Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-31
a hill to create q commission of fac

A bill to create commission of fae
ort will be recommended for passage by
the Ssnsts commiltae on Library as the
result of vote taken today. The com.
mission will have seven MEMBER, sp.
poin. led By tie president, and each is 10
be a competent Judge of art. They will
advise 10 the selel ton OF designs Tor
statutes end monuments.
Miss Grace A. Sewell, who lived with
her father, al 1925 Thirteenth street
northwest, Jumped from hes window
on tie second floor OF the house tais
morning and met almost instant death.
Miss Sewell had been suffering several
weeks from an attack OF neuras!henis,
aud had been under constaLt case OF a
physician.
Miss Jessie F. Howe, q trained nurse,
was found dead in her room, at 1920
Ohsmplaiu avenue, todsy, shortly before
moon. The gas jet 10 her room Sas
turned on foil and the windows and
doors we're tightly closed. Mirs Howe
was thilty.seven years of age.
American shipbailders may yet have
a chance to build the new Turkish navy,
according to dispatches received IT the
state Department TODAY from the Amer!-
can charge a. Constantinople, d. L.
James. He says In his d spatch that rep
,esentatiyes of the Bethlehem STEEL
COMPANY, the Cramps Shiptuildiog
Company and the New York shipouild-
ing Company have arrived at CONSTANT
nople. Upon the assurances that the
bidding for the $25, 100000 contract
w;ud be an open one they lett for
Turkey, but while on the way 1t vas
announced that the Ottoman govern
uept had given the order to British
shipbuilders. 1t is now reported that
the matter is not yet closed and there 10
till hope that the American firms will
be given au opportunity to compete.
Amended 80 that its provisions will
apply only to cotton exchanges, it Is e2-
oec!ed thet the Sctt. bill to preveI
gambling in iutarss will shortly be re
ported from the subcommittee OF the
H.use committee on agriculture. Ihe
su scomn i!tee was this sfteInoon expected
to formul. ts lis fUal repor! on the bill.
AS originally introduced The anti
or,ion bill provided against speculation
10 both grain aud cotton. Since thai
/ time hearings have bssn granted to the
| grain and cotton dealers, and the former
have succeeded in inpressiug the con'
mittse iayorably, the Indications nov
being that all reference to them will Of
stricked from the bill. The subcommittee
at its last session decided to incorporate
an immunity provision so thai 10 tn
event of witnesses testifyiDg agalns
themselves in prosecutions specified IL
the bill, they might claim immunity
| from trisl. The subcommittee held
eessiou lasting until after midnight las'
might, Late this afternoon they expet
Loo take final action on the bill.
| The House will receive tie sdmiula
tt,stion's railroad bill tomorrow, accord
ling to Chairman Mann, OF the Interstate
commerce committee. ALREADY the me-
|! iorisy have framed their report, and 1t !
hoped that the minority may have their
prepared 10 tine for submission to IN
House tomorrow. Chairman Mann, al
though personally opposed to cet'a'l
portions of the measure, will have cha'g
: Of it on the fl ,or. The measure q
originally Introduced by Representative
Toanssnd (rsp. Mich contsinei msD.
| features which Mann regarded viii
J disfayor. Mesers. Sims dem. Teun.) ant
lpu,aelI (as~-. To- } horn mot a'onoH m
minority report, and both expect to hsh
| 8 .sinst that portion of the bill! aulhor
fiz;og the comuerce court to desermin
liudicislly whether contemplated pnr
chase by common carrier OF another
| line is destructive of comp: t!tion. CHAIR
mpu Mann sisted today that be proposed
II ask unanimous consent on Moncay t
grant the measure espec'al privilege, and
falling in that, will move to suspend tn
irules 10 secure it, immediate considera
,iop,
| President Taft today insis:ed that tn
president and tia secretary of the late
rlor bs given statutory power to viii
draw from entry slch portions OF III
public demRin sc they may deem neces
issry, when be discussed the Taft vt.
drswa bill of tie legislative programm
, with Represer t,tives MoEdell, Picktt
|, and Smith of California of the ID ous
, { ,n mI!ee on public landp. TIE Pres'
, dent has always insisted that the 'tupei
yisory power" under which bis prede
cessors withdrew millions OF seres Q
public land was OF extremely doubt'u
, legality. Today he outlined to th
Representatives the form of the bill
which be sonsiders necessary to galidat
that power.
il Graduates from the Naval Academ
will be full fedged ensigns immediatel
upon receipt of their diplomas If bill
Ireported fsvorably today from The Hous
J committee on paval affairs, is passed
The measure vas introduced by Repre-
sentative Rates, yep, Pa) At presen
TIE cadets must spend two years 10 Sc
duty before they receive commission
Sixty-tirst Congress.
| Washington, March 81.