Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-07
From Washington.
rCorrespondence.of the Alexandria Gazstte.l
Washington, Sept. z.

lGOrfespondence.oI the AleAnhuhAA OoASS'S''
Washington, Sept. Z.
Picnics, river sports, ball games,
motor cycle races, and tilling by riders
of Virginia, Maryland and the District
OF Oolumbis, characterize the Labor Day
celebrations at the capital. The Central
Labor Union is holding a big outing st
Bennipps. 1t is estimated thst 10. OOo
organized workmen and their families
are in attendance upon the event. j..
Euos Ray, speaker Of the Maryland
House Of Representatives, is the principal
speaker The regatta of the Middle
States Rowing Association Is being held
on the upper Potomac. Every amuse-
mept resort in the Deighborhood OF
Washington is the scene of some sort oil
sport or celebration 10 honor of the day.
All the government departments were
closed and all the business houses shut
at noon.
Although the amended rate law has
been in force more than two years, the
FIRST real hard fight under its provisions
will come up within month, when the
commission will be compelled TO answer
to the question, "How is the reason
ableness of a rate to be tested?" which
has been put fair and squsre before 1t in
the complaint, made by the Railroad
Commissions of Texas and Alabama.
Both bodies submitted figures showing,
as they assert, that the railroads are wo-
fully overcspitslized, and have also sut-
mitted figures showing what they believe
to be the real value.
The many expert seronsuts who are
attending the aeroplane tests on govern
ment supervision at Fort Myer, Va,
and who constitute s sort OF informal
congress on flying machines, are discuss
ing the sdvisability Of getting laws
passed to prevent inexperienced persons
from attempting to fly.
An agent sent by the Department, OF Agrl.
culture to Juniata, Idaho, TO investigate the
present status of the so-called Alaska wheat,
said to yield over 200 bushels per acre, ma
made a report stating the whole thing 10 DC
| fake.
The petition of the Bucks Stove and Range
Company. of which Mr.. Van Cleave,. OF 81
| L6uis. president Of the Manufacturer Asso
citation, is president, requiring Samuel Com
pers. John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, re
spe lively president, vice president aud secre
| tary of the American Federation OF LABOR, Y
show cause why they should not be adJudgeo
guity of contempt, will come up before
! Judge Gould, Of the Supreme Court oil tn'
| District of Columbia, Oil Wednesday next
Among the counsel for Mr.. Gompers and MI
associates will be Judge Alton b. Parker, o
| New York. The labor men are charged Win
acting in contempt Of the orders OF judge
| Gould of last December prohibiting then
| from continuing the Bucks Stove and RANG
| Company on the published we Don t-fSt
| ronize" list of the American Federation
Labor, aud from in any way boycotting o.
| encouraging a boycott against the company
which order subsequently became decree o
the court through the action Of Chief justice
Clabaugh and an appeal Of which is nov
peDding. Ii is claimed that they. circulated
copies of TIE American Federalionlst are
| the date of Judge Gould's order, containing
the 1--WE Don I. Pa:Tonize" list, and they ans
are charged with circulat ng the proceeding
| of the last convention of the American fed
erstioa of Labor, which indored the boycot
10 question.
| The President is expected back from Oysts
| Bay on the 22nd or 23d instant.