Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-06
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington. Feb 6.

From washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gszette.l
Washington, Feb 6.
With the certainty that the Hepburn
railroad rate bill will pass the House by
an overwhelming vote before the end OF
the week, the situation in the Senate
regarding this proposed legislation is
becoming increasingly interesting. In
the House the committee which had
charge of the measure succeeded in unit
ing all parties and made unanimous
reoort. This will not be the case in
the Senate committee from which, on
February Is, both a majority and mi
nority report will accompany the bill
to be presented to the Senate. This
alone indicates that there will be pro-
lracted debate on the floor.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
be the guests OF Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Bonaparte at state dinner TO-
night on board the U. s. 5. Mayfiower
rbe Mayhower, now commanded by
Lieutenant Commander John I. Long,
is living at the navy yard wharf.
Among the guests will be Cardinal Glib
bons, a close personal friend of the Bona
parties.
The Secretary of the Navy has APP
proved the recommendation of dismissal
made by the Superintendent of the Naval
Academy in the cases of Midshipman
De Ssussure, of South Carolina, and
Midshipman Melvin, of Illinois, CON
victed of bazing.
President Roosevelt today made pub
lie letter sept by him to the chairman
of the House and Senate committee on
naval affairs calling attention TO the un-
satisfactory features in the present law
regarding hazing, which provides for no
degrees of punishment less than dismis-
sal. While heartily Disappearing of
hszng, the President says that dismissal
is too severe a punishment for some
forms of the offense, while it is scarcely
severe enough for such hazing as in
wolves brutal and cruel punishment OF
under classmen. He disapproyes of The
trial of hazing cases in general by court
martial, and thinks that discretionary
power of punishment in minor cases
should be lodged in some administrative
otfice. He closes the letter with an APP
peal that the law be remedied.
The examination of former Chief En-
gineer John f. Wallace, of the Panama
canal, was resumed this morning before
The Senate committee on interOceauic
canals with regard to conditions as be
found them on the isthmus when he first
vent there in June 1904. Lack OF
pro; er tools and appliances, he said, had
prevented the force then on the isthmns
from doing any practical work, prior to
his arrival there, that except that in the
Culebra cut they were excavating at the
rate Of about IS, 200 cubic yards per
month.
Senator Hepburn, of Idaho, who has
been seriously i'll with appendicitis, is
slightly improved this morning. Peri
tonitis has developed, but it was said at
The stoneleigh Court, where the Hey
uurn family reside, that this complica-
lion is also less troublesome this morning.
Miss Roosevelt yesterday was Informed
that The $25, 900 recently appropriated
by the Cuban Congress 10 Fuy her a
wedding gift had been cabled to Paris
aud would there be expended in the
nurchase of the finest diamonds which
that sum will buy. Emperor William 5
wedding gift to Miss Alice Roosevelt
will be beautiful, artisticslly wrought
bracelet.
The re appointment of $. Brown
Allen to the marshal ship Of the western
district of Virginia is construed as a vic
tory for Colonel Slemp, though he would
have it appear otherwise.
Mrs. Anna R. Morris, seventy-three
years of age of COS Ninth street, south
west, dropped dead from heart trouble
in a department store at 500 Seventh
street, southwest. The store was crowded
at the time
Herbert E. Hannis; of Martinsburg:
w. Va, son of former owner of the
Hannisvile Distillery, committed sui
eide in this city this morning by taking
laudanum.
Representative Campbell, Of Kansas, intro
duced a n solution in the House today direct
ing the committee on postoffices and post
roads to investigate the recent issue Of fraud
order against the Peoples United States Bank
of st. outs and to report whether the officers
of the bank were given an opportunity, PRIOR
TO its issue, To explain heir business methods;
whether il was issued in conformity with the
laws;whether there should lie reversal ofthe
order, and TO suggest amendments, if any be
needed, to the laws governing the issue Of
fraud issues.
Frenzied finance in Milwaukee, with side
lights as to the doings of S. V. Dayidor, chief
captain of industry, is aired in postal fraud
order issued today against the Standard Lead
and Zinc Smelling and Mining Company, ;.
V. Davidor and the Davidor Promoting Com
pany. all of Milwaukee, Wis. Eastern capt
talists are said to have been THE goats.
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