Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-13
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette. J
txr 80. N ~ Mech 10


Washington. ID. O., March 10.
The War Department in few days
will take action on the joint resolution
of Congress authorizing the return OF the
Confederate battle flags captured during
the civil war; Major General Aims
worth. the military secretary, who will
have charge OF the return of these flags,
only this morning officially received a
copy of the joint resolution. All OF
these flags are now stored away in the
flag room" OF the War Department,
and it will probably take several days
to sort them out and ascertain from the
records exactly to whom they should be
returned. General Ainsworth said this
morning that he would take particular
care TO see that there was no ceremony
al the War Department when the
various flags were returned. All the
ceremonies will be at the other end.
The flags will simply be shipped by the
War Department to their owners with
an official letter quoting the act author
izing the return.
The open session of the Senate today
lasted but few minutes. The impress
sion about the Capitol is that the extra
session of the Senate viii. not end this
week.
Mr.. Rixey will be notified in day or
two that a delegation from Alexandria
andvicinity will soon wait on him to
urge him to use his every endeavOr to
have the internal revenue office kept in
Alexandria and not removed elsewhere.
Three women who voted for President
Roosevelt and rode horseback thirty
miles over the prairies to cast their bal
lots. called at the White House this
morning and shook hands With the man
they helped elect. Mrs. S. L. Wiley
and her two daughter we're the visitors
and they we're accompanied by the
husband and father whose name they
bear.
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri
called upon the President this morning
TO introduce j. Milton Turner the color
ed politician from ST. Louis, who is a
candidate for the place Of Recorder OF
Deeds of the District of Columbia. Tur-
ner claims the distinction of being the
first coored man to receive position in
the consular service. Gen. Grant made
him Minister to Liberia.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States today in the case of Samuel M.
Clyatt, VS.. the United States in an
opinion read by Justice Brewer,
held the United States peOnage
laws prohibiting arrest, holding for
and and return to peonage to be consti-
tutional, but it reversed the decision of
the United States Circuit Court for the
9Th Circuit holding the case in question
to come under these laws. In this case
two negroes we're arrested under Georgia
warrants in Florida and returned to
Georgia. The charge was that they
"were returned 10 a condition of peon-
age" There was no testimony, Justice
Brewer said, that the parties had ever
been in state OF oeonage, therefore,
there could Bono "return" to that con-
dtion On that ground the court be-
low was reversed and the case was re-
manlled for a new trial. The sentence
in the case was four years imprisonment.
Justice Harlan dissented from the latter
portion of the opinion.
Two dispatches have been received by
the State Department from Minister
Griseom, dated Toxic, March IL. They
read as follows. "06icially reported
japanese army captured 20, 600 prisoners
before the 11th. Another official report
SAYS the Russian losses are over 1855, 900,
of which 40, 600 are prisoners, 26, 500
dead on the field and about 80, 900 other
casualties. "
Mrs. J. A. Jeferies, of Colu nbus,
Ohio, created a mild Sc nsation in the
National Mothers Congress today when
she declared that the mothers of Nor
walk, Ohio, had become afflicted with a
mania for card playing and gambling.
So addicted had they become to the
practice, she said, that they were neglect
ing their children and spending almost
every afternoon at the card table. Her
announcement that Mothers Club was
neutralizing the evil and that it was
steadily gaining in membership was met
with an outburst of applause.
The following nominations were sent
to the Senate today by the President :.
Joseph Grass, of n. j., to be United
States District Judge for the District of
New Jersey. Lieutenant Colonel Lit.
Teton, w. T. Waller, TO be Colonel in
the Marine Corps.
The Senate in executive session today
confirmed the nomination of Frank ii.
Hitchcock, of Mass, to be lst Assist
ant Postmaster General.
Secretary Taft this morning denied
the report that yellow fever is. on the
increase in Panama and the canal strip.