Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-18
From Washington
( Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, June Is.


| Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, June Is.
President Roosevelt has just made the
most magnificent gift to China that the
United States or any other government
has made to a foreign nation. Through
Secretary Root he has notified Sir Cheun
Liang Cheng, the Chinese minister, that,
with the approval of Congress, the
United States voluntarily will relinqIish
the difference between the total OF ex-
peuses and claims incurred in the sup
preston OF the boxer revolt ofl900 and
the amounts which China agreed to pay
to this country 10 satisfaction thereof.
The difference, according to. the an
nouucement today, is fixed officially at
the enormous figure of $27, 600, 600. Be-
yOnd the mere generosity of the gift,
there are international aspects in the
matter which were promptly considered
by foreign chanceliories. In the first
place the punishment of the difference
between the amount China agreed to
pay and that justly due establishes q
precedent for like sctiOn on the part OF
Russia, Germany, France, Japan and
Great Britain, each Of which demanded
indie mnities far in excess OF the expenses
actually incurred and the damages SUI
tered by their subjects. In the second
place Japan will look upon it as ire
mendOus bid by the United States for
the sympathy aud friendship of China,
something she has been endeavoring TO
secure.
The Navy Department was advised
today by Rear Admiral Emory, at
Hampton Roads, of the finding of tie
body of Walter Carl Ulricb, of Wiscor-
sin, who WIS one of the midshipmen TO
20 down with the launch of the Mime
sofa on June 10 The department has
also received confirmation of the finding
of the bodies of the three other midship-
men and one of the fremen. There are
still six missing officers and sailors.
A dispatch to the Secretary of tie
Navy from Norfolk this afternoon states
that the body recovered today from
Hampton Roads, has been Identified as
that of Harvey Leslie Van Dorm, ordi-
nary seaman, one of the victims of the
Minnesota launch accident
An attempt at suicide was made by
Philip May, a former employe of the
State Department, who was found
unconscious in the lavstOry of the sub
basement, with q gas tube in his mouth.
He was taken to the Emergency Hos
pital and will recover.
There is an uncOnfrmed report here
that Secretary Taft may withdraw from
the presidential race.
Senator Beverage, who had two
hours conference with the Presiden;
yesterday, says that the issues of the
next republican campaign will be RoOse-
velts policies.
TIE treasury department today vindi-
Gates commander Cameron MGR Via
slow, of the cruiser Charleston and one
of the wealthiest men in the United
States navy of having attempted to de-
fraud the government out of customs
duties amounting to.$2O5 at San Diego,
Cal. Acting Secretary Reynolds ex-
plains that an investigation of the case
discloses that On last Thursday the COL |
lector at that port, wired the depart |
ment that he had held up large guam
ity of wines and cigars, the property of
an officer aud inquired whether he should |
accept the duty preferred. He was in
slructed to accept payment if throughly
convinced that no fraud was intended.
The Geological Survey announces that the
government and the railroads are about TO eX-
pertinent at Norfolk, Va, with ''briquette"
in locomotives, with the hope of having |
evolved a smOkeless fuel. Experiments al
ready carried out have convinced the Missouri |
Pacific Railroad. the Rock Island, the Hi
nois Central, the Burlington and others, that
''br quette" furnish several times as much |
heat as plain, every day bitiminous coal, and
produce very little smoke. "Briquettes" are
made by taking waste, or slack coal, mixing
II with tar and then pressing the mass into
blocks by machinery.
According TO the ties imtny today Of Lcu's
Van Ripper, the former New York broker, al
the trial of Edwin $. Holmes, it,. for alleged
detraudiug Of the govern ent by giving out,
~ assocldte Statlstlclah OF the Agricultural
Department, advance information about
crop conditions. Holmes got legal advice
that he could not be prosecuted befre he en-
barked upon his scheme Of giving out tips.
The discovery Of a wonderful supply of
in New Mexico is announced by
The Department Of Commerce and Labor.
The veins are located in the Disblo range of
about 20 miles northwest of Pinos
Altos.
Commissioner Of labor Charles p. NELL is
N New York city today, and il is probable
hat while there he will acluaint himself with
he differences between the telegraph oper-
ltnIs and the two telenranh cnmnanies