Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-19

ing Office. What will happen next Fri
dvy is agitating the minds of employees
in the printery. Will the entanglements
draw them into the controversy and the
forfeiture of their positions be the pen
atty exacted on some future Friday?
The American Federation of Labor
call for the 25th annual convention to be
held at Pittsburg, Pa, beginning No
vember 13, has been issued by President
Samuel Gompers. Delegates must be
selected at least two weeks before the
convention and their names forwarded
to the secretary here. 1t is especially
pointed out in the call that no grievance,
decided by a previous convention, will
be considered by the coming convention
except on recommendation of the execu-
tive council, nor will any grievance be
considered where parties have not prev
iously held conference and attempted an
adjustment themselves.
In the democratic primaries in Balti-
more yesterday Isaac Lobe Strauss was
defeated for the State Senate in the Third
district by J. G. Linthicum, and in the
Fourth w. j. Ogden defeated E. F.
Parlett. The two successful candidates
we're anti-organization men. Comfort,
however, is derived by the organization
supporters from the fact that their candi-
dates for executive are elected in s OF the
II contested wards, and there will not
be more than three anti-OrganizatIon
members of the new democratic city
committee, if that many. On the legis-
lative end similar result was attained
and the candidates who have carried
their wards for the House of Delegates
and will be nominated by the district
conventions to be held September 26 are,
with few notable exceptions, the choice
f the organization. The republican or
ganization carried all except one ward
and will name both senatorial candi-
dates.
The Association ofAmerican Cemetery
Superintendent convene here today for
the ninteenth annual meeting. Address
es were delivered by District Commits
sioner Henry L. West, Major Sylvester,
superintendent of police, W. X. Smith,
curator of the Bontsnical Gardens, and
others. In addition to dicussiOn affairs
of interest in their business, the ceme-
terry superintendent will visit the nation
al cemeteries in the neighborhood of
Washington.
The amount OF red tape through which
army officers have TO wade is described
with some vigor by Brig. Gen. Jesse NJ.
Lee, of the Department of Texas, in his
annual report to the War Department.
He says that the paper work required of
department commanders and their sub
ordinates is of such stupendOus proper
tiOns that if the regulations were fol-
lowed strictly the transaction of public
business would be greatly impeded, even
though there should be an increase of
fifty per cent in the clerical force. He
has found that it is most difficult to give
careful consideration to the multitude of
papers which pass through the depart
ment commanders hands.
The latest mail reports from the Phil
ippines bring copies Of the remarkable
speech made by Representative Bourke
Cochran at the banquet given the Taft
party by Archbishop Harry, at Manila,
in which the antit-imperialistic New
Yorker astonished his friends by coming
out enthusiastically in support of the
administration policy in the islands.
The announcement from st. Peters
burg that the Gar is ready to take steps |
to call together second session of the
peace conference at The Hague, was re-
ceived with some surprise by officials OF
the government here. 1t is pointed out
at the State Department, where it is
said that no formal notification of the |
Cars intentions has yet been received,
that the normal method of procedure |
would be for the Gar, after being as
sured of the willingness of the powers to
to request the Netherlands
government to issue formal invitations to |
them to assemble at The Hague. The
date for the meeting would probably be
next May or June. As soon as the in
are sent out long and intricate
between the countries in
terested would begin and it is expected
that, in accepting, each power would do
So with reservations as to the subjects
which should be taken up for considera-
ton.
Acting Postmaster General Hitchcock
signed this morning money order con-
vention With Newfoundland. 1t puts in
treaty form the domestic system of ex-
change tacitly followed for some time
and does away with international ex-
change offices.
Leave of absence for not longer than
ten days has been granted by the Post
office Department to postmaqters of the
first class in order that they may attend
the national convention OF pOstmasters
at Dayton, Ohio, September 26 to 29.
Secretary Frank Morrison presented
.oday to the executive council of the
A American Federation of Labor a preim-
nary financial statement and member
hip table for the year ending September
30 1t shows cash balance September
If $l03, 1913. There were on that date
is international unions affiliated with
he A. f. of L., 40 State declarations,
so city central labor unions, $40 local
rade unions having no international
lnion of their crafts, and a total of
,6. 900 locals. The individual member
hip represented in the A. F. of L. is
approximately 1000, 900 workers. A
esolution was adopted this morning by
he council expressing the sentiment of
he workmen in the country in favor Of