Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-01-08

floor. he believes that bis plan for
central federal bsnk should be adopted.
The bill will be given the right o. way
10 the Senate. In the House 1t Is PROB
able that q special ru le will be adopted
TO force consideration of the bill and 10
NIT debate. This course will AVOID
delsys in the banking ard currency
committee, The choirman Of which
Fowler, Of New jersey, is opposed to
certain features of the Aldrich bill.
The three Pacific coast States, which
baked at the coast artillery's plan OF
having portion Of their militia mau
the COS st delences will confer with Gen.
ersl Murray, chief of artillery, this week
with the object of arriving at plaD.
The Atlantic coast and Gulf States, al
most without exception, have been will
log to divert a portion of the national
guard 10 the task of manning coast de-
fences. California, Oregon and Wash
iagtOn declined to use the national guard
for this purpose. They expressed VIII
l.npness to establish an additional branch
provided the federal government would
equip it, on the ground that 1t was as
much for the defence of the interior
States as for the sea coast States.
That the Aldrich financial bill is to
have hard sliding in the House was made
patent today when the subcommittee
Of the banking and currency committee,
By party vote, agreed to the PROPOSE
ton of Chairman Fowler, for National
Bank guaranteed credit notes. The
measure, which will be offered in the
House today is credit currency one.
Providing for a tax upon all currency is
sued and abolishing sill sub-tressuries.
The Fowler bill will be contested in the
full committee by the democrats and
several of the republicans bat whether
The measure dies in the full committee
or on the floor it shows conclusively that
the financial legislative sharks OF the
House will oppose the Aldrich propo-
sitiOn.
By general orders issued at the War
Department today Brig. Gen. Winfield
s. Edgerly is relieved from further COM
msnd Of the Department of the Gulf at
Atlanta and will temporarily assume
command of the Department OF Dakota
at st. Paul, relieving Msjor Gen. Adolf
plus w. Greedy. General Greedy is
granted leave of absence to March II, at
which time he will be placed on the re-
tired list for age, and Gen. Edgerly will
be assigned to permanent commander at
st. Paul.
A measure permitting receivers to be
sued and to sue, the suits being tried be-
fore iuries, was introduced in the House
today by Mr.. Copper, of Texas.
The Japanese question is getting
larger each day. some predict that a
failure to negotiate treaty with Japan
which will keep out lsborers from that
country or the failure of Congress to
legislale upon the matter, II the treaty
does not materislizs, is the cause OF
present conditions. President Roose-
Welt has been in conference with Repre-
sentatiyes Hayes and Kahn of California
on the subject quite frequently of late.
The President believes that he will yet
be able to arrange a suitable exclusion
treaty with the Japanese government.
The California members as q unit, and
they are the leaders in the movement
for the entire Pacific coast. seem content
to leave the matter for the present With
Mr.. Roosevelt. If a satisfactory treaty
should not be negotiated, it is possible,
to save their own faces, they will turn
against the President and fight the
matter out in Congress. With one voice
they declare that the paramount issue
on the coast is japanese exclusion.
The State Department today informed
The japanese goVefnmeDt through lie
charge d. affairs here, in response to E
query that the appointment of Kogoro
Tskabir, IS ambassador, ia place of Wis
count Aoki, recalled, would be entirely
satisfactory to the United States govern
ment. This practically assures the
transfer of Tskshira from the smbsssa-
dOrship at Rome and his return to Wash
iDgton where he served as minister pre-
vious to Aokfs appointment.
The subcommittee of the banking
and currency committee of the House
today agreed to the proposition Of Chair
man Fowler, for national bank guar
anteed credit notes. The measure also
provides for q tax upon all currency
Issued, and abolistes al sub-treasuries.
1t will be contested in the full commit
tee by the democrats and several of the
republicans.
Jacob Gerstenberg, of the German Or
phan Asylum, 80 years old, committed
suicide sometime last night or early this
morning by shooting himself in the
head. He had been missing from the
Orphsnage for several days aud was sup
posed to be in bad health end de-
spondent.
A revised employers liability act,
which Senator Kuox and Representa-.
tive Bates, penn. believe meets the OBJ
jections of tie Supreme Court Of the
United States, was offered in tee House
today by the latter.
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy New
berry today received adelegstiou repre-
senting the lsborers of the Washington
and Norfolk navy yards 10 protest
against the wage scale for 1908, as
agreed upon, asking a slight increase
for age. The petition from the Wash
ington navy yard was ri cted. While
the claims on bebsltof the Norfolk navy
workers will be taken under considers
ton.
A measure making train wreckiug
where life is lost, capital ofsnse wss