Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-11

That the next democratic national
con yention will be held later than The
republican convention now seems prob
able.
A delegation Of nearly fifty Of the
most prominent lumber manufacturers
aud shippers Of the Pacific coast is in
the city wsging fight against the recent
increase OF rates on lumber made by the
Hill and Hartman railroad systems.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
gave hearing on the subject today.
Nearly score OF complaints by various
lumber companies have been filed with
the commission, most of them alleging
discrimination, and unjust and unresson-
able rates that are so excessive as to de-
slroy competition. Victor II. Beckmsn,
secretary of the Pacific Coast Lumber
Manufacturers Association, insists that
this action of the railroads will paralyze
the business of Oregon and Washington
aud not only create lumber famine
over the country but produce a period Of
financial depression on the coast beside
which the recent furry will be'place into
insigni6cance. He asserts that 100, 600
men will be forced out of work If the
rates are allowed to continue. The rail-
way companies in their answer say that
the rates are not excessive.
The word that a republican national
committeeman from Southern State
passed around Washington today was
that if George B. Cortelyou is made the
republican candidate for the presidency
next year, the republicans will be pro-
vided with The largest campaign fund
ever raised, not even excepting the i'm
mepse fund that Marx Hanna gathered
in 1896 to assure the election Of Nc
KiDley.
Was the Clayton third term resolution
discussed at the White House today
Speaker Cannon called and had a talk
with the President. Soon after he lef!
John Sharp Williams, the minority
leader of the House, dropped in and was
closeted with the executive for quarter
of an hour. Neither of them would ad-
NIT that thu Clayton measure had been
brought up in any manner or form. But
at the same time, neither would deny in
30 many words that it had been dis
cusssd. Instead of making an out and
out statement on the subject, both the
speaker and the minority leader "side
stepped" most gracefully.
The trial Of the trainmen held respon-
sible for the wreck on the Baltimore and
Oaio railroad at Terra Gotta, d. O., last
December, in which so persons lost their
lives, and 80 we're injured, was begun
today before Justice Stafford. Pleas 10
abatement were filed on behalf of three
of the defendants asking for immunity
because of their testimony concerning
the wreck, in the inquiry conducted by
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
but Justice Stafford held that the plea
was insufficient. The selection OF jury
was then begun. The defendants are
Harry II. Hildebrsnd, Frank +. Hof-
meier Ira @. Mcclellan, and Ralph
Utter. The indictment charges man
slaughter.
President Roosevelt has appointed
f deral commission to visit Goldheld,
New, to investigate labor conditions
there, and to report 10 him personally.
The commission consists of Assistant
Secretary Lawrence o. Murray of the
Department of Commerce and Labor;
Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner of
Corporations, and Charles P. Neill,
Commissioner of Labor. The members
of the commission will start for Nevada
at p. no. today. Their appointment
was announced after conference with
the President this forenoon.
Leaving a letter in which he alleged
thai he had been driven 10 the deed
because of failures in business, brought
about through the unfair methods OF
the Standard Oil Company, Lawrence S.
Nicolsi, formerly successful independent
oil dealer, committed suicide today in
the George Washington Hospital. by
drinking lsudanum. He left also a.
letter addressed 10 his mother at Cations
vile, Nd.
Confederation was secured today to
the report that j. II. Edwards, Assistant
s Secretary of the Treasury had been
rendered the Presidency of the New
York bank to result from the proposed
merger of the Mercantile, Consolidated,
and National of North America.
All ofthe nominations to diplomatic posts,
including large number of transfers among
secretaries of legations which have been sent
to the Senrte for confirmation were today re-
ported upon favorsbly the Senate committee
an foreign relations. No other business was
taken up.
A conference with representatives Of the
meat packers throughout the country will be
held by the Secretary of Agriculture Saturday
The meeting is called for the pur-
pose Of securing views Of the packers on en-
forcement of various provisions of the meat
inspection law.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley. free Of the charge Of
killing former Senator Arthur NJ. Brown, Of
Utah, will become a book agent. The earn
ings from the venture will pay the fare Of the
woman, her mother and children TO Salt Lake,
Mrs. Bradley believing it better to earn the
money for the journey than to seek charity.
Sixtieth Congress.