Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-11-14
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington. d. c., Nov. II

fCorrespondence Of the Alexandria Cazette.l
Washington, d. c., Nov. II
IJnless President Roosevelt changes
his mind in the meantime, it is now
said. he will call Congress together IN
extra session on April 8 of next year.
His purpose will be to secure revision
of the tariff at the hands of "its friends
and the adoption of additional legisla.
ton for the federal control OF trusts and
CORPORATIONS. Within the last few days
the President in conversation with inti-
mate friends has indicated his intentions
in this respect. His purpose is to get
Congress together to consider these
SPECIAL subjects as soon as possible after
the adjournment of the session this win
fer. He thinks that it would be impos-
sible to properly consider subject OF the
magnitude of the tariff during the few
months of The coming short session which
will be largely devoted to the passage OF
the annual appropriation bills. BY
giving notice, however, of his desire
that tariff and trust legislation
should be taken up by Congress in
the spring he believes that more
matured legislation can be secured.
1t is thought that joint committee rep
rcsenting the Senate committee on finance
and the House committee on ways and
means will unoficialy consider the sub
iect during the winter and prepare bill
for submission to the extra session when
it assemblies during the first week in APP
Ri. it is not expected that there will be
general revision of the whole tariff
schedules, but it is generally understood
that there are some schedules Which can
properly be revised with benefit to the
public and without injury to the special
industries affected. The northwestern
States have been especially insistent in
the last year or two in demanding a re-
duction upon certain articles OF which
thew consume large quantities. One
thing is certain, however, and that is
that there will be no sacrificing of the
protective principle. What trust legis-
lation may be recommended is not yet
known but it is thought that authority
to the Interstate Commerce Commission
to enforce its decisions will be one part
of the programme.
Big preparations are being made at
Benning for the races which begin there
on Thursday and continue for fifteen
DAYS. All the prominent stabl}s of jump
ers are there and the fields are expected
to be larger than at any previous meet
ing. The stable room at the track is
exhausted and a record crowd is ex-
pected to be present.
Neither of the victims of the FIRE early
Sunday morning at 18th and G streets,
has not yet been identified. Those injured
in the fire were taken to the Emergency
Hospital.
California now leads the union in the
output of oil. Last year the State pro-
duced "a p per cent. OF all the petroleum
found in the country. The total pro-
duclion of the United States during 1903
was 100, 46l, SS7 barrels Next to Cali.
fornia the largest gain was made by In
diana. Kentucky also showed re-
markable gain, producing more than
800, 900 barrels, while Texas, Ohio,
West Virginia and Pennsylvania showed
slight decrease.
There will be about 80 new men in
the House of the next Congress, the
largest number OF debutants since the
Fifty-ffth Congress, which was elected
with Mckinley in 1895 and began its
work in the following year. The great
majority of the new men come from the
North and West, and, of course, are
republicans. Most OF the southern demo-
Gratis in the present Congress were re-
elected. Twenty-Five States will have solid
republican delegationsi in the next House,
while eight will have delegations COM
posed exclusively of democrats. The
former States are Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware,
Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
North and South Dakota, Idaho, WASH
ington, Oregon, Wyoming, California
Nevada, Colorado, West Virginia, Kan
sas. Montana and Utah; the latter, Geor-
gia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, South Carolina, Texas and Ar
kansas. North Carolina may also be in
the latter class, as there is a dispute
over the election returns in the Eighth
district, where Spencer Blackburn, re-
publican, was at first thought to have
been elected by safe plurality. There
will be but one democratic representa-
tive from each of the great States of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and New
Jersey and two each from Massachu-
sets. Indiana and illinois.
The New York Stock Market.
New York, Nov. 1.-THE stock
market at the opening again averaged