Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-25
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, March rs.

| fCcreSpondenos OF the Alexhndfla ds5eEe
Washington, March 20.
President TAFT transmitted to Congress
today o special message on Liberia IL
cor function With the report OF t1e com
mission which visited Africa year ago
Toe message approved the recommends
ton of the commission u The effect Iba
tbs United S stes come to the rescue o.
ths republic which Is on the verge o.
dissolution as result, largely, OF th'
sgressIous OF France and Great Britain
on either side through their colonies.
Starting at an early hour this morr
ing from the Mens house, Cairo, Egypt
Mr.. Roosevelt aud bis family uroeyed
By csmels lsnd sand cars 10 Memphis,
tEelve miles southwest OF Carlo, where
the t)mbs of Sskkarrs and the temple Of
B Ills are located. Mr.. Roosevelt de-
clsred the trip wss the most interesting
and erj ,ysble he has bad since coming
10 Egypt. he was particularly interested
10 his visit to the Tombs.
An unexpected demand by Attorney
B 'audeis, on behalf OF l., r. CLAWS, that
Secretary of TIE Interior Bsllioger be
called to the witness stand this afternoon,
was made 1T the resumption o. the con-
gressionsl inquiry t,day. Attorney
Veriresa, representing B'llIpger, OF sci'
ed, claiming that Pslliuger was bis wit
uess, and for him 10 be called by Bran
deis would be to subj cot the secretary to
cross-examinatlon before direct exaDi.
ration. BRndeis then made lengl by
argument 10 support OF bis demand.
1.-THE proset ution," 10 the Billipgers
Pinchot controversy forged nes linked
10 their chain OF evidence today by ts
tsbllshlpg that on August IL, 1907,
Clarence Cunningham, promoter for The
nine'y million dollar Alaskan coal claims,
wrote to Daniel Gu! genheim, Of the Nor.
gan Gaggeuteim syndlcst, that be had
been promised by the commissioner OF
the land Office that bis claimants would
receive their patents within 80 days.
Meat production 1t Is said IL not keep.
ing psce With the increase 10 poi ua.ion.
Tue runber OF food animals 10 the
u cited States has deceased Gse million
since 1901, aud the Lu nber of con-
sumers has increased twelve million 10
the came time. These are the facts
made public today by the tureau Of
,t,t sites, altar critical analysis OF t1e
cost OF living problem, With particular
reference 10 meat.
A new hope for the settlement of the
tariff dispute with Canada that will avert
the Tires ,ned tariff var has arisen ct
the State Department and with Presi.
dert Taft t1day. Negotiations with
minister of Finance Fielding, Of OsDsds,
which were practically broken of after
the futile conference between Fielding
aud the president q. Albany last Sunday,
we're reopeDed today, and Fielding is on
his way tO Washington TO make one lsst
effort to sc tie the tariff dispute. A week
remains for further negotiations, aud II
basis OF agreement 10 net reached BY
next Friday the maximum provision OF
the Payne.Aldrich tariff law will 90 into
effstt, and q tariff war, which many
Americans business men ssy will be dit-
sstrous, will he begun. The Canadian
minister OF finance, will have an Gu
dIence with President Taft t,morrow ur-
on the subj ,ct of the tariff relations be-
tween this country and the Dominion.
This will be 10 continuation of the cor
ference which was held at Albany. N.
Y, week sgc.
Uolesss Representative SIMS dem
Tenn can stir up a fight over his resc-
luton to commit The democrats OF the
House to further change 10 the ia 60
ttst will take the sppoiL nent of COM
mittees ont OF the hsuds Of The speaker,
the month Of March will 60 tut like
lamb 10 the House. Those who predict
ed all soiti OF tr u5le at The democratic
C ucus last night oV,r the selection Of
fitzgerald OF New York, o, member OF
the nee rules committee, sss t,e gert tic
man named with scarcely ripple q
The presider today sent TO the Sen.
sts the nominations Of John y. Rose,
present district ktorDey at Baltimore to
be Judge Of The United States District
Court, and john Phillip H II 10 be
u. s. District Attorney 1t Baltimore.