Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-04-09
From Washington. -
lCorrespondence Of the Alexandria Gasette.l
Washington, April 9.

lCoFnetpondence OF The AleXandRia dh,ttLo.I
Washington, April Q.
A decision to reopen the 6ght on
barley wss reached by the committee on
ways and means today. The Payne
bill proposed duty Of Is per cfrt.'oD
barley and an effort wss made by the
committee the other day TO have this In
creased to % cents busbel bat the
amendment was beaten 10 the House.
1t was decided 10 recommend 10 the COM
mitlee OF the whole that the DUTY 90
b,rley bs made "a cents busbel, an1
the duty on barley msl', which Ia 20
cents 10 tha Psyse bill, he raised to ~
cents a bushnell. The ways snd means
COMMITTEES voted to recommend that the
tariff on feno silicon be changed from
"a 90 ton to 10 per cent. ad vsiornm.
II was announced today that the
second annual rife shooting contest OF
the universities and colleges Of the
United States on indoor ranges, was won
by the University of Washington. Co.
lumbis University was second add the
Uaiversity of Wisconsio, third. The
winning team made only 81 points less
than 1000, the best possible score, or
40 average OF 94.9 points per man. The
highest individual score was INSIDE by A
A. Leech, jr., of Columbia University,
who made q total OF 9S points out of a
Jossible 100. Seventeen colleges entered
the shoot. The Virginia Polytechnic H.
,ttu1e, stood eleventh, with score OF
$40.
President Taft this afternoon received
he new Cuban minister, Don Charles
Garcia Valez. Secretary OF State
Knox made the introduction, which
took place ia the blue psrlor of the
White House.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who was secretary
Of the interior under Mckinley and later
under Roosevelt, died at II o'clock today at
the home Of his son -in-law Commander w ).
Sims, IT. s. N. on Seventeenth street. The end
had been expected for some time. Mr.. Hi CHI
cock died from kidney trouble which re-
suited from a cold contracted at st. Louis
seven weeks ago. He was made secretary OF
The interior by President Mckinley in 1898
and held that office until March 4, 1917.
Under Hitchcock as secretary of the interior,
the land fraud investigations that ended in
the conviction Of former Senator John Nit
chell, Of Oregon, and bis coterie Of insnciers,
was started and carried 10 completion and u
was Hitchcock that started the cleaning out
of grafters both inside and outside the Gen
eraI and Office, that ended in a complete
new policy IN the administration of the pub
lie OMAN Mr. Hitchcock was grandson
OF than Allen, Of Vermont, and was born IN
Mobile, Ala, September l9, 1885. His par
snts lived a year at New Orleans and then
moved TO Nashville, Tenn, where ne attended
private schools, completing his course OF
study in 1855 at the Military Academy in
New Haven, Conn. He served as the first
American Ambassador TO the Russian court.
President Taft this afternoon sent a message
of sympathy TO Mrs Hitchcock.
The Bureau Of Ordnance Of the War De-
partment has adopted for the use of the army
The latest type Of magazine gun, the Benet-
Mercio, and has placed an order for one hun
bred Of Them to be supplied by the Hotehkiss'
factory. in France, as models TO be followed
in the manufacture Of them in this country.
The new gun is the latest development Of the
machine gun idea and is a combination Of the
machine aud the csrbine. 1t is less than
twenty pounds in weight so that It can be
fired from the shoulder without the use OF
carriage.
Senator Elkins. Of West Virginia, made n
long argument today before the Senate finance
committee in behalf Of d protective tsrih on
coal and lumber.