Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-15
James Brown Scott, of California, has

James Brown Scott, of California, has
been appointed solicitor of the State De-
partmeut to succeed Judge William L.
Penfield, of Indiana, resigned.
A committee from the Anto-Joint
Statehood League composed of Dwight
b. Heard, Roy S. Goodrich and George
French, called upon the President this
morning to reilerate their arguments
against the measure which if passed will
hitch Arizona TO New Mexico.
The House committee on industrial
art, and expositions today decided 10
hear Congressman Maynard, of Virginia,
and the people who are seeking federal
aid for the proposed jamestown expOsi-
ton. The committee may go to James
town later, as the guests OF the exposi-
ton company.
The nominating of Ex-Governor Geo.
w. Atkinson, of w. Va, to be judge
of the Court OF Claims, was today re-
ported upon favorably by the Senate
committee on judiciary. Charges had
been against him charging incompe-
tency, inexperience, and the non-pay-
ment of debts.
Secretary Bonapsrte announced today
the dismissal from The naval service OF
Midshipman Coffin, recently convicted
by Court Martial at Annapolis OF having
hazed Midshipman Kimbrough.,
Representative Babcock, of Wisconsin, said
| TODAY. discussing the story that President
| Roosevelt had sent him word through repub-
| licans of the Missouri delegation, that money
| il being used 10 defeat the statehood bill, I"
| that he knew nothing TO support the story.
mo member of the Missouri delegation has
| given me such message" he said; "Of
course, if anybody got any money, the re,
| ceiyer of same knows about it. ] don't. !
| have been a consistent opponent OF statehood
| ever since have been in Congress" At the
White House today IL is denied that the Pres.
| ideut made the remarks attributed to him.
| Although the republican members OF the
| Missouri delegation, who were recently IN
conference with the Presdent-an occasion
on which statehood was discussed-reinse 10
discuss that occasion, what purports 10 be an
accurate version Of the affair has been
obtained. "For the first time IN my
| experience" the President said, refer
ring TO the opposition to statehood, the
act1a! presence Of lobby here has been
brought TO my attention" He explained
| that Il was not legitimate lobby, but char
acterized il as one "using corrupt meant"
| Ii is denied. however, that he asked his vlsl-
| tors to carry his remarks to Representative
Babcock, Of Wisconsin, chlet insurgent
against statehood. Nor did he, specihcaily,
saw that money was being used, although thSt
| was the inference. The republican members
| of the Missouri delegation considered the IN
| terview confidential one. One of the leaders
| on the democratic side of the House said to-
day that if the President had reason to be-
| Iieye that money or corrupt influences were
At work in the statehood situation he should
not hesitate to let the facts become known, as
the democrats Of the House would. to man,
support demand for a congressional inVestl-
CATION Of such charge.
The Senate committee on Judiciary tins
morning authorized favorable report on The
nomination of ex Governor Geo. W. Akin
son. of West Virginia, TO be judge on the
court of claims. The committee also report
| ed fayorably on the nomination OF Luman +.
Parker. to be United States judge ~ Indian
Territory.
d. Wesley Middleton, aged "a, a clerk in
the treasurer's Office of the Southern Railway,
in this city. who was arrested last night,
charged with the embezzlenent OF 5000,
when interviewed this morning by President
Slencer and Treasurer Ansley, OF the South
ern, declined to state why he had taken the
money or how he had disposed oft. District
Attorney Baker, it is said, has decided not
TO prosecute the case.
J. C. Napier, well-to-do colored banker
of Nashville, has just turned down" the Of
fer Of the United States consulship at Bahia,
Brazil. The place was rendered him by the
President entirely unsolicited, but Napier
had too good a thing in the banking business
at home