Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-26
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria GaSette.l
Washington, July rs.


Washington, July 26.
IfMr Bryan should be elected presi-
dent, the vice presidsnt will for the hrst
time in the history of the country SIT at
the Cabinet table, and become an active
participant in the administration 10 ad-
dition to his duties as presiding officer
of the Senate. This declaration was made
this morning by Representative Charles
Towne, of New York, who is most prom
inently mentioned as Bryan's possible
running mate in the next campaign.
Mr.. Towne frankly admitted that the
position OF vice-president would be very
attractive to him, especially in view of
what he knew to be Mr.. Bryan's theo-
ries about the Importance of the Office.
He said that while he would not CAM
psign for the nomination, he was entire
ly willing to 90 on the ticket with Bryan.
He would not run with anyone else than
Bryan. He felt that he would be in a
position to help the Bryan campaign In
certain sections of the country. Mr..
Towne leaves tonight for the west where
he will make a number of addresses, the
first at Oklahoma City.
After all these years American women
are now to learn that what they supposed
to be chamois skin with which they
smoothed out the wrinkles OIL their faces
was in reality unromantic, common
sleeps skin. According to q report
printed by the Department of Commerce
and Labor today, not enough chsmois
skins are obtained throughout the world
to supply the United States for more
than a single day. This substitute,
tenderly referred to by the department
as "oil-tanned sheep or lamb skin lining
is lighter aud finer than that of the
chamois. For strength and durability
the chamois skin is preferable. Accord
ing to the report recent inquiry in
Switzerland shows that the annual crop
of chamois skin averages between 1000
and 5000.
The headquarters of the Isthmisn
Canal Commission in this city was ad-
vised by cable today from Civil Cover
nor Msgoon, of the canal zone of the
death on July 2sd of Civil Engineer
Robert L. Dunn, who was killed in a
wreck in Culebra. No details of the ac-
cident are given. Mr.. Dunn was from
Peterstown, West Virginia. Governor
Magoon reports one death yesterday in
Colon from smallpox.
Thomas Tracey, of Boston, Mass, is
to be the campaign manager OF the
American Federation of Labor, acting
under the instructions Of President
Samuel Gompers. Mr.. Tracey is a cigar
maker by calling, although be has not
worked at his trade for many years. He
knows personally most Of the members
to whom labor has found it necessary to
appeal in the past, and his judgment of
them will be potent 10 the preparation OF
the black list soon to be completed.
Solicitor General Hoyt ruled today
the eight-hour law does not apply to
contractors engaged in the manufacture
of shoes and socks for the army. This
was in reply to q request from the War
Department., The Solicitor General
holds that foot gear is not pnblic work
within the meaning of the law in ques-
ton.
China is about to adopt trial by jury
as one of the principles in her new civil
and Grim nal code. For several years a
boAd of imperial commissioners has been
laB5sing over the law system of the en-
pire, and, according to an official report
just received by the State Department,
it has recently completed its first draft
of recommendations to the throne.