Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-03

Two opposing delegations nave arrl'eu
here FROM Indian Territory, headed by l..
]. Harris and it is today laboring with
the Department OF Justice to have the
Attorney General recommend the with
d.awaI from the Senate Of the name OF
Luman F. Parker, as judge for the
northern district of Indian Territory.
The charge that he was lax in the en-
f,rcement of liquor laws, while he was
assistant district attorney have been
fled with the department and with the
Senate committee on judiciary. The
larger delegation is favorable to Parker.
Il is made up of leading professional
men from Indian Territory and st.
Louis and other portions of Missouri.
Both delegation expect to be heard
Friday by the Senate committee on
judiciary, to which the nomination OF
Parker was referred before the holiday
recess.
Charges have been filed against Will
liam +. Vernon the colOred professor Of
Ouindaro Institute, Kansas, who aspires
to the place OF Register OF The Treas
ury, and if he does not answer them IN
manner satisfactory to the President,
he will not get it. IT Vernon fails to
get the place, l.. S. Williams of Chicago,
who has been making a fight for the job,
is quite likely to land.
The U S. Supreme Court, for the next
week or so, viii be engaged in hearing
some of the most important cases brought
before hat body for years. Arguments
are now on in the case of Missouri VS..
Illinois, involving alleged pollution of
the Mississippi river by the Chicago
drainage canal. After this case is finish
ed, arguments in the tobacco trust and
paper trust cases will be heard. These
involve the right Of trust officials to re-
fuse TO produce books or answer ques-
tons. Then come the cases OF the U.
S. VS.. the Bitter Root Development Com
pany and Senator w. A. Clark, brought
or account OF the alleged illegal fencing
in of thousands of acres of public lands
The next on the docket to be heard will
be the Chicago traction cases, wherein
are questioned the validity Ct the fran
chises of practically all the street car
lines in the "Windy City"
Congress may lop $40, 900, 900 Oft the
appropriation bill for the pay of the
railroads for carrying the mails as
reply to the no-pass order which went
into effect on the first of the month
upon most of the railroads in the east.
Mr.. GrosvenOr who was White House
caller this morning, expressed himself
10 favor of the action indicted off the
railroads have lost as much money dur
ing the last year as the Pennsylvania
officials claim they have on account OF
giving away so many passes, said Mr.
Grosvenor, 1--WE can now save SlO,-
600, 900 of the $50, 900, 600 we pay them
aud devote that extra money to extend
ing the rural free delivery. At the same
time the railroads will do just as well
rs they did when they were giving
away $4,000, 900 in free rides" Mr.
Grosvenor expressed himself as conf
dent that railroad rate bill would he
passed by the present Congress. He
was not quite so sanguine over the fate
of the ship subsidy measure.
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor stated to-
day that part OF the eighty thousand
dollars, raised by an assessment of four
cents upon each individual member of
The trade unions affiliated with the fed
Grafton in aid of the printers strike for
an eight hour day, had been sent to
Indianapolis, the Typographical Unions
headquarters. With this eighty thou
sand as nest egg, the strikers will have
in addition a weekly income of sixty
thousand dollars, raised by an assessment
of ten per cent. on the earnings OF all
printers who are working during the
time of the strike. President Gompers,
expressing his confidence that the
strike would result in victory for the
eight hour principle" said the federation
will not take any further action is aid of
the printers unless the conditions shall
warrant il.
The Navy Department this morning made
public the review of the Judge Advocate
General of the navy of the cOurtmartial case
of Commander LucIen Young, U. 5. navy,
who was tried on the charge of neglect OF
duty" as a result of the explosion last July
Of the boilers of the guDboat Bennington,
which he commanded, The sentence of the
court. that Commander Young be reprimand-
ed by the Secretary of the Navy, was approx
ed by Secretary BOnaparte lin order that
Commander Young might not go wholly un-
punished" Secretary Of the Navy Bona
parte has disapproved the findings and sem
tence of the courtmartial which tried Ensign
Charles T. Wade, U. 5. navy, the engineer
officer of the Bennington, and has sent the
entire record of the trial back 10 the court at
Mare Island, Cal, for review. II is under
stood that the court either acquitted Ensign
Wade of all blame for the explosion OF the
Behnington's boilers, Of which he had con-
troll, or gave him a very light sentence.
President Roosevelt received visit this
morning from number of prominent cOlored |
ministers of the District of Columbia, who |
came TO urge the passage of some measure IN
Congress that would secure the negroes OF
the South better treatment at the hands OF
the whites. The negroes Of the South are |
not at all satisfied with their treatment" said |
Rev $. l.. COrruthers. pastor Of the Sixth |
Street Methodist Church.
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Paid Out 100000.
Charles Mahoney Yesterday paid off |