Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-06
From Washington
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, June 6.

| Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette. ]
Washington, June 6.
The bill in equity which the Depart
ment of Justice has under preparation
for the smashing of anthracite coal-carrs-
ing railroad trust may be filed within
two weeks. From an unquestiOned au-
thority it is learned that the complaint
will be directed against the following
railroads: Philadelphia and Reading;
Delaware, Lsckawanna and Western;
Central Railroad and New Jersey; New
York, Susquehsnna and Western and Erie
and Lehigh Valley. 1t will be charged
that these railroad companies have been
parties to contracts and agreements and
to combination for the pooling of inter-
state freight; that they have been guilty
of fixing transportation rates on anthrs-
cite coal land of unlawful discrimination,
and that this combination is one in re-
strain of trade aud is a conspiracy in
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law. 1t will also be charged that by
reason of the combination the mainte-t
nance of transportation rates has been SUI
bordinated 10 the maintenance ofthe price
of anthracite. One of the charges is that
a black list is kept o: retail dealers who
scale the regulations prices of coal and
that stern and swift punishment follows
each offence. 1t will be charged that in
each case the coal company has had for
heir president the president Of railroad
companies and for controlling directors,
the directors or employees of the railway
company.
Representative E. w. Roberts, OF
Massachusetts,, askei the President to-
day to receive delegation CT his con-
stituents, headed by Mayor Charles
Neill Barney, of Lynn, Mass, who
desire to talk over with the President
the massacre of Armenians by the Turks.
On account of his early departure, the
President was not able to grant the
favor but requested that the delegation
take up the subject with the State De-
partment. 1t is understood that the
Lynn delegation desires to have repre-
senlatives OF the United States at The
Hague conference urge the other powers
to take more stringent measures to
protect the Armenians.
Trust busting will be the theme of a
conference to be held at the White
House tomorrow. 1t promises to be one
of the most important discussions OF the
present administration. Not only will
all the questions arising out of the in
vestigation by the Interstate Commerce
COMMISSIONING the Hartman roads be
gone into but the case Of the coal carry
ing railroads will be considered. 1t is
s.s'ed or the host authority that reports
purporting to emaEste from the White
House to the effect that the President
had decided that Hartman should be
pulled into the court was incorrect. Be
sides the Interstate Commerce Commits
sioners who will attend tomorrow's con-
ference are included Attorney General
Bonsparte and Secretary Root.
AS soon as Pete, the bulldog guardian
of the White House, for some time past
patient at a local dog hespitsl, heard
that Buckeye brindle OF Celins, o., had
arrived to take his place at the executive
mansion, he rose from a sick bed to re-
sumo his duties. This accounted for his
patrolliDg the White House grounds TO-
day for the FIRST time within a month,
still bearing the marks of battle with
Rolla, the hound that put him out of
business, and with woefully crippled
leg that may make him limp for life.
The Celina dog is undergoing speed aud
endurance tests, under the tuteage of one
of the colored attendants of the White |
House.
Ia the "cotton leak " case, against
Holmes, today, Assistant Statisticisn G. |
G. Clark, formerly chief clerk under |
Holmes, told ofthe methods ofpreparing
crop reports. He said the reports we're
received at the department usually one
day before the crop condition was made
public. "Some, however," he said,
"would reach the Office two days before
publication. They would come under
special delivery stamps and be handed to
the statistician.
Fresh eggs 81 dozen; milk 80 cents
a quart; bacon 35 cents pound; butter
so cents a pound; -four So hundred
pounds. These are the prices that Con-
sui G. g. Cole, of Dawson, reports 10
the government must be paid in the
Yukon territory of Alaska. "There is
no article sold for less than 25 cents, no
matter how trivial" says the consul,
las there is no money in circulation Of a |
less denomination than that amount"
He predicts that prices will remain high |
until trunk line railroad from the open
sea into the heart of the Yukon valley |
is constructed. He suggests that such |
a railroad, if constructed, be under the
control of the government, so as TO keep
down excessive freight and passenger
rates.
AS a token of appreciation Of the
Presidents course In calling for aid TO
the sufferers from famine in northern
Japan, the President was presented to-
day by w. Z. Lsmpe, chairman of the