Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of Alexandra Gazette

| Commerce Commission supervisory
power over all issues of stocks and
bonds by railroads. A number OF SEN
ators called at the White House today
10 talk over the bill some among them
explained to the president that the
stock supervision clause was doomed
by the-Senate,
| Consideration of the Senate and
House railroad bills by the members of
the conference committee is in an in
formal stage. When the regular
leaders and the president have agreed
as to the provisions Of the new railroad
/ law it will require little time devoted to
formal sessions of the committee TO
make its report
The House Of Representatives was
asked by the Jews of the United States
this morning to utter strong remon-
STRANGE against the policy of the Rus
sian government toward their country
men. Representatives of the most in
iiuential Jewish societies i'll the country
appeared before the committee on
foreign affairs TO urge a favorable
report on the resolution introduced by
Representative Francis Burton Harri-
son. Of New York, which expresses
condemnation of the attitude OF the
Russian government and calls upon
the president to use his good Offices in
the prevention Of outrages against the
jewish people in Russia.
Charges that President Diaz, of
Mexico, working through Wall street
interests indebted to him for enor-
mously valuable concessions and mo-
npolies in the republic, has been able
TO prosecute political refugees and
members Of the Mexican liberal party
through himsy charges executed by
federal officers without color of law,
will be filed before the House COM
mittee on rules tomorrow when the com
mittee resumes its hearing on the reso-
Tuition introduced by Mr. Wilson dem.
Pa creating a Joint investigating COM
mittee TO probe the abuses Evidence
to be introduced showing that the
financial interests, intrenched to the
extent of $4,000, 900, 900 of invest
ments in Mexico through Diaz, have
brought pressure to bear on the fede-
raj officers Of the government to ex-
tend through America the merclless
persecution of antiDiaz propagandists.
Mr.. John Kenneth Turner author
Of "Barbarous Mexico" and i. Quit
errez de Lara, a Mexican author and
lawyer, will appear before the com
mittee tomorrow armed with dOcumen-
tary evidence which they assert will
substantiate the charges.
An electric car struck the presidents
carriage, near the entrance to the
White House this afternoon and
smashed it to splinters.
The seven members of the Interstate
Commerce Commission today began
preparations for long tussle with the
rate increases proposed by the railroads
throughout the country Just as soon
as the new railroad law goes into effect
the commission will start the machinery
for the determination of the reasonable
ness of the increases proposed. How
the commission can arrive lntelhgently
at a reasonable rate without knowing
the physical valuation of a road is puz
cling them.
Representatives Of all the Eastern
trunk line railroads had conference
with Chairman Knapp and Commits
soner Clark of the Interstate Commerce
Commission today over the methods to
be pursued by them in carrying into
effect the agreement between President
Taft and the roads. 1t was agreed that
a supplementary tariff should be filed
announcing the suspension of the pro-
posed increased rates until August /.
These were the rates that were to have
gone into effect on July l, but for the
Intervention of President Taft. If
the railroad bill now pending in Con-
gress should by any chance be delayed
in its passage beyond August /, the
railroads agreed to further suspend the
increased rates until such time as the
law will give to the Interstate Commerce
Commission the authority to suspend
proposed rates prior to their becoming
effective.
The Treasury Department today in
vOked the cOunteryailing duty specified
in the Payne Aldrich tariff bill against
wood pulp and printing paper manu-
featured from wood cut on Crown lands !
in Quebec province, Canada, prior to
May /, 1910. In a decision today, the !
department decides it will assess i'm
ports 20 cents cord The counter
vailing provision in the tariff bill was |
that when any country imposed an ex
port duty in connection with wood pulp |
the amount of that export duty shall
be added as an extra import duty here.
Quebec recently issued regulations re-
curing that wood cut after May |
should be manufactured i'll the province. |
This the department contrues as III |
effect a prohibition against expectation
of wood after that date. There are, |
however, large stocks of wood on hand !
in Quebec, cut prior to May l. which |
can be exported and to which the ex
port duty would attach. 1t is on this !
that the countervailing duty will apply. |
1t will not be assessed on products
manufactured from wood cut on the !
Crown lands after May /.
The commanding officer at Fort
Lawton, Washington, reported in dis
patches today to the adiutant general
that only one member of the Goth in
fantry was implicated in the attack
made on Mrs Redding, of Seattle.
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel w Miller
in his telegram reports: Mrs. Red
ding and two danohters AGED @ and |