Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-25

Dy tue lnLeIDA IeVeuue CuItei sSt'iOp
today. Great tfJrt Is made to record
the Dame and location of every wrecked
ship encountered at s,s. BY placing
the name on the keel aud mssts the ship
ctu'd at once be placed, whether she had
turned tortle or was half submerged.
Early sction on the proposition to eS'
tsblish postal savings banks will DC
taken by the Senate committee on post
Off .es. 10 response to the repeated org
ing of President Fsft, a special meeting
OF the committee was held today to con-
slider the SUBJECT, II will receive
further consideration at meeting to be
held TOMORROW and there is even posi-
Oiliiy that it msy then be reported to the
Senate for passage.
With the establishing of headquarters
here of the Rockefeller Hookworm Com.
mission today c9mss the announcement
from Miss Sassn Lawrence Davis, OF
Alabama, that she las discovered tu re
for the dread disease. Hsr remedy Is q
mineral substance used internally and
externally. She is In Washington TO
present the matter to the attention OF The
commission. Offices have been started
here Of that body, and tomorrow mem
Der oil the commission will begin trip
througbt vt The south. Already reports
Of more than 10000 well-de6ued cases
OF the disease are 10 the hands of the
committee.
The chief reason that there are 30
many spoiled eggs offered for sale 10 the
Uoiled States lie that nine-ten;bs OF the
eggs In America are produced by ANA
teurs, said DR.. Wiley, chief Of the bureau
OF chemistry, TO the District committee
Of the II luse today, aud he explained
that the amateur producers do not take
proper care Of the eggs before they are
sent to market. The committee wanted
10 fod out If there is not some time
limit beyond which 1t is unsafe to store
eggs. DR.. Wiley declared that II eggs
are fresh when pat in cold storage, they
can be kept fully biae months He paid
high compliment to The cold storage
people, declaring that the cooperation
they had given the Department OF Agrl'
culture 10 its Efforts to better conditions
had been 8 revelation. Bsiore the de-
pariment had started its Investigations,
The pure food expert declared, mOst Of
be eggs used by the bakers In the
United States came broken in barrels
and kegs and shipped from China.
The forlieth annual meeting OF the
ua.Ional board OF trade met here todsy.
Frank A La lame, president Of t1e
organization, delivered the opening al
dress sud outlined the subjects which
will be considered. The programme for
this meeting covers q wide range, To-
cludiug the American merchant marine,
Ire diplomatic and consular service,
forestry aud irrigation, the interstate
commerce law, national banking and
currency, parcels post, postal ahAlr8
river and hsrbor Improvements, larlfi
and reciprocity amending the Sherman
antitrust Law, national corporation tax,
the federal inspection OF grain, aud the
immigration problem. The board will
give special consideration to the pTol 'tt
| for raising the wreck of the bsttlesnip
Maine from the bottom Of Havana bar
bar. A resolution will probably be sent
10 Congress asking an appropriation for
this purpose. Tomorrow evening TIE
| annual banquet will be held and Presi-
dent Taft will be the guest OF honor.
Five minutes after James ]. Hill,
"raiIroad ruler" outlined the 6usncial
situation 10 President Taft, statement
Issued from the While h jnse said that
there will be "no indescriminste ttusr'
prosecutions by the administration. The
railroad president told the president Of
the United States that yesterdays int
nations from the White a juse that
vIportus campaign sgaiust the trusts
would soon begin, was crumbling prices
on Wall street. II, said that business
interests were disturbed by the report
and that suca a course II persisted 10
| would bring the financial world Into
chaos.
The railroad man left the White
II luse, strokiDg his shaggy stey beard
compIacsntly, with the statement that
he had Informed the president ss to the
business situation aud that he was salts
| fed. As soon as stenographer could
prepare 1t the following statement was
Issued: There will be no undue violence
| If the TAFT administration acts toward
the trusts. The following statement was
Issued at the White House todsy.
"No statement has Issued either from
the attorney generals Office or the White
| House indicating that the purpose Of
the administration with reference to
prosecution under tho antitrust law IL
other than as set forth 10 the message oil
the prealdeut OF January 7, 1910, Sen
sa,iopa al statements IS If there were TO bt
new departure and al indiscriminate
prosecution oil important industries have
no fcu adation. The purpose OF the Rd
ministrstion Is exactly a. already STATED
In the presidents massage" The preai
dents comment on trQst proset uilor
mentioned in the statement wac EN-
bodied In bis message on the interstate
commerce and antitrust laws. Ia said
81! Is the duty and the purpose of thu
executive TO direct sn investigation b
the Department Of Justice, through thu
grand jury or otherwise, into the history
organization and proposed OF all the in
dustrial companies with respect to which
there is any reasonable ground for sus
piciop that they have been organized io
a purpose, snd are conducting business
on q plan which is 10 violation OF tn.
antitrust Law. The question which
wish 10 this message to bring clearly Il
| the consideration aud discussion OF Con