Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-29
From, Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazetse.l
Washington, March 29.

Younger cnlluFeD, ElnclJ AiOhiO o"N
Quentin. and two or three OF the house
hold retainers and maids, left at 1000
a. M, for Fernandina, Florida, where
they will board the Mayfower TOT
short trip TO Cuban waters. The May
flower was ordered south several days
ago, and, according to advices received
at The Navy Department, is now await
ing Mrs. Roosevelt and her little party
off the Florida coast. 1t is not likely |
that Mrs. Roosevelt will spend more
than two or three days in CnbS, and
will limit her journeyings there to short
excursions about Havana and its suburbs
under the escort of the American Minis
ter. 1t is Mrs. Rooseyelrs desire to
visit Havana entirely without ceremony
and she will go there officially incognita
that is, the Cuban government will
have no formal knowledge of her pres
ence, and all functions of an official
character will therefore be barred. 1t will
be rather difficult, however, for her to
entirely escape the cordial hospitality OF
the Havana digGitaries, and it is more
than probable that receptions and din
uers of more or less brilliance will be
planned and perhaps carried out in spite
Of the implied request that nothing OF
the sort be undertaken 10 Mrs. RoOse-
velts honor. Mrs. Roosevelt will re-
turn to Washington in about ten 0!
twelve days.
The powerful battleship which it is
believed Congress will authorize this
session will probably be called the Della
ware. Delaware is one of the three
States now without an arm0red ship as
her namesake, the other States being
Utah and North Dakota. Senator Alec
and Representative Burton called on
Secretary Bonaparte today and pressed
the claims of their State for the honor
OF having the biggest wsrshiP in the
world named after her. They pointed
out that Delaware was the first State in
the union to ratify the constitution and
deserved the plum. Secretary BOnaparte
favors The idea Rough drafts OF the
big ships potentialities now give her
20, 500 tons displacement, twelve inch
rifles and contract speed of Fl knots.
In view of the recent decision of the
Supreme Court OF the United States in
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad coal
cases, in which il was declared contrary
to public policy for common carrier to
be dealer in the commodities that it
transports, the Interstate Commerce
Commission today heard rsargued the
case OF William Randolph Hearst against
the Pennsylvania Railroad and others in
regard to their dealing in coal. The
complainant desires the commission to
forbid the railroads from varying from
their published rates by means OF deal
ing in the purchase and sale of coal and
apply for an injunction restraining in
terstate transportation in coal purchased
under them.
Corporal James Tanner, Commander
in- Chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, has taken up the cudgel on be
half of the superannnated clerks of the
executive departments, many Of whom
are civil war veterans, whose POSITIONS
are endangered by a provision in the
legislative, executive and judicial spPro-
priation bill. This provision reduces
the salaries of those who are more than
65 years of age and will separate from
the service in 1918 all who have reached
the age of 20. Ia communication to
Representative James A. Tawney, OF
Minnesota, chairman of the appropria-
tions committee, he calls attention TO
the fact that if this rule were to be APP
piled to 'those in high as well as low
places, three members OF your committee
would have been debarred from signing
il; the distinguished Speaker of the
House would have to withhold his APP
proval unless you hurry the bill through
before May 7, and of the IL members of
the Senate committee on appropriations
who have the last guess at this bill,
whose average is 81, bat all four, two
democrats and two republicans, and
they by tight squeeze would be excused
from consideration OF your automatic |
time register upon its arrival at the
northern wing OF the Capitol."
Plans for the third Pan-American
conference are being proposed by the
programme committee of which Lenor
Nabuco, the Brazilian Ambassador, is
the active head. When the draft of the
programme is completed in the course of
the next month, copies will be sent to
the governments to be represented at
Rio de Janerio next July so that the
several foreign offices interested may adj |
wise with their delegates as to the treat
ment the several policies shall receive.
Senator Alice aud Representative
Burton OF Delaware called at the White |
House today to speak for battleship in
behalf of their little State. They wish |
especially to have the proposed big |
battleship, which many believe should
be called the Constitution, to bear the
name of Delaware. 1.-The government
owes it 10 Delaware which was the first
State to adopt the constitution" said
Senator Alec. ITO recognize her in the
battleship roster. We do not object to
the name Constitution for one of the big
ships. In fact We think it is very good
idea, but we believe that Delaware
should come first"
F. J. L. Brown, of Tampa, Florida,
called at the White House this morning
under the escort of Representative
5parkmaD, to urge the President to lend
his aid to the exposition Tampa proposes
to hold in the spring OF 1908 to com
memorate the building of the Panama
canal. h Mr.. Brown said that all Tampa