Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-15

posed committee of fifteen, the commit
tee on committees, was considered and
the nsmes placed ia a resolution to be
intodnced If the demand for the previous
question is voted down.
The western coast Of Central America
is bristling with enough American war
ships to check effectively any wsrbbe
movement The West Virginia aud
Maryland, according to dispatches re-
ceived at the bureau Of navigation today,
arrived at Afajulls, Salvador, yesterday
The armorsd cruiser Washington. which
wss stationed ct Amapala has arrived st
Corinto. The gunbost yorktown is on
her way from Acapulco to Amspsls,
where she will navigate the UDion bay.
The supply ship Glacier is also al ANA
GALA. The srmored cruisers California
aud Pennsylvania have sailed from ANA
psla for Magdslens bay. Ga the Atlau'
tic side the Tacoma is on her way from
Guantanamo TO Porto CorIez.
The flght made by the indianapolis
freight bureau against the O. O. q. q
st. Louis K. +. and oth' charging un-
inst discrimination against that city 10
favor Of Chicago, was decided by the To-
terstate Commerce Commission to5ay.
II was held that there was too grea. q
disparity in the rates on certain articles
aud relative adjustment was prescribed
on iron aud steel castings, furniture, ETC.
It was further held that ghile there was
discrimination 10 the mstter of weight
in car capacity 10 favor of Chicago
against Indianapolis, the OhicsgO meth
DDS would not be extended to the later
city. 1t was recommended that a modl-
fed rule be made for indianapolis or the
unlawful discrimination Regarding the re-
teadjustmens OF weights be removed.
This portion of the complaint will be
held open three months, at the end OF
which time the commission will act II
the railroads do not.
A telegram was sent to every member
of Congress today by group OF New
York magazine publishers urging that
they vote against Cannon aud Cannon
ism.
President Talts special message to
Congress will not oe ready for the press
until tomorrow.
In virtue Of the authority vested in him by
The caucus of republican senators, Senator
Hale, today announced the membership OF
he committee which is TO have the duty Of
selecting committees. The feature about this
new committee is that tn So allied insurgents
element in the Senate l. recognized by the
appointment of two Of their number Messrs.
Rorah, of Idaho, aud Dixon, Of Montana,
Their names If the co nmitt9e 6re rs follows
Messrs. Aldrich. chairman; Kenn, McCum'
her, Crane, Flint, Sutherland, Curtis, BOrahi
and Dixon.
Pedro R9ias will represent the government
of Venezuela as minister to the United States
The State Department today signihed to the
Venezuelan government that he woul1 be ac'
| ceptable. R'jls, who was driven out o.
Venezuela by Castro, is 65 years Of sge, and
until recently, lived in New York during his
exile.
Bogota, capital Of Columbia, is under mar
| tial law snd the plaza is occupied by artillery
rs the result of rioting during the last few
days, according 10 dispatches received at the
state Department today. President Reyes
resigned on Saturday, but on the following
day resumed his position. II is believed hii
the revoutionists are using the Panama
COlOmbia-Ame lean treaty as pretext for
hostility against the present government.
The sugar trust has sent large force Of
agents 0 Washington to avert threaten
Injury to their interests in the new tariff bill
The bil, as it stands, has reduced the tanl
on refined sugar from 81 80 to Sl.9O hundred