Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-02-10
From Washington.

tCorrespondenoe Of the Alexahdris oaIe"S'J.
Washington, d. c.. Feb. 10.
The Presidents new team OF horses
which he purchased few weeks ago IN
Virginia ran away this morning at I'm
street and Pennsylvania avenue while
the driver, Julius Wheeler, was taking
them into the stable from the White
House. A big automobile turned the
corner. very suddenly nearly running H.
10 the Presidents carriage, soaring the
horses They Immediately started to
run and dragged the carriage zoo feet
down Pennsylvania avenve. The horse
nDion" landed on the iron palings OF the
War Department fence receiving cash
y inches in length. Wheeler, the driver
was threwu 70 the sidewalk and sustain
ed q very severe bruiss of the right hip.
The vehicle was not damaged. No one
was in the carriage at the time.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon there Will
be conference in the hall OF the House
of the republican members Of that body
20 take up the question of statehood.
The Senate amendments granting state
hood to Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Jointly and to New Mexico singly will be
discussed. The opposition to these is So
strong that there's not the slightest hope
that the conference will endorse them. A
year ago the republicans in caucus, de-
clared for the Heuse bill granting state
hood to Oklahoma and Indian Territory
as one and New Mexico and Arizona as
another State. The expectation is that
today's conference will reafiirn that party
declaration and that the House will stand
out against the Senate. The plan OF the
republican leaders is to keep the amend
ed statehood bill in the House committee
ON territories until assurances shall have
been given that the Senate will recede.
In the absence of such assurances, the
measure will be allowed to die in the COM
mittee.
Judge Swayne, of Florida, for the
frst time made his appearance today in
the U. s. Senate, which sat as a court
Of impeachment to try charges against
him. He entered quietly and almost
unobserved, accompanied by his counsel.
The chamber was crowded. The Senate
fixed the daily hours of trial from 2 P
NJ. to 5 p. m. The impeachment trial
started of without delay, and with an
unexpectedly sensational turn, when
Mr.. Palmer, chairman Of the managers
on the part of the House, noted the
absence of Major James ii. Durkee, OF
jacksonville. After readipg a physi-
clans statement furnishing excuse for
Durkee's absence, Mr.. Palmer declared
that within few days Durkee had been
seen st his home town in good health.
During the presentation of the case for
the House, by Judge Palmer, declara-
ton by the Florida legislature was read.
1t charged Judge Swayne with being
corrupt and ignorant.
The President today nominated Joseph
Kibbey, of Arizona, to be Governor OF
Arizona, and Eugene A. Tucker, of Ne
braska, to be Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court of Arizona.
By a strict party vote the House
committee on ways and means today
ordered favorable report on the bill
reducing, in $50 instances, the tariff rates
on goods going into the Philippines.
The principal reduction is in the rates
on machinery, engines, and steel rails.
The democrats were unsuccessful IN
their efforts to have absolute free trade,
as far as the Philippines are concerned,
in rice, corn, wheat, oats, etc.
Senator Frye, of Maine, president
pro tempore of the Senate, called at the
White House this morning and left with
Secretary Loeb one of the handsome
mahogany boxes that we're used to con-
tain the electoral votes at the recent Off
cial count of the presidential election.
al want the Presidentto have this box as
a memento of the occasion" said Senator
Frye.
After the Cabinet meeting today Sec
retaries Hay and Taft and Attorney
General Moody remained with the Presi-
dent. 1t is believed that the suggested
meditation of the United States III the
Russo-J Japanese war was one OF the sub
iects discussed.
President Roosevelt today informed
Delegate Rodey, of New Mexico, that
he would not sign the statehood bill if
it comes to him in the shape in which
it passed the Senate.
The following changesin Ambassadors
are announced as determined upon by
the President. Ambassador Mccormick,
now at st. Petersburg, to go to Paris,
succeeding Ambassador Porter /; Ambas-
sador Meyer, to be transferred from
Rome, to St. Petersburg; Henry White,
secretary of the Legation, at London, to
go to Rome, as Ambassador; Minister
Wilson, now at Chile. to go to Belgium.