Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-03
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. J
Washington, Oct. 3.

Correspondence OF the hleAhuuIin OnIe'po'
Washington, Oct. 3.
President Roosevelt will 60 to Har'
risburg and York, Pennsylvania The
magnificent Capitol is to be dedicated al
Harrisburg and the President is on the
programme for an address. He will take
luncheon with Governor PennypackeI
aud select gathering OF Keystone State
notsbles and, on the way back to Wash.
iugton, will stop at York where county
fair will be in full blast. The President
will make another talk at York.
That the Panama canal will be built
by contract is the full expectation of Of
Hcisls here. The canal commission has
gone 80 far as to issue in confidence tt
practically all of the big contractors Of
the country tentative specifications OF
the work. As result there are being
received a great many proposals and sug'
pfstions of which the commission IL
svailing itself to revise and improve it,
specifications.
President Roosevelt this morning had
long conference with Judge Charles
E. Magoon, recently retired as governor
of Panama, at the close of which II was
announced that the President had decid.
ed not to send Magoon to Cuba as had
been contemplated. Beekman Winthrop,
President Governor of Porto Rico, will
probably be appointed provisional gov
ernor of Cuba, as recommended by Sec
rotary Taft, and Judge Magoon will pro.
coed to the Philippines where he will
become vice governor general.
Representative Serene f. Payne,
chairman of the House ways and means
committee, had talk with the President
this morning about the New York polit'
icsl situation. at looks to me as though
Mr.. Hughes would be surely elected, "
Mr.. Payne said after his talk with the
Executive. "Never in all my memory
have ever known so many democrats ia
say that they would vote the republican
ticket as they are saying this year. Oh
course, we will lose few votes among
the labor unions, but | DO not think the
losses will be any where near as large as
the gains" care you on the labor
unions blacklist" Mr.. Payne was
asked. 80 have been informed by
the newspapers" said he with laugh,
"hut | have not received any notice to
that effect from the unions themselves.
But | am not worrying"
Secretary of State Root has sent 8
personal letter to Senior Don Gonzslo de
Qaessda, the Cuban minister to the
United States, strongly backing up the
request cabled by Secretary Taft that
he should not resign, and urging that
his services were never more needed by
his country than now.
The Royal Hungarian Lottery through
its agent. Fritz Dorge and The Fritz
Dorge Bank Of Budapesth. has been reap
ing a harvest in the United States and
today the Postoffice Department, having
Investigated the character of the concern,
issued fraud order against it, forbidding
its use of the mails.
Chief Naval Constructor Capps, who was
sent by the Navy Department TO Pensacola To
investigate and report into the extent of the
damage done at the Pensacola navy yard by
the recent cyclone, has reported to the de-
partment today that there are good prospects
Of saving all of the ships that were beached
by the storm. The work is progressing rap.
idly and satisfactorily and the indications are
that each of the stranded ships are in such
condition that they can be repaired.
No decision in the matter Of awarding con-
tracts for supply of Chineie coolie labor for
the Panama Canal is expected 10 be rendered
for couple of weeks vet
Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon, the wives OF the
Secretary of War and of the Assistant Score
tary Of State respectively, will sail from Tam
ps on Sunday to join their husbands in Ha.