Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-05
From Washington.
q correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette. j
Washington, Dec. ..

Tho Congress has past no bill thru
addrest to the subject of simplifed spell
ing, the President has gript the opportu-
nifty TO get his ideas on orthogrsphy In
corporated in the Congressional Record
well in advance of any such action. The
anti.e text OF his message which appears
in .oday's issue II the Record is spelled
according to the Presidents simplihed
plan and 1t may be said on tho best OF
authority that all his communications to
Congress in the future will have to be
printed In the way he p'eases TO send
them. Although the committee on print.
10 of the House has put itself on record
"a being against the .impli6ed plan, II
ia not at a i probable that either the CON-
mittee or the whole House will dare to
change the spelling ofany communication
the President transmits from the White
House. After Congress has finally dis
posed Of the question, as it seems likely
10 do adverse to the Presidents ideas
the only simplifed spelling that will be
found in any Of the printing matter sent
cut from the legislative branch OF the
government will be the carnations from
the White House
Massachusetts tariff revisionists IN the
House, who last session worried the
Speaker and the republican stsnG-pat
leaders BY their agitation are renewing
the fight. Butler Ames, OF Lowell, who
gaged bis cougressiona! campaign on
revision and who is one Of the foremost
members Of the delegation in the move
mont to force the stand-patiers to give
away, today said "For two years have
I pledged myself and worked for imms-
diaie tariff revision; and mora hrnly
and hopefully than ever, l believe thai
now is the time to reviss the tarih
But nov mean that we should at once
bold a caucus Uf the republicans OF Con.
qress to give concrete expression OF
our determination to Immediately revise
the inequalities present in our tarie law,
to give all possible notice to the country
=, large by fixing the time al revision,
9hich should DO Immediately after the
fourth of next March, and TO determine
the best method Of procedure, whether
under n special rule 10 treat only. those
schedules which aro maniiestly toO high
and 50 a manifest burdea on the country
gouerally, or whether II be advis'
able to open the whole subject
The older and consequently the more
conservative republican members otCon-
eress are opposed TO fevisioo This inertia
of hoary tradition, tn discllnalion 10
any chsngeofexisiinG conditions must be
overcome by the energy and tie push ol
toe Younger and more progressive mem
bprs of the party" The plan generally
favored among the reyisionists ia to de-
clare for an extra session OF the Sixtieih
congress, to be held iu the spring, when
the question of revision together with the
income and inheritance tax proportions,
can be threaded out
The House committee on banking and
currency held q meeting today prepara
tory to the framing Of q bill along the
lines recently recommended by the cur
rencv commission of the American
Bankers Association, providing tor
more elastic curreroy. Hearings will be
had.
Minister Corteg, Of Colombia, called
at the State Department today aud pre-
scented to Secretary Root Antonio K
Blanco, @ f. O'Byrne and j. NJ. Paso,
who have been delegated as special
councillors by Colombia to assist 10 the
drafting Of the first Colombia Panama
treaty. The treaty will be made in
Washington this winter.
Through Representative Manyasd, OF
Virginia, The jamestown Exposition
Company tcday requested Congress for a
loan of one million dollars, to he secured
By lien on the gate receipts.
The President sent to the Senate to-
day tho nomination Of W. Morgan
Shustor, OF the District Of Columbii, to
be q member Of the Philippine commis-
sion and TO be secretary Of public in
struciion in the Philippine island'.
The examination in'O the cause OF
the recent accident on the Southern
Railway. in which President Spencer was
killed. is being held here today at the
com pany's Office behind closed doors.
Rear Admiral Coughln, now com
mandant Of the Brooklyn navy yard,
who made himstl famous by reading the
"Hech der Kaiser poem at banquet
| in New York, will retire from the active
list next Monday. Rear Admiral Cough
lin Is ia Washington now.
Secretary Mctcslie Of the Department!
ofCommerce aud Labor. today asked C'n-
gress for.an appropriation Of SI95,OOO
T. improve the immigration station at
Ellis leland.
The Senate committee 90 reign relations
! todsy made a feporr faycring the tau'
| lcatiOn Of The Alseuca7 treaty regarding
| Morocco
Considerai.on Of the foriiGeatioHs sppro'
pristion bill which viii carry seven or eight
million dollars. was be2un TODAY bya sub
| committee OF the House committee on appro'
| priatiatOns. 90,
The Iulerstate Commerce Commission will
| begin the investigation OF alleged freight car
! shoftsge in Minneapolis, on December IL
| Commissioner Lane viii he enc Of those VINO
will conduct the inquiry, the her members
not having been decided spon. TINS com
mission has hundreds OF complaints.
AntL~ssi0on league.
The sixth annual convention OF The
Virginia Anti-saloon League assembled
| 10 Charlottesville last nigh; in the Firs
Methodist Church, President ]. w