Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-16
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette. J
Washington, ID. c.. August l6.

Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural
Department is keeping a sharp lookout
for man to appoint chief stalistician of
the bureau of statistics to succeed John
HYDE, resigned While the board of
statisticians has been found to be ex-
cellent for getting cut the crop reports,
the bureau needs an executive head and
the secretary is 10th to have Assistant
Secretary Hays devote all his time to
that task, as he is now doing. Prof.
HAYS will within few weeks have com
pleted the investigation he is now carry
ing on and will then complete the re-
organization in progress there. 1t is
limited Secretary Wilson's trip to
Chicago, ostensibly to confer with live
stock and railroad men in regard to ship
ment of cattle, is also for the purpose of
examining the records of western stalls
ticiau. The right man is wanted and
the department will wait until it finds
him. p. l.. Hutchinson, recently Sc
lected for the permanent board OF Stats
licians, Il. c. White and J. j. Darg
have just left Washington 10 cover the
three new districts into which the cotton
belt has been divided They 60 as
special agents of the department. 1t is
probable that at least two Of them will
he members of the statistical board which
will get out the next cotton condition re-
port on September 3. Until the per-
manent board is selected, the department
intends to school its field agents in esti-
mating the final figures.
Wong Kai Kah, the Chinese official
who landed at San Francitco yesterday,
is known to officials of the State Depart
ment only as a visitor to this country Of
official standing. What his mission Is,
if he has any, is still undisclosed, but
there is a strong suspicion that the
visitor will have something to say or do
about the boycott of American goods in
China before he departs. 1t was learned
today that Wong Kai Kah comes not
directly from China but from Japan,
where he has been making visit He
brought from Nagasaki personal letter
written by the American consul there,
stating that the bearer was Chinese
official and entitled to all privileges as
such. The Chinese legation here, how
ever, had informed the State Depart
ment of Wong Kai Kah's official char
acter and requested that he be admitted
to the country, so that the immigration
officials at San Francisco were cooked
and primed to treat him with every
courtesy.
The grand jury which is probing the
cotton leak scandal ofthe Department Of
agriculture with view of returning an
indictment against E. 5. Holmes, jr.-
and which resumed its session yesterday
after a two weeks vacation, this morning
continued to hear witnesses. Two ste
nographers of the Bureau OF Statistics
we're called. Mr.. G. 9. Clarke, chief
clerk of the department, is acting in an
advisory capacity to District Attorney
Beach. When asked this morning as to
the probable length Of the term of this
grand Jury, Mr.. Beach said that he ex-
poets that the session will continue until
the middle part of September. 81 am
not entirely through with the New York
contingent" he saidS "And probably
before this month is out, more trouble
may be expected"
Civil Service Q .mmissioner, Greene,
said today that an agent OF the commits
sion will be sent to Newport News, Viz
giuia, at once to investigate charges that
have been filed by w. f. Barrett and
Congressman Maynard both Of New
por: News, against Capt. j. f. b.
Stuart, collector OF the port there. The
complaint is that the collector has been
playing politics by promoting republl-
cans in his Office and reducing demo-
Gratis.
The Panama Canal Commission has
received notice OF the death from yellow
fever of T. j. McKenns, an American
employee at Panama. w. HattOn, an
other American employe, now has the
fever
District Attorney, Morgan II. Beach
this morning stated that the request Of
Congressman John w. Gaines, Of Ten
nessee, that the federal grand jury con-
slider the alleged tobacco report errors
made in the Department Of Agriculture
has not as yet reached him. The case
was brought to the attention Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt by the Tennessee Con-
gresham, and through the President
was turned over to the Department Of
Justice where it is now being considered.
This action by the Congressman, was
based on the large increase OF the to-
bacco report as shown in preliminary
report in the average over that OF the
preceding year in the hurley district, Of
Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and West
Virginia and in the "regie" or dark
tobacco distric; of Kentucky and Ten
uessee. The department alleges that
the errors were made while the Stalls
tician was temporarily absent"
At the morning session of the conven-
ton of the Society of American Florists
and Ornamental Horticulturists, Day
ton, Ohio, was selected as the next place