Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-17

siderable detail in New York today, that
q new note looking to sn alliance between
the two countries had been forTardtd
from Toxic for present. ton to the STATE
Department. The State Department also
denies having received any intlma!ion
that such note was 10 be preset ted.
TIE question as to whether Mr.. 4. A.
@. Shaw, former assistant laW clerk IN
the bureau of forestry. shall be permitted
to practice as patent attorney oeiots
the Interior Department Is now under
consideration by Attorney General
Wickersham. He expects to render an
opinion to the president as soon IS tue
latter returns to Washington. Mr.
Shaw was dismissed from the govern.
ment service for insubordinatioa, he
having been involved In the Pinchot'
Ballinger row.
Recommendations were todsy mads
BY Assistant Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Gable to Establish governmental
examination OF all Asiatic immigrants
before leaving Oriental ports. This was
done at the request Of President Scber-
vain of the Pacific Mall Steamship %.
It relieves the company of liability to q
6ne of 100 for each diseased immigrant
brought ever, as they will be placed on
the steamers "bottled in bond" and even
though they arrive al San Francisco lie
diseased condition the government al o..
K. placed on them on the other eide lifts
the responsibility from the shoulders Of
the steamship company.
A report on facts entering into the
suit of the State OF Virginia agaiust West
Virginia to require the latter to pay
share of the Virginia public debt, was
filled By ex-CongreBsmRn O. L. Little
field, as specisl master, In the Supreme
Court OF the Uu!tsd States today. The
contention OF Virginia Is that the coun'
ties that seceded and formed the new state
should pay just share Of the debt exist
ing while they formed part of Virginia.
E'ttleield reports that the debt OF Vtr-
sipfs on Jauusry /, 1861, WAS $S3, S97,-
073. The interest on the debt was $1s.-
574,747 and vas chsrgeable as ordinary
expenses. The amount OF the expeDdl.
lures made By the Virginia in the terri.
tory which is now West Virginia Is given
as $2,811, $50. A statement is made OF
the extent, assessed va u stion and popu
lstion of the ITO states in 1863 Az
item OF ordinary expenses OF which .
part might properly be charged to West
Virginia, The report says, Is the expense
70, common schools 81. 400, S3l. The
money paid into the Virginia treasury
By the counties, afterwards converted
Into West Virginia, vas Sc, 100, 1874
Littlefield renders no decision In the
report.
IA amendment to the Townsend ad-
mipist:at!ou railroad bill making the
long haul charge no more than the sum
Of the sho,t hsnls vas defeatsd today by
the House interstat, commerce commit
tee.
CORPORATION lawyers Of the highest de-
gree fsced the Su oreme Court judges to-
day while their 8 ore M n opened h's
on the corportt on tax. The tax vac
made a part Of las: years tariff Law
makes an assessment of l per cent on the
q income, over S., 900, Interpretations.
By the latter part of May the cougres,
sional committee hopes TO complete It's
investigation of the Baiinger- Pinchot
embroelic aud be ready to submit its re;
] port to C:ngress. provided it is found
unnecessary-as it appears at present
to Journey to Alaska TO examine on the
ground, the biggest bone OF contention
| the Gum ngham claims. Atthe present
| time there are sixteen known witnesses
yet to testify.
| In an opinion m ,de public today by the
| interstate commerce commission 1t is held
| that an express company IN hanoilng smai,
packages in compel .tion with the United
States government in the transportation Of
/ mailable matter does not trausgress any
| provision OF the act to regulate commerce. :.
For the purpose Of bringing about, II posi-
BILE, an anaicable adjustment OF the fhllaoei,
| mia strike, Senator Penrose, accompanied
nv State Senator James P. McNichcl, of thai
! city, left Washington this morning for Pnila
] delphia, McNichol arrived at a. 70. from
Florida in a special car with number O
other Philadel phians who have been his
! guests for several weeks. The rest l9f the
marty went on, whili McNichol remained
oyer to confer with Penrose.
Meat packers have succeeded retail dealers
az witnesses before the Senate committee tina
il irving to find the cause CT high prices ,o
food. The first of these witnesses was Charles
Robe. ofNew York, president of the Americor
Meat Packers Association, who said to tbs
| Committee today that conventions of the ass;
| citation we're devoted chledy to ediscuSsion o.
| government inspection. Prices were not men
toned. There were $50 packers in the asso
| citation, Rohs said, including the Big Four
| OF Chicago.