Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-13

Al the ptbbent umo WDoto SUWPe"J :"
doing business 10 g nun ser OF States II
is required to have charter or q sub
sidiary company In each one OF those
states and Is subjected to state laws
which vary in many features. II the
corporation were, however, TO be pro-
yided with federal charter, good in
every stale, it would be relieved OF many
OF The sometimes drastic conditions i'm
posed by the individual states. At the
same time 1t would give 10 the national
government closer supervision over the
corporations which 10 the opinion OF
President Taft and bis advisors would be
highly beneficial to the public. 1t is
proposed that charters once granted By
the federal government 10 accordance
with the terms OF the bill cannot be for
feited except by action OF Congress.
The u. 8. Supreme Court Is To-Day
hearing the fnsl appeal of former Csp-
tain Obsrlin q. Garter. from the decree
OF the Circuit court of APP asls granting
the federal government the right to re-
cover nearly $500, 600 Of his privste
fortune to cover the misapplicstion of
funds at Savannah, Ga, in connection
with the Greene and Gaynor scandal,
for participation 10 which he recently
flushed FIVE years term 10 the Lssven-
worth penitentisry. Former Senator
Foraker OF Chic made the principal
argument In favor of Csrter. Solicitor
General Bowers presented the govern
monPs case.
President Taft has assumed once more
the role of pesce.maker between The
warning factions Of the republican parry,
and ibis time with prospect OF success.
Following q long conferences at the
White House today, Representative
Hayes (rep. Cal.), head of the insur.
gents organic lliou 10 the House, stated
that he bad hops that compromise
would be affected whereby the progress
siyes in the lower body would stand by
the administrations legislative pro-
Vramme and arrive at an agreement 80
to the selection of the House members OF
The BaIlinger investigating committee.
Just what the nature OF the compromise
ia was no. disclosed by Mr.. Hayes. The
insurgents are considering 1t now and
will make known the decision later. The
visit of Representative Hayes was the
outcome of series of letters between
the PRECEDENT and Representative Norris,
in which the president stated that be
thought the situation was dangerous to
the political future Of the republicans
and expressed bis desire to arrive at 90
understanding with the House iusur-
gents. II the insurgents action 10 over.
ruling the speaker vas sctua!td wholly
BY q desire to get good committee to
Investigate Bsllinger, the president tod
Representa- Norris then there was no
ground for qusrrsl, between the 10
purgents and the administration because
thai vas all the White House desired.
| The president impressed on Represents
tive Hayes that the White House does
not want anything bat a fair lnvestigaI'
ing committee and that this Is s party
question on which republicans should
stsnd together. The president dissvoW =
al any dersire te DICTATE the COMMITTEES
and asked that the insurgents make an
effort to agree on a republican commit:
tee. Wneu Representative Hayes return
Cd from the Houee insurgents held 10 The
gold room, known So 'Ihp insurgents
cloak toom." The conference commits
tee on the Bsllnger investiea ion reso'
lIution will hold lis 6rst meeling TO-
morrow.
Some interesting reading matter is
soon to be put cut by the American
Federation OF Labor on the legal phases
of what they deem The abuse OF the wri!
of Injunction. The executive council
today adopted resolution assuring the
| co .operatIon of The A. F. Of L. With all
| forces interested 10 conservation. The
council urges all organized labor men Ia
seize the opportunity of the day by get
ing on the trail Of their congressional
candidates In the coming election. The
federation will be mos. active Ia these
elections. g.,
Attorney General Wickersham, witt
| hIs two associates, Frank b. kellogg
and g. A. Severance, will have q con
ference some day next week 10 this city
with President Lovelt of the Hartman
| lines aud his attorneys, ex-senator
Sooouer and Maxwell EvsrIs, 10 ord'I
| to hear their arguments as to why thu
government suit to dissolve the merge
between the Union Pacific and TIT
Southern Pacific should be discontinued
The attorney general Is now busily er
tagged 10 scquainling himself with tn
facts In this case from the government
standpoint. There Ia a strong PROBABILITY
ths. the efforts of the railroads to In
duee the government to abandon tn
suit will result in failure.
There i J too much Jg,ce and too little mea
in the oyster can. SO Representative Dll'
Diem. Md has decided after long and ea'
lsYpeIieuce, and today he introduced bill II
the BOu.e TO put an end TO the wrong d u
the soup plates Of long suffering people
After the first Of October, 1910. oys et can
, shall be declared misbranded if they fan I
show somewhere on their outside Just nov
little oyster meat and how much water the
contain-,hat is. they will be so branded D.
law il Mr.. ellis bill is,passed. -,
The Presidents yacht, Maytower,. VIII
Secretary Dickinson aud his party ABOARD
arrived at Charles.own today and is now o.
her vay TO Washington. Secretary Dickln
son will arrive in Washington tomorrow.
In the presence Of a large congregation
, friends of the late Cardinal Saiolll, a solemn
pontjecai high mass was eel brated for hir
{ his morning at IT. Aloysius' Church. Car
diral Gibbons came from Baltimore - Pre-
side, It,. p-,
Texas the next House will be democratic b,
100 majority. He says present high and 10
creasing cost OF the Necessities OF lite IN re-