Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-23

principle Of protection VIII not DC lu-
yolved at all in the buying OF supplies
outside of the home markets, and do not
think tor moment that the matter will
ever come up before Congress. II will
never be dienihed by consideration by
either the Senate or the House. | agree
with the President in his views and |
believe the American people will agree
with him.
Richard Harding Davis, newspaper
correspondent who has written about
Venezuelan affairs, the asphalt scandal,
and the connection, real or alleged OF
Mr.. LOOMS and Mr. Bowen Herewith,
called at the War Department today at
the request of Secretary Taft and told
him where he got the information upon
which he based his articles. His testl-
mony which is to form part of the
documentary evidence in the Loomis-
Bowen controversy, was said by Secre-
tary Taft to have been unimportant. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Davis tod the
Secretary that while Mr.. Bowen had
given him some Of the information re-
garding the charges rejecting upon Mr..
Loomis be had also got the same infor-
nation from other sources.
The new Brazilian Ambassador, DIR.
Joaquin joaquin Aurelio Nabuco de
Arauio, called at the State Department
this morning and in an interview with
Assistant Secretary Loomis it was ar
ranged that he should present his ere
dentiaIs to- the President at the White
House tomorrow afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock. Senior Ferreira, the retiring
brazilian Minister will present his letters
of recall to the President tomorrow morn
ing. DIR. Nabuco is the first Ambassador
to be sent to this country from Brazil the
rank of the mission here havingjust been
elevated,
Jacob |. Crahill has been appointed
postmaster at Bloom, Frederick county,
Va, and Reuben f. Herr at Limeton,
Warren county, Va.
The Senate committee on interstate
commerce has practically concluded Its
hearings on the subject of railroad rate
legislation. At an executive session to-
day, it was decided to end the hearings
this afternoon, if pos ible. 1t is believed
that tn committee will refuse to en- dorse
the proposition to confer the rate max .
ing power on the Interstate Commerce
/ Commission, but will advise legislation
giyin, the federal cuurts the right to de-
clare what rates are unreasonable in
specific instances.
1t is said here that The President IS
Just now interested principally in getting
! Mr. Morton out of the Cabinet without
causing any greater disturbance in the
department than is absolutely necessary.
Mr.. MOrton's announcement that be
will retire July |, instead of September
|, as he had originally intended, was
due to President Roosevelt. Having as
certained that Mr.. Morton is almost GER
tain to be involved as a defendant in the
prosecution of the Aicheson, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad, the President is
anxious that he should sever his connec-
ton with the government with the least
possible delay.
Secretary of War Taft will leave this
afternoon for Columbus, o., where he
will preside tomorrow as temporary chair
man of the republican State conve ition
and make the keynote speech for this
falPs campaign. The Secretary expects
to be absent from Washington about a
week.
An automobile containing several
police chiefs had thrilling experience
Yesterday evening, the machine having
become uncomfortable The occupants
were thrown out, but neither was seri-
ously hurt. The party was on the out
skirts of the city when the accident oc-
Cured. they are attending the national
convention Of chiefs.
The laboring classes are fleeing from
Spain as fast as they can secure sufficient
money for their passage to foreign coun.
tries. More than 5000 are now await
ing transportation from Malaga, accord
ing to report received by the State
Department from Commercial Agent
Price, at Jeres de Ia Frontera, Spain,
and the exodus is alarming the authori-
Ties and capitalists Mr.. PRICE says
that few days before he wrote his re-
port 4, 900 workmen, mostly young men,
departed from Valencia and Tarragona
for Brazil and Argentina There are 49,
600, 600 acres ofuncultivated arrable land
in Spain and the scarcity of laborers to
work the farms is daily growing more
and more apparent. The drought which
has retarded farm operations this sum-
mer in Spain, added to the high taxes,
has made the cost of living higher
than the ordinary labOrer can pay and
emigration is the only escape from star
walton.
Mrs. Dominic Murphy, vile of the
newly appointed Consul-General to Bor-
deaux, is the happiest woman in Wash
ingtOD. She is also firmly convinced of
the efficacy of prayer and to the end of
her days will declare that nothing but
the interposiion of Providence saved
her husband and herself from death by
yellow fever. Mr.. Murphy was until
yesterday afternoon Secretary of the
Panama Canal Commission and was in
the slough Of despond because he had
been ordered to go to the isthmus and
remain there with his clerical force
while the big ditch was being constructed |
"Ill get yellow fever just as sure as |
step foot on the Isthmus. Pye got |
a happy little home in Washington and |
have inst heen married-mv wife /