Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-02
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, June 2.

word from California that the Ilrcult
Court has sustained the government 10
its suit .ainst the Otis Elevator Com
pany for violation of the federal anti
trust laws. A perpetual injunction has
been granted against the elevator com
pany prohibiting it from entering into
sny agreements with other companies
for the restraint of trade or the enhanc-
ing Of prices The company, it IS said,
consented 10 the decree of the court
without putting up fight The Otis
Elevator Company, according to the
Attorney General, entered into COM
bination with thirty other manufacturing
concerns for the purpose OF controlling
the elevator business.
Many of the important questions that
have been pending ia Congress- are ex-
pected to reach their elimination next
week and unless there are undue delays
the programme Of the leaders to bring
the session to close about the 18th or
goth of this month will probably be car
ried out. The reports of the conference
committees on the railroad rate bill aud
on the statehood measure are likely to
be made early in the week and they Will
provoke some discussion. There will
be further debate on the resolution re-
ouiring that materials for the Panama
canal be bought in the United States
unless the prices are extOrtionate and
unreasonable in comparison with foreign
bids The bill declaring in favor OF
the construction of sea-level canal
instead of one with locks at Pana-
ma will be pressed to q vote il posi-
BILE during the week The leaders hope
to pass the bill about Thursday.
Unless Mr.. Burton, the convicted
Kansas Senator, has in the meantime
resigned the Senate committee on prlvi-
leges and elections will on Tuesday re-
port resolution expslling him from
The Senate. TIE reports in the Heed
Smoot case will be presented next Fri
day by Chairman Burrows tor the ma
iDIity. The Senate will have to deter
niue for itself the question at to whether
SmcA is to be retired by exclusion or
expulsion, that is by a majority or by q
two-lhirds vote. An effort will be
made to decide the matter at this
session although the case will in
volve a great deal of discussion.
The sudry civil appropriation bill is the
great supply measure that will be before
the House next week. 1t will be fol-
lowed by the Payne bill to amend the
customs administrative act Political
speeches will be the center OF interest.
Reports from conference committee on
important measures, the railroad and the
statehood bills, are also expected aud
may give rise to warm debate.
The body of Representative Robert
Adams, of Philadelphia, whose tragic
deed in taking his own life so shocked
the capital yesterday, will be taken to
Philadelphia this afternoon for burial.
Thu funeral party will leave Washing
ton at p. IN. Francis ?. Adams, a
brother of the suicide, arrived in Wash
ington last night. 1t is now planned to
hold tue services in Philadelphia Mon
day afternoon. A large number of Rep
reseutatives will attend the funeral per-
,onally, but not as committee appoint
ed from the. House. Mr.. Adams re-
auested that this committee be not ap-
pninted, as is the custom. The Sergeant
alarms of the House will also attend
the services.
The deplOrable affair at Csnanea,
Mex, presents an international problem
of considerable gravity, and the admins
tration here is disposed to move with
great caution. Under the treaty with
Mexico. it is allowed for the United
States troops to invade Mexico ia pursuit
of renegade Indians without waiting for
specific action by Mexican government.
Under other circumstances, the United
States il bound by the ordinary rules Of
international law aud comfy. Even
should Governor Yssbel, of Sonora State,
10 which Cananea is located, request the
aid OF United States troops in putting
down the Mexican miners uprising,
there is very serious doubt whether the
United States would be justified in send
ing troops across the border. Secretary
TAFT and Chief OF Staff Bell Immediately
went into consultation, aud are prepared
to send troops into Cananes just as soon
as the State Department gives the word.
Following the conference with Secretary
Taft, Gen. Bell went to the Secretary
of State, where long consultation was
held as to the legal aspects OF the case,
officers of the Judge Advocate Generals
department bsing present. Secretary
Root is OF the opinion that at present the
United States may not send troops into
Mexico, no matter how serious the stu
alton may be. As result of the con-
ference al order WAS sent by the War
Department to the commanding officer at
Fort Huachncs instructing him to recall
any U. ). troops that may have pro-
ceeded into Mexico, la the meantime,
the Mexican government will be expect
ed to exhaust every possible resource
10 stop the riOting and protect such
mericsns as may have escaped. Ad-
ditionsl dispatches from U. 5. Consul
Galbrsith and from other sources state
that burning, pillsging, and dyuamiling
are still going on, and that the distur-
bsnce is beyond the control of the local
authorizes.
Commissioner of Labor NeilI aud JAS
B. Reynolds, of New York, today handed
TO President Roosevelt the final draft of
their report of conditions in The Chicago
packing houses. 1t contains 6, 900 words.