Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-08
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Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Senator Martin has made favorable
report on the Daniel bill for the con-
sruction of a national boulevard from
Washington to Mount Vernon.
The Galiinger. Goebel mail subsidy
bill was given knockout blow in the
House today, when the posoffce CON-
mittee, by vote of s to refused to re-
port the bill to the House fsvOrshly.
The only way the bill, already PISS d BY
the Senate, may now get befor, he
House Is To have the Ii, u disch ug
the committee. The defeat was a bard
blow 20 ship advocates. The democratic
vote against the measure was strengthen
ed enough to beat Ii by certain republic
cans who voted against the adminis,ra-
tions recommendation for the subsdv.
their argument being thst they could
not affo.d to be put on the defensive any
more for "voting Subsidies"
Two monster battleships, each to cost
Sc. 900 900; ten torpedo boat destroyers,
each 10 cost $500. 900; eight submarine
torpedo Losts to cost total of So, $780,
900 snd one Iub-surface torpedo boat to
cost $22, 500 are the increased weapons
Of war carried in the naval appropria-
lion bill which was formally reported to
hs Ho1se today by the committee on
naVal AFFAIR.". The bill makes approPr'-
alions that total $103, 976,5l8 about
SO, 500, 900 more than was carried in the
last similar bill. Provision is made IN
the measure for the enlistment of six
thousand additional mer. Fo. srmiug
and equipping the naval militia the ap-
preparation is boosted to 900, 600 10 or
der TO make the naval reserve more eff
cient.
The attorney general and tho Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor will be
compelled to tell the House why they
have not prosecuted the alleged paper
trust" according to action taken by the
House committee on judiciary today.
The committee reported fsvorably the
two resolutions introduced by Speaker
Cannon, calling on The Department OF
Justice and Co nmerce and LatOr to give
this information.
Presiden. Roosevelt hiss written a
letter to the attorney general instruciing
bin to proceed against the railroads OF
The South which do not furnish equal
accom- modations for negroes in the Jim
crow" cars that they do in the coaches
provided for whites. The president had
received number OF complaints from
colored organizations and individuals in
the South protesting against their treat
ment in this regard. 10 his letter the
president says: "The Interstate Com
merce Commission has taken what is
/ urquestionsbly the right ground; that
where separate accommodations are pre-
vided for white and colOred passengers,
the accommodations for cOlOred passen'
gers shall be as coed as those furnished
white passengers for the same money.
In other words, while there is nothing
In the law which forbids separate &C.
commodatious, thess accommodations
must be equal"
Japan and America joined today in
doing honor to the late Durham W..
Stevens, adviser to the japanese govern
ment, who was asssssinated in San Fran
cisco, at his funeral here. The cere.
monies were under the ausp ces Of the
Japanese Ambassador at the direction of
IS government. American officials,
headed by Secretary of State Root, we're
prominent in the obs quies. Brief ser-
VICES were held over the body at the resi-
dence of the late diplomats sister, Mrs.
Joseph L. Porter, and at St, Johns EpiS-
oOpsl Church at p. m. Burial followed
in Oak Hill Cemetery. President Rooss-
welt sent very handsome floral piece TO
be laid upon the coffin of Mr.. Stevens.
How much ice will the labor vote cut
! next fall? Secretary Taft isu't the only
man who would like to know. Il is
the biggest problem now confronting
professional politicians. Bryan, john
son and Judge Gray are figuring on the
proposition, and no one is taking a
,eper interest than those republican
congressman hsiliDg from doubtful dis
tricts who see menace to their political
futures in the latest activities OF The
AmericaL Federation of Labor.
That the Aldrich currency bill, which
has passed the Senate, is"undssirable and
impracIicable," was the statement made
today before the House committee on
banking and currency ty i. SOuthsrd
Parker, President Of the National Metro
politan Bank of this city and President
OF the Clearing House Association of the
District of Columbia.
The condition of Thomas McCrearY.
the horsemsn who was shot by Repre-
sentative HtflliD, shows a slight improve
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