Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-04

that Mr.. LsFolletle and his followers
would vote far Bryan this fall, has
created q str in Washington. "Ihe |
followers of LaFolIette can find no place
within the republican camp this year
sava Mr.. Hitchcock. ''Their leader has |
been osiracised and repudisted by Inc
republican organic ton. He has fought
most desperately and Brilliantly the cur
reucy bill, which WAS the leading repuo-
licsn psrt, measure, and they will, in
this campaign, naturally JPN the great
army of Bryan men recruited from the
r.pnbliesn ranks." The fact that Sena-
TOR LaFollette's friends have made pub
lie none of their arrangements for the
Chicago convention, such as the name OF
hi, nomiuator, lends some credence TO
The rumor that the Wisconsin senator
will Withdraw from the contest disgusted.
Some sort of an announcement is ex'
pected from him any day. Should La
Toilette desert to Bryan, It is acknow-
ledge that his following would be an I'M
DO mt ifnc q serious detection from t1e
republican patty. 1t was practically
the Wisconsin delegation under the d.
rection of SeuttIr LaFollttt, that de-
feaied ship subsidy in the House Only
Judge jenkins voted for it and 1t IS
nudersto ID that he is to be disciplined
by defeat, for his independence OF La
Folletlism. The WiscoDsiDites generally
figured against the Aldrich bill in the
House and Representatives Cooper and
Nelson, both LaFollette men, repeatedly
attacked, on the floor, the republican
methods Of doing business in the House.
Senator Joseph w. Bailey, of Texss,
will undergo an operst on in New fo'k
t,morr1w for elongation of the palate.
Ever since the Texas campaign he has
had trouble with his throat. This pro-
vented his being heard in the Senate
Turing the closing days of the session.
Ratification of three treaties recently
drawn up between Great Britain and the
United st lies we're exchanged TODAY by
AMBASSADOR Bryce and Secretary Root.
These cover the questions of the Ca
aadinn boundary, Canadian bounderY
ashtries and arbitration between the two
governments. Another treaty, pertain
ing to salvage and other claims, has
,een signed but net ratified.
Twenty. five applicants have been des-
gnsted by Assistant Secretary OF the
| NAVY Newberry for examination for ap-
ooiptne TO I'll seven vacancies in the
grade of assistant paymaster. The exr
animation will be conducted on July g
It the Washington and Mare Island
navy yard.
The new ermorsd cruiser North Caro-
ina has been sent to Annapolis for
complement OF six midshipmen Of the
graduating class. Visitors in attend
lnce upon the graduation exercises this
week accordingly will see at the very
ioor of the academy the newest warship
be placed in commission and at the
,ame tine the biggest man-of-wsr that
mas ever made its way up the severen
% the doors Of the academy.
1t is said that there now are In this
dty more unemployed men and women
han for years pest.
Official Washington is preparing t.
vail down the Chesapeake bay, the latter
part of next week to see the monitor
Frorida torpedoed. Secretary Metcalf is
r,anizDg party TO go on the Dolphin,
IN which Secretary and Mira. Taft will
be guests. The pr sident's yatcb, May
| flower. is being held st the navy yard,
in case the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will find it possible to 90. A charged
torpedo is to be directed against the hull
| Of the monitor and the vessel Is now
being bulk-headed to prevent sinking
in case the explosion Is not too severe.
She will be anchored over bar, go
that, in case the missile pent 'stes
he hull and sends her to the bottom,
she can easily be raised.
Minority Leader Williams is taking
,weet vengeance, on the republicans
for passing through the House the reso-
luton granting members "lesve to
print" speeches never delivered in the
House, 10 the Congressional Record, for
Eve days after the adjournment of Con-
gress The day after the session closed,
ur. Williams LED of with a speech on
the currency question, and today he
comes ont in another issue since adjourn
ment With two more speeches. Other
members have been content with embslm-
ing one speech and some with none This
line Mr.. Williams talks about federal
usurpation by the republican party and
it, prototypes, and under the title
"Speech of Hon. John s. Williams, Of
Mississippi, in the House Of Represen-
tstives, Saturday Mas 80, 1908" and
sith line of introduction, print, an ad-
lress of Hon. George Gray, of Delaware,
before the Pennsylvania Bar Association,