Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-09

epipg big stick IS shepherds crook.
The sole hitch 10 the programme Is
where will Mr.. Roosevelt stand. The
proposition rests upon the question,
''Will Roosevelt endorse the TAFT ed
ministrstion uuquivocslly Mesnwbile
the congressional committee ia preparing
| to SOW the fields where Mr. Roosevelt Ia
to be asked to do the resplug. Donald
Mckinley, of California, the boy orator
of the straigh organization, Is to be ship
ped into the middle west this month for
a few weeks Of campaigning. It Is e.
plaIued that Mckinley will not Eight the
insurgents. On no. He will merely
spread the gospel OF party harmony, and
the Deed Of "a party organization brosdesf,
where insurgency is rampant. Mean
while the insurgents are anxiously ask.
ing: "Where will Roosevelt stind?"
q recon.t ucted personnel for President
TafPs customs court wss nominstad ID
day, With Judge Rober. M. Montgomery
Of Michigan, as Presiding judge. All OF
the other judges whose names we're sent
to the Senate by the president somttlme
sgo, but wItbdrawn because the salaries
OF The judges were cut from $40, 600 to
81, 900, we're renominated with the excep-
ton of Judge Alfred o. COX, who was
named presiding judge In the former
nomination. The president withdrew the
names OF the Judges 10 order t, obtain
their vlsws on the cut in the salaries be-
fore asking them to accept the places.
All bat COX was satisfied with tae cut.
The renominsted members of the count
are: William fl. III not, Montana; James
F. Smith, California; O. M Barber, Yer
mont; Marion de Vries Smith aud de
Vries are democrats, the others are re.
publlcaus. -.
Commander Pesry was thrown bead
over heels into the DR.. Cook class by
Representative Mscon today. 10 a crlti.
cal survey of the explorers narrative
given before the subcommittee OF the
House naval affairs committee, Mr..
Macon declares that the mere record OF
miles travelled each day as given BY
| PearY stamps his story as a stretch OF
the imagination. MIR. Macon said;
CATER reading it one only remembers
that 1t was HOP, skip and lump, sleep
a wink or two, then on In a gallop.
Pesry clearly iutimstes that he was
divinely favored, which be must hsve
been as was Moses at the Red sea aud
Josbus on the field Of Gibeon." Ait'r
listening to Mr.. Macon the snbcommt-
tee voted unanimously not to take action
on any of the various measures intro
duced to reward the explorer until actual
proofs Of HE alleged discovery OF the
north pole are submitted.
Closer relations between the United
States and the South American repnt
lies are the object Of broad scheme, on
which the Stale Department Is at work
today, looking t)ward FIVE moi tas tour
of Central aud South America by an
American Commission. The commits.
sion will Welt practically every large
city in South America, aud will parlic'-
pate 10 the Centennial Independence
| Day celebrations of Argentina, Chile and
| Mexico. The party will leave New
York esrly In July.
Services 10 connection with the accep-
tsucs of the statue Of Governor Pierpont,
of West Virginia, will be held 10 the
s nate on April9.
The announcement Of the appointment
of Zia Psshs as Turkish Ambassador at
Washington was received today at the
| IS ate Department from Ambassador
| s rsus ct Oonstsp Linople. u Pasha vas
prominently idett fed with the Young
Turks regime and visited the United
States last fall ss special commissioner
from the Sultan Of Turkey to President
Taft to announce the former accession
| ID the throne.
| Prsct icslly charging President TAFT
With had faith In the nominations oil
William F. Stone for another term IS
collector of the port OF Baltimore Thomas
IL. Wentworth, SECRETARY OF the business
mems association of Baltimore, today
fled with the president sensational
charges against st)ue, whose nomius-
| ton went to the Senate yesterday.
| The brief sets forth that the president
promised to allow the association
hearing on March II and that he totally
disregaFded tbtt promise 10 Responding
Stone. The association favored lsasc
Ia. Scales for the position.
Edward F. Abner, senior member OF
the Abney -Dlury Brewing Company, died
suddenly st bis home at tie Parkwood,
early this morning.
The government this afternoon filed
Its brief 10 the Standard Oil dissolution
case In the U. S. Supreme Court. II
combsts all of the contentious OF the
| STANDARD OIls's attorneys as expressed
| in their brief filed yesterday, and reite.
rates the governments position that the
standard IL combination In restraint Of
trsde, that 1t has crushed competition
and has monopolized the oil Industry.
| Bya vote of 9 to 7, the House Inter
state commerce commission today voted
| 10 substtuts the interstate commerce
commission for the court OF commercs
10 the Townsend bill as the tritnoa to
receive pt titiOns or applications OF rail-
roads desiring to scquire interests 10
other lines. The committee Is :grsduslly
cutting sdown the Importance OF the
court of commerce 10 the bill and before
the MEASURE is reported to the House II
Is likely 10 be missing entirely.
improved Conditions 10 Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Ps., March 9.-PniIs
delphis entered upon the ninteenth day
| of her street car strike and the fifth
day OF her general sympathetic strike