Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-28
From Washington.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, d. c., April %.


Representatives of the San Domingo
Improvement Company in Santo DOmin-
90, have filed at the State Department a
brief in answer to the representations
that have been made calling into ques-
ton the validity of its claim against the
Government of Santo Domingo. The
statement was made on the floor Of the
Senate that the paid in capital OF the
company was only 81, 500 although its
claim was for over $4,000, 600. The
company points out that ii ayalled itself
of the New Jersey incorporation law
which permitted it to name only nOmi-
pal capitalization in its first papers.
But it shows now that it increased its
capital stock to 81, 500, 900 and after
wards reduced it TO 100000 The
statement has also been made that the
claim of the company was never really
arbitrated and that the so-called arbitral
award under which the United States
collected the revenues of Puerto Plata
in order to pay that claim was illegal.
The company shows in IFS statement
filed today that the usual processes of
arbitration we're gone through with and
that an award was made in which tn
Santo DOMINICAN government cOncurred.
The indications are that there will
very shortly be a general shake-up in
the diplomatic representation OF the
United States at various South Ameri
can capitals. The posts involved are
those at Panama, Venezuela, Colombia
and Chill. The changes contemplated
by the administration do not necessarily
mean reflection upon the ministers in
volyed, but are being considered with
the hope of facilitating business and re
moving friction. 1t is understood that
the transfers will not be delayed until
the Presidents return and they may be
expected any day.
Acting Chief Moran of the Secret Ser
vice received long distance telephone
message from Philadelphia this morning
which announced the arrest of lottery
agent and the seizure Of large number
of lottery tickets and circulars. The
tickets were for the Mexican Lottery
Company and are believed to have been
brought east from San Francisco which
is at present the apparent headquarters
OF the lottery agents now flooding the
country with their goods.
Continuing his statement before the
Senate Interstate Commerce committee
this morning, A. G. Lincoln, general
freight agent of the Missouri Pacific, en-
deayored to show the impracticability of
having the Interstate Commerce Com
mission rates.
The PHILIPPINE commissioners have
passed consumption act, copies of which
have been received by Secretary of War
Taft, who has raferred them to the law
department for an opinion.
There is trouble at Fairbanks, Alaska,
a new mining town that was named for
the vice president of the United States.
The postoffice employees are on strike for
more pay, and there is no appropriation
and no law that can be invoked whereby
the needed money can be obtained.
Considerable speculation has been in
dulged in here today as to the Presi-
dents reasons for curtailing his hunting
trip, but the general opinion is that the
underlying cause is the Bowen-Loomis
affair. This is a matter which the
President wishes 10 handle personally
and to dispose of as soon as possible.
That Minister Bowen would transmit TO
this government an official report of the
gossip current in Caracas affecting the
standing OF the present Assistant Secre-
tary of State was entirely unexpected.
The fact that such gossip had been preya-
lent in the Venezuelan capital was not
news to the President, nor to Secretary
Taft. Its transmission, however, by
Mr.. LOOMS subordinate, in an official
calls for the most rigid
investigation. 1t now looks as though
Bowen's tenure of Office would be very
brief.
One of the first capture ever made of
vessel flying foreign flag smuggling in
American waters has just been reported
from the Philippines. The capture was
made BY the coast guard cutter rablss,
and is that Of slOop flying the Lag OF