Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-31
From Washington.

will return to Washington tonight or to-
morrow. While he has been away nc
earnest attempt has been made to bring
the rate discussion to close. Senator
Tillman has made suggestions to that
effect but the republican leaders have
preferred in this matter to deal with the
Texas Senator. Now most OF the lead
ers have been heard. So far as sci
speeches are concerned none have been
scheduled definitely for next week.
Some time during the next ten days, 1t
is said that Senator Aldrich will deliver
carefully prepared speech on the prac.
teal, economic effect OF the proposed
railroad rate legislation. Senator Fos-
ter, one of the leading democrats on the
interstate commerce committee, Will
also be heard and Senator LaFollette
is understood to be preparing speech
la the meantime conferences will be
held among the opposing leaders and II
is hoped to reach an agreement whereby
vote may be had sometime between the
10th and 20 of April. The conference
committee on statehood will continue its
sessions next week, meeting on Tuesday
to consider the Senate amendment TO the
bill. The Panama canal hearings will
continue with Gen. Davis on the stand
again on Monday afternoon. Sometime
during the week the closing arguments
in the case of Senator Reed SmOot will
he made before the committee on priv
lodges and elections by Attorneys Car
isle and Worihington. In the House.
Monday will be devoted to the traDsec-
lion of business under a suspension OF
the rules. On Tuesday the bill extend
ing The quarantine powers of the govern
ment in yellow fever epideiuics will be
disposed of. The remainder OF the week
beginning Wednesday will be given up
to the postoffice appropriation bill, which
contains a number of provisions that
will be strongly contested, especially
the provisions granting g subsidy for the
carving of the mails from Washington
to New Orleans and from Kansas City
to Newton, Kansas.
President RoOsevelPs determination
to take no hand in the coal strike unless
The condition of affairs approaches a ma
tional calamity is meeting with general
appreciation. The members of Congress
from south of Mason and Dixon's line
say he has taken the wisest course.
'The President is not nearly as impul-
siye as he used to be, commented one
southern Congressman. "Pll bet he
was just spelling to get into the argu'
nent, but his better judgment pre-
vailed" Certain of the Presidents out
of town friends, however, are greatly
stirred up because he does not plunge in
and end the troubles in the mining dis
tricts at once. He could do it without
bali trying, they tell him in so many
words, and he "owes ii TO the country"
to do something No answer has YET
been sent by the President to the re-
quest for the appointment OF a commits
sion made by the operators, and 1t is
not probable that they will be sent them
until next week. The President wishes
% give employer and employee every
opportunity to settle their own differ
ences.
Chairman Shouts of the Isthmian
Canal Commission, Commissioner
Cooley and Chief Examiner Higgins OF
The Civil Service Commission, and III.
Leon PGppoFman, chief OF the office force
of the Canal Commission, will leave
Washington this afternoon for Key
West, Florida, where they will catch the
canal steamer Finance Monday off the
Florida Keys. They will visit the 18TH
mus in order to arrange plans tor the re-
organization of the clerks aud skilled
operatives now working on the canal who
come under the civil service rules.
While on the isthmus Mr.. ShOnts will
also 90 over the Panama Railroad trans
isthmian traffic situation with General
Manager Schwerin of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company.
The President has appointed Frede-
rick w. Wbitridge, of New York,
special ambassador to represent the
United States at the wedding of the
King of Spain.
Frederick Schaiz, SO years of age,
living at 4SS Ninth street, shot himself
this morning in the right temple and
died later at the Emergency Hospital.
He had been drinking heavily and it is
said was upbraided by his wife for his
conduct.
Mr.. Perry Belmont intends to make
Washington his permanent home and
has bought the triangle at New Hamp-
shire avenue, Seventeenth and X streets,
upon which he will build a handsome
residence
The President today pardoned John
w. Pace, convicted in the federal courts
of Alabama, Of peonage aud sentenced
TO 5 years imprisonment at Atlante,
Georgia 1t had been shown that further
confinement would probably result in
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Secretary Bonaparte today delivered
diplomas to twenty-one graduates of the
U. s. Naval Medical School Mr..
Bonsparle addressed the future surgeons
on the high calling which they have
selected, and asserted that to the medi-
cal raen on shipbosrd some of the great
est opportunities of the naval services
are presented in peace as we'll as war.
DIR. J. L. Finney, of John Hopkins
University, of Baltimore, and other
physicians addressed the class. (
Congressman WsdsworIh of New York
after call on the President this morn
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