Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-16
FROM WASHINGTON

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visitor at the White House today.
Owing to the cabinet meeting, however,
he did not get to see the presl-
dent. Stimson denied that he wanted
4 job.
Fear that remarks OF the foreign am
i.assador and ministers who are TO ad-
dress the American Association for the
Judicial Settlement of International
Disputes tonight, may swell the volume
0: the Earring note which was sounded
By two OF the speakers last night.
today caused not few OF those in
tcrcstcl in the world wide peace
movement more or less anxiety. The
several hundred delegates who had
been conteEtclly listening to ultra-pa-
ciGc remarks, were aroused in no small
degree by the thinly yelled charge to
Justice William Renwick Riddell,
Kings Court bench, High Court OF
Justice for Ontario, that the United
States had broken the Bush-Bagot
treaty prohibiting the armament OF
cruisers on the Great Lakes. The dis
cord caused by these remarks was IN
creased when DR.. Benjamin ldo
Wheeler, president of the University
OF California, declared that the only
certain means OF obtaining universal
peace, was to prepare for war. His
statement was the more striking in that
it followed many arguments, advanced
by other speakers. for the disarming OF
al nations. Andrew Carnegie, who
has just given ten million dollars for
peace greatly deprecated the situation
and was busy with missionary work"
today planning TO avoid further ruff
Hing or the doves feathers.
4 government milk supply station
maintained under direction Of the
Public Health and Marine Hospital
Service may be the result OF an in
spcction OF the Nathan Straus pasteu-
rizcd milk laboratory, here, by Secre-
,ary OF the treasury, MacFeagh today.
Postmaster General Hitcock issued
an order today advancing ZIG fourth
class p0stmasters 10 the presidential
class. The order becomes effective
January /, 1911.
Senator La Toilette, (rpn., Wis.,
received further recognition from the
White House today when the president
submitted to the Senate the name Of
William A. Dcvinc for postmaster at
Madison, Wis, the home OF the sena-
tor. The appointment was made en-
the recommendation Of La Toilette.
Election Of United States senators by
popular vote was approved today by a
majority Of the subcommittee of the
senate committee on judiciary appoint
cd TO consider that subject. The
members Of the committee are Dilling
ham, Borah, and Rayner. The former
was opposed but Borah and Rayner
favored the idea. The question will
nov be submitted to the full committee
on Judiciary. The judiciary committee
is reported TO stand s to in favor OF
popular election, with one or two
wavering members.
Government employees attached to
thc executive departments will here
after have to work an additional half
hour each day. At today's cabinet
meeting it vas practically decided to
adopt this plan rs another step in the
presidents economy program. There
ara several thousand clerks in the gov
.crnmcnt service and the aggregate OF
the halt hour will amount up. The
clerks originally went to work ut 9, had
q half hour off for lunch and quit at 4.
During The early party Of the Roose-
Welt administration the quitting time
was extended to 430. Now. under the
plan practically determined upon today
clerks will report for duty at $50,
have half an hour for luncheon and
leave ut 40. 1t is believed that to-
davis step is i forerunner Of a curtail-
mcnt in the sick leave now allowed by
the government. Secretary Of the
Treasury MacVcagh has reduced the
sick leave with pay in his department
from thirty to ten days, and it is be-
lieyed several others Of the executive de-
partncnts will shortly follow suit.
Hookworms thrive on q diet Of
chloride Of lime, commonly considered
ncvcr-failing disinfcctant and germ
killer hy the average farmer, according
to a report ofcXpcrimcnts made by gov
eminent meteorological experts issued
today. In one Of the experiments more
than i quarter OF 4 pound of lime, was
placed in Il bucket Of water containing
hookworm eggs. Instead OF killing the
gcrms. the diSinfcctant seemed almost
t. aill in the process of Matching.
Today was lIy day" at the annual
meeting OF tho American Civic Associa.
ton al the Willard Hotel. The house
ily was given serious consideration by
the health experts Of the conference.
4 discussion Of the all-impoltant ques-
lion. Why is a Fly" by DR.. Woods
Hutchinson, opened the symposium on
Inc evils o. the insect. He was follow
ed by DR.. l.. O. Howard, who talked
about the Typhoid Fly" The
newspaper as an educational factor
against the fly" by Leroy Boughner,
Of the Minneapolis Tribune, and a
series of motion pictures illustrating
the habits Of the typhoid fly, exhibited
by Secretary Richard &. Watrous, OF
the association, concluded the program.
City cleanliness was another subject
discussed today, rs was the means Of
cleaning up towns. Others explained
the legal means OF abolishing the
smoke nuisance.
The Senate district committee today
ordered favorable report on the bill