Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-28
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington. ID. c., July %.

TORY OF pldut puySlOlOSy Vi IuO DuiV"u
of plant industry, of the Department of
Agriculture, and his wife. The com
plaiuants in the case are representatives
OF the National Stockman and Farmer, OF
Pittsburg, and the firm which, it is
alleged, offered Moore the position and
placed stock of the concern in Mrs.
Moores hands, is The Westcbester, Pa. ,
Nitre-Culture Company. Moore said
that he had received an offer of 50, 600
position from the Westchester Co, and
that the stock was issued to his wife on
condition that he accepted the place.
He says that he turned down the offer
and that the stock was then returned
The most interesting feature ofthe charges
is that as the departments supply OF
njtre-culture ran out, applicants for same
were advised to obtain it from the West
chester concerns which had been receiving
quantities of it from Moore, direct from
the department.
The resignation Of George T. Moore,
chief phys;ologist Of the Department OF
Agriculture, was rendered Secretary Will
son this morning and Immediately ac-
cepted. This act was taken as a result
of the filing Of charges that Moore had
exploited "nitre-culture, " soil fertilizer,
for his individual profit. Accompanying
the resignation was lengthy statement
in which Moore defended his official con-
duct.
Third Assistant Secretary of State
Peirce, who, under the direction Of the
President, is in charge of all Of the ar
rangements for the meeting of the Japa-
nese and Russian peace plenipotenti-
aries, has gone to Portsmouth, n. II.
The President has given Mr.. Peirce
carte blanche in the matter of expense
in arranging the details for the confer
ence. Nothing will be omitted to main
tain the dignity Of the meeting aud pro.
mote the convenience and pleasure OF
the plenipotentiaries. Secret service
officers will be detailed to watch over
the security of the distinguished visitors,
and no outsiders will be allowed in the
navy yard during the sessions. 1t has
been definitely decided that the confer
ences will be conducted in the English
language.
At noon today District Attorney Nor
gan H. Beach appeared before JUS
tice Wrigh: in the Supreme Court Of
the District of Columbia and moved that
a rule be ordered citing F. II. Peckham
and Moses Haas, recalctraDt witnesses
before the cotton scandal grand jury, to
show cause why they are not in contempt
of court. Judge Wright Immediately
issued the following order: "Upon con-
sideration of the report OF the grand
jury this day filed in open court, it is
ordered that a rule issue forthwith
against Moses Haas, requiring him to
appear before this court at 1870 today
to show cause, if any he has, why he
should not answer the Questions as certi
fed by the gland jury as being pro-
pounded to him and to which he has
refused to answer.
In his presentment of the case to
Judge Wright this afternoon District
Attorney Beach explained that the
ground upon which Haas refused to
answer questions was that the answers
might tend to criminate him. rhe
questions were in relation to his place Of
residence whether he was employed by
the Department of Agriculture whether
he knew Holmes and Peckham. Haas
was willing to answer if he had the as
surance that his answer would be used
only against Holmes, whose Indictment
on q charge of bribery is sought. Dis
trict Attorney Beach did not give this
assurance.
The Marine Hospital Service here re-
ceived a dispatch from Surgeon }. H..
White, at New Orleans, this morning sta
ting that the statistics of the yellow
fever outbreak for yesterday, the 9th,
showed 20 new cases and two deaths
There are now % fever foci, in addition
to the large original area where the dis
ease first made its appearance. DR..
White closed his message with the state
ment that the situation was Every ugly.
From Bay St. Louis, Miss Surgeon
Eugene Wasdin reported that thorough
inspection disclosed no suspicious fever
cases. A cablegram to Surgeon Gen
ersl Wyman this morning from Surgeon
c.. P Werlenbaker, at Havana, reports
that the steamer Mobile, from Mobile,
Ala, and the schooner SirOccO, from
gulf ports, have arrived in Havana har
Dor, each with asuspected case of yellow
fever aboard. Governor Vardaman, and
U. S. Senator Money, of Mississippi,
Joined in a telegram TO Surgeon General
Wyman today, urging that the federal
authorities take control Of local maritime
quarantine patrol along the coast OF that
State.
China will, it is reported here, de-
mand an indemnity of 500, 600, 900 Tor
the damage done by the belligerents in
Manchuris through the destructi m o
crops, burning of villages and other
losses incurred by China in that province
during the time it has been the battle
field for the Russian and japanese
armies. The demand will, it is said, be
presented at the Portsmouth peace con-
ference. 1t has been frequently stated
that both the Russians and Japanese
were paving the Chinese residents lib
orally for everything they took as mill
tary necessary. 1t is, therefore, thought
that China's real idea in suggesting an
indemnity is to emphasize the TACT that
Man, huria belongs to her and must be
restored to her intact
Three deaths from yellow fever on