Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-28
From Washington.

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Washington, d. c., Oct. %.
The Washington navy yard wireless
telegraph station early this morning in
tercepted a wireless message from the
cruiser West Virginia upon which the
President is voyagiDg to this city and
which is now somewhere of the coast
of Florida. The message was sent by
Admiral BrowDsOn of the West Virginia
to the cruiser Colorado, one of the voyag
ing squadron. The message was sent
from some point in the Gulf OF Mexico,
and il is considered a most remarkable
feat that it could have been caught by
the Washington station over thousand
miles away.
The Panama Canal Commission is
nearly bankrupt. OF the ten million
dollars appropriated by Congress on
June %, 1902, barely enough money is
left to pay salaries of employees for the
next two months. There remains only
about $500, 900 in the commissions
treasury. As a result Congress is to be
appealed to to make an emergency ap-
preparation. A prepared statement of
the expenditures of the commission from
the date of the ten million dollar appro-
priation up to June 80, 1905, has been
made up and printed for publication to-
day. 1t shows that the expenditures up
to Juue 30 of this year we're 4,OO9,-
543.76, leaving a balance on that
date of $6,683, 41553, representing
what was then left from the congress
sional appropriation and some miscel-
laneous receipts from other sources.
1t is announced, however, by j. b.
Bishop, the special press agent of the
canal commission, that supplementary
statement is being prepared for submits
sion to Congress of the expenditures
down to October /. "There have been q
good many heavy payments made since
the end of the fiscal year." said Mr..
Bishop. "By January first there will
be nothing left and we shall have to ask
Congress for an emergency appropria'
ton as soon as it meets. The monthly
expenses on the isthmus have averaged
about $3.50, 900. The work of santa
ton on the isthmus has taken lot OF
money. Partial payments have been
made on some large contracts, and the
two big steamships purchased for the
Panama Steamship Line at a cost OF
81, 300, 600 form big Item"
Bishop T. B. Nicely Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has had an eye open
to trade relations between tie United
States and South America, where he is
now located for his church in addition
to his religious duties. Before he re-
turns to his field he will call upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt to urge him to do every
thing 10 his power to secure the estab-
lishment of line of steamers, as swift
as the ones that ply between South
America and Europe, to touch at Buenos
Ayres as often as once week. The
commercial possibilities between Argen'
tina and the United States De believes to
be of great promise and urges that an
American line'o steamers will do more
to foster trade with this country than
anything else. He is not ready to advo-
cate subsidized vessels, he merely wants
the line, to get it at any cost. While he
is not in favor of political dominance in
that country Bishop Nicely wants this
country 20 hold commercial supremacy
there.
Secretary Root has declined an invita-
ton to deliver an address before the
students of the University Of Virginia
on the 22d of February next.
1t is reported that Postmaster General
Courtelyou, whom the President has de-
cided TO spoint Secretary of the Treas
ury to succeed Secretary Shaw, when
that official retires from the Cabinet, LIST
OF next February, was the candidate OF
J. Pierpont Morgan for the position. 1t
is said that Charles G. Dawes, president
of the Standard Oil bank, in Chicago,
was Mr.. j. d. Rockefeler's choice for
the place.
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her younger
children, Archie, Ethel and Quentine, left
the White House this morning and went for
cruise on the Sylph. Ii was at first
rumored that Mrs. Roosevelt was bound for
Norfolk to meet the President, but this is
deuied at the White House. 1t is said that
she will return sometime tomorrow.