Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-25
From Washington.
Of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, March 20.


President TAFT transmitted to Congress
today q special message on Liberia iD
copianction with the report OF the com
mission which visited Africa year ago
The message approved the recommends
tion of the commission to The effect that
tbs Ucited S stes come to The rescue Of
ths republic which is on the verge OF
dissolution as a result, largely, OF the
agressious OF France aud Grea! Britain
on either side through their colonies.
Strartlpg at an early hour this morr ?
lnp from the Mems house, Cairo, Egypt,
Mr.. Roosevelt aud his family j 'urueyed
By csmels iand sand cars 10 Memphis,
twelve miles southwest OF Carlo, where
the t,mbs of Sakksrrs and the temple OF
B ills are located. Mr.. Roosevelt de.
clsred the trip Wss the most interesting
and er ,ysble he has had since coming
10 Egypt. He was particularly interested
ia his visit to the Tombs.
An unexpected demand By Attorney
B,andeis, on behalf OF L. R. CLAWS, that
Secretary of tie Interior Balliuger be
called to the witness stand this afteraoop,
was made ct the resumption o! The co.,
gressionsl inquiry t,dsy. Attorney
Veriress, representing B,llinger, OH ac''
ed, claiming that Bsllinger was bis wit
uess, and for him TO bs called BY Bran.
dsis would be to subject the secretary to
Characterization before direct exami.
patton. Brandeis then made q lengthy
argument In support OF bis demand.
"The proset usion," In the Ballipgerr
Pinchot controversy forged nea linked
in their chain OF evidence today By es
tabllshirg that on August II, 1907,
Clarence Cunningham, promoter for the
nine = million dollar Alaskan coal elaine,
wrote to Daniel Guzgenheim. OF the Nor.
gan Gaggenteim syndicst, that be had
been promised by the commissioner OF
the land Office tina. bis claimants would
receive their patents within 80 days.
Nest production 1t is said Is not keep.
ing psce with the increase 10 POI alton.
TIE rumber OF food animals 10 the
Uuited States has deceased Eve million
since 1901, and the ru nber of con-
sumers has increased twelve million in
the came time. These are the facts
made public today by the tureau Of
.t.t sites, altar critical analysis OF the
cos, of living problem, With particular
reference to meat.
A new hope for the settlement of the
tariff dispute with Canada that will avert
the thrett sued Tariff war has arisen at
the State Department and with Presi.
dert Taft t,daY. Negotiations with
minister of Finance Fielding, ofOsnads,
which were practically broken of after
tbs futile conference between Fielding
and the president q. Albany last Sunday,
we're reopeped today, and Fielding is on
his way to Washington to make one last
effort to se:tie the tariff dispute. A week
remains for further negotiations, and 1t
q basis OF agreement is net reached by
next Friday the maximum provision OF
tae Psyne.Aldtich tariff Law will 90 Into
efstt, and a tariff war, which many
business men say will be dit
sstrous, will he begun. The Canadian
minister OF finance, will have an III
dience with President Taft tomorrow ur-
on the subj .ct of the tariff relations be-
tween this country and the Dominion.
This will be in continuation of the Coz
ference which vas neld at Albany, N.
Y, week age.
Ualesss Representative Sims (iem
Tenn. can stir up fight over his resc-
luton to commit The democrats of the
House to further change 10 the III es
ttat will take the appoint nent OF COM
mittees ont OF the bauds Of The speaker.
the mouth of March will go tut like
lamb 10 the House. Those rho predict.
ed all sofia oil tr uole at the democratic
C ucus last night oV,r the selection of
Fitzgerald OF New YORK, as member of
the new rules committee, sss t,e gertle-
man named With scarcely ripple Ct
The presidert today sent to tie Sen
alta the nominations of John q. Rose,
present district attorney at Baltimore to
be Judge OF The United States District
Court, and john Phillip Ill 10 be
U. S. District Attorney 1t Baltimors.