Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-29
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, ID. c.. Dec. 20.

Der cent. of her estimated population
has emigrated. The object OF the publi-
cation is to show that remote nations have
no cause for complaint on the score OF
Chinese invasion. Consul General Rod.
gers, of Shanghai, who forwarded the
figures to the Department of Commerce
and Labor, says that no reference was
made as to what would be the result il
there were no exclusion laws in the yari-
Gus countries. All-America is credited
with having 272, 1929. While there are
80. 600 estimated 70 be in the Philip
pines, Japan is credited with only 1000.
Australia has 80, 600, but there are none
in Europe, according to the statistics.
Word comes from the Philippines of
the killing of an American soldier at
Jolo by Moro juramentado religious
fanatic). While out tor walk, I'M
armed, Sergeant John McDermott, goth
infantry, was attacked from behind by
the iuramentado with kris. He was
horribly cut and died almost instantly.
McDermOtt's two brothers, Michael and
Patrick, live at Swampscott, Mass.
Secretary Shaw will dismiss clerks of
the Treasury Department who are
habitually dead broke, and who mort
gage their future salary. He will not make
the Treasury Department collection
agency for money lenders. He will also
dismiss any one employed in the de-
partment engaged in loaning money at
usuriOus rates of interest.
The Post Office Department has taken
up with officials OF the Treasury De-
partment the matter of the style of fed
eraI buildings for various cities in the
United States. The former wants post
offices isolated from the other branches
of the government service, aud, to ac-
complsh this, must overcome, the APP
proved plans for federal buildings fol-
lowed by the Supervising Architect of
the Treasury for years. A movement
has been started to improve the postal
facilities of Washington. The main
objection here is that the building far
removed from the new Union station,
now being erected. First Assistant
Postmaster General Hitchcock has al
ready rec )mmended new postoffice
building adjacent to the Union station.
Adyices to the State Department this
morning from st. Petersburg say that
strikes are breaking out in new places in
Russia. Additional troops have been
sent from St. Petersburg to Moscow.
st. Petersburg generally is quiet although
there are occasional collisions between
the troops and the people. A number
of arrests have been made.
Secretary of War Taft will not make
public the majority and minority re-
ports of the board of consulting engineers
on the isthmian canal until General
Davis, who sails for Europe Saturday,
has re-obtained the signature of the
foreign members of the board t. the ma
iority report. General Davis will cable
Secretary Taft as soon az these sigma
lures have been obtained and the reports,
t gether with the recommendation Of
the canal commission on the question of
type of canal, will then be sent to the
President and forwarded by him to Con.
eress. There seems to be no doubt but
that the canal commission will recon-
mend the adoption of the minority re-
port of the board that the canal be made
OF the lock type.
Official advicts received by the State
Department this morning from Puerla
Plata, in Ssnto Domingo, are to the effect
hat 'Iorces" are gathering in the
of Guaysbin. The "lor-
ces," it is pointed out, are probably no:
in excess of dozen men. Perez, who
was recently deposed as the gOveror of
Puerta Plata, has gone to Monte Cristi,
and Vice President Caceres, who under
tbs constitution, takes the place of Mo-
rales as President in the alters absence,
has reached Santo Domingo City where
he will take the oath OF Office as Presi-
dent. The fac; that these official adj
vices to the State Department make no
mention of any fighting or of any serious
movement Is regarded as
encouraging and as an indication hat
the situation resulting from the flight of
Morales to escape from the known an
tagOnism of his Cabinet is not serious.
Later in the afternoon Minister Joubert
received a dispatch from his government
declaring that the Caceres government
and Cabinet were in full accord with the
pending treaty with the United States
negotiated by the fugitive President
The dispatch also declared
that the Congress of Santo Domingo
would rstify the treaty with an amend
ment, similar to that already proposed
in the United States Senate, to provide
that whenever aid WIS needed from the
United States 10 preserve law and order
the invitation for the intervention Of the
United States should come from the
Congress rather than from the President
Of the Republic. Minister Jouberp 5
advices were to the effect that every
thing was quiet in Ssnto Domingo al
the time of the sending of the dispatch.
The District Attorney has nOlle pross-
ed the charge of embezzlemenI against
Henry NJ. Allen, in connection with one
of the symposiums in the government
printing Office.
President Roosevelt will recommend to
Congress that Colonel Clarence r Edwards,
chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, be
given the rank and pay of a brgadier general
in the army during the time he is serving as
the head of his important bureau; Colonel
Edwards. who is native Of Cincinnati, o..
is the right-hsnd man of Secretary of War
Taft in the administration of the insular af-