Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-03-06

testimony of officers before the Senate
committee were discussed but inasmueh
as the bureaus of equipment and nsVi-
CATION were the eniy ones represented
there is q possibility that the President
purposes ordering more tactical msnonV-
ers 10 connection with the voyage OF the
battleship feet.
The District OF Columbia committee
of the House will begin hearings on the
bill to prohibit the manufacture sna
sale of intoxicsnts in the District OF
Columbis, March II. Matthew 4.
o. Brlen, representing the prohibition
forces, has secured an agreement that the
committee will give six days hearing on
the measure. O'Brien has maps and
photographs Of the tenderloin section oil
Washington and claims that ne can snow
the location of over two hundred places
that are now selling liquor illegally I'M
der the present high license law. de
said today: "The break down OF the
license system in the nations capital
ought to convince every one that regu-
lstion of the liquor traffic is impossible.
There is more lsglessness now than
there would be under prohibition. The
spesk-essy now abounds 10 Washington
under high license"
Attorney General Bonaparte today
dissipated any impression that the ap-
poin ment OF a receiver for the Western
Maryland Railroad Is part of an
smicable understanding between the
government and the coal-csrrying rail-
roads, in order to get an early ruling
upon the constiiutionslty OF the COM
modify clause of the Hepburn act, or
that the legal action taken by the Gould
line will give it any advantage over
its competitor in evadiDg the law. he
announced today that no fnal agree
ment had been reached by the Depart
ment Of Justice and interested railroads
relative to test of that provision of the
rate law which prohibits any common
carrier from transporting after May l
any coal mined by it. II is said al the
Department OF Justice that the govern
ment has no intention of dealing harsh
ly ia the matter With the coal-carryiug
roads.
Within two hours after the adoption
by the House this afternoon, of the res-
oiution to investigate the Lilley charges,
the investigating committee began its
lsbors, Chairman Boutell having called
meeting to outline plans for conduct
ing the inquiry. Before the committee
Mr.. Lilley was put through the sweat
box regarding his alleged charges that
Chairman Sherman Of the republican
congressional committee had gotten
money from the company for campaign
purposes. Mr.. Lilley denied the charges.
He told the committee Of what he
thought was an attempt to corrupt him.
The head men Of the Ossge band OF
Indians shook hands with The Great
White Father ut the White House this
morning. Congressman Mcguire, OF Okla
homa, introduced the Red Men who are
said to be the richest people per capita
iu the world. The President was much
interested in the call and had q chat
with Black Dog and Brave about the
habits of the buffalo.
J. NJ. Oolp, vice president of the
Southern Railway. 10 charge of freight,
appeared before the Senate committee
on Interstate Commerce today in oppO-
sition to the FoliOn bill which allows
the Interstate Commerce Commission to
suspend on complaint of Sny shipper 40
increased rate proposed by railroad I'M
til after investigation IS 70 its reason
ableness, etc. Mr.. Culp objected that
such a provision would really work
against the reduction of rates.
The cruiser-Yacht MsyhOWer, which
left Washington yesterday for the south,
vent sgccurd this morning rear Nor
folk, according to a dispaich received by
+he Navy Department.
The leading-banking and financial houses
Of Chicago protested to the Senate today
against the enactment ofany law impairilg
or even modifying" the sysytem of dealing in
futures ON grain. The petitioners among
other things declare that the passage Of such
bills would be well nigh disastrous to the
commercial, agricultural and financial in
teress Of the country.
It is understood that the American fleet
now on the Pacific will be ordered to return
by the way Of Suez.