Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-14

men and the United States Is the only
large country in which its use is not
prohibited President Taft referred
the matter to the Department OF Com
merce and Labor some time ago which
recommended that the action be taken.
Special legislation will be required to
this end. There may be opposition on
the ground OF federal regulation Of
manufacturing industry but it is be-
Iieved that authority exists under the
interstate commerce law to enable
Congress to bring about the reform.
Commander Gilmer at Bluehelds
reported tothe department in dispatches
today that the Prairie no now her way to
Colon with two companies of marines
are not needed at Bluehelds. The
Dubuque has sailed for Pearl Lagoon
where it was reported the Madriz force
had been landed by the Venus. The
state department has not yet received
any protests from Madriz against the
prohibition Of fighting in Bluefelds nor
can the reports that Estrada purposes
to establish new country on the west
coast be confirmed.
An unofficial report from the bureau
of the census today says that the first
announcements Of population according
to the census Of 1910 will be those of
the District of Columbia and OF San
Francisco. These announcements will
probably be made within the next two
or three days.
A general alarm has been sent out
by the Department of Justice to the
police Of Boston and other cities asking
for the arrest Of one Martin j. Walsh
who is charged with having been a
dealer in the fake faro bank III New
York city where George W. Coleman
the $12 a week paying teller OF the
Cambridge, Mass, National Bank, Is
alleged TO have lost about $500, 600 OF
the banks money. The government
intends to offer a reward for Walsh 5
arr st.
The Costa Rican government, ac-
cording to advices received today from
the American Legation at San Jose, IS
supposed to propose several modlhca-
tons to the boundry ALTERATION proto-
col with Panama which was arranged
in Washington through the good
Offices of the State Department. The
State Department is disinclined to re-
open the negotiations and 1t Is eX-
tremeIy likely that the two countries
will be left TO arrange the difficulty be-
tween themselves.
The national capitol will be a sadly
deserted village on Saturday, June Is.
Cabinet officers, division chiefs, and a
horde of mere government clerks VIII
gather at the metrop oils to welcome
their seven-years boss. There will be
veritable exodus of officials and clerks
from this city, and government bust.
ness threatens to be at a standstlll.
Prominent among those who Will 60 to
welcome Mr.. Roosevelt are Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner OF corpora
tons; Lawrence 0. Murray, comptrol-
Ter Of the currency, Beekman Win
thop, assistant secretary of the navy
all of whom were members OF the
famous tennis cabinet of bygOne days,
Secretary of the Navy Myer and Score
tary of Agriculture Wilson, both OF
whom are hold-overs from the ROOse-
welt cabinet, and Capt. Archibald Butt,
who is still military aide to President
Taft Just as he was TO the former exc
cutive, will go as the personal repre-
scntatives of the president. Captain
Butt will carry personal letter OF
Commissioner Of immigration
O'Keefe, and Charles p. Nell, com
missioner Of labor. will also be on hand.
Then there are the hosts Of also pres
ents "-hundreds Of government clerks
and minor officials. There are the pros
pcct Of a sparse attendance OF congress
men ALPHABETICALLY if the insur-
gents carry out their plan OF being
among those on the dock when the
steamer arrives.
Capt. f. p. Webber of the engineer
branch Of the revenue cutter service
is in a hospital at Valdez, Alaska, with
a fractured skull and is not expected to
live The injury was the result of an
accident, the details of which were not
contained in the dispatch which brought
the news to the Treasury Department
today.
Because Of many complaints received
at the Department OF Justrce against
of plumbing materials
who are alleged to have an agreement
among themselves as to prices at which
they should sell to jobbers special agents
Of the department have been set to work
to make an investigation. The inquiry
is being conducted in Chicago, Pittsburg,
Louisville and some eastern cities. 1t
is expected that that result will be the
institution of suit against the sO-called
trust for violations OF the
Sherman antitrust law. The so-called
"bathtub" trust is alleged to be merely
, subsidiary Of the big plumbers trust.
The statehood bill was up again for
at the White House to-
day. Governor Sloan of Arizona,
Dick and Senator Beverage,
the latter the chairman of the Senate
committee, were all in conference at
various times with President Taft
and the prospects are now bright for the
passage OF the House measure. The Sen
,'e conferees on the railroad bill were also
At the White House again putting the
finishing touch to the measure which, 1t
is now expected, will 60 through.
Much opposition on the part of the rail
way companies has been manifested to-
ward the idea of creating a commission
TO investigate the stock and bond situa-
lion. The railroads are exertlng them
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