The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-01-10
TALES GAS.
Bill Introduced 70 Lower tn,
Price In Washington.
CUBAN OUTBREAK IS FEARED.
Texas winter Climate Too severe 70.
Imported BoII weeviI Assassin BAG.
senator BaiIsy's PopuIarity-seere-
tnry straus' Pottery Fad.
BY CHARLES W. ARTHUR.

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BY CHARLES W. ARTHUR.
Washington. Jan. r. Especial. IA
campaign for cheaper gas in which the
whole country Is taking n lively inter.
est, judging by newspaper comment
and by letters received here, is now in
progress in the District OF Columbia.
At present citizens of Washington
proper are paying 81 per thousand feet
for their gas, and Representative Mad
den OF Chicago has introduced bill
reducing that figure to IS cents. In
Georgetown. which. although a part OF
Washington, Is still exclusive in more
ways than one, the price OF gassup to
the first OF the present month was
S1.25 per thousand. The gas company
/ which operates there, an organization
which is separate and distinct from the
I Washington Gaslight company, has
voluntarily reduced Its price to 81 per
thousand, and. us It has always been
conceded that the cost OF manufacture
is greater there than In the city proper,
this reduction Is being urged as an I'D
ditional reason why the price in Wash
I ington should be lowered to - cents.
In matters OF this kind congress acts
In the capacity Of city council. and
both houses must pass favorably on
the Madden bill in order to make the
! proposed reduction effective. The ele-
ment Of politics has been interjected,
! and the contest promises to be the
warmest OF the kind that has been
known in the national capital in years.
Cuban Conditions unsatisfaetory.
A conference on conditions in Cuba
/ will be held at the White House as
soon as General j. Franklin Bell. in
I command OF the army OF Cuban paclf.
cation, returns from the island. The
\ administration is far from satisfied
with the Cuban situation and is now
bending every energy to prevent fur
Their outbreak there. President Roose-
welt and his principal advisers are par
ticularly concerned over the possible
effect OF talk OF making the island a
part OF the United States. Such talk
Is obnoxious to Cubans, and continu-
ance of II, the administration fears,
will have a very bad effect. Efforts
are being made TO create the i'm
preston that the island is peaceful and
satisfied, but private advices indicate
an opposite stRte of Affairs. Charles
E. Magoon. the provisional governor.
is to be recalled soon and sent TO the
Philippines as governor general.
Exit the Kelsp.
The department OF agriculture has
finally rung down the curtain on the
I performance OF the Guatemalan ant
I or kelep. which has been imported to
this country In large numbers for use
in the campaign against the destructive
cotton boil weevil in Texas. Agents Of
the department who went to Central
and South America in search OF a para
site to prey on the dreaded weeyil
which has cost the cotton raisers OF
the south many millions OF dollars.
thought they had found Just what they
were looking for In the kelep. 1t
proved to be an enemy OF the weevil.
which II disposed of in short order
\ whenever brought into close quarters
but the experts have not been able to
/ keep the ami alive in Texas during the
winter and nave not succeeded in
+ bringing 1t in In sufficiently large num-
/ bers to he effective over anything Ike
large section Of country The failure
Of the experiments which have been
! conducted for two or three years has
now been announced officially.
Hailsy's Victory Pleases.
Much satisfaction is expressed in
Washington over the result OF prima-
ries in one or two Texas counties which
seem to indicate definitely that Sena-
tor Bailey of that state will be elected
to succeed himself. A bitter fight Is In
I progress against the senator because
/ Of his alleged connection with the Wa
ters-Pierce OIL company. branch of
the Standard. At the primary elections
\ held last summer members OF the Tex
as legislature were instructed to return
the senator by overwhelming majori-
I ties. When disclosures that Mr.. Bailey
had borrowed money from II. Clay
/ Pierce. president OF the Waters Pierce
concern. were brought TO light, II was
argued that the action OF the former
primaries should not be binding, and
two or three counties decided to hold
new primaries. In one OF these Sena-
tor Bailey has been upheld by a vote
Of more than three to one. and. as has
been said, his return to the senate now
seems certain. He is recognized as one
OF the most brilliant men who have sat
In the halls Of congress in recent years,
and Washington has been intensely in
terested in the campaign against him.
straus Likes Pottery.