Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-20
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette. J
Washington. ID. c., Oct. 20.

Washington. ID. g.. Oct. 20.
According to Consul General Ander-
son, of Annoy, China, as set forth in
report to the Department of Commerce
and Labor, his observation has been that
the boycott of American goods in China
has resulted in increased sales OF AmerI-
can products He speaks of the boycott
as "evsnescent." The Chinese are be-
ginning to get::Sn appetite for American
-four. while there has been a surprisingly
large sale of condensed milk. 1t is in
the line of manufactured goods other
than food products that he places most
hope for foreign trade in China. That
country is looking to new things-to
modern science and its benefits; at least
its friends hope it is looking to these, he
says. MACHINERY is the magician's
wand with which it is TO open many pos
sihilities, he says, and adds that the cul-
tivaton of its possibilities devolye more
upon foreigners interested in selling than
upon the Chinese themselves.
Unless forced to do so by the clamor
of public opinion, the War Department
will take no action against any officer o!
the army as result of the findings and
testimony in the now famous Taggart
divorce case. This positive statement
was made this morning by Lieutenant
General Adna r. Chaffee, Chief Of staff
Of the army, who has ordered that all OF
the papers bearing on this case in the
War Department, including the charges
filed some time ago by General Miner,
one of the correspondents in the case,
against Captain Taggsrt, be filed with
out action. General Chaffee and Che
other authorities at the War Depart
ment believe that too much dirty linen
of the army has already been hung
in the view of the public and that the
best interests of the army as well as
of the public would be better sub
served by allowing the entire matter
to drop with the decision of the civil
court granting Captain Taggart his
divorce, OF course, if the hand of the
War Department is forced by public
opinion some action looking to the trial
by court-martial of some of the officers
involved in the case will of necessity
have to be taken, But it is sincerely
hoped at the department that such will
not prove to be the case and that the
matter will be allowed to drop. In view
of the relationship existing between
President Roosevelt and Lieutenant
Fortescue, one of the correspondents in
The case, fear exists at the War Depart
ment that the President himself will d.
rect that Fortescue be brought to trial.
Up to the present, however, the Presi-
dent has given no intimatiOn that he pro-
poses to take any notice Of the affair
"The American Federation of Labor
will never willingly acquiesce to the EN-
ployment of Chinese labor in any spot
in America controlled by the United
States" said Samuel Gompers today.
He was discussing the probable action of
the annual convention of the federation
next month at Pittsburg on this subject,
and had special reference to the en-
ployment of coolie labor on the isthmus
''No sensible American statesman he
continued, "will for a minute be salts
fed with the bubble that the canal
zone, while under the jurisdiction of the
government for the construction of the
canal, is not American territory to
which the exclusion law applies. Amer
lean labor should never be asked
to compete with Chinese, and orga-
nized labor will present solid
front against the inauguration of such
competition by the government itself
In addition to declarations against the
use of Chinese in Panama, the fedora
ton will likely adopt resolutions pro-
testing against relaxation in the rigid
inspection of all Chinese coming into
the United States, boycott or no boy
colt. President Gompers will probably
carry the convention with him on the
Chinese labor proposition, but there is 3
feeling that the labor question on the
Isthmus, except where it involves skilled |
craftsmanship, had better be ignored.
Several high officers in organized labor
have fOrseen the futility of expecting
American union men to do all the work
on the canal, and some have advised !
American laborers to stay away from the
isthmus. If then the Federation de-
clares against Oriental cheap labor, it
is suggested that the organization will
occupy an anomalous position.
Alvin Smith, OF Ohio, U. S. Consul
at Trinidad, w. l., has been removed |
from Office because of his failure TO
render his accounts quarterly as required |
by law. Carelessness rather than crimi- |
nality is assigned as the reason for Mr..
Smiths failure to comply with the law
w. H. Michael, of Nebraska, chief
clerk of The State Department, has been
appointed Consul General to Calcutta,
India, to succeed Stanley Stoner, of st.
Louis, recently resigned. Chas. DENLY, |
IT,, formerly secretary of legation at
Picking, China, has been appointed to
succeed Mr.. Michael as chief clerk of
the department. The change will be al
fec.ed about the middle of next month.
Lieut.. Commander Newton A. Nc
Gully, U. 5. N, who WAS sent from this
country to observe the naval warfare on
the Russian side during the recent Rus |