Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-31

be continued throughout the week.
A long session of the ways and means
committee was held today. Ontside The
l,cked doors the hallway was crowded
with lobbyists, representing interests
that want better terms than are given
them 10 the Payne bill in ih present
form. Wool, yarn aud top men were
there to protest against the reduction IN
the tariff on wool tops aad on third-clsss
wool. A manufacturer present saidithat
be had placed an order in England fer
all the wool tops he could use 10 year,
because, under the terms of this
Payne bill, he could buy much moro
cheaper abroad than at home 10 the
crowd was & delegation Of zinc meD, 10
GLIDING representatives. OF the Illinois
ZINC Co., OF Peru, Ind, and several
Piltsburg men who are interested 10 the
zinc business. The worsted industry
vas also represented.
President TAFT, as commandments
Of the army aud Dsvy, this afternoon at
tended the tuner i of tho late Rear Ad-
miral Converse, who At the time OF his
death Monday night vas president OF
he board of construction OF the Navy
Department. Services we're held at st.
Johns Episcopal Church, aud the inter-
ment at Arlington was attended with
full military honors.
The taking of testimony 10 the gov
ernment's dissolution suit against the
Hartman lines has been temporarily
suspended pending brief conference
with the attorney general.
The attorney general still has under
consideration the federal libel action
brought 10 the closing days of the ROose
welt 1ministrsliOn against the New
York World and indianapolis News, ss
the outgrowth Of Panama cana publicS-
tons.
Former Representative Edward Nor
rell, Of Philadelphia, has refused to &C.
cept the post of ambassador to Russia TO
succeed John w. Riddle, according to
an authoritative announcement made
here today. BE said that the pressure
OF private interests prevented his accept
iue foreign post, he is connected
with the Well-koown Drexel family.
State Senator Lewis Emory, jr., Of Brad.
ford. Pa, representing the independent oil
producers, appeared before the Senate Finance
committee today to urge that the cOunterveil-
log duty on crude and refined petroleum
.honld be removed and an advalOrem tax Of
40 per cent should he substituted.
dWhat is whisky" 10 sgsin Teen thrashed
out in the office Of the president Of the 'nited
states. The question was apparently settled
under the Roosevelt administration by At
torney General Bonaparte and DR.. Wiley,
chief chemist of the Department OF Agrleul'
ture, but their decision gave the distillers
and reclifyers of the country such severe
pain that they have appealed TO the new ad-
ministrstion for a re0pening OF the SUBJECT,
Az a result Of their appeal, gathering Of
attorneys and experts met at the pres dents
ONCE today and will be in session in Wash
ington for some time. The SO sion today was
very short and an arrangement was made for
A longer talk at the White House next We'd
nesday. The most important question 10 De
settled is when does grain dlstlllate eea' e
to be whisky and become, by further distii-
lation, an imitation?
Presiden Taft has accepted an invitation
10 attend the annual banquet Of the Union
League at Philadelphia on the evening OF
April 81. The President today declined an
inyitat q sent him to visit Anderson, 5. G.,
in MAY, upon the occasion Of his trip TO Char
lotta. 10 attend the celebration Of Meeklen
burg Declaration of Independence.
President Taft decided today in favor OF
Dayton, Ohio, as the proper place for the
presentation TO the Wright Brothers Of the
medal voted them by Congress. A contro-
versy between Dayton and New York has
been in progress The president decided
that Dayton being the home OF the famous
aerial nsvigators, should have the honor, aud
he said that. if possible, he would himself at
tend The ceremony which is to be held some
time in May.