Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-30
From Washington.
fConsspondsno, OF the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, March 80.

completed arrangement, for the fuoeral
of Justice Brewer. The jurist will be
buried at LeaVenHotth Kansas, where
be 6rst began the practice of law, and
where be expressed desire to be buried,
Tomorrow afternoon simple services will
be held st the Washington residence OF
the dead justice. The Rev. Samuel b.
Woodrow, pastor OF the First Oopgregs-
tional Church, of which Justice Brewer
was member, will conduct the services,
assisted BY Rev. F. M. Newman. The
services will be ssverly simply in.accord-
aaee with Justice Brewers express de-
sire. The Supreme Court With the excep.
ton OF Justice Moody, who Is Ill, will
st:end In body. Following these ser
vices the body will be placed on a special
train, and accompanied by the members
of the dead jurist' family will be taken
TO Lesveuworth, arriving there Saturday
morning. Another funeral service will be
held at the First Congregational Otu'ch
Saturday afternoon. The members OF
the Supreme court Will act as pallbearerF.
The members of the Oourt will not &C
company the body OF their late colleague
Justice Brewer, to LeavenWorth, Kansas
according to ststement Issued today by
Chief Justice Fuller as follows: Gin
view Of the time to be consumed in going
to aud returning from LsaVenworth and
the probable po,tponement OF the public
tu,iness which would result, the mem
bers of the court. after ELL bmitt ng the mat
ter to Mrs. Brewer, have determined With
her et re approval, not to goto LsaVen'
worth to be present ct the ceremony
there. The c. ut as body will be pre-.
sent ct the funeral ceremony st the resi-.
Deuce and as honorary psllbearers will
accompany The remains to the Union
Station"
An order for further detailed doco.
uen!asy evidence Issued to-day by the
BsllIuger investigating committee ind,
Gates that the frat spparent objects Of
the investigation msy sink into second,
sry importance and be superseded 10
public iuterest by an actual, direct in'
auiry into the question Of whether the
vast. inestimable wealth OF Alaska really
has fallen into the hands of the Gus,
penheims aud J. P. Morgan. Fhe
Surprisingly contradictory statements
| which have developed regarding the
status of the agreement reached between
| Clarence Cunningham and bis associates
and the Morgan'Gaggenheim In
| terssts, 30 far remain unexplained
The com mittee has before it The docu,
men tsry evidence that on Decsnber 7,
! 1907, Daniel Guggenheim accepted the
terms of an agreement with Cunning
ham and his associates by which ths
IGuggenheims should obtain a half in
terest 10 a Ave milliou dollar stock com
psuy by the payment OF $3.50, 900 and
that the company ahould inrnish the
1 Guygenheims auim' tad coal at 81 5U
per ton. Another document which hear'
the Gate of March 6, 1908, three months
ister-contains The sworn placement d
Clarence Cunningham thet the doggen'
helms had no laterests whatever
direct ur indirect, In The so.callet
CUNNINGHAM eosI claims in Alaska
| The discrepancy VAS pointed cnt wher
ftrmer secret.ry Garfield Wss Oh taf
stand. With The steamship lines and .hf
railroads in their possession, 1t is shoWr
that the Guggenheims and Morgan nn
questionably sought to control the Goa
output. Many Alaskan authorities poIn
out that With the control of the coal,
the syndicate would control practically
the entire industry of the territory and
| in effect everybody IN Alaska would be
working directly or indirectly for the
Guggenheims and J. ?. Morgan.
A nest of couuterfeiters has been dis
covered at Knoxville, Tenn. land the foul
aen in the gang have been arrested &C,
cordIne 70 adVices received by CHIEF
| Wilkie of the Treasury Secret Service tc.
day. A number of counterfeit halt
dollars and nickels, together with mold'
tor making them sad dollar pieces were
captured in the raid. The men arrested
are Frank kenner, Arthur Wyrlck,
Ernest Karnes, and David Plumley.
Learning today of the declsion CT tai
NJ Mississippi s ate Senate to probe tn
charges OF bribery In connection with h!l
election, Senator Leroy Percy declared
that he will welcome full, thorough lie:
yestlgatioH. Percy denies that either hs
or bis friends made uss Of money to assist
| In bis election ID the Senate. TIE res
olution passed by the Mississippi Ssnsts
last night provided for probe of tae bri:
bery scandal In executive session. Il
was adopted after resolution expslliug
State Senator Theodore O. Biloe bad
been debated for tbrse hours. Bible is
the senator vino seys he received S64t
from L. O. Dulaney,a politician, to vote
for Percy. Dulsney who was arrested or
sn Indictment charging bribery hes been
released on bond of IS, 600.
Three million dollars has already bser
collected by the Treasury Department
under The provisions of the corporation
tax law. The retn,ns of corporations 8;
| to thei. Incomes for the past year arr
reaching the Treasury Department ct the
rate of about 1000 Gay. Forty-twc
clerks are engaged In working up the
assessments sgainss the corporations and
| 1t Is expected that they will be able &c
conclude the work by May 10, which will
afford the corporations plenty Of time Ia
which to send Ia their taxes before june
IL. There are about 1000 delinquent
corporations. Quite 8 rumoer OF these
failed to make their returos within the
speciisd time on the grounds that they
had been dissolved. The Treasury De-
psrtmsut has called upon the sltorney
general for an opinion ss 10 whether
| o..;., I, exyatopoe at the time nj