Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-13

verge Of dissolution. This action will
probably be taken even though Congress
fails to provide for the appointment OF
the commission which the LibeIan gov
eruor asked for several months ago
to help them in untaDgling their
internal STAIRS. In accordance with
Secretary Roots principle of giving
the colorei race fair chance to
work ore its own destiny, aud to 'alis y
the moral obi cations Of the Unitsd
Sta,es a wsrship will be sen, TO give
strength to the haUos of the reformers
who are tryi1g to save the republic.
The Honse today passed bill al.
thorIzing the secretary Of war to de-
liver a condemned bronze cannon to
the Gland Army Of The Republic.
Badges for that order will be made oil
the cannon.
The public buildings bill was today re-
ported to the House by Chairman Bar
tholdt.
A bill introduced by Mr. Watson to
require sdditiora SAFETY appliances on
freight cars was recommended for pass
age By the Hou committee on COM
merce today.
After considerable debate the House
this afternoon passed bill extending
tor one year the payments on LAND 10
Oklahoma sold by the Secretary OF The
Interior to homestesders in 1906.
TIE bill reducing the sslsay OF
The secretary of state, 80 as to enable
Senator Koox to assume that position
in the Taft cabinet, was recommended
today for passage by the House COM
mittee on election of the president,
vice. president and members OF Congress
Mr.. Gaines will write the majority re-
port. Mr.. Gillespie will be the author
Of the minority report which will rep
resent his own views aud those Of Mr..
Rucker and Hsckett. The bill will be
called up in the House Monday and az
Effort made to pass it under suspension
of the rules.
President Roosevelt and party arrived
here at 2 o'clock this afternoon fIom
HodgeusvilIe, Ky. The president
vent Immediately to the White House.
The president brought home with
him Jug of 80 year old whiskey, the
gift of General John B. CasIelemsB, of
Louisville, KY and hickorycane pre-
pared from timber cut on the Lincoln
farm and presented by the postn arte's
Of Kentucky.
A pilgrimage to Arlington cemetery and
spe ,ial memorial meetings at 81. Patrlck's
and the First Presbyterian churches will on
Monday commemorate the 18th anDlver, airy
If the sinking OF the Maine in Havana har-
Dor. All the patriotic military organizations
Of the District Of Columbia will participate
and by order of the President and Secretary
Of War detachment Of the regulars at Fort
Myer will attend the ceremonies at the GENIE
tery where the Maine monument Will be
wrfathed with flowers. President Roosevelt
viii send a floral Offering. A band from Fort
Myer will play the dieges and bugler VIII
sound "iaps". In the evening at the Presby-
terian Church exercises Admiral sigs6ee,
who commanded the Maine on the night OF
the disaster, will tell the story Of the tragic
occurrence.
President-elect TAFT and Mrs w. H. Taft
lef. New Orleans at $50 today for Cincinnati.
on special train via the Queen and Crescent
route. 1t is expected that several stops will
be made, and breei speeches given from the
rear Of train, at q number Of towns along the
route.
The total income Of the IS telegraph and
cable companies in the United states. ok.
elusive Of telegraph lines operated in copnsc-
ZION with railroads. was $51 ,5S3. 1858 last ear
as compared with 4O930,C35 in 1902, accord.
ing 10 q eport issued by the census bureau
today. In 1897 l03,79l,076 messages were
handled
Representative Fowler republican. Hi
nOis) today introduced bill in the House
for the erection OF bronze replica Of the log
cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born
Special Commissioner Buchanan cabled
the State Department today from Venezuela
that the protocol providing for the settlement
of the American claims has been sigr !, and
thu he would leave La GuayTa next Tuesday.
Mrs. Botcb, the aged woman who was taken
bodily off her feet during the wind stO' IN on
thursday and swept into an open cellar door,
died yesterday afternoon in her apartments
at the Melwood.
P. J. Lynch, who conducts restaurant at
907 9TH street, nortbWe est, shot and killed a
eOlOred porter employed in the place this
morning. ynch surrendered. He says the
shooting was an accident.