Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-17
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Wosh;n0ton March IL.

gress This afternoon the sessions OF
the investigators are to be opened to the
public. The separation OF the "sheep
and the goats" has not been concluded,
and there can be no reliable estimate as
to the number of cases that will remain
for investigation. Unless members IN
terested desire that information be
gathered, the committee will regard their
cases as presented in the record submit
ted by General Bristow.
1t developed in the course of the execu-
tive session of the Senate today, during
the consideration of the nomination OF
General Wood, that there is in existence
a letter from Senator Teller to General
Wood, congratulating him upon his rapid
rise in the army. In view of the fact
that Senator Teller has taken such a
prominent part in the fight against the
present proposed promotion OF General
Wood, and that he has announced bis
intention to make speech against 1t, the
production of this letter caused mild
sensation. The letter was written Feb
ruary 18th, 1901, shortly after the Senate
had confirmed General Wood, over the
head of 157 other officers, to the rank OF
brigadier general in the regular army
1t was addressed to Wood at Havana.
The military affairs committee of the
House today took up the army approprla-
ton bill as it passed the Senate. AS
far as the committee went, cit disagreed
to every amendment of the House bill
adopted by the Senate. Work on the
bill will be concluded tomorrow.
Commander William Eldridge Sewell,
late Governor of Guam, died this morn
ing at the Naval Hospital at Mare
Island, Cal.
Oliver Crosby, President Of the Amer
lean Hoist and Derrick Company, OF
St. Paul, and John Macintyre, of Phil
adelphia, representing the United Typo
thetae. of America, were heard today by
the House committee on labor, in oppo-
sition to the eight hour bill.
Grand Master Morrissey, of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, was
heard by the House committee en- inter
state and foreign commerce today in
opposition to the proposition to exempt
narrow gauge roads from the provisions
of the safety appliance act. Narrow
gauge roads want to use water brake
instead of power brake.
Mrs. Miles, wife of General Miles, is
seriously i'll at her home in this city.
One of the shrewdest political moves
ever made by the Presidents the verdict
by those who discuss the order he is
sued yesterday placing all civil war
veterans on the pension rolls who have
passed the age of sixty two. cit cinches
the soldier vote for him next November
they add "and makes ballots for him
in every household that shelters rela-
tive of a veteran" At sixty-twO every
soldier on the rolls of the Union army
IN the war of the States may claim a
monthly allowance OF Sc; when he
reaches the age of sixty-five he may
have IS at sixty-eight, SO; and al
seventy S12. The extra expense will
probably be several millions" Pension
Commissioner Ware in discussing the
order said. "There is great unknown
army that has never applied for pen
sions. 1t is not known whether they
would or whether they intend to. "
Within the last week or so the advocates
of the service pension bill realized that
their hopes were doomed to defeat. The
bill was scheduled for death by the
managers of the House. In their ex-
tremity the friends of the old soldier
vent to the President and the order
issued yesterday was the outcome.
The House committee on merchant
marine today heard representatives of the
cordage interests in opposition to the
Frye bill extending the coastwise trade
laws of the United States to the Philip
pines in 1905. Mr.. Grosvenor, an
nounced that Secretary Taft would APP
pear before the committee on Monday.
The President has decided to remove
from Office Williamson 5. Summers,
United States District Attorney at
Omaha, on the ground of his persecution
of Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska. 1t is
alleged that Summers procured the in
dictment of Senator Dietrich in the mat
ter of the Hastings, Neb. postoffice with
out sufficient evidence of guilt and that
several witnesses before the Senate COM
mittee that has been investigating Sena-
tor Dietrich have failed utterly to sub
stantiate the charges although Summers
had said they would. The determination
of the President to remove Summers was
made known this morning to Senator
Dietrich and Editor Rosewater, of the
Omaha Bee. 1t likely that State Chsir-
man Lindsay of the Nebraska republican
committee will secure Summers place.
Russia's coal bill will be one of the
big items of her war expense. Accord
ing to a report just received from
u. S. Commercial Agent Greener, at
Vladivostok. when the Russian Pacific
squadron is at anchor the ships burn
81. O30, 900 worth of coal year. Dur
ing hostilities it is quite probable that
they will burn twice as much. The
Russian fleets burn Cardiff, and japanese
coal during times of peace, but it is not
probable that much of the latter is now
being consumed Cardiff coal costs
sl7. 81 per ton while the japanese pro-
duct Usually brings from 81 to IS.
An effort is being made at Washing
ton to broaden the scope Of the postoffice
inquiry, so as to include rot only the
disposition of appropriations of that de-
partment, but also in other executive
departments. Representative HAY says