Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-15

sccis,iop express deep regret q: us CCcuI'
rsuc7, snd they are doing thsir mos. to
shit the responsibility. Recoguiz ng
the possibilities of troubles In the si.ua-
tI,n the executive committee OF the Ma.
,lonsl Woman Suffrage Association today
took up for consideration the sending Of
a letter Of apology and regret to the
president. -,
The POI toflca appropriation bill, car
rying $240, 600, 900, will be reported to
the sepale next Monday, according to
present plans. A msjority of the COM
mittee oh postofices and post roads fa7or
reporting the bill without q single
amendment. II that course is followed
it will establish a new record Ia lsgisls-
ton.
William a. Rublee, of Wisconsin,,
American cont ul general at hong Kong,
died q. O'Clock tsdsy, Ohinsse time,
according to dispatches at the State De-
psltment. Oousul General Rublee was
vice president and director Of the Mil.
wsusee Central Company aud was ar
pointed at Prague In 1890. He retired
from the service In 1898 but eutert d
again in 1901 whom he was appointed at
Hong Kong. He has also servad as
consul general at Havana and at Vienna.
Tue American charge ds's1a'rs at
Lima, W. B. Cresson, reports In S:ste
Department dispatches today tina. an
amicsble settlement will be probably
reached with Ecuador regarding damages
to Pelu7iaa residences in the recent
rioting at Guayequil. The threatened
Cabinet CRISIS in Peru has also been
aysrted and on the whole there seems t.
be much more hope of peaceful set
tlemert of the trouble between the two
countries.
Seventy thousand census enumerators
this morning started out ID count the nose.
in this country. For week the employees
of the Genius bureau have been distrit u
ing flank she,ts from house to house, to
be filled out With the life history ADD
pedigree of every occupant. Today they
began to collect. Director Dusand and
bis army have determined 10 make this
j the fastest count of the population that
The bureau has ever made. toIty-h7e
! DAYS from today the first rtuld ctuat
sill be ready. This will be FASTENED BY
several new types of counting machines
+; hat have been installed at the tu;esn
The FIST count Is generally within lOO,,
600 OF the correct total. The certified
ifkares will be made public about lOJ
days Later
| The cry OF ju5ilation which greeted
The announcement OF John Temple
Graves, the spokesman of VIM. Rae
dolph Hearst and OF the Independence
League, that the person and the or.
gsn;zstion that he represents were Will.
ing t, r. turn 10 the democratic psrtg and
| work fox the success of its candidates 10
the approaching elections, has, on sober
second thought, been somewhat nodu:
lated today. D5mocrst, OF national
prominence are asking themselves
whether there are not too many condl.
tions attached to the Hearst profiar and
whether the democratic party, In ac'
cet ting it, is not really going over to the
| independence party rather than faTin2
the latter join the national democracy,
The same who, as the represent ativs Of
Hearst and the Independence Leagu',
told the District of Oo'unbis democrats
at the now famous Jeffersonian dinner
of their willingness to join hands with
them in tae future, also practically read
Vim. J. Bryan out OF the pa:ty.
| The goysruuept will force test cases
10 the 80 called blesched four issu', &C
cordipg TO a decision reached By t5s
cabinet today at the regular meeting
Following the cabinet decision today
| Sscrslary Wilson will make seizures o.
bIesched a1ur uuder his rulicg and t:s
nillers will be allowed to take the cases
tn court, when the government will de.
| fend it, position.
| A stu 'meuL pablished to tas efec
that the Tag supposed to have beer
planted 90 the summit OF Mount MIC
Kiuley could be seen on clear day will
gloss from Fairbanks, was characterize
| by Delegate Wckershsu IS fake.
| A house bill wa' today favorablv re
ported from the Senate Committee OF
Military Affairs providing that the ded
lication of the Gettysburg National Mill
ltary Park shall take place at such tim
az the Secretary of War may determine