Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-09
From Washington.

From Washington.
A statement was issued By the Senate
committee on commerce today show
Ing The chs nges that were made 10 the
river and ha,bor bill as it came from the
H use. Among the increases were:
MARYLAND, Rockhsll hsrbor group,
$40, 600; District of Columbis, Anacostia
river 500, 900; Virginia, Potomac river
at Alexandria, $40, 900; James river,
$3.50, 900; Norfolk harbor aud approa-
cbes, 100000.
Recon- mending an appropriation OF
fifty thousand dollars for laborst 'ries to
deal with the problem of cancer, as
transmitted BY fishes, President TAFT
today sent to Congress special message
embracing reports from the secretary
of commerce and labor, the comm.s'
siouer of fisheries and Doctor b. K.
GAYLORD, director of the New YORK.
st. t. Cancer Laboratories. The pres:-
dent refers the entire matter to Congress
With the suggestion that Immediate
action be taken to provide for az in.
yestigatiou, IS to the prevalence of car
Ger In fish, and the possibility OF it's
heipp Transferred to human beings
through using the Ssh for food.
Precedent Taft will tonight open the
merry ball of Che fall republican con-
or s,siousl campaign, When be speaks to
the League OF Republican Clubs OF the
District of Columbia on the significant
subject Disqualification" Unless sll
expect ,.ion is wrong the president will
outliDc Just Whist rspublicanism meana,
and more Important than that, lust ~nst
cens,i,ut % a republ,csu. With the he!-
| erogene,u US collection of political situs,
| tons that confront the republican party
eli over the country, the presidents talk
10 sssited with interest By every pnoilc
Official aps politlc;sn in Washington
! The speakers viii 20 Secretary Nages'
ssaator Lodge aud a nuribsr Ct repre-
| sentstiyes. The 'iDsurgeui'' republi-
cans will be conspieucu, by their az
sence.
The Peruvian government, according
| to dispstches received 81 The State De-
| psrtmeoi today from the charge OF the
American legstion ST Lima, hes nego.
|; ,..tsd il France loan OF 100000
pounds. kilograms from ausyaquil
expressing regret at tie attack on PeI1-
v,aos are having a reassuripg effect. 30
far as the department Knows, however,
there is 90 change In the situation ana
the possibility of wsr still eonsronts the
countries. The Peruvisn govern
mept proposed to stand by the
Spanish aRa,d and has indicated
iuo desire for any other course. l.
also persists In its demauds for sslis-
faction for the stack on the Peruvian
consulate and c.t'zena. The fact that
similar attacks on the Ecuador consnltts
and legation does net seem TO enter into
consideration. The State Department Ia
unaware of shy negotiations entered into
between the tao governments With view
soliciting the good offices OF the ! nlted
States in the settlement Of the disl9ute'
The fact that Peru has negotiated q
loan seems to indicate that that country
is preparing for the outbreak of war.
The "lvng and short" haul clause OF
the railroad bill now pending 10 Don.
gross Is being vigorously supported BY
the National Rivers aud haroors Cou-
| gress. This clause prohibits railroads
from charging more for shorter than q
longer distance over the came route in
the same direction. Representative
Randsdell (dem. La returned today
from Richmond, where be made an ad-
dress las. night to the Chamber OF Com
merce on the subjsct, 10 which he said /;
"If such clause were adopted 1t would
prohibit the unfair practices OF railroads
at river points which charge euch low
rates there as to drive the boats ont of
business, aud recoup their own losses by
much higher rstes st interior points
awsy from the watercourses. MI
| Ransdell endorsed the river and hsrbor
legislation Of the present sessiou, saying
thai 1t was by sill odds the wisest and
most comprehensive measure of the kind
ever introduced.
The presidents friends were somewhat
shocked when they read Washington
dispatch in today's Issue of staunce ad-
ministration paper of New York city
that he had greeted the cabinet members
as they entered the White House yester-
day, with the expression: Hell! Have
any of you fellows resigned today" In
/ uuiries at the White House, however,
brought the information that the presi-,
| dent did not use the expletive hell,
and that the word he really used was
"hello." :
The whole vast fortune of Thomas F. Walsh
who died in this city Hast night will 60 to Mrs.
msgnate. She is the only living child OF
Walsh, since the death of Vlnson Walsh, her
brother, who was killed in an automobile &C.
cident ut Newport in 1905.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is ''un-
scientific" in his methods and his teachings
are .'damnable" and ''abominsbly false" &C.
co,ding 10 Prof Cyril G. Hopkins, head Of
| the apartment of Agriculture at the Uni7er-
! sity of Illinois.
Following the criticism CT the Payne tariff
law in the Indiana req ublican platform Presi.
dent Taft was bit encouraged today by the
receipt of several letters and kilograms from
the middle west, informing him OF the en-.
dors,ment OF the administration end Payne
law. by several conventions. One Of the
teleeraIns was from representative Nc
| CURE of Oklahoma and it read as follows:
l"At q mass meeting of two Thousand republi-
cans of the first congressional district, Okla.
| horna, yourself and administration enthusi-
astically endorsed, together with the Payne.