Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-25

today. Gtea! efJrt Is made to record
the name and location of every wrecked
ship encountered a! SEA. By placing
the name on the keel and mssis the ship
CT u d at once be placed, whether abe had
turned turtle or was half submerged.
EARLY action on the proposition to es.
tablish postal savings banks vii! be
taken by the Senate committee on post.
OH .es. 10 response to the repeated urg-
Ing of President faft, special meeting
OF the committee was held today to con-
slider the sutjsct. 1t will receive
further consideration at q meeting to be
held tonorrow and there Ia even posi-.
oiliiy that it msy then be reported to the
Senate for passage.
With the establishing of headquarters
here OF the Rockefeller HookTorm Com.
mission today c2mss the announcement
from Miss Sassn Lawrence Davis, OF
Alabama, that she Las discovered Gu ie
for the dread disease. Her remedy Is q
mineral Substance used internally and
externally. She is In Washington TO
present the matter to the attention OF The
commission. Offices have been started
here of that body, and tomorrow mem
Der OF the commission will begin trip
lhrougbt ut The sonth. Already reports
of more than 10000 well-de6ued cases
of the disease are 10 the hands Of the
committee.
Tbs chief reason that there are 30
many spoiled eggs offered for sale In the
Uoi,ed States lie that nlne.ten.bs OF the
eggs In America sre produced By anna.
,eurs, said DR.. Wiley, chief of the bureau
OF chemistry, to the District committee
OF the III Iuse today, aud he explained
that the amateur producers do not take
proper care of the eggs before they are
sent to market. The committee wanted
10 fad cut if there is not some time
limit beyond which 1t is unsafe to store
eggs. DR.. Wiley declared that II eggs
are fresh when pat in cold storage, they
csn be kept fully pile months He paid
high compliment to ,be cold storage
people, declaring thst the cooperation
thsy had giGeo the Department OF A9rl-
culture 10 its efforts to better conditions
had been revelation, Before the de-
partmont had started it's Investigations,
The pure food expert declared, moat OF
The eggs used by the bakers in the
Uuited States came broken in barrels
and kegs and shipped from China.
The fortieth annual meeting OF the
ua.lonal board OF trade met here toda3.
Frank A Ls lame, president OF tae
organization, delivered The opening al
dress aud outlined the subjects which
will be considered. The programme Tor
this meeting covers wide range, In
cludiug the American merchant marine,
Ire diplomatic and consular service,
forestry and irrigation, the Interstate
commerce Law, national banking and
currency, parcels post, postal afAirs
river and harbor Improvements, tariff
and reciprocity amending the Sherman
auli.trns. law, national corporation tax,
The federal inspection OF grain, aud the
immigration problem. The board will
give special consideration to the psol: tt
for raising the wreck of tbs battlesnlp
Maine from the bottom of Havana bar-
bor. A resolution will probably be sent
10 Congress asking an appropriation for
this purpose. Tomorrow evening toe
annual banquet will be- held and Presi-
dent Taft will be the guest OF honor.
Five minutes after james J. Hill,
nrailroad ruler" outlined the financial
situation 10 President Taft, statement
Issued from the While Il ;use said that
there will be ono indescrminate ttuSl"
prosecutions by tho administration. The
railroad president told the president OF
the United States that yesterdays int
nations from the White Hjuse that q
vIgortu. campaign against the trusts
would soon begin, was csumbling prices
on Wall street. FL, said that business
interests we're disturbed by the report
and that snca a cousse If persisted 10
would b,iug the financial world Into
chaos.
The railroad man left the White
II ,use, strokiDg h's shaggy erey beard
comp,acsntly, With the statement that
he had informed the president SO to the
business situation aud that he was salts.
fed. As soon as stenographer could
prepare it the following statement was
Issued: There will be no undue violence
II the TAFT administration acts toward
the trusts. The following statement WAS
Issued at the White House today.
''No statement has Issued either from
tbs attorney generals Office o, the White
House indicating that the purpose o.
the administration with reference to
prosecution under the suti.trust law is
other than az set forth 10 the message OF
the pres!deot of January 7, 1910, Ben
sstiora al statements ss II there were 10 be
a new departure and al indiscrlminats
prosecution OF important industries have
no fcu ,da.ion. The p7rPoae OF the ad.
ministrstion Is exactly 81 already stated
In the presidents massage" The presl-
dents comment on trust prosstu lion
mentioned in the Statement: was en-
bodied in his message on the Interstate
commerce and antitrust laws. ID said:
ut is the duty and the purpose of the
executive to direct an investigation By
the Department Of Justice, through the
grand Jury or otherwise, into the history,
organization and proposed of all the In
dus,rial companies With respect to which
there il any reasonable ground for sus-
piciop that they have been organized for
a purpose, snd are conducting business
on q plan which is in violation OF the
antitrust Law. The question which |
wish 10 this message to bring clearly to
the consideration aud discussion OF Con.
o,eau ia whether In order to avoid such 8