The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-28
FATHER OF DOZEN
FOR POSTMASTER.
Alexandria Mother Of
Twins Making a
Hard Fight.
AnlEc nEIEc Atom
LADIES DELEGATION
VISITS PRESIDENT
Urges Chief Executive to Side
track All Applicants for Mr..
Burroughs, Who is Now
Assistant to the Dis
tributor of Com
munications.
a,rom our Regular correspondcnt.y

lsrom our Regular Correspondcnt.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., February 21.--
Representative Lambs bill providing for
an appropriation Of 100000 for "a new
postofice building In Richmond was In
troduccd to-day. The bill WAS referred
10 the Committee on Public Buildings.
The fight will now be TO have that com
mite incorporate in the omnibus puiio-
ING bill II is expected to report an item
providing for the building. The sundrS
civil bill Will contain tho Item making |
IN. appropriations II such Is made. il
is not expected that the appropriation
will be made In full this year. The most
that Captain Lamb run hope for is To
have the committee vote TO have u new
building and TO have an appropriation
large enough to allow the work to begin.
As IL IL proposed To tear down the pres
ont postofllce building and tho shafer
building and put the new structure on thc
sites. II is difficult TO see how IN. work
is to he prosecuted. witnout a very SUI
stantial appropriation
.rhcrc arc some prospects OF the House
Committee reporting fayorably on the
proposition. III II should not do so, Sen-
ator Martin will endeavor TO have the
htilding taken care of in the bill. when
IL goes to the Senate, and the fight thcn
vii be TO prevent It's being stricken out
when the measure comes back TO the
Committee OF Conference OF the Two
houses-
The question OF site Is not raised by
the BILL as that is assumed TO have been
settled By the purchase OF the Shafer
property two years ago. The bill pro-
vides rflat the Secretary OF the Treasury
be authorized to have the new building
CONSTRUCTED on the present site. that II
shall be fire-p proof. and completed with
heati.,t. apparatus elevators md general
mechanical equipment for the suin OF
eight hundred thousand This sum is
70 include also, The cost OF removing the
present buildings ard making The ne
cessary approaches thereto
Ladies Not DoWned.
rhe attempt TO Introduce Tie subject
OF race suicide into the fight over the
postofice ut Alexandria Is construed by
Congressman Slenp and others OF the
Republican organization in Virginia who
preside at tine pie counter as real
mean trick aud Is resented from George
Bowden's district around Norfolk by the
sea to the towering peaks which mark
the boundary between Virginia N.ai kell-
t,icky and Tennessee on the west Whiie
IL is not certain that the new phase
which the contest over this Office has
assumed will prove thc forerunner Of
victory for the clans OF thhse fighting to
have the President give substantial In
dication OF his belief In the evils of race
suicide and his determination 10 root
I; out Il Is said that there are strong
Indications of such being the case.
a delegation OF women from Alexan-
arin went to the White House yesterday
IL see the President for the purpose OF
urging him to appoint Mr.. burroughs
assistant postmaster TO the place, Repre-
sentative Rixey, OF the Alexandra DIS
lrict Glanced TO be at the White House
when the delegation arrNfd, ana ihey
lesoueht him to take them into the Pres
dents chamber Now, to get them there,
a. was necessary that Secretary Loeb
should he seen 1t is small trouble to see
Loeb but to get by him to the President
is another matter.
Mr. Loeb received the delegation Win
ALI the frigidity possible for him to as
srrne. and In addition thereto, put on
for the occasion, cloak of more than
inc thickness of that which he habtually
wears. and IL Is thicker than any seen
In Washington. The home OF official dig
nlty in this country Is the national CAP
ttal. But the cloak was not heavy
enough to frghten or awe the ladies.
They told the secretary what they
wanted. They were Informed that the
President did not trouble himself about
such small matters as the Alexandra
postmastership. but they told MIN theS
knew otherwise. Furthermore, they as
sured Mr.. Loeb that they had beer warm
cd against him. that they had been told
that he would do all In his power 70
prevent their seeing President Roosevelt
Secretary Loeb tried to induce them
to see the postmaster-general, telling
them that he attended to all such mat
ters as the one on which they wanted
10 sec the President. hut they were still
firm. 1t was then that MIR. RiXey cane
TO the rescue and told the secretary that
he would assume the responsibility OF
taking in the ladies'. The President was
not in the inner room when the delega
ton w'nt in, and while waiting tho ladies
gave quite free expression 10 their opin-
ions concerning the general clatacter
of the secretary.
Mr.. Roosevelt received the ladies most
cordially. The spokesman, no longer Mr.
Rixcy, but ono Of the ladies. stated their
mission.
'.rhere is somebody else spoken of for
that place. Let me see-wliat is his
name? and he was evidently searching
his mind for the name OF another man
spoken of for the place. "1ggborn,'' said
lhc President. IT'S not that his name?"
Forty Years a Citizen.
',rhere is ii man named Eggborn who
hns been talked of for the place" said
Dne of the ladies', frigldly "Rut we feel
sure you will not appoint him. He is ~
foreigner, He was not born IN AleNan-
dria,"
.That reminds me that an appointment
to peAtemastershp in Virginia some
days ago was objected to on the ground
that the man was not Il native of the
Town. said the President and he laughed
heartily AS he added, q | found out that
no had only lived there forty years, aud
was born In Virginia,
"Hut let me soc" lie continued. the