Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-14


large country in which its use is not
prohibited. President Taft referred
the matter to the Department Of Com
mercc and Labor some time ago which
recommended that the action be taken.
Special legislation will be required to
this end. There may be opposition on
The ground OF federal regulation OF
manufacturing industry but it is be-
licved that authority exists under the
Interstate commerce law to enable
Congress to bring about the reform.
Commander Gilmer at Bluetlelds
reported to the department IN dispatches
today that the Prairie no now her way to
Colon with two companies OF marines
are not needed at Blueticlds. The
Dubuque has sailed for Pearl Lagoon
where it was reported the Madriz force
had been landed by the Venus. The
state department has not yet received
any protests from Madriz against the
prohibition OF fighting in Bluetields non
can the reports that Estrada purposes
to establish a new country on the west
coast be confirmed.
An unofficial report from the bureau
of the census today says that the first
announcements Of population according
TO the census of 1910 will be those OF
the District of Columbia and OF San
Francisco. These announcements will
probably be made within the next two
or three days.
A general alarm has been sent out
by the Department of Justice to the
nolice of Boston and other cities asking
for the arrest of one Martin }. Walsh
who is charged with having been a
dealer in the fake faro bank in New
York city where George W. Coleman,
the So a week paying teller OF the
Cambridge, Mass, National Bank, Is
alleged to have lost about $500, oOo OF
the banks money The government
intends to offer reward for Walsh 5
arr st.
The Costa Rican COVE rnment, ac-
cording to advices received today from
the American Legation at San Jose, is
supposed to propose several modliica-
tions to the boundry ALTERATION proto-
col with Panama which was arranged
in Washington through the good
Offices OF the State Department. The
State Department is disinclined 10 re-
open the negotiations and it Is eX-
trcmely likely that the two countries
will be left to arrange the difficulty be-
tween themselves.
The national capitol will be sadly
deserted village on Saturday, June IS.
Cabinet officers, division chiefs, and Il
horde of mere government clerks Will
gather at the metropolis to welcome
their seven-years boss. There will be
veritable exodus Of officials and clerk:
from this city, and government bust
ness threatens to be ut standsllll
Prominent among those who will 60 t.
welcome Mr.. Roosevelt are Herbert
Knox Smith commissioner of corpora
tons; Lawrence O. Murray, comptrol
Ter of the currency, Beckman Win
thop, assistant secretary OF the navy
all of whom were members OF the
famous tennis cabinet of bygone days,
Secretary OF the Navy Myer and Score,
tary of Agriculture Wilson, both O
whom are hold-ovcrs from the Roosc
welt cabinet, and Capt. Archibald Butt
who is still military aide to PrcsIden1
Taft Just as he was 10 the former exc
cutiye. will 90 as the personal repre-
scntatives of the president. Captain
Butt will carry personal letter OF
greeting. Commissioner OF immigration
O'kcefc, and Charles ?. Nell, com.
missioner OF labor. will also be OH hand.
Then there are the hosts Of also pres
ents''-hundreds Of government clerks
and minor officials. There are the pros.
poet of sparse attendance OF congress
men also-particularly if the insur-
gents carry out their plan Of being
among those on the dock when the
steamer arrives.
Capt. F.. p. Webber of the engineer
branch OF the revenue cutter service
is in hospital at Valdez, Alaska, with
Il fractured skull and is not expected to
live. The injury was the result of an
accident, the details of which were not
contained in the dispatch which brought
the news to the Treasury Department
today.
Because Of many complaints received
at the Department of Justrce against
manufacturers of plumbing materials
who are alleged to have an agreement
among themselves as to prices at which
they should sell to iobbcrs special agents
of the department have been set to work
to make an investigation. The inquiry
is being conducted in Chicago, Pittsburg,
Louisville and some eastern cities. l,
is expected that that result will be the
institution of Il suit against the so-called
plumbers trust for violations of the
Sherman antitrust law. The so-callcd
bathtub" trust is alleged to be merely
a subsidiary OF the big plumbers trust.
The statehood bill was up again fol
consideration at the White House TO.
day. Governor Sloan of Arizona,
Senator Dick and Senator Beverage,
the latter the chairman of the Senate
committee, were all i'll conference at
various times with President Taft
and the prospects are now bright for the
passage of the House measure. The Sen
a.e conferees on the railroad bill were also
at the White House again putting the
FINISHING tuurh 10 the measure which, IL
is nov expected, will go through.
Much opposition on the part of the rail
way companies has been manifested to-
ward the idea of creating a commission
to investigate the stock and bond sltua-
ton. The railroads are cxcrting them
selves To the utmost TO prevent the
nHnntinn Of thiS l.Inisn ..llthnuuh IL NIX