Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-25
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, ID. c.. Sept. 20.

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Washington, d. c., Sept. %.
Protests against the ruling of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, relative
TO patent medicines containing large
percentage of alcohol, continue to in
crease the daily mail of the Secretary of
the Treasury. 1t is semi-officially an
nounced that the department will not
interfere with the ruling and that the
only recourse of the compliments will
be the courts. There is no disposition
on the part of Secretary Shaw and Com
missioner Yerkes, however, to deal
barshly with the concerns whose prod
ucts must re taxed as liquor, under the
ruling. In conformity with this policy
the Internal Revenue Bureau has notified
patent medicine concerns that no final
action in their case will be taken before
according them hearing. The depart
ment recognizes the injury to proprie-
tary medicines which might result from
prolonged litigation. To avoid this it
NAV be agreed to test the question in a
friendly way in court, having compounds
prepared similar to those the department
is attempting to reach, but under other
names. The cases could be advanced
and an early decision reached as we'll as
freeing the patent medicine concerns
from possible loss in trade in the event
that the government should be defeated.
A complaint was filed before the In
terstate Commerce Commission today by
the Marshall Oil Company of Marshall
town, Iowa, against the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy, the Union Pacific
and other railroads, which AYERS that
rates on petroleum from Iowa and Ne
braska points to Kansas, North and
South Dakota discriminate unduly in
favor of carload shipments of petroleum
oil. The complaints allege that the
divergence in the rating was made in
order to favor the Standard Oil Com
pany, a competitor.
Milton d. Purdy, recently appointed
assistant to the AttOrney-General has
returned from his European trip and as
sumed the duties of his Office today.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
today heard arguments in the case of
the Warren Manufacturing Company
and others against the Southern Rail-
way Company and others, The contention
heing that the defendants rate of Al
cents from Warrenville, South Caroline,
and Augusta, Georgia, to New York City
is unjust and unreasonable
Reports to the Marine Hospital Ser
vice from the PHILIPPINES announce sue
cessful experiments in the treatment OF
the leprOsy by the X-ray. In three
cases treated two have progressed so
rapidly that it is no longer possible to
detect leprosy bscili in scropings from
the skin. The third patient died, but
an autopsy disclosed the cause to have
been atrophy of the liver and failed to
reveal any leprosy bacilli in the body.
Frederick A. Wilder, letter carrier,
was held under 81, 900 bonds this morn
ing by United States Commissioner
Taylor for the grand jury on a charge of
stealing and embezzing from the United
States mail. When arranged he pleaded |
not guilty and waived examination.
His arrest grew out of complaint lodged |
with the local postoffice that valuable |
mail matter had been lost on Wilder's
route.
Wang Ia. hsia, the counsellor Of the
Chinese legation here, VINO has just been
appointed Minister to Great Britain, and |
Wong Kai Kah, who has been investi-
eating trade conditions in this country
and is about to depart on a similar mis-
sion to Japan, called this morning upon
Assistant Secretary of State Adee to say
goodbye. With the departure OF these
two, the staff of the Chinese legation
here will be reduced to its normal
strength. Their advent was rather mys-
terious and it was not until today when
Wang's appointment to the important
post of Minister TO London was an
nounced that il became known that he
was a high official of the Chinese Foreign
Office.
The statement telegraphed from
Louisville that Capt. Thos. H. Upper
man. who died there Saturday from
angina pectoris, was bounded to death
by his army superiors, is most emphati-
cally denied by Gen. Chas F. Humphrey,
Quartermaster General. The Louis
willie dispatch stated that for political
reasons Upperman had been transferred
to Delaware City where the climate did
not agree with him and where he wor-
ried constantly 10 90 home. capt. Up
perman was clerk in the quartermas
ter's depot at Jacksonville, Ind, for
about twenty years." said Gen. Hum
phrey this morning. 1.-TWO years ago
he and about ten OF twelve other men
from the same depot were transferred
because they were allowing local politics
to interfere with their work and were
not paying sufficient attention to their
duties for the government"
The fact that President Roosevelt, has
reiterated his settlement of the Japanese
Russian war the statement that he would
not under any circumstances, except the
nomination in 1908, was made known
here by Congressman Prince, of Illinois