Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-03
From Washington.
tCorrs,pondenss Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington. March 8.


A broadside against the sdministra.
lions interst.te commerce bill, as re-
ported from the committee on interstate
commerce, YVES fired today BIZ Senators
Cunmins (rep. Iowa. and Clapp rep.
Minp.). In minority report the two
western senators condemn tine measure
nnspsiringly, contending that 1t creates
ussless court, reduces the authority OF
the Interstets Commerce Commission
and fails TO properly regulate the rail
roads or to protect the public. They
made the startling statement that the
bill neither prevents the combination nor
the over capitalization OF railroads. The
plan proposed by these two sections Of
the bill that were supposed to abolish
those evils (snd do b lis friends clalm)
are declared by the minority report to be
Ineffective. They recommend that the In
terstate Commerce Commission be given
the power 10 prescribe relation between
rates. Wit tout t1is power the contest
between the various communities, esp:c'-
ally 10 the vel tsrn cour t'y, 1t Is asserted,
for comm srcial ad7sr ta2e will never be
satisfactorily ACQUITTED.
The news from the bedside OF Repre-
sentative Perkins, OF New York, Is
t. fle more encouraging this morning.
II nights are now nearly all rest'u'
ones snd his power 10 resist the disease,
thai has attacked him for the past two
Weeks, is slonly increasing.
The refusal of Secretary OF the loterior
Ballinger u allow A. O. Shaw. former
law officer of the forest service, to p!ae-
tice before the interior department Unrest
ems to aid another squsb5le to the seethiug
Bsllinger- Pinchot controversy. Repre-.
&C ntive Page and Ssus tors Ove,man and
S mmons, OF North Caroline, who have
eepoussd the cause CT Shaw, are coli no.
plating opening up the matter 10 Don.
press. They have inside inetfec usl
t!empts to have the president reverse
Bsllipger'r order barring Shaw, bot have
uste:ded in Interesting Senator Root,
who is today working with the department
Of ju,tice and dt tsrminiug the status OF
he dismissed Law officer. President TAFT,
10 refusing to il ,riere, let 1t be known
TINT he considers Shaw responsible,
partly, at least, for the attacks on tie
interic: department and the admiuis-
tratiop which sppssrsd 10 newspapers
aud msg: zines when the row was al Its
height.
The imperial government 1T Pekin has
desigua.ed Hau CHEN, Hau Shih Yipg,
Ohm Saoa Ohang and L, Fang to repre-
ssnt China IT the international confer
ence on prisons rsfo,m which is to be
held In Washington next Ssptemoe'.
The Slate Department was notified t:dsy
10 dispatches from the legation at PekiD.
More than a score of dispatches we're
received at the Sale Department today
from American cotton seed oil manufac-
turers rtq1estirg the State Department
to make represet ,tion t, the French
government regarding the proposed In
crease of duty on American cotton SEED
oil. The bill is nov before the French
legislature. The same duty Ia also one
of the obstacles in the way of the tariff
sgreemsat between Frarcs and tie
Un;t,d States
Scientists, educators, and other benz
factors of humanity are busy today dis
cussiug the latest Rockefeller beneVoieoce
which 10 wider in scope than anything
of its nature thas has ever been proposed,
and which ont Carnegies the Laird OF
Skibo. Without dlsscutiug voice, they
declare 10 favor of the proposal, and
they will lend i. all the support they can
command in Congress.
The following is William 81. Tat 3
record ss president for one year: Travelled
90, 6SS miles by railroad aud 5000 bY
automobile; visited thirty states and two
territories; made S4S speeches, (Roofe
welt, 10 bis lRst years as executive, made
only 242); appoil It'd G.9l7 federal
officers; ser, Is messages to Congress;
lost seven pounds; weighed 926 on
March 4, 1909, and Sl9 on March 3
1910; secured enactment Olga new trif!
Law; took initial step looking to prose.
cution OF the beef trus!. unesrthed Gus
tom freu1s at Nav York; discharged
three federal ofticers-Chief Forester
Clifford PDcbot, AS, oaiate Forester 0.
". Price, and Law Officer A. w Shaw;
insli led an itqniry into the high COST
of li7icg: forced the sbdicsliou of Pres!-
dent Z,lays, diCttt of Nicarsgus;
shook hands With President Diaz on
Mexican soil.
This promises to be sad year for the
houseay. The Department OF Agr!tu'-
lure, which has bit the fly some rather
hard rsps 10 the past, is planning to In.
sugurste a country. vide crusade against
him az soon as spring opens. Hundreds
of scientists aided by all the laborers, all
,hs il.-amellIng drugs and chemicals,
aud al! the cruel screens and mechanical!
killers that can be pressed itto service,
viii make concerted attack upon the
familiar peat fer the purpose OF driving
him out of existence.
While the action of Senator JEFF Dsvia,
of Arkansas, 10 stating to Il ouse com.
nittee that the passage OF ceIt,in bill
would bring large fee to him and after
wards explaining that he did net mean