Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-09

eniog big atick sc shepherds cfooK.
The sole hitch 10 the programme is
where will Mr.. Roosevelt stand. The
proposition rests upon tbs question,
"Will Roosevelt endorse the TAFT sd :
minist,stion uuquivocally ?" Meanwhile
the congressional committee L. preparing
to SOW the fields where Mr.. Roosevelt Is
to be asked to do the reapiog. Donald
Mckinley, of California, the boy orator
of the stIaigh organization, is to be ship
ped into the middle west this month for
few weeks Of campaigning. 1t Ia ex.
planned that Mckinley will not 6ght the
Insurgents, On no. Hs will merely
spread the gospel OF party harmony, and
the need of a party organization broadcast,
where insurgency is rampant. Meao.
while the insurgents are anxiously ask
ing: "Where will Roosevelt stand?"
areconst ucted personnel for President
Tafrs customs court wss nomiustad To-
day, With Judge Rober. M Montgomery
OF Michigan, as lrssidiDg judge. All OF
the other judges whose names were sent
to the Senate by the president sonttime
ago, but Withdrawn because the salaries
OF the judges wers cut from $4,000 to
81, 900, we're renominated withtle excep-
tion of Judge Alfred O. COX, who was
named presiding Judge in the former
nomination. The president withdrew the
names OF the judges 10 order to obtain
their vtsws on the cut in the salaries be-
fore asking them to accept the places.
All but COX was satisfied with t1e cot.
The renominsted members of the count
are: William FL. Hlut, Montana; James
F. Smith, California; O. M. Barber, Yer.
mont; Marion de Vries Smith and de
Vries are democrats, the others are re.
publlcaus.
Commander Pesry was thrown head
over heels into the Or. Cook class by
Representative Macon today. 10 criti.
cal survey of the explorers narrative
given before the subcommittee OF the
House naval affairs committee, Mr..
Macon declares that the mere record OF
miles travelled each day as given BY
Peary stamps his story as stretch OF
the Imagination. Mir. Macon said:
CATER reading it one only remembers
that 1t was hop, skip and lump, sleep
a wink or two, then on In gailop.
Peary clearly iutimates that he was
dlVipely favored, which he must have
been as was Moses at the Red sea aud
Joshus on the field of Gideon" Aitsr
listening to Mr.. Macon the enbcommit-
tee voted unanimously not to take action
on any of the various measures intro
duced to reward the explorer until actual
proofs Of his alleged discovery OF the
north pole are submitted.
CLOSER relations between The United
States and the South American reput-
lies are the object of broad scheme, on
which the STATE Department is at work
today, looking towsrd five mot tbs tour
of Central and South America By an
American Commission. The commits.
sion will vieit practically every large
city in South America, aud will psrtie;-
| pate In the Centennial Independence
Day celebrations of Argentina, Ohile and
! Mexico. The party will leave New
York esrly In July.
Services in connection with the accep-
tsuce of the statue of Governor Pierpont,
of West Virginia, will be held In the
| 8: nate on April;9.
The announcement of the appointment
Of Zia Pasha as Turkish Ambassador at
Washington was received today at the
| s ate Department from Ambassador
| S rsus at Oonstsp Linople. z Paeha was
prominently identified with the Young
Turks regime and visited the United
States last fall as special commissioner
from the Sultan of Turkey to President
Taft to announce tbs former accession
ID the throne.
Pract ,eally charging President Taft
With bad faith in the nominations OF
William F. Stone for another term 80
! collector of the port of Baltimore Thomas
J. Wentworth, secrstarv OF the business
mems association of Baltimore, today
FLED with the president sensational
charges against st,De. whose nomiua-
ton went to the Senate yesterday.
The brief sets forth that the president
promised to allow the association q
! hearing on March IL and that he totally
| disregaTded thst promise in Responding
Stone. The association favored lsaac
Fl. Scates for the position.
Edward F. Abner, senior member of
the Abney-Diury Brewing Company, died
suddenly at bis home at the Parkwood,
early this morning,
The government this afternoon filed
Its brief In the Standard Oil dissolution
case In the q. s. Supreme court. 1t
| combats all of The contentious OF the
Standard Oils's attorneys as expressed
! in their brief fled yesterday, and reite.
| rates the governments position that the
Standard is a combination in restraint OF
trade, that 1t has crushed competition
! and has monopolizsd the oil industry.
By vote of 9 to 7, the House Inter.
slate commcrce commission today voted
to substitlbs the interstate commerce
| commission for the court OF commerce
| In the TownReud bill as the tribunal to
receive pc titions or applications OF rail-
roads desiring to acquire interests 10
ether lines. The committee is sgrsdually
cutting sdown the Importance OF the
conrt of commerce IN the bill and before
| the measure is reported to the House It
Is likely 10 be missing entirely.
Improved Conditions Ia Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pa, March e.--PniIs :
delphia entered upon the ninteenih dsy
| of her street car strike and the fifth
day of her general sympathetic strike
convinced that the worst has passed
| and that. despite sporadic outbreaks,