Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-03-14
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.


wears more. No matter where you go
said Stewart ''the people seem to be sure
that the President will eventually run
again and this feeling is Just az strong
In Canada, as it is in the United S'stes. F."
"Taft will not get 800 votes in the
convention. have just made a bet
with another Senator that he will never
oct $50; that showed how strongly be-
ljeve that Roosevelt will be the nominee
of the convention" With these words
Senator Bourne, of Oregon reiterated his
predictions regarding the presidential
succession. Bourne wss a callsr at the
White House today and after his visit
with the President asserted that "unles'
the people preferred him as dictator
than as 8 servant, they would compel
him to run another term" al believe"
said Senator Bourne, chat the will OF
the people IS supreme in this country.
The man 10 the White House thinks he
can dictate his successor. | believe he
will find himself NJ AIKEN. He himself
Ia the o0ly man that can win on the re-
publican ticket this fall, and the only
wsy to prevent Bryan from sWeeping ths
country is to make him run whether rs
wishes to do so or not"
It's practically certain that the sub
committee of the Senate committee on
| The judiciary will report 10 favor OF a
hill to confirm TO the States their police
tosers over shipments Of liquor, COM
jny In interstate commerce, as soon az
they cross the state lloep. 1t was de-
cided that the subcommittee should
meet early Monday morning and pre-
mare the draft Of the bill which II will
recommend to the full committee for
massage. The points which it is desired
to safeguard are the individual rights
of a person to order liquors for bis own
personal use while preventing the prsc'
tice which now prevails in many pre-
bibition States of having liquors shipped
in care of an express comptny, or other
wise, and, on receipt, being distributed
among a number OF persons who we're
not named as the coDsignees.
Representative Perkins, of New York,
told the President today that Secretary
Tsfts nomination at Chicago was in his
Judgment a certainty, and in doing &C
the Empire State Congressman threw
up the sponge for Hughes. Nothing
SaJsld, nlsasa tAq n4NJiAef, NeW- Yntb
have him nominated. This, however,
&, ems impossi lie and The mex b s. thire
is 10 do The best We can. which is ic
nominate Taft. The opposition TO Taft
will not be sble TO combine against him,
and the result will be that, after the frs
ballot, if the Secretary has not already
won the nomination, the delegates
pledged 10 favorite sons will flock TO the
Taft inClosure."
Representative w. Bourke Cochran.
of New York, who is serving bis second
term as Congressman, has been dropped
from oil the committees In TammaDy
Hall, and within a week or two he will
be dropped from the board of sschem;
OF the Columbian Oder, Of which he ia
grand sachem. Mr.. Lsw's Nixon succeeds
Mr.. COCHRAN as cbsirm9n OF the CON-
mittee on legislation and John ]. DelsDy
on speakers. II is also said that he will
not be renomiDated for Congress next
fall, nor will he be allowed to 90 to the
Denver convention rs delegate from
New York county. In TammsDy
circles he is held 10 be absolutely down
and out"
That millions of dollars for the forti6-
cation and coast defenses of the Pacific
seaboard Of the United States and for the
Philippine Islands will be carried in the
Notifications appropriation bill which
is now under consideration by the House
committee on appropriations, was learned
today. The bill will bs reported to the
House Monisy.
At meeting of the democratic steer
ing committee of the Senate held today
| it was decided to assign to the new
Senator Gary Of South Caroline, ell OF
the committee place. that we're held by
the late Senator Lstimer, whom he cue
ceeds, with one exception. On the
special application OF Mr. Gore, the blind
Senator from Oklahoma, he was trans
ferred from the committee on privileges
and elections to Latimer's place on The
agricultural committee, Mr.. Gerry be-
ing given the vacancy thus created on
the privileges and elections com mi,tee.
An appeal was taken yesterday by
DIS riot Attorney Baker from the de-
cision of Judge Stafford, holding that
the persnbulsting method Of bookmak-
ing was within the law. NOtwitlstsnd-
ing the courts decision, Commissioner
Mcfarland says that arrests of all book
makers detected in receiving and plsc-
| ing bets on the races at Benniugs would
be made as soon IS the spring meeting
opened.
The bsttleship New Hampshire, The
first to be added to the navy since The
departure Of the Atlantic feet, was Or
deIed placed in commission at the
League Islsrd Navy Yard today. This
vessel is 16, 500 ton ship.
The Chinese government, confident in
the belief that sll necessary amends
have been made In the matter of the
capture of the japanese steamship Tatsu
by apoligiziDg for the lowering OF the
japanese flag on the vessel. is inclined
10 stand firmly by the decision Of the
customs officials to not surrender the
ship nor great indemnity, inasmueh as
a careful investigation hiss shown con-
| clusively that the vessel was actually
| engaged in smuggling munition OF war.
This information comes 10 sn official re.
port on the situation to a foreign can
bassy in this city, by the way of its
foreign Office.
Another naval problem has been
launched BY Surgeon General Rixey in
| a statamant IN Secretary Metcalf In