Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-25

crsssing BY leaps and bounds. The e.
pendilures are exceeding the receipts by
8 daily average OF over bali 3 million
dollars. Treasury officials call attention
to the fact that the annual estimate:
sent to committees last November fixed
the probable deficit for the fiscal year 81
sI1l, 900, 600. With this startling H.
formation before ii, an authority says
Congress appropriated money with ire'
hand.
The tea given Wednesday afternoon
by Mrs. Taft in honor Of the ladies o.
Congress is taken by the politicians o.
both PARTIES to be an exhibit OF the Tsi'
winning brand Of diplomacy. The oldeS'
Inhabitants failed to remember Wher
soy presidents wife ever before gave Q
tea In honor of the wives OF senators and
representatives,. The tariff bill is up.
Connecting the two, the political gossiP'
assert tba! the president will have nc
difficulty in securing the passage OF the
measure substantially as he wishes. Ii
ia believed that the delicste compliment
to the ladies' will have direct tffecI
upon the vote OF the husbands.
Urgiog special training that will BIT
the naval surgeon TO cope With the dis
eases common to tropical climates. SEC
rotary of the Navy George V. L. Meyer
today addressed the graduating class at
the Naval Medical School. "Whlle II
is required that the naval surgeon be
we'll qualified in all professional
branches" he said, "the science of mil
itary and naval surgery represents q
special need. Whenever al armed force
of sailors or marines is landed, such q
force is subject to all the usual hhzsIds
of operations on shore and 1t is the liza
bility t. such duty that makes 1t neces-
ssry that the naval surgeon shall be
posted with regard TO military surgery"
Surgeon General Rixey was praised for
his interest and efforts 10 establishing
the naval school Of medicine and 10
bringing it to its present state OF eff
cheney.
An official announcement of the status
OF the NatioDsl Conservation Commits
sion, put out OF business by the Tswney
amendment to the sundry civil bill
against government by commission, "
was sent out TO the members OF the con-
ssrsatiou commission today by It's chair
man, Chief Forester Piuchot. 1t an
nounces that "because of this clause,
The National Conservation Commission
can not proceed with it's work" This
is the outcome OF the decision OF Presi'
dent Taft who announced at the outset
of his administration that the letter oil
the lsw would be followed. Mr.. PiBchol
SAYS in his letter that the National Con-
serystion Commission will continue,
although Its work is temporarily Inter
rupted and that President Ia will Ssh
Congress for special appropriation fol
The use OF the commission ut the first
regular session oil the present Congress.
| Meanwhile the work will be carried On
by the Joint committee on conservation
authorized by the joint conference d
governors of states, Safe Conservation
Commissions and representatives, OF Us
tional organizations the fifth Of tbl'
month.
The president has received 8 protest
sgalus the appointment of Howard Oss
sci, as postmaster at Florence, s. O..
upon the ground that be is not bOns
| 6de resident of the state. Cassel is thG
--.. VI Representative OasseI, or Penn
sylysnia, is backed by Postmaster Gen
eraI Hitchcock, and those who opposed
bis selection say that he merely wenl
down there to manage a wsterworkS con
Germ owned by his f,ther.
The president sent the following noni
nations to the Senate today: To bC
Ambassador TO Ilsly, John G. A. Lsish-
mao, of Penn; Minister to Spain,
Henry Clay Ide, of Vermont; Minister
of Argentina, Charles 81. Sheriff., q
In. Y; Postmaster OF Mount Jackson,
Va, Albert A. Evans.
The personal Of the navy board which
is to take up The question Of regulations
involved 10 Secretary Newberfy's plau
for the reorganization of the navy, was
announced today by Secretary Meyer
The board will consist of eight officers,
I've of the line and three ofthe stat. TIE
members will be Resr Admirsls OoWles,
Barton, Cspps aud Rogers, Engineer
Hollyday, and the three division COM
mandels Of the Atlantic feet, Rear Ad-
mirsls Wainwright and Potter and Capt.
Osterbaus.
The 6ral review of the evidence has
been made, the brief has been prepared,
the 0. X. of the new attorney general
has been placed upon every step thus
far taken, and everything is now 10
perfect shape for the struggle in the
legal battle which has been 10 progress
| for over two years between the govern
meut and the Standard Oil Company.
Special Counsel Kellogg, after going
over the dissolution case in detail here
with Attorney General Wickersban for
the past three weeks. has mapped out
his argument to be made before the u.
S. Circuit Court at st. Louis, on April g.
Charging that President Taft has de.
parted from the Roosevelt ideas with
regard to labor and that Roosevelt him.
self ceased bis attack upon "mslefactors
Of great wealth" during the Taft cam
paign in order 10 secure the support Of
the business interests for the republican
candidate, Samuel Gompegs, president
OF the American Federation of Labor,
attacks the labor policy Of the present
administration in an editorial in The
April issue of the American Federation
ist, out today.
1t is proposed in bill introduced in
the House today by Hsmliu (dem. No. J,
that the government assume control Of
The Confederate cemetery sdjoiHing the