Evening star., 1909-05-22
WEEK ENDING MAY 22, 1909.

President Taft appointed William Will
liams commissioner of immigration at
New York, William s. Washburn civil
service commissioner and Walter =.
Clark governor Of Alaska: the President
visited Petersburg, Va, and Charlotte,
n. c., making speeches at both places.
The President declared that some plan
should be provided to retire government
employees on pensions. Secretary Meyer
decided to give the Newberry navy yard
plan a thorough test. Negro passengers
paying the same fare as white passengers
cannot be legally Disseminated against in
the way of accommodations, according to
aruling of the Interstate commerce COM
mission. The government lost the suit of
a Spanish steamship company for taking
officers from the Philippines to Spain at
the close of the war. Senator Stones
amendment to restore the Dingiey rates
ator Clay attacked the sugar trust and
demanded free sugar: the Senate in
creased the tariff on automobiles to so
per cent; Mr.. Hale proposed night ses-
measure. The House adopted a resolution
asking the Attorney General for informa-
ton as to the absorption of the Tennes-
see Coal e.no, and Iron Company by the United
Morgan presented to Mount Vernon the
sword of Washington, until recently
owned by Miss Lewis of Baltimore.
Tracy & Co. New York stock brokers,
failed. Eight men and many houses and
cattle were killed by hailstones In Texas.
H. II. Rogers, vice president of the
Standard Oil Company and founder. of the
Virginia railway, died suddenly in New
York.
~"s. Foreign Affairs
winston Churchfifll. president Of the
British Board Of Trade. announced that
he would introduce a bill for the es-
tablishment of labor exchanges. and
that the government intended. II the
measure were passed to press a mea-
sure for unemployment insurance. The
British cabinet decided to lay down tho
four extra Dreadnoughts advocated by
Premier Asqufth. Several suffragettes
were injured In an attempt to storm q
political meeting at Sheffie1d: the pre-
mier. Mr.. Asquith. was forced to es-
cape by a Side door. The French
chamber OF deputies. by a vote of 873
to SO. voted to uphold the policy Of NJ
Clemenceau, and defeated a resolution
to ask the president to prorogue in
parliament; the strike practically COL
lapsed. Royalists in Paris gave din
ner in honor of the Duke of Orleans.
cheering for a king and shouting
Down with the republic" The French
parliamentary committee appointed to
investigate reported naval scandals de-
department. The French department OF
justice confirmed the courts decision in
the suit of Count Bonf de Castellane
Spain put into effect at the recent cleo
ton compulsory voting law: Gen.
Stoessel and Admiral Nebogatoff, SEN
fenced to prison for surrendering to
the Japanese, were released: The mem
bers of the Turkish chamber OF depu-
ties took the oath of office in the pres
ence of the sultan. The criminal court
IA fod 10 OF
from the charge of plotting to kill
Sanor Gomez acting president of Vene-
zuela. on the ground that the recent
amnesty decree. applied to him. The
most cordial reception at Monroyia
Twenty members of the Japanese par
lament were arrested In connection
with the sugar scandal. 1t was an
reach $29.OOO,O00. leaving a deficit of
$2.OOO.OOO to be covered by the profits
from national lottery.
In the District.
The special committee to nominate a
municipal architect submitted the names
OF Snowden Ashford and G. Q. Won Nerta.
VIM. Victor Tunnelle, a professor of How
ard University. was selected by the justices
Of the Supreme Court Of the District of
Columbia to succeed John F. Cook as a
liam D. Hoover and Mrs Ellen Spencer
Mussey were reappointed. statue of
Rev. John Witherspoon was unveiled.
Frank H. Hitchcock, Postmaster General.
was elected president OF the Washington
Playground Association. The new Lucre-
tia Mott School building was dedicated
The name of Jefferson Davis was restored
to the tablet on Cabin John bridge. The
administrator Of the estate of William Nc
Gowan filed q suit to recover $4,000, al
leging that MCGOWAN was suffocated by
the presence of carbon monoxide in IL
Illuminating gas, Company e Of the Busi-
ness High School won first honors In the
annual drill. Fire completely destroyed
the mill owned by Martin Wiegand,
Maryland avenue and AZ street, causing
loss of $4,000. Ten charges were filed
in the Police Court against the local
street railway companies for overcrowd-
ing of cars Charles L. Foxwell. arrested
In this city. went to Boston to face
charges of swindling John c. Davis and
his brother. Martin T. Davis. were ar
raigned in Criminal Court No. l and both
pleaded not guilty Perrie w Frishv