Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF Alexandra Gazettel

iogton. being the advanced guard OF
the Supreme Court OF the United
states. which will convene next Mon
day for the opening session OF the
october term of the Supreme Court.
Harlan. as senoir associate justice, is
supervising the preparation for the
term. Governor Hughes will take the
oath Of Office Of the opening day.
The forthcoming term will be one
of the most important for many de-
cades. Decisions will be handed down
in the suits TO dissolve the Standard
Oil Co., and the tobacco trust; to estab-
lish the consttutionality or uncon-
stitutionality OF the corporation tax
law. and in the Buck Stoveiand Range
case in which the fate OF Samuel
Gompers and other labor leaders is
involved. More than 700 cases are on
the docket.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion announced this afternoon that
hearing will be given here on October
u TO the following three railroad presi-
dents: Brown, of the New York Cen
trail. McCrea OF the Pennsylvania and
Willard of the Baltimore e. Ohia. The.
railroad executives asked to be heard
on the proposed higher rates now I'M
der consideration.
The census bureau this afternoon
announced the people Of Delaware to
be POP, 322 an increase Of 1887 or 80
per cent.
That railroad revenues are increasing
more rapidly than expenses was lndl-
Gated in statement issued today by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
showing the following figures for June
OF this year: Operating revenues S237,-
O36. 15S; an increase over June OF last
wear of 1927, 100000. Operating ex-
penses $1GO, 1927 ga, an increase over
June OF last year of S25, 800, 600.
Captain John G. Muir was appointed
TODAY cashier at the Philadelphia Sub
Treasury with salary of 81, 500. As a
retired officer of the Marine Corps ne
also receives 81 $50 year.
Placing the full responsibility for
present social evils that result from
double standard of morality upon the
women themselves, the male socl0ioglsts
at the American Prison Congress in
convention here today opposed the state
ment OF DR.. katherine Davis, who in an
interview declared that she favored open
and recognized pollgamy. Women
themselves are to blame, said DIR. II.
&C.. Sharpe of the Indiana State Re
formatory. Let them demand OF
men the same standard which men de-
mand of women. | am frank in agree
ing with Miss Davis that polygamy
would lie better than present conditions,
but with women lies the power to
change these conditions. Let them de-
mand Of men a perfect moral code and
there Is no reason why they should not
get it. D."
Thomas J. Hillerly, white, Ia fore
man and VIM. c. Crosby, a laborer,
colored. got into a fight at 18th and
Girard streets this morning. Both were
cut TO pieces. They were taken to. Freed
mans Hospital, 1t is said they will
die.
Changes in the officers of the Allan
tic and Pacific fleets were announced
by the Navy Department this afternoon
as follows: Rear Admiral Comfy, COM
manding the third division of the At
Unite aeet, is ordered to Philadelphia.
Captain T. V. Howard leaves the general
board in this city to succeed Comfy.
Rear Admiral E. B. Barry command
ING the second division of the Pacific
Fleet. is made Commander-inChief Of
the fleet succeeding Rear Admiral
ilarber. Chauncey Thomas, now
President OF the Board Of Inspection
succeeds Barry as Commander OF the
second division.
An 'all-Ireland" protest was made
TO Postmaster General Hitchcock today
bv committee headed by the Lord
Mayor OF Dublin, against the action OF
the Cunard Steamship Company in
abandoning Queenstown as a port OF
call. Hitchcock said that under the
existing mail contracts he could do
nothing officially, but would gladly
use any personal influence he might
have with the steamship company Of
flcals.
This afternoon the jury investigating
the death of Norval T. Harris rendered
a verdict declaring that Harris met IhiS
death "by an Intentionally .self-infiict-
I'd pistol wound. F"
Two indictments were returned today
by the grand jury against Griffin Hal
ST, ad. a former stock broker, charging
him with embczzlement, larceny, and
obtaining Securities under false pre-
lenses.
Dee airing his activities, as head OF the
anti-vaccinatiOn society, in the legal
battle which is being waged in this city
against the compulsory vaccination law
| TO be i'm conflict with his services as an
instructor of Howard University, Presi-
dent Wilbur Thirkiield of that institu-
ton today demanded of Harry b. Brad
frod either his resignation from the
faculty of the university or from the
characterization society. Bradford is
president of the Anti-vaccinati0n Society
of the District of Columbia and was
largely responsible for the fight which
was commenced here at the beginning
of the school year against the compul-
sorry vaccination law. Howard Univer-
sitv is one of the largest colored schools
in the country and President Thirkfiled
i'm demanding Bradfords resignation
said that his activities were likely to
lead the millions of negroes who looked
TO the school for example into disobedi-
Dace of the law which was based upon