commerce today.
The government is considering the
sale OF the valuable ice plant at Manila.
Gov. Wright asked as to his opinion of
the value of the plant today, said he be-
lieved it would pay ten per cent on
million dollars invested.
Inc Navy DtpaIthShV lVNoi'NN WIZ
today that the Cruiser Cincinnati had
returned to Chemulpo from Chinnampo,
Korea, with % American refugees.
The eight hour bill was under consid-
Grafton by the Senate committee on edu
cation and labor this morning. The only
speaker was Daniel Davenport, repre-
senting the American anti-boycott asso-
citation, who argued at length against
the bill. Judge Joseph X. McCammon,
representing the Cramps Shipbuilding
firm, presented a series of resolution call
ing upon the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor for information onquestions invol-
we'd in the bill.
Judge Charles Swayne, of the federal