Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence OF Alexandra Gazette

| Commerce COMMISSION W loA0i 'A1C
question of a standard system OF safety
appliances on railroad cars to a COM
mission consisting of five inspectors
representing the commission, five re-
representatives. OF the railroads and five
representing the National Car Builders
Association. They will consider the
uniform system prepared by the COM
missions experts and present report.
The commission, under the law, must
inform the railroads by October IA OF
the new standard to be required.
Prepared to deliver an address in
Ncw York tonight, which is expected
70 his position in the present
political situation, President Taft left
Washington today. He will proceed
from New York to Beverly for two final
weeks OF vacation. He will speak this
evening before the National League
OF Republican Clubs. Taft expects to
spend the next two weeks in playing
golf and motoring.
The appointment of R. S. Reynolds
Hit, of Illinois, former minister to
Venezuela, as minister to Guatemala
was announced at the State Department
today. Hit has been in the diplomatic
service since 1901 having held the post
OF third secretary at Rome and minis
ter to Panama. lie will leave this city
at an early date for his new post.
Secretary Ballinger OF the Depart
ment or the Interior today appointed
the members OF the committee which
is to represent that department in the
investigation OF the business methods
OF the several executive departments.
This committee is the result OF an
item in the sundry civil act, which
appropriates 100000 to enable the
president to employ accountants and
experts from official and private life
to inquire into the methods OF trans
acting the public business of the govern
mcnt. The committee will report to
the president recommending changes
in the old methods employed by the
departments which will be sent to
Congress by the chief executive. The
personnel of the sccretary's committee
is as follows: Oscar Lawlcr, assistant
attorney general OF the department,
Clement S. Ticker, chief clerk OF the
department, Don NJ. Carr, private Sec
rotary to the secretary.
The treasury representatives for the
United States at the ninth international
conference against tuberculosis, it was
announced at the treasury today will
be DR.. Reid Hunter, M. 2. Ravenel,
Arnold G.. Kleps, and Mr.. w. ID.
Baldwin.
The doctors at the Washington Asy-
lum Hospital are today utterly unable
to solve the case OF ]. G. Sims, an in
surancc man of this city, who is held
at that institution as 4 raving mauiac
following his sudden attempt yesterday
to commit suicide by shooting himself
while waiting in the office OF DIR. W.
G. Young.s
Quoting the lines Of Oscar Wilde in
his bal nd OF Reading Gaol, depicting
the despair that prison methods bred
in the hearts OF prisoners, the commit
tee on prison discipline which today
occupied the floor at the meeting OF
the American Prison Association de-
clared that such methods must be re-
placed in the new order of criminal
treatment which considered always the
reclamation OF the criminal.
w. I. Thompson, OF Nebraska, was
installed today rs solicitor Of the
Treasury Department, a position that
pay $1,000 a year. He succeeds NJ.
d. O'Connell of Iowa, who had long
held the position.
The appointment Of Frank f. Hin
ckley OF California. as district attorney
Of the United States Court for China
was announced at the State Depart
mcnt today Hincklcy was appointed
clerk Of the court in 1906 when the
United States Court for China was
first organized.
Four weighers convicted in connec-
ton with the sugar frauds in New
York were pardoncd by President Taft
today. They were: Thomas Kehoe,
Patrick ]. Hennesy, Edward H. Boyle
and John II. Coil. They were SEN
fenced on January 10 of this year to
serve one year in the penitentiary.
With allowance for good behavior their
terms would have expired on November
o. They were granted immediate re-
leases by President Taft because they
| furnished the government officers in
formation against Gerbrecht and Heike,
officers higher up in the Sugar trust.
December was set by President Taft
today as the date for the transfer of
the eight thousand assistant postmas-
tcrs to the classified civil service list.
The executive order abolishing this big
patronage list was signed by President
Taft before ewing the city today.
| A report upon which President Taft
will base in part his recommendations
to Congress for better court procedure,
was made to the American Institute
of Criminal Law here today, praising
British methods and citing that Thaw
trials as ludicrous The report was
made by Edward R. Keedy, professor
of law in Northwestern University and
John d. Lawson, dean the law school
OF Missouri University, recently ap-
pointed rs special committee of the
American Bar Association. TO Presi-
dent Taft and the American Bar As
ISOLATION" they said, We will recon-
mend the abolition of reversals on
formal defects in indictments or trials;
Limitation of inspections OF prospective
jurors and greater control over trials