Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-09

adjustment of commission composed OF
majority of architects, to conduct ali
competitions for governmental buildings.
Francis J. Heney, special counsel OF
the Department Of Justice for the prose
ouiion of the land fraud cases, ann onnced
today after a conference with the Presi-
dent, that Representative Binger Har'
mann would be brought to trial during
the last week in March, in Washington.
Two indictments are pending against
Hermann, one in this jurisdiction and
one in Oregon. Immediately following
the Hermann case the department will
take up the Hyde-Benson conspiracy
case.
Even if Senator Bacon's resolution
asking information of the State Depart
ment as to the extent our delegates To
the Moroccan conference will engage in
the deliberations is adopted by the Sen
ate, it is doubtful whether Secretary
Root will find it advisable to make a
response. Under the law, the State
Department may withhold declaration
of its poll Y even from Congress, when
10 the discretion of the secretary the
public veal may be conserved by silence.
Senator Bacon wants to know whether
our delegates will engage in the delib-
erations, judgments and awards concern
ing commercial matters, or will also con-
slider matters of Moroccan politics. 1t
may be said on the highest authority
a hat the American delegates at Algeciras
90 fully instructed as TO their attitude
on Moroccan commerce.
Interests, national in extent, will lock
horns in hearing to be given by the
Interstate Commerce Commission on
Wednesday and possibly Thursday. Both
the National Wholesale Lumber Deal
ers' Association and the National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation will attack in separate
complaints the principal railroads of the
country, alleging unjus; discrimination.
The lumber dealers are wratby that they
should be made to pay for the racking
Of lumber, when loaded on fiat or gon-
dola cars. The liquor dealers will argue
that the rate on whisky 10 wood from
The Atlantic to the Pacific is in itsell
too high. and that the difference between
the rate on alcohol, high wines and
high proof spirits, and the rate on whis-
ky is an altogether unreasonable one.
Mr.. Hay, of the Seventh Virginia dis
trict, is tired of dictation from the North
aud West and says: 81 want to be put
down right here and now as in favor oil
the nomination # southern man to the
presidency by the democrats 10 1908
| am tired of this thing Of the North
aud West being allowed to select the
national candidates for the South and
our putting up all the votes. Suppose
John Daniel bad been the democratic
candidate in 1904, instead of Parker.
Has anybody the slightest doubt he
would have carried every State Parker
did, and, in addition, would have car
ritd Missouri, which Parker failed to
carry, and Maryland, which gave me OF
ITS electoral votes to Roosevelt? Let's
set the ball rolling. A southern man
for President in 1908. That sounds good
to my ears"
The ovation extended yesterday TO
Mr.. Rayner, the new Senator from
MARYLAND, after he had concluded a
remarkably csustic criticism of the Ad'
ministration's Santo Domingo policy,
is the absorbing talk this morning in the
Senate wing of tie Capitol. That tie
speech was one of the most powerful
delivered for years in the upper body is
conceded, but that not voice was raised
in mildest extenualion of the Presi-
dents attitude is taken by close Observ-
ers as an emphasis of the determine
ton of the Senate to reject the Santo
Domingo treaty, if it ever comes t. a
vote, to investigate Panama Canal man
agement and lay bare charges of favorit
ism in appointments and contract let
ting, to revise the salary let and to with
draw from the President the unlimited
powers given him by the Spooner act.
Secretary Taft's criticism of the canal
commissioners, attitude toward the Mar
kel TODD contract, by which they SYM
pahetically gave the man a bonus OF
$40, 900 to cover expenses incurred upon
rejected contract is fully endorsed, but
the connection of the name Of w. B.
Willard Herewith has offended Senator
Willard, whose son he is. The Senator
is chairman of the committee on inter-
oceanic canals, which is outlining an in
yesligation of canal management. The
Senator's friends charge that the criti-
cism was made for double purpose,
and that one of these might have been
to minimize the action OF the committee,
which it is conceded will be against the
present canal management.
The State Department had dispstch
from Berlin today stating that Baron
Richthofen, minister of foreign affairs,
had suffered a paralytic stroke and was
dangerously i'll.
l. According to a report sent in pursu'
ance to House resolution the number
of men employed in the various depart
ments more than 20 years old are as
follows: State, 8; treasury, l47; en-
craving and printing, q; war, 6S; JUS
iice, 7; postofiice, %; navy, 10; interior,
III; agriculture, 4S; commerce, Sc;
printing, &c; Smithsonian, 6; interstate
commerce, 4, and civil service, /.
1T bill introduced by Senator Long,
of Kansas, becomes law the general
public here can take auto rides for a five
cent fare, The object Of the bill is to
give a transportation corporation the
right to put auto service on streets not
served by street cars, the charges for the
ride to be five cents.
Iko Gnooknr Of The Hnuaa hos Ia.