Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-21
From Washington.
Correspondence OF the AIexandria Gazette
Washington, February 81.


| Senator TilImsn continues to improve.
His physicians say the paralysis ia much
less than yesterday. His mind is very
clear and memory excellent. The cu:-
look is more encouraging than It any
time since bis illness began.
Senator Smith ut noon today as re-
port ID to be In satisfactory condition.
BE is NOW considered well on the road
to recovery.
Representative Perkins, the republ;-
can congressman from Rochester, N. T.,
is very III at Garfield Hospital, suffering
from bladder trouble.
The removal of the body OF Am5assa-
dor Nsbuco OF Btszil to the MAJ flower
has been postponed because of the fail
u.e of the Brazilian battleship, Minas
Gsrs,s, to pu: in an appearance at Nor
folk. The body of the late ambassador
was to have left Washington today for
Norfolk to be placed aboard the cruiser
North Carolina for the voyage to Bio.
The charges brought against Commit
sioner of Labor Nsill By Thomas B.
Dawley we're stamped az "absolately
u.f, unded" by Secretary Nagel today.
Dawley charged Neill with iucompeu-
tency generally and With willlu misrep-
resentation OF facts IN woman and child
labor investigation now being made BY
the labor bureau.
The Alabama State franchise tax Law
was today declared unconstitutional by
4 decision Of the United States Supreme
Oonrt In the test suits by the Southern
aud Louisville and Nashville railroads.
The Judgement of the circuit court
of The United States for the Arkansas
district in dismissiDg the suit Of the
W. u. Telegraph Company against the
state to enjoin enforcement of the COZ
porstion tax Lew passed May Is, 1907,
was reversed by decision In the case
today by the Sapreme Court of the
United States holding the statute ur-
constitutional.
| That Frederick A. Peckhsm, Moses
Haas and Theodore Fl. Price, three oil
the parties to the famous 'cottIn leak
scandal" OF 1905, must facs trial for
their alleged participation, before the
coutta of the Drt;ict OF Oolu nbia, vaa
the decision of the u. Z. Supreme Ctutt
today.
| Practically all Of the claims of the
iSt,te of West Virginia In the famous
o. uudary dispute of that Commonwealth
th the state of MARYLAND, as 20 owner
ship OF Preston county, West Virginia,
we're t,day sustained by decision OF the
lSaprems court.
| 4 delegation of negroes of the various
| Congressional districts of Keptlcky,
asked President Taft to-day to appoit
ALBERT S. White, OF Locisville, q negro
lawyer, as minister 10 HsJti. The dele.
gstion was presented BY Senator Bradley
The state IF MinneHo II is winner 10
| the suit of tho Great Northern and other
railroads to test the gross earnings Of
1902. This Is the decision OF the U. 8.
| Supreme Court
Justice Lurton, the newest member OF
tae U. s. Supreme Otu to-day rendered
! bis 6r:t decision 40 member OF the
ih'gbes. ecu t rs read the opinion o.
t,a cour; in the case of the comptroller OIL
| Georgia against the Georgia Railway and
B.ukiDg Company, helding generally 10
| favor of the ]. ttr, in suit over t1e
aorliastion Ct The Georgia State law o.
ll903 t,xiDg corpora tons on the sum al.
tleged to be In excess OF Investment over
part Of the capt. Il stock.
| The corporations OF the country ha7e
declared var agslntt the corporation
tax, aud President Taft Ia beiDg mace
It1e butt of their attacks on the measures.
The corporate interests, besides their
genera. atsack against the publicity
feature of TIA law, have insugurated q
movement locking toward the repeal Of
the entire measure. As q preliminary
scrimegs to the battle royal Represet ta
tive Sterling OF Illinois today presented
to the presidert ht.er sigled by sc
corporal ions doing business in Blooming.
| ton, Illinois, asking tae president to rec,
ommsnd to Congress- that tie law be
killed. Despite the oppos ton to the
law which has developed all along The
line, on the line OF the corporation, TIE
president steadfaty maintains tba! the
| law should be "given chance" He
Ia preparing t, make az at -mpt TO secure
an appropriation of $50, 600 t. make
operative the publicity tsaore OF The
law.
| President Taft wIllspend WsshiDgton's
birthday In New York. Ia will leave
| Washinrt,n t,morrow morning, snd
reach t,e metropolis in the at
.ernoon, going TO the home OF his brother,
Henry w. Taft. 10 the evening he viii
attend the dinner of the Socitty of tie
Cincinnati of New jersey at the Pltzl
Hotel, where he will he the susst o.
honor. The president will leave New
York Wednesday fer Newark, where BIZ
will address the Newark Bosrd of Trst
"Wednesday afternoon. He will reu:n
to Washington Thursday morning.
The gu s,i:n of h1S far state msy
| 90 In compelling railroads crossing theil
borders 10 provide facilities for passen'
gels, was decided In tie U. g, Saprene
court today In the csss of the Missouri
Pacific agaiust the state OF Kansas.
The decision Of the Supreme Court today
Is that the order must be observed and
upholds the states contention.
| The Arkansas st ts law providing for
charter fee for foreign corpora tons be.
lore permitting them to do business in
| the ststs vas yesterday afternoon de.
Glazed Ii constitutional by the Supreme
Oouit, three justices descending. The
suit Was one brought by the Western
| n aion Telegraph Company to tsst The Law