Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-27

concerned in the far East. The Navy
Department this morning received dis
patches from Shanghai reporting the de-
parture of the U. s. gunboats FL Cano
and Quiros, for Kiukiaug, in the neigh
borhood of which place Sundays dis
turbance occurred. The two gunboats
will reach their destination tomorrow.
Their combined crews, with the ma
rines aboard, number $50.
Despite its finding that certain rail-
roads in the East have so regulated the
shipping of petroleum and its products
over their lines that the Standard OIL
Company has practical monopoly OF the
business. the Interstate Commerce Com
mission today virtually held up its hands
in confessing that il is unable TO remedy
the injustice. Cases in which they ac-
knowledge the injustice exists are DIS
missed. The commission holds that the
combination rates on petroleum are un-
reasonable and unjust and that the stu
alton operates greatly to the advantage
Of the Standard Oil Company. II says
that the act to regulate commerce does
not authorize he commission 10 compel
the establishment of joint rates and
Notwithstanding the combination rates
complained OF are unjust and unreason-
able and the general shipping situation
is such as to work practical monopoly
10 favor of the Standard Oil Company,
the commission is without authority
to grant relief in these cases, and the
complaints must be dismissed"
Virtually the first move of the Inter
state Commerce Commission in invesli-
eating the relation of railroads tn coal
mining will be taken when the hearing
of the complaint of the Donohoe Coke
Company against the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, and Others, begins at
Pittsburg, March s. In this complaint
it is alleged, on account of officers OF the
Pennsylvania being interested in COM
petiDg coal company, that the complain
ant is Disseminated against in the dis
lribution of cars for the shipment Of
coal from its mines at Greensburg, Pa.
Mrs. Josephine Ward Swami, widow
of Thomas Swami, former governor oil
MARYLAND, was much weaker this morn
ing and still unconscious OF paralysis she
suffered last Friday. DR.. John w.
Shaw, the attending physician, after
visiting the patient this morning said
that she had spent very restless night.
He does not expect she will survive
longer than today or tomorrow.
The House committee on postoffices
and post roads, today authorized favor
able report on the Crumpscker resolu'
ZION, calling on the Postmaster General
for all information relating to the issue
Of the fraud orders against the Peoples
Bank, st. Louis
Robert J. Wynne was recalled TO the stand
by the defense this morning In the case OF
George Z. Green, on trial for conspiracy u
d fraud the government. He was questioned
as TO the relations existing between the
President and Beavers at the time he acted as
a go-between. Mr.. Wynne stated that he had
held numerous interviews with the President
c ncerning the postofhce cases and that he
felt he was authorized TO tell Beavers that
immunity would be granted him If he would
plead guilty. "Will You state what CONVEX
sation you had with the District Attorney p
said Mr. Worthington. 81 saw Baker and
he stated to me that il made no difference to
him whether Beavers pleaded guilty or not. -
II could convict him anyway" said Mr.
Baker Mr.. Wynne's testimony has been
closed, but he will remain subject TO the call
of the defense.
President Roosevelt today signed the urgent
deficiency bill containing the provision re-
moving the operation OF the eight-hour law
from alien labor on the Panama canal.