Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-29

Steamship Company aud executive sup
eryision over the entire. canal work.
The other members Of the commission TO
be appointed with one exception will be
engineers who will act as an advisory
board to Assistant Chief Engineer Wal
lace. &c the present views OF The Presi-
dent aud Secretary of War TAFT prevail,
The army officer TO be appointed may DC
Col. Clarence A. Edwards, present
chief of the Bureau of Insnlar Affairs OF
the War Department.
The United States government today
completed the purchase Of all the out
standing stock Of the Panama Railroad,
so that it is now sole owner OF that
enterprise The purchase was effected
through William Nelson Cromwell, OF
New York, acting as agent of the gov
eminent in the matter. The Secretary
of War has written Mr.. Cromwell letter
congratulating him upon his success and
thanking him for the energy displayed
in locating the stock and efecting its
purchase.
"If President Roosevelts admins
tralion shall be marked by nothing else,
il will be distinguished from all other
administrations by the ability and will
ineness OF the executive to beat the
devil around the stump" That is the
manner in which publicist OF this city
expressed his opinion ofthe instructions
which the President yesterday sent to
the State Department regarding Santo
Domingo. In other words, the new
scheme is regarded here as covering all
of the essential points ofthe Dillingham;
Sanchez treaty, as establishing q pro.
tectorate by this country over Santo
Domingo, utwith the merit lacking in
the first arrangement of having the assent
of the republican senators who a month
ago were making the Senate chamber
reverberate with their criticisms OF the
executives attempt to usurp the con-
stitutional rights of that legislative and
advisory body. The instructions were
not issued until after there had been a
long discussion Of the project between the
President, Secretary Taft and Senators
Spooner and Lodge and the consent
and approval of the two latter obtained.
Reading between the lines of acting Sec
rotary Adee's explanation given yester-
day afternoon it is plain that the United
States pledges itself, morally if not ac-
tually, to uphold the Morales administra-
ton in Santo Domingo until at least the
collection of the customs shall have been
placed upon a satisfactory basis The
morning cables bring news that a revo-
Intionary party has already landed at
Monte Christi and that the inhabitants
there have risen in sympathy against
Morales. That this sort Of thing was
anticipated even if it did not actually
exist several days ago is clear from Min
lister Dawson's dispatch Of last week and
again in that quoted in the Presidents
order of yesterday where Mr.. Dawson
writes, "Under pressure Of foreign credi-
tors and domestic peril, the Dominican
government. makes its offer. Mr.. Adee
in his statement says that the Dominican
government is "being threatened by con-
siderable dangers within. and later he
emphasized the possibility of the United
States endorsing the Morales government
in his last sentence. "ln the mean
time the present proposal Of Santo
Domingo has Tor its object to main
tain the status quo so that if the
treaty be ratified it can be executed"
This idea is thought by some officials
not to have been justified by the word
ing OF the order and that possibly act
ing Secretary Adee overs:ated the case.
The order was brought from the White
House by Secretary Taft who accompanied
by dozen or more newspaper men went
at once to Mr.. Adee's Office where he
told the latter that il was the President S
desire that the order be given immediate
" to the public. This Mr.. Adee told
the reporters he could not do until after
he bad read it over carefully and found
whether or not it was best TO give it all
out. Ten minutes later he announced
that he would give syllabus of it orally,
and did 80. AS the acting secretary is
quite deaf and speaks very indlstlnctly
he was quite justified in remarking at
the close of his rapidly dictated statement
that with twelve newspapermen taking
il down there would undoubtedly be
twelve different versions of his remarks.
For this reason it is quite probable that
there will be revised edition of his ex-
PLANTATION of the Presidents purpose
made public today.
Venezuelans parti cularly, and South
American diplomats generally, are dis
posed TO blame u. S. Minister Bowen,
at Caracas, for the present tension Of
affairs between the United States and
Venezuela. They say that his dis
patches on the various questions. in
dispute have been of an alarmist nature
when as matter of fact there has been
nothing in the situation to warrant the
disturbance of the friendly relations
between the two countries. They point
out that in Venezuela, and almost uni
yersally in South American countries,
every concession or contract given to a
foreign company contains the provision
that if disputes arise they shall be set
tied by the local courts and shall not, in
any case, become the subject of diplo'
matte interference.
Minister Bowen, it isalleged, has over
looked this fact and has represented to
the United States government that the
rights. of American, French and Italian
have been ruthlessly disre-
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