Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-20
WEEK ENDING MARCH go, 1909.

An extra session of Congress met at
noon Monday; the President transmitted
d message, pointing out the necessity for
the revision of the tariff. The President
attended meeting of the Yale University
Corporation and the alumni dinner Of his
alma mater. Central American ministers
conferred with Secretary Knox over the
Nicaragua war situation. Mr. Cannon was
reelected Speaker of the Sixty-first Con-
gress. BY vote of PHI to 172 the House
rules were modified, the Cannon forces
voting with some democrats to block out
tie insurgents" and democratic plan for
complete revision. Speaker Cannon an
nOunced the personnel of the rules and
ways and means committees. Represent
alive Serene E. Payne, chairman of the
ways and means committee, introduced
the tariff bill. which was referred to the
&C mmittee and promptly reported back to
the House. The bill providing for the
taking Of the thirteenth census was pass
ed by the House. Col. Goethals made a
special report for Panama in which he
answered all critics. Miss Mary Mccain
was given a Congress medal for saving
nine lives i'm the Slocum disaster which
was presented by Mr.. Cannon in the
Speakers room William Whital, son of a
prominent republican politician of Penn
sylvania, was kidnapped and $1,000 de-
manded for his ransom. John ID. Sharp.
charged with the inufUcf OF L niteu STATES
Senator f. w. Carmack, was acquitted
and the CoOpers. father and son. were
convicted of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to Imprisonment for twenty
years.
Foreign Affairs.
Reginald Mckenna, first lord of the adj
miralty. and Premier Asquitn spoke be
fore the house of commons in defense Of
the naval estimate. saying that the rapid
construction in Germany caused the in
crease in the estimates. King Edward
saw flights of the Wright aeroplane at
Pau, and showed enthusiasm over the sue
cess of the American inventor The strike
of the government postal employees was
extended in Paris until all departments
were tied up: food prices began Ia soar.
banks refused to honor checks and mil
lions of letters and dispatches remained
undelivered: the chamber of deputies, by
vote of $3.50 10 21I. sustained the refusal
of the French government 10 treat with
the strikers. The German ship MarSretha
was sunk in a collision with the Nor
wegian steamer Mascot and twenty men
of the former vessel were drowned. Great
Britain. France and Russia called on
SerVia 10 enter upon peaceabie negotla-
lions with Austria Hungary. Dispaf ches
from ST. Petersburg gave details of afro
cities by Persian government troops on
he frontier. The American consul at
Palermo. NJ. Bishop. was warned that his
life would he in danger if he continued 10
aid in the hunt for the siayers of Lieut.
Petrosino. Russia and China agreed on
modus vfvendi for the government of
Hardin along the lines OF international
municipal administ ration. Two Japanese
cruisers with cadets sailed on trip to
San Francisco and other Pacific coast
ports The troops in pursuit of the re
voting members of the Cuban rural
kIlard reported that they were closing in
on their quarry. Four persons were killed
and thirty injured by the Boston express
on the Canadian Pacific. which crashed
into the Windsor street station at Mon
treal almost demolishng the building.
In the District.
Maj. Spencer Cosby was relieved from
duty as Engineer Commissioner of the
District and Maj. William V. Judson
was appointed to succeed him: Maj. Cos
by was assigned to duty as superintend-
emf of public buildings and grounds to re-
lieve Mai. Charles S. Bromwell. who was
ordered TO Milwaukee in charge Of harbcr
improvements in Lake Michigan. TO re-
lieve Maj. Judson. Commissioner IVES.
started a crusade against unclean alleys.
The inaugural committee had a surplus
of 81, 900 from the Taft inauguration fund.