Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-03

returning Hun thO OSu'SHS~NS
at Richmond.
President Roosevelt was given plate
of pure Georgia gold today by W. n.
Mitchell, president Of the Georgia Com
mission, which is ara ging the pre-
gramme for the Executives visit to
jamestown next week. The plate con-
tains twenty-five ounces Of gold, is
worth $500, and contains picture Of
Bulloch Hall, The home Of the Pfesi-
dents mother; the coats Of arms of the
Stale of Georgia and Of the Bulloch
family. The President expressed his
thanks to Mr.. Mitchell for the handsome
gift and told him that he regarded it as
the most precious souvenir of his public
career.
Pearl Wight, of New Orleans, has
consented 10 accept the Presidents offer
of the appointment as Internal Revenue
Commission to succe, John w. Yerkes,
Of Kentucky, resigned with the provisO
that he may wait until next December
before taking Office. The President agreed
to this when Wight called at the White
House today. A commissioned an interim
will be appointed, whose name has not
yet been announced.
It is announced by the Department Of
Justice this afternoon that the papers in
the investigation against the anthracite
coal carrying railroads have been placed
in the hands of Assistant Attorney
General Purdy, with dire ctions to take
such action as he deems proper" II
is explained that the bitumiuous roads
are not involved in this. 1t is under
STOOD that the recommendations are
s.rong for prosecution under the Sher-
man antitrust law.
Chief Moore, of the Weather Bureau,
is seriously considering the disconnection
of his telephone until the present cold
snap passes away. a lot Of foolish folk,
who imagine he is responsible for these
rare days in June, have been making
life miserable for him with their COM
plants. Todsy's information from the
iorcaster's contains small cheer. Al
thought slightly warmer weather is
promised for & day or so, the bureau
has word of ga second disturbance NOV
ing eastward from Lake Superior Yes
terday was the coolest Sunday in June
Washington ever had record Of. The
minimum temperature was As.
Edwin s. Holmes, ir, former assist
ant statistician of the Agricultural De-
partment, was tc lay placed on trial in
the criminal court. He was indicted 10
1905, together with Frederick A. Peck
ham and Moses Haas, of New York, for
conspiracy in the "cotton leak" scandal.
Holmes went to trial alone, the govern
ment having be en- unable to extradite
Haas and Peckham up TO this time.
The future action of the government
towards those two will depend upon the
decision in the Holmes case. The H.
dictment charges that the three men
entered into scheme, whereby Holmes
prepared the cotton bulletins OF the De-
partment of Agriculture and gave advance
Information to the two New Yorktr.
This information was given to Lewis e..
Van Ripper, who, as according to the
governments charge, speculaied, ard
divided the winnings among the con-
spirators. 1t is charged thst at lelst
81, 900 was CLEANED up before the o.
eminent discovered the leak. Upon
being arraigned, Holmes, who WAS &C
companied IN court by his wife, pleadt d
not guilty. The panel was quick y
exhausted in an endeavcr to get jury
and special venire Of forty men WAS
ordered summoned by the court.
With the characteristics" the Gin
dependistss," the "progresistas," the
"nntionslists" the "federaliste," the
"unionists," the "fusiOnists," and some
others, all in the field, Secretary Taft
will have difficult time to keep party
lines distinctly drawn in his mind when
he arrives in Manila to attend the Open-
ing of the first insular assembly next
October. The campaigns preceding the
midsummer election of members of the
assembly and other provincial and mu-
nicipal officers are nov in full sway and
The way the natives are displaying an IL
terest would be an object Lesson to pO'
itical kindergsrtcns. As to ISSUES, the
one subject upon which the various plat
forms are based, according TO reports
that have come TO the Wa. Department
is that of independence for the islands
Every shade of opinion 10 regard to
Americas granting independence to the
Filipincs at this or at sny future period,
and the way it should be done, is to be
found. The election will be free from all
side show attractions, so that the Fill
Pine may more easily concentrate his
faculties on the grave question Of chOos-
ing proper men to go to the assembly.
Every possible facility will be extend
ed by the government to Ms3 Gertrude
Beeks, of the National Civic Federation,
in her investigation of "red lights" and
other things on the Isthmus Of Panama.
She will sail tomorrow for Colon,
The charges in the customs regula-
tons affected by the new German tariff
agrC ement will, it is stated today at the
State Department be applicable to inn
ports from all countries and are not
especially applicable to Germany alone.
A dispatch received by the State De-
ia tment from Consul Paddock, at Annoy,
China, states that quiet has been restored
10 that vicinity. The rebels have been
temporarily defeated.