Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-09
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, ID. c., Oct. 9.


out the country, the American Bank
ers' Association meets here this week to
hold the thirty-frst annual convention
since its organization. Over three thou
sand members will be present when the
convention is called TO order at the New
National Theatre Wednesday morning.
The tremendous resources represented by
by these fnanciers may be suggested by
the estim .te of the Secretary that their
aggregated capital, surplus and deposits,
amount to $ll 400, 875, 527. The first
meeting scheduled is that Of the savings
bank section, which convenes Tuesday
morning. This section was organized
three years ago and has 1874 members,
representing 50, $50, 900, coo of the So
600 900, 900 in savings bank deposits in
this country. A movement ia foot to have
the savings banks section declare for
monthly statement publications showing
their condition, it being felt that this
branch of banking finance will be bene-
fted by exchanging with one another such
information as will furnish a general
knowledge at least once a month of the
savings situation throughout the country.
Savings bank presidents hope to do
something in this line at the present con-
vention. Several very important adj
dresses will be made before the bankers.
Secretary Shaw of the Treasury will
make two speeches, one at the banquet
Tuesday evening and another before the
convention Friday.
So stringent has the German law in
regard to the inspection and prohibition
of imported meats and domestic animals
proven, that "gravely serious" situa-
ton has developed in that country, and
scores of petitions are being forwarded
to the German government insisting up
on some modification of the exactions.
The condition of affairs will have con-
siderable effect on the pending tariff ne
gotiations between this country and Ger
many and there is possibility tina, after
the meeting of the Reichstag at tie COM
ing session, the law which largely pro-
bibit the importations of animals and
meat supplies from the United States
will be repealed. Consul General Ma
son has gone over the situation and re-
ported to the Department of Commerce
and Labor. The home market has fail
ed to supply the meat demanded by the
trade. Prices have scared up, until the
f.enzied poor have driven dealers to put
up signs that tie high prices are net
due to their own rapacity, but are caused
by the meat inspection law. In Frank
fort on Main alone thirty-three meat
stores have had their trade destroyed on
account of the high prices. Hotel and
restaurant keepers addressed protest to
the imperial chancellor, declaring that
meat has become to the German middle
and working classes "nO longer an ele-
ment of daily food, but luxury" At
a national meeting of butchers and meat
dealers a protest was drawn up, reclting
that the qualities of such meat-producing
animals on the market are inferior and
steadily growing worse and the price of
meat so high as to constitute public
calamity. The remedy demanded is the
''opening of the frontier. All say the
epidemic among Austrian an Russian
animals has disappeared and there is no
longer an excuse for the law. Others
want the restrictions against American
meat and animals removed.
Representative Lands, of Indiana.
chairman of the congressional committee
now investigating affairs in the govern
ment printing Office, had a consultation
with the President this morning in re-
gard TO certain features of the inquiry.
The scope of our investigation, if We
allowed it to go on, would be simply
limitless," said Mr.. Lands. "We've
just got to limit it if we hope ever to make
a report We expect to turn in some
of report during the next session Of
Congress, bat just when | cannot say.
Probably soon after the sessions gets
well started. While our work will not
be by any means complete affair. we
will do as well as we can with the time
at cur command"
Governor Glenn, of North Carolina,
was one of the callers at the White
House this afternoon. "The President
has closed my mouth" he said with d
laugh, as be emerged from the White
House office building. "The President,
you know, is going to make a speech
down our way and he discussed certain
portions of it with me. | also took up
the subject of the programme of exer-
cises during the Presidents visit with
his Secretary"
Secretary Of State Root made the adj
dress of welcome this morning at the
meeting of the Second Pan-American
international Sanitary Convention al the
New Willard. Surgeon General Walter
Wymsn, of the Marine Hospital Service,
presided, and in sll II American re-
publics were represented. The Inter
national Sanitary Bureau has charge OF
the convention.
Dependent because of i'll health
Thomas J. Burrill, aged GO, living at
sol 9th street, southeast, attempted
suicide this morning by shooting him
sef in the left breast. He was quickly
attended by physicians who believe that
he will recover.
The Navy Department received wcrd
today from Norfolk that the cruiser Gal
weston had returned from her final forty