Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-04
From Washington.
ICorrespondence of the Alexandria Gazette
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authorized the employment at the U. ).
Embassy in st. Petersburg of several ad-
ditiona Servants. The seriousness Of
the present situation in st. Petersburg
led Ambassador Meyer to ask for these
additional Servants" who, as matter
of fact, are acting as guard for the en-
bassy. The Russian Ambassador, Baron
Rosen, was an early caller at the State
Department and had long conference
with Secretsry Root over the condition
of affairs in Russia. He called the at
tention of Secretary Root to the dis
patches from ST. Petersburg stating that
a force of United States Marines YVES
being sent to guard the American en-
bassy there, but Mr.. Root easily set his
mind at rest on this score by denying
absolutely the truth of the rumor. 1t is
not believed that Secretary Root went
80 far as to inform the Russian Ambassa-
dor that additional Servants" who are,
there is excellent reason to believe,
secret service men of the United States
Government, were now on duty in the
embassy guarding the United States
Ambassador and bis staff and property.
Govcrnor-elect Swanson spent yester.
day in Richmond, having gone there
from Washington to address the Lodge
of Elks, on the occasion of their memo
rial exercises. He was accompanied by
his friend, Mr.. Charles c. Carlin, OF
Alexandria.
There were two enforced absentees
from the opening session of the House
today. Representatives Burleson, OF
Texas, and Bowie, of Alabama, visited
the Agricultural Department this morn
ing at s O'Clock to see how Secretary
Wilson gcls out the cotton crop report.
They expected to leave in time to reach
the Capitol by noon. After they had
been 10 the room for come time they
learned that they could not leave under
the regulations of the department until
the report had been completed. I'M
avoidable delays, owing to wide diver
gence in the estimates of field agents,
kept the report back until 1880, and the
two statesmen were not released until
that hour.
Senators Burrows Senate of the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections
announced today that no further pro-
ceedings in the case of Reed SmoOt, the
Mormon Senator from Utah, would be
taken until after the Christmas holidays.
Representatives Esch and Townsend,
of Wisconsin and Michigan, respectively,
fathers of the railroad rate bill, which
bore their names in the last session OF
Congress- had consultation with Presi-
dent Roosevelt this morning. owe will
reintroduce our bill this session" said
Mr.. Townsend, "and it will not differ in
any material way from last years meas
ure. There is no very great difference
between out bill and the measure that
has been prepared by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Our bill will
be completed tonight, | believe, and will
be introduced at once "
Senator Perkins, of California, after a
call at the White House this morning,
announced that the President had decid-
ed to appoint Franklin Lane, of San
Francisco, member Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, to succeed Ex-Gov.
Fifer of Illinois
Representative Hearst, of New York
City, arrived in Washington last even
ing to attend the opening session of The
Fiity.ninth Congress. Peculiar interest
attaches to his appearance here, mas
much as be is considered by many of his
colleagues of both parties as the next
Mayor OF New York, occupying in way
the same position that the man with
whom be is now cOntesting the recent
election filled two years ago when be
came to Washington for the brief sittings
Of Congress preceding his Inauguration
as Mayor. Mr.. Hearst was warmly
greeted by friends upon his arrival, among
them Representatives Sulzer and RuP-
pert, good Tammany men both, who
nevertheless were affable toward the man
who has given the Manhattan organiza-
ton the hardest fight it ever en-
countered. "Of course, | am to be
seated as Mayor Of New York" said
Hearst confidently when asked for his
views. ''The CONTRASTING of void and
protested ballots and the tally sheets will
give me 1000 additional votes. The
opening of LOCO ballots boxes which
is fully warranted by sworn afidavits,
should cause a total gain for our ticket
of 10. 900. The $500 affidavits estab-
fishing the frauds in the election seem
sufficiC Mt to mean The overtaxing OF the
New York State prisons for feS years
to come. notice that the tavorlte re
sort OF some of the leaders is a place
within easy sprintiDg distance OF the
Canada line" Imposing floral pieces
were presented to Hearst by admirers to-
day, being taken first to the capitol and
later to his quarters in the New Willard
Hotel.
The features of the annual report OF
the Attorney General that attracted the
most attention when it was presented to
the Congress today, was his discussion
of the railroad rate problem. Mr..
Moody points out the alleged shortcom-
ings of the existing laws, and suggests
what he believes would be an effective
remedy. Rebates, determinations and
departures from published rates are Sc
cret crimes, be AYERS, usually known only
to the shippers and the railroads con-
cerned. They can, ordinarily, be proved
only by the confessions of some one of
the persons implicated in the wrOngdO-