Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-15

socls,Iou express deep regret q: tina cccur'
reues, snd they sre doing their mos. 10
shit the responsibility. Rfcoguiz ng
t,e possibilities of troubles 10 the siiua-
tl)n the executive committee OF tae Ma
tionsl Woman Suffrage Association today
took up for consideration the sending Of
letter of apology and regret to the
president.
The potofice appropriation bill, car
rsing s240, 600, 600, will be reported to
the Senate next Monday, according 10
present plans. A msjority OF the COM
mittee oh postofices and post roads favor
reporting the bill without a single
amendment. II that course Is followed
it will establish new record In legisls E.
ton.
William A. Rublee, OF Wisconsin,,
American contul general at Hong Kong,
died at 4 O'Clock tsdsy, CHINESE lime,
according to dispatches ct the State De-
psrtmept Consul General Rublee was
vice president and director Of the Mil
wtutee Central Company aud was ar
pointed at Prague 10 1890. He retired
from the services 10 1898 but entered
again in 1901 when he was appointed at
Hong Kong. He has also served IS
consul general at Havana and at Vienna.
TIE American charge ds'sfsirs al
Lima, w. B Oresson, reports 10 S.ste
Department dispatches today that an
amissble settlement will be probably
reached with Ecuador regarding damages
to Pelu7iau residences in the recent
rloting at Gusysquil. The threatened
Cabinet CRISIS in Peru has also been
averted and on the whole there seems ID
be much more hope OF peaceful set
tlemert Of the trouble between the two
countries.
Seventy thousand census enumerators
this morning started out ID count the noses
in this country. For week the employees
Of the ceutu, buresn have been distrit u
ing flank shetts from house TO house, to
be filled ont with the life history add
pedigree OF every occupant. Today they
began to collect. Director Dutand and
oils army have deter mined 10 make this
the fastest count of the population that
The bureau has ever made. Forty live
days from today the first Hu1d ctunl
will be ready. ibis will be has!eoed By
several new types OF counting machines
hat have been installed at the tu'esn
The 6rst count Ia generally within lOO,-
600 Of the correct total. The certified
fSares will be made public abtut 100
days later
The cry OF juoilstion which greeted
he announcement OF John Temple
Graves. the spokesman Of VIM. Rag
dolph Hearst and oil the Independence
League, that the person and the or
ganizstion that he represents were WILL
| ing b r. turn 10 the democratic psrty and
work for the success of Its candidates 10
the approaching elections, has, on sober
! second thought, been somewhat modu.
lated today. Democrats OF national
prominence sfe asking themselves
whether there are not too many condi.
lions attached to the Hearst prefer and
whether the democratic party, In nc-
CO, t 'ng It, is not really going over to the
Independence party rather than having
this latter Join The national democracy.
The same who, "a the representative OF
Hearst and the Independence Leseu',
told the District OF OounbIs democrats
at the now famous JefiersonIan dinner
Of their willingness to join hands With
them In the future, also practically read
Vim. J. Bryan out OF the patty.
The goysrumept will force test cases
10 the so called blesched four is,u', &C.
cordiDg to a decision reached By TIE
cabinet today at the regular meeting
Following the cablnet decision todsy,
Secretary Wilson will make seizures OF
bIesched four nuder his rulicg and tie
milles will be allowed to take the cases
tn court, when the government will de-
fsnd it, position.
A sta ,meul Published to tie effect
that the flag supposed to have been
planted on the summit OF Mount Nc
Kiuley could be seen on clear day wi
glass from Fairbanks, was Characterized
BY Delegate Wickershsu as fake.
A house bill ws' today favorably re-
ported from the Senate Committee on
Military Affairs providing that the ded.
ication of the Gettysburg National Mill
tary Park shall take place at such time
az the Secretary of War may determine.