Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-20
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandris Gazette ]
Washington, Jan. 20.

Washington, Jan. 20.
Next week will be ''insurrection week
in the House. All the insurgents are Ia
be given an opportunity 10 insnrge to
their hearts content. They had the
opportunity this week, but they let II
slip from them Next weeks insurrec-
lion is believed 10 he Of more eiious
import. The opposition Ia the HamIl-
ION statehood bill, admitting OSlaboma
and Indian territory as one, All
ma aud New Msxic0 "a another State,
is composed OF united minority aud
f nearly seventy members OF The
House who are bound together ia
upset the organization programme.
Babcock Of Wisconsin is the leader OF
the republican insurgents. Hesays that
there Is 40 opposition to the admission
Of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. But
he declares emphaticslly that the other
feature of the administration programme
can not be realized. The statehood bill
will be the important business OF the
week. Monday will be District day,
Tuesday will be devoted to clearing up q
few odds and ends of legislature, and We'd
nesday the statehood bill will come up.
If the statehood bill is out ofthe way be-
fore the end of the week, the appropria-
tion committee will probably bring in
the bill making appropriations for the
legislative, executive and judicial branch
es of the government.
10 the presence of the President, Ad.
miral Dewey, and distinguished com
psny of Senators and members of Con
gress, the great petition signed by 80, OOC
citizens of Massachusetts who demand
that the famous old frigate Constitution
be saved from the junkman, was dis
played at the White House this morn
ing The President and bis guests spent
nearly half an hour examining the doc
ument. Senator Spooner, who was one
of the little throng in the Presidents
Office said that he believed our navy
should have a new Constitution and she
should be the strongest warship in the
world. Admiral Dewey's plan is to re.
store the ship to its original shape and
preserve it az precious relic. The Pres
ident applauded both plans. "Thar'
fine idea" exclaimed the President
and he slapped Senator Spooner's back.
Representative Rixey says he will
press to the utmost his resolution now
pending 10 the committee on naval al
fairs, providing for all information in
the possession of the Secretary of the
Navy concerning the Naval Academy tC
be sent to the Congress.
The Senate committee on interstate
commerce, met this morning and con
sidered the bill introduced by Senator
Foraker, for the regulation OF railroad
rates. Owing TO the absence of q
quorum the committee made no head.
way on the bill A special meeting will
be held Tuesday morning.
President Roosevelt this morning made
public some correspondent relating IL
conditions upon the Canal strip. The
first is a letter from w. II. Mackay,
President of the Mackay Engineers Com
pany Of New York, in which the writer
asserts that bis engineer upon the 18TH
mus, Mr.. Fries, is so much disturbed
over the statements recently made about
the Encouragement of affairs in the
Canal zone that he is willing to pay all
bis expenses to the States in order to APP
pear and refute them.
1t was announced at the State Depart.
ment today that the members of the
United Ststes delegation to the second
peace conference at the Hague next
summer will be Joseph H. Choate, Gen
eral Horace Porter and Judge Rose OF
Little Rock, Arkansas.
Mdshipman Meriwether, is causing
some anxious moments to the legal
authorities Of the Navy Department
The dilemma presents these two horns
First, a conviction Of hazing, ipso
fscto, operates 10 cause midshipman's
dismissal under the Law of 1874 and the
subsequent act of 1903. Secondly, il
Meriwether is dismissed from the acade
my for hszing, what will become Of his
conviction and sentence for fighting.
The ship subsidy bill and the pure
food bill will continue to receive COnsid
Grafton ia the Senate next week. Both
have been under discussion since the
Christmas holidays an! 2 number of
more or less important amendments have
been adopted TO each. Senator CALM
ger, who is in charge So the ship subsidy
measure, will make su effort some time
during the coming week to have date
fixed upon which the final vote on the
passing of the bill may be had.
Outside OF these Two subjects for speech
making, the foreign relations of the
United States will be under discussion
Senator Spooner is preparing 10 reply
on Monday to Senator Tillman's criti-
cism on The administration policy in
Santo Domingo. 1t is understood that
he will carefully refrain from reference
to the incident Of Mrs. Morris's removal from
the White House. On Tuesday the finance
committee will have a meeting TO consider
Senator Bailey's resolution ofinquiry as TO the
authority under which the administration
entered into an agreement with Panama for
the maintenance Of the currency of that re-
public at parity. The investig ltl0n Of the
management Of Panama canal affairs, started
this week, will be continued. John +. Wal
lace, the former chief engineer Of the canal,
will be befOrs the committee during the week
aod will be given an opportunity to fully ex1
plain the reasons for his retirement from the
canal work. as we'll as to give his views on
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