Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-04-23
be soon devised, that the session viii
drag on 10 midsummer.
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette
Washington, April %.


Washington, April %.
Encouraging dispatches from govern
ment officials in San Francisco are now
being received almost hourly and the
outlook for an early resumption OF fede'
raj business is very bright With the
new postoffice, the mint and the sp-
praisers' warehouse practically intact,
the most valuable of government proper
ty in the devastated city was saved and
the biggest bill the government will be
called upon to pay will be that for re-
pairs. Word reached the Treasury De-
partment this morning that the team
ship China, from the Orient, had arrived
with large cargo of supplies for China
town Assistant Secretary Reynolds,
who has general charge of customs, at
once wired orders to admit the goods
duty free-at least for the present. The
owners OF The supplies on the China will
be expected to pay the duty after while.
1t NAV be, in fact it is quite likely, that
the cargo of the ship will be seized by
the military authorities and applied to
the relief work.
Lieut.. Commander Morgan, U. S. N,
wires from Mare Island to the Navy
Department as follows: "Visited Union
Iron Works today. Plant slightly in
iured. Government vessels uninjured.
Date to resume work indefinite.
Chief Justice Fuller in The U. $.
Supreme Court today announced that
the motion of George A. Haywood,
Charles H. Meyer, and William ID.
Pe,tibone, now in Jail in Idaho, for the
alleged murder of Gov. Steunenbur', TO
have hearing OF their appeal 10 the
Supreme Court of the United States on
habaus corpus proceedings advance on
the docket, had been granted. The
argument was set for the first Tuesday
of the October term of 1906, or as soon
thereafter as possible.
Tbe Surgeon General OF the army and
the officials of the Red Cross announce
today that there is no need of additional
surgeons aud nurses al San Francisco No
additional advices regarding the outbreak
of smallpox have been received beyond
the official information given cut last
night that few cases had been discovered
and that they had been isolated
War clouds are lowering over the rear
guard of the Daughters of the American
Revolution remaining in the city after
tn, fifteenth Continental Congress, os
tensibly to participate in the meeting OF
The national board Of management today
but in reality 10 engage in the row which
became bitter at the closing session of
the Congress Saturday night, owing to
the resignation of Secretary General,
Miss Mary Desha. Friends of Miss Desha,
led by Mrs. Walter Harvey Weed, are
already planning to print and circulate
campaign literature against Mrs. Nc
Leans reelection.
The members of the House committee
on rivers and harbors, who are consider
ing legislation to preserve Niagara Falls,
will make personal visit to Niagara
before reaching a cOncus sion in the
matter.
Division OF territory in Virginia so as
to avoid competition between the Nor
folk and Western Railway and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the
transportation of coal from West Vir-
GINA fields developed at the further in.
yestigation by the Interstate Commerce
Commission today into the coal and oil
business as authorized by the Tillman-
Gillespie resolution. Il. b. HOBART,
general coal and coke agent of The Nor
folk and Western, was on the stand dur
ing the morning session. Attorney
Glasgow, for the Interstate Commerce
Commission, drew from him the admis-
sion that by agreement. the rate of the
Norfolk & Western, to Richmond, Va,
was rs cents per ton higher than that OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio, and that the
rate of The Norfolk * Western TO Nor
folk was 25 cents less than that of the
Chesapeake and Ohio to the same point.
This an Management WAS in force for years
and gave the Norfolk aud Western a
monopoly on coal carried 10 Norfolk and
the Chesapeake and Ohio a monopoly
to Richmond Now the rates are the
same to both points over either road,
the Norfolk and Western making its
change March l6, the very day after
Congress passed the Tillmar-Gillespie
resolution and the Chesapeake and Ohio
on April l The carrying of coal to
New England by tide-water and all
rail routes was then taken up. Mr..
Hobart admitted he didn't know why
his company had not reduced the tide
water rates to get larger share OF the
business.
Tue Supreme Court of the United
States, today, in the case Of Oregon vs.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock and
Land Commissioner Richards refused to
take Jurisdiction, thereby sustaining the
demurrer OF the government Office and
dismssiDg the States bill. Oregon
wished to restrain Secretary Hitchcock
from sllotting lands in the Klamath In.
dian reservation to individual Indians on
the ground that the lands are swamp
lands and under federal act are vested in
the State.
The high French naval officers, here
with their ships to assist in the John
Paul Jones celebration at Annapolis to-
morrow, arrived in this city today. They
we're escorted from the railroad station
in carriages by Capt. Rodgers and others
After luncheon at the New Willard
Hotel, the Frenehpen we're taken 10 the
White House where st $50 o'clock they
were received by President Roosevelt.