Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-04-12
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
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President Roosevelt is planning hu-
other extensive tour 1t will be made
in the summer of 1907. The President
has already promised to attend the
commencement exercises OF the Missouri
Agricultural College at Columbia dur
ing the first week of June 1907. and to-
day indicated to Representative Smith
that he would extend his trip into Mich
igan. As soon rs it becomes generally
known that the President is planning
wbirl around the circle next year he
will be deluged with invitstions from
places within reaching distance OF his
path and he will find it difficult indeed
to refuse them all
The Venezuelan legation here is in
receipt of an official despatch from Carac-
as, dated April 9 stating that President
Castro has for time turned the govern
ment over to vice President Gomez and
will take much needed rest at his
plantation near LaVictOris, some five
hours Journey by raj to the interior
from the capital.
The recent wrecking of the steamship
Valencia on the Washington coast,
prompted the House today to apPropri-
ate $50, 900 for lie saving station at
Nesh Bay, at the entrance OF Puget
sound, and $4,000 for the construct
ion of ses-going life saving tug for use
10 connection with the station. Neah
Bay is the heart of the most dangerous
coast line on the Pacific. In the last
three months, exclusive OF the Valencia
horror, there have been three wrecks
with loss OF 1874 lives. In the past
25 years, fifty vessels have been lost,
and 700 persons persisted. There is not
life saving station within one hundred
miles.
Hearings on the anti-iDiunction bills
were resumed today before the House
committee on the judiciary I. S. Spell
ing, a New York attorney, argued that
Congress had not only the power, but
the duty to limit the injunctional pow
ers of the courts. President GJmpers,
of the American Federation of Labor,
read a letter from former Senator Turner,
OF Washington, in advocacy of similar
legislation.
At meeting of the executive COM
mitiee of the National Red Cross Society
last night, it was decided to attempt to
raise money for the volcano sufferers in
Southern Italy, The money will be
transmitted to the Red Cross in Italy,
which has established hospital at San
Giuseppe.
The cruiser Pennsylvania, now steam
ing north from the feet in the West
Indies with sick enlisted men, has been
ordered to proceed to the New York navy
yard instead of Hampton Roads. The
mel on the sick list will be transferred
to the Brooklyn Naval Hospital for
treatment.
A dispatch at the State Department
To-Day from Toxic conveys additional
assurances of the japanese governments
purpose to open Manchuria TO foreign
trade at the earliest date consistent with
n iIitary exigencies. According to pres
ent plans, Antung- Hsien and Talung-
Kae will be open to foreign vessels and
citizens by May lst.
The House committee on election OF
President, Vice President and Represen-
tatives in Congress has authorized a
favorable report on the resolution intro
duced by Mr.. Norris, of Nebraska, recon-
mending a sixteenth amendment to the
Constitution, providing for election OF
United States Senators by direct vote
OF the people and extending the term Of
Representatives from two to four years.
President Roosevelt this afternoon
made brief address to party of Ger
man war veterans who were introduced
to him at the White House by the
German Ambassador, Baron Won Stern
burg. He spoke in terms Of praise of
the gallantry of German American SOL
diers in the civil war, and compliment
ing those members OF the German army
who were present.
After hearings extending over three
years, the inquiry into the right of Reed
Smoot, being an apostle of the Mormon
church, to retain his seat as a Senator
from Utah, entered upon its final
phase today. The concluding arguments
OF counsel in The case began this morn
ing, before the Senate committee on
privileges and elections and before a
room full of spectators, mostly women.
Former Secretary of the Treasury John
G. Carlisle representing those protesting
agaius. Shoots retention in The Senate,
made the opening argument de will
be followed by Attorney A. 5. Worth
ingtOn of Shoots counsel.
A recommendation that the depart
ment of justice take such farther steps
against the Standard Oil Trust as the
cjDdliions laid bare seem to justify, is
believed to be the mos; striking feature
of the report soon 10 be submitted to
President Roosevelt by commissioner OF
corporations, James Garfield, on his in
vestigation of Standard Oil affairs direct
ed by the House resolution adopted
year ago, the author Of which is Con-
gres. man Campbell of Kansas.
Mr.. Rixey has introduced a bill in the
House to authorize the appointment of
Acting Asst. Surg. Julian Taylor Mil
Ter, United States navy, as an assistant
surgeon 10 the United States navy.
Monday will he EGG rolling day" on the
White House grounds and youngsters in
Washington are hard at work coloring eggs
or decorating baskets in which to carry them.
In accordance with custom President ROOse-
welt Roosevelt has given orders that the
White House grounds be opened between
a m. and p. III. "for the children only"
and the gardeners are building wire and