Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-04
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CCorregpondence OF the Ale1ahorla ua1e'~'l
Washington, d. c., May 4.
Auplications for original pensions and
increases under order No. rs, which was
promulgated in the latter part OF March
bv Secretary Hitchcock, making 81 years
Of age evidence ofphysical disability suf-
ficitnt to grant pension OF six dollars
q month. have rolled into commissioner
Wares Office to the number OF II, 900,
from April Is, when the order was made
effective, to April 80. Even with this
data. Mr. Ware says it is impossible to
ascertain definitely the approximate
number of applications which will re-
suit from the order, which in effect was
an executive proclamation of a service
pension bill. The amounts of pension
range from So to S12 per month, accord
ing to the age of the applicants. Mr..
Ware believes that few of them will be
granted before June lst. Payment wi il
accrue from the date of application.
There is now available for disbursement
under the order 81, 500, 900, appropropria-
ted in a 81, 900, 900 pension item in the
general deficiency bill. This appropri-
alton will lapse after July 9lst, when
the payments will be made from the pen
sion fund.
President Roosevelt today received a
letter from Attorney General Knox IN
which the latter states he has made an
arrangement with the New Panama
Canal Company and the Morgan Com
pany of New York whereby Morgan q
Company have been designated agents to
make the transfer OF the money due by
the United States to the canal company.
The $40, 600, 900 is to be deposited with
Morgan & Company at once, upon the
delivery by the canal company to the
United States of all the property includ-
ed in the purchase. So that the deposit
of $40, 600, 900 with Morgan e. Company
by the United States is accepted by the
canal company as equivalent-to a pay
ment for the purpose of delivery of the
property to the United States.
The lack of popular interest in the
ryner- Barrett postoffice case was mani
tested this morning when there were not
atany one time more than dozen specta-
tors in the court room. Richard M.
Webster, who succeeded Barrett as as
sistant to the Assistant Attorney Gene
raj for the Postofiice Department, con-
tnued his testimony this morning. 1t
was largely in the nature of identified
ton of documents. He said that his
testimony was the same as that he gave
before the grand jury. Today's proceed
ings were of technical character and de-
void of incident.
Gen. Geo. w. Davis, governor OF the
Panama canal zone, accompanied by a
corps of American engineers, will leave
New York next Tuesday and on arrival
at Colon will assume entire control Of
the canal property just acquired by the
United States. The laborers now en-
ployed there by the French company, of
whom there are about LOO, and who
have been working under American di-
rection for the last year in the excaya-
ton of the Culebra cut, will be continued.
These men are acclimated and it is not
the intention of the canal commissioners
to import any large number of Americans
10 work on the canal until sanitary pre-
cautions have been taken and a good
water supply is secured for Panama.
Lieut.. Commander John n. Jordan,
u. S. N, died in this city this morning
of pneumonia. He was born in Maine
and appointed to the navy from that
State. He had been on duty in the
Bureau of Equipment
Secretary Shaw says that j. P. Nor
gan & Co. are acting as disbursing
agents in behalf of the United States
government in the payment of the
money to the Panama Canal Co. Morgan
& Co. are not acting as fiscal agents Of
the United States. Accordingly the
Morgan Co. is required to deposit S4O,-
900, 600 with securities in stocks, bonds
or money with the Treasury Department
before the United States government
will turn over the $40, 900, 900 cash
Minister COnger at Pekin informs the
State Department that the portrait Of
the Empress Dowager of China, painted
by an American artist and intended ul-
timately as a present to this country,
will first be exhibited at the st. Louis
exposition.
The Director of the Census today
made a statement regarding the Chinese
in the United States. The results of
the computation shows that 6,657
Chinese males reported as born in the
United States probably 1921 were
really born here and 4, 42G we're cases of
false returns. The true number, of
Chinese immigrants was probably 49,
404 instead of so, S53 as reported, the
difference A, 54S or 5.9 per cent being
due to false returns.
The President has appointed Adolph
Grabt Wolf, sou of Simon Wolf, one OF
the leading Jews of Washington, to be
Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court
of Porto Rico, to succeed Judge Louis
Sulzbacher, who is transferred to Indian
Territory.
Congress will probably be asked to
purchase another Island from the Panama
government for a quarantine station in
Panama Bay.
For German.