Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-15

If the personal friends of the two families
we're given a private view oflhe wedding
presents. They were arrayed IN The
library on the second floor and while
mucb has been said about their beauty,
the guests we're hardly prepared for the
gorgeous display which met their eyes
Certain consular correspondence from
the Chinese situation was published at
the State Department today tending TO
show the state of the boycott and the
injury it is doing American trade.
south China, which has been the storm
center of boycott activity from the be-
ginning. continues TO furnish the most
radical tendencies OF the movement.
Singapore merchants are among the
most rabid of the boycotters.
President Roosevelt had a number OF
railroad rate conferences this morning
with prominent Senators. Nothing was
made public after the consultations, but
il is understood that the President and
those who differ with him on the salient
provisions of the rate bill are now nearer
AN agreement than they have at any
time been, and ii 10 believed that all
danger of a serious hitch between the
executive and legislative branches OF the
government is at an end.
A crowd of Ponca and Usage Indians
from Oklahoma is haunting the Capitol
today. They are looking for Mr. Long
worth. They want to present to him
an deliberately beaded Buffalo hide vest,
that smells like a county Jail and weighs
some rs pounds, the hide having been
taken from $500 Buffalo calf and
tanned by the oldest women of the tribe,
Longworth had been warned and is YET
in hiding The indians will take their
present to the White House, if they can
find him.
Geo. w. Beavers, who recently
pleaded guilty of the charges growing
out of the postoflice cases, will be sent
to the Moundsvile, w. Va, penitentisry
tomorrow night along with 10 other
prisoners. Beavers will not be al Lowed
to 20 to prison Gin style as was first
contemplated, but will be linked to a
fellow prisoner, James A. Backus, con-
victed in the local courts for forgery.
The Riggs National Bank, of this
city. was the successful bidder for the
81 900. 900 issue of per cent. Phil
ppine improvement bondp, bids fol
which were opened at the War Depart.
meut this afternoon. The Riggs bid for
all RI none of the bonds, was 81 ,OSS, TAI.
An inquiry into the tobacco trust by
the Secretary of the Department OF Com
merce and Labor is sought by Mr.. Trim.
bic, who introduced resolution in the
House to accomplish the end sought.
1t is persistently reported that neither
of the Senators from New York has re-
ceived an invitation TO the wedding oI
Miss Alice Roosevelt.
Since the wedding of Miss Roosevelt
will not take place in church, at the
completion of the ceremony bells will be
peaIed from several churches here
Fifty delegates who attended the recent
NytionaI Women's Suffrage Convention al
Baltimore stormed the Capitol today and
fired their ammunition at the House commit
lee on the judiciary The committee mem
hers were evidently not enthusiastic over the
women problem. for only five of the eighteen
we're present. 1--WE ask that we be allowed
to hold in our hands that authority which
shall put us above the supplicant," was the
substance of the plea Of Mrs. Harriet Eyer
Of Washington. Later the members OF the
association addressed the members of the Sen
ate committee on woman Suffrage at The Capi
toll. They advocated the passage Of the War
rem bill, extending to women suffrage N The
election of members Of Congress.
There was another meeting Of the Senate
committee on interstate commerce this morn
ing, but all that was developed tended t
confirm the impossihility of securing unan
imous report on the question Of review by thu
courts of decisions Of the Interstate Commerce
commission on rates.
The House committee on merchant MARINE
and fisheries today authorized favorable re
port on twenty-five bills. carrying S6OO,OC'
for the construction of fish hatcheries anC
biological stations.