Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of Alexandria Gazette]

Correspondence Oh aieAiuuiid baHCI'ej
Gov. Hughes, of New York and Mrs.
Hughes arc here today on a house
hunting tour. Bright and early, the
Governor and Mrs. Hughes started out
in a touring car with Maj. Crossett, the
governors military aid, Mrs. Crossett
and Charles Henry Butler, reporter OF
the Supreme Court. who is the govern,
or's host. The real estate men find
the Hughes family a somewhat difficult
one to snl, for the governor wants
library with the whole house built
around that and Mrs. Hughes wants a
garden with lots OF trees, the house to
her being a secondary consideration.
They hope, however, to complete their
tour today and to return to New York
either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Open warfare against the Pullman
Car Company for reduction OF the
rates for upper berths was opened to-
day by the state OF Kansas and the
Kansas Railway Commission in COM
plant filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission. In a gen
eral complaint it is stated that the
upper berth at the most is not worth
more than half the price Of a lower. !"
The plaintiffs asked the commission to
make an investigation and enforce the
following reductions: Where So is
charged, reduce to 81. so; from $500 or
81. so to 50. so; from Sd. 90 to $500 and
where charges of more than five dol
lars are made, a. reduction rof $3.50 is
asked.
The United States in its trade during
the fiscal year 1910 showed an in
creasing tendency to become less a
world center for raw materials and food.
stuffs and more manufacturing nation,
according to report issued by the De-
partment OF Commerce and Labor to-
day. Imports of manufacturers,
materials for that period increased lis
million dollars over the figures for 1909.
Exports OF manufactured materials in
creased. from 672 million to. 76S million
dollars while foodstuffs decreased 50
million dollars.
The Board OF Army Engineers, who
are to apportion the twenty million
dollar appropriation for reclamation
projects allowed by the last Congress.
have completed their work here and
leave tomorrow for Chicago. There
they meet General Marshall, consult
ing engineer to Secretary Ballinger for
the reclamation service, and proceed at
once to Prairie Dam, Wyoming. No
exact itinerary has been laid out and
no time set for any examination. They
will wind up the first stage Of their trip
nj Salt Lake City. They hope to COM
pletc their task by the first part Of
| October.
Though Postmaster General Hitch
cock has not had time yet to tack up a
government shinglc rs Il banker, a de-
post, was received today at the Post
Office Department for the new postal
savings bank. 1t was nickel and
came securely pasted into hole in a
piece of card board. Moreover, though
stocks be falling in New York, the gov
crnmcnt is receiving promises of de-
posts from all over the land, One
came today from the mother of two
boys who wrote that her sons were
anxious TO deposit Il few dimes in your
new bank" The letter was addressed to
the Bond Vault, Treasury Department.
1t will not he long before the country
hears the first rumblings Of activity i'll
the new project. The committee which
is formulating plans for the organiza-
ton of the banking system are working
nights and Postmaster General Hitch
cock, us soon rs he returns from Eli
rope, will take off his own coat to the
job.
The army engineers will proceed at
once to raise the battleship Maine, and
commission will be sent to Havana
Immediately To investigate the position
of the katticship and report MS TO the
best method of accomplishing the work.
General BiXby today received an opin-
ion from the attorney general, holding
that he may use the 100000 appro-
priatcd hy Congress. as he deems best.
in raising the Maine and burying the
dead. expected TO be taken from the
wreck. This eliminates the technical
difficulties which have blocked the
work. With this authority, General
Bixhv today began preliminary
measures and the commission will soon
be on The way to Havana. 1t is eX-
pectcd that the actual work OF raising
the ship will be put under way as soon
rs possible. There is great doubt
whether the money will be sufficient to
complete the big task, but il it is once
put under way and the money gives
out there is little doubt that additional
funds could be easily obtained from
Congress. rs needed. For the first
time it now appears that the long
standing question Of whether the Maine
WAS blown up from the inside or the
outside will be settled and it will he de-
trrmincd whether this country was JUS
titled in blaming the disaster on Spain.
1t is beloved that more than one hun
,ircd bodies were lodged in the wreck
age and that their remains will be re-
covered when the ship is raised. They
will be brought to Washington and
buried in Arlington.
William j. Carver, a Washington
newspaper man, went suddenly insane
this morning 1T his home He picked
up his elrven-monlhs-old son and
hurled him the length of the hall.
fracturiug his skull and SO badly in
;uriur the child that he died soon after