Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-09
From Washington.
correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette
Washington. ID. c., May >.


lcoryesnondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, d. c., May 3.
Announcement was made today of the
two tours which have been arranged for
the foreign delegates to the Interna-
tional Railway Congress. Both parlieS
will leave Washington next Sunday on
special trains. The "short tour VIII ne
through Harrisburg, Pittsburg, Cleve-
land. Buffalo and Niagara Falls, Science,
tady, Albany, Springfield, Mass, and
will end at Boston Mass, Saturday, May
% In the meantime all the principal
shops along the route, industrial centers
and points of interest will have been
visited. The "long tour" is routed
through Baltimore, Harrisburg, Altoona
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago.
Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Ontario, To-
ronto. Canada; Lachine Wharf TO
Montreal, by water, Plattsburg, n. T.,
Saratoga, and from Albany to New York
city by boat. The party will arrive in
New York city May 81. Those taking
the "lcng tour" will be entertained at
several points with banquets and other
functions. The delegates this afternoon
adjourned the sessions OF the sections
early and rode in special trolley cars to
the site of the new Washington union
station, where they inspected the work
so far as it has progressed.
Officers of the navy, on duty at the
Navy Department, are unable to account
for the comparatively poor showing made
by the big battleship Alabama in the
competitive speed tests of the battleships
of the North Atlantic feet held last
Saturday. The explanation offered by
the officers of the Alabama that her
bottom was foul does not satisfy the Navy
Department. If the Alabama was foul,
officers say, the same condition should
also obtain on the other ships which
we're docked about the same time as the
Alabama and have since had practically
the same duty In the same waters. The
Alabama is one Of the largest types
of battleships in the navy.
As soon as President Roosevelt returns
to Washington he will be swamped with
suggestions for money-raising by the Of
fetal and unofficial advisers of the party
who see in the rapidly increasing treas
ury deficit menace to continued repub-
lican control. If the President follows
his usual course in this crisis be VIII
listen patiently to all the advice that Is
available and will then cut the dordlan
knot i'm the manner that seems best to
him fer the welfare OF the country. In
whatever way he moves he will probably
have the backing Of the House of Rep
rescntatives and is just as likely to find
the Senate lined up against him. The
"standpatters" of the party do not want
the present tariff disturbed; at any rate
they do not want the schedules lowered
They would probably be quite willing to
have the protective tariff wall raised a
few blocks higher and argue earnestly
in favor of such movement.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
signed postal money order convention
with Jamaica. The Ifficial paper has
started on its journey to the British
island and after it receives the signature
of the Governor of Jamaica, will be en-
forced by both governments. The agree
ment places Jamaica ip the list of coun-
tries with which we do money order
business at the regular prevailing rates.
1t is admitted here that reports to the
effect that J. Hampton Moore, chief OF
the Bureau of Manufactures of the De
partment of Commerce aud Labor, is to
resign his government position to become
president of a Philadelphia trust company
are correct. In that connection there is
gossip to the effect that the President
may offer his position to T. j. Shafer,
head of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron. Steel, and Tin Workers, who is
about to lay down the duties of that
position. President Roosevelt some time
ago intended to give Shailer place in
the consular service, but Shafier de
ciined it because he did not care to
leave the country. His name has also
been connected with prospective APP
poinlment in the Bureau of Labor OF the
Department of Commerce and Labor
rhe Postofice Department today
issued fraud orders against Waldo +.
Barnes, jr., of Providence, r. /.
Goodwin and Co., of Chicago aud
John ID. Goodwin and Co., of New
York; and J. and l.. Frank, of Braun
schweig, Germany.
Excessive rains in the central portions
of the country, and frost throughout the
central aud southern Rocky Mountain
districts, drou hit in New England, por-
tons of Kansas. and in the New Eng
land stetes, and lack Of cultivation in
the southern states makes the general
crop outlook rather unfavorable accord
ing to the weekly report issued by the
Weather Bureau today.
Killed on Railroad Train.
Houston, Texas, May 9.-Former
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