Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-05-29
FrOm Washington.


that report on the oil relations OF the
railroads to the oil business will be MADE
to Congress at this session. The baln-
mure and Ohio Railroad has at last
complied with the request Of the com
mis-, ion lor copy OF the contract by
which it transferred, during the course
Of the investigation into the coal slius-
ton. its holdings in the Consolidation
Coal Company, Of West Virgins, to the
Watson syndicate of Baltimore. Start
ling as has been the coal graft OF officials
the commission is inclined to believe that
coal is but one Of the many items upon
which the gralters have levied their tax.
Great pressure is being brought to bear
upon President Roosevelt TO induce him
to make public the report now being
prepared by Labor Commissioner Z. I.
Neil and James B. Reynolds OF New
York upon the sanitation Of the stock
Yards aud packing houses at Chicago
Upton Sinclair, author Of "The jungle,
The book which is given the credit tor
starting the present agitation against the
hackers which resulted in the partial
passage Of the Beveridge bill, has writ
ten letter to the President, in which
he asserts that the public is entitled 10
know what Messrs. NELL and Reynolds
found out, no matter whom 1t hurts.
Mr.. Sinclair declares in addition That
the packers have applied the thumb
screws to the stock men who are in their
oower ordering them to petition the
President to withhold the report. The
President having sympathetic interest
in the cowboys and ranchmen has thus
far refrained from opening up the scan
dal under the belief that ne is thereby
protecting the innocent raisers of cattle.
At request OF the democratic floor
leader. Mr.. Williams, Mr.. Finley, OF
S,ujh Carolina, is preparing and viii
introduce today resolution calling for
the report Of Charles j, Neil, and Jas.
g. REYNOLDS, dealing with the alleged
nusanitary conditions in packing houses.
This report was made to the President,
and has been withheld to serve as club
with which to force the passage OF The
Beveridee inspection amendment to the
agricultural appropriation bill. Rep
resentaiive Snzer, Of New York, beat
MIR. Finley to it, however, his resolution
introduced today, calling on the Presl'
dent for the reports in question, Sin con-
nection with their investigation OF The
meat trust, the stock yards, and the
meat packing houses of Chicago, Illinois,
and other places, and all data, exhibits,
and correspondence in any way relating
to the same.
When Representative Williams learn
ed tina. Representative Sulzer had intro
duced the resolution calling for the pack
ing house report, he became quite indig-
nant Representative Finley concluded,
as a result, not to offer one on the sub
ect in the hope of side tracking the sui
yer resolution.
The minority of the Senate canal
committee today 6led their report OF a
lock canal at Panama and against the
sea-levei plan recommended by the
majority in the bill now pending before
the Senate. The cost Of the sea-level
canal, the report says, would be S2|2,-
900, 600 or nearly double that OF the
lock canal, and would take at least six
years longer to build. The lock canal
can be completed in nine years at most
or in 1915, and would also begin earn
ing money.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt left this
evening at $50 on the yacht MayhOwer
for POrtmouth, Va where the President
il 10 address his comrades of the Army
aud Navy Union at the Memorial Day
exercises 10 be held in the old naval
cemetery. A monument erected to the
memory Of the soldiers and sailors who
fell in the civil war will be unveiled,
and the President will march in the pro-
cession which will strew flowers upon
the graves Of the dead, The May flower
is due to return to Washington about
day break on Thursday morning.
Samuel GOmpers. president of the
American Federation Of Labor, is prepar-
ing synopsis of the views OF all the
representatives in Congress and ann0un-
ces that he will soon publish their names
in classes, indicating their friendIiness
or opposition to the cause Of labor. In
a signed editorial on the subject in the
American FederatiOnist he acknowledges
the Federation is threatening Congress
men. but he argues why the privilege
cannot be accorded labor when cOrpo-
rate interests "buy" congressman. Pres
ldent Gompers has addressed letter TO
every representative, requesting a state
ment of his views on the labor question,
particularly the "bill of grievance"
presented to President Roosevelt and
speaker Cannon some months ago.
These answers are now being compiled.
The House committee Oh commerce,
today, author zed favorable report on the
Esch bill, limiting the hours of Labor
railroad employees. The maximum lin
it is the Is hours, followed by mini
mum period of rest of ten hours.
The Gardner eight hour bill extending
the eight hour law to all government
contracts, was today ordered favorably
reported to the House by the committee
on labor. The action Sas a great sur
prise, and was the result of coup exc
cuted by the democrats Of the committee
who took advantage of the absence Of
some Of the republican members.
U. ;. Minister Leslie Combs, at Qua
temala City, has. wired the State De-
nartmeni. The dispatch being received