Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-03
From Washington.
u crrs.pondenss of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, March 8.

lCcrrsspondenss of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, March 8.
A broadside against the sdministra-
lions intertats commerce bill, as re-
ported from the COMMITTEES on interstate
commerce, Wss fred today by Senator'S
Cuumins (rep. Iowa aud Clspp (reP.
Minp.). la minority report the two
western senators condemn the measure
unspsiriugly, contending that 1t creates
useless court, reduces the authority oil
the Interststs Oommsrce Commission
and fails TO properly regulate the rail-
roads or to protect the public. They
made the startling statement that the
bill neither prevents the combination nor
the over-c capitalization OF railroads. The
plan proposed by these two sections OF
the bill that were supposed to abolish
those evils land do 30 its friends clalm)
are declared by the minority report to be
Ineffective. They recommend that the In
terstate Commerce Commission be given
the power 10 prescribe relation between
rstee. Without this power the contest
bets the various communities, esp:cl-
ally 10 the We tsrn couI t'y, 1t Is asserted,
for comm srclal sdgsr ts2e will never be
satisfactorily &C iuited.
The news from the bedside OF Repre-
sentative Perkins, OF New York, Is
t. he more encouraging this morning.
II nights are now nearly all restiul
ones and his power 10 resist The disease,
that has attacked him for the past two
weeks, is slowly increasing.
The refusal of Secretary OF the loterior
Bsllinger u allow A. o. Shaw, former
law officer of the forest service, to p'ac-
tice before the interior department Unrest
ems to aid another squsbble to the seelhiug
Bsllinger-P inchot CONTROVERSY. Repre-.
sentive Page and Seott)rs OVerman and
S mmous, of North Carolina, who have
espoussd the cause Of Shaw, are colt m
plating opening up the matter 10 Don.
0ress. They have msde ineffec ual
tlempts ID have the president reverse
Ballipger'r order barring Shaw, bot have
ucte,ded in interesting Senator Root,
who Is today working with the department
Of iu ,tice and d. termlniug the status OF
he dismissed Law officer, President Taft,
10 refusing to 10 ,rfere, let 1t be known
thst be considers Shaw responsible,
partly, at least, for the attacks on the
interior department and the admipis'
tratIon which sppssrsd 10 newspapers
aud msgi z.nes when the row was AZ It's
height.
The imperial gosernment 1t Pekln has
! designated Hsu Chen, Hau Shih Yipg,
ohm Saoa Oheng add Ii Fang to repre-
sent China 1t the international confer
euce on prisons reform which Is to be
held In Washington next Septembe'
The Slate Department WAS notified tldsy
10 dispatches from the legation al Pekln'
More than score of dispatches we're
receIyed at the Safe Department todsy
from American cotton seed oil mspufac-
turers nq1estirg the State Department
to make represet t,tion II the French
government regarding the proposed In
crease OF duty on American cotton seed
oil. The bill is noU before the French
legislature. The same duty Ia also one
of the obstacles in the way Of the tariff
agreement between Frarcs aud tie
Unit,d States.
Scientists, educators, and other benz
factors OF humanity are busy today dis
cussing the latest Rockefeller beneVo!eDce
which Is wider 10 scope than anything
of Its nature thai has ever been proposed,
and which ont Carnegies the Laird oil
Skibo. With at q dIsseutiug voice, they
declare 10 favor Of the proposal, and
they will lend i. all the support they can
command In Congress,
The following is William Il. Ts,ts
record president for one year: Travelled
20 6SS miles by railroad aud 5000 By
automobile; visited thirty states aud two
territories; made S4S speeches, (ROoie
welt, 10 bis last years as executive, made
only 242); sppoil It'd 69l7 federal
officers; sert Is messages to Congress;
Iott seven pounds; weighed 926 on
March 4, 1909, aud Sl9 on Msrch 3
1910; secured enactment Olga new tariff
law; took initial step looking to prose
cutlon OF the beef trus!I unesrlhed Gus.
tom frtuls at New YORK; discharged
three federal officers-Ohief Forester
Clifford Plncbot, As oeiste Forester 0.
W. Price, and Law Officer A. W. Shaw;
insli uled an itqniry into the high cost
of livicV; forced the sbdicstion of Pres-
dent Zilsys, dIcttt Of Niearseus;
shook hands with President Disz on
Mexican soil.
This promises to be sad year for the
houstAy. The Department OF Agrltu-
lure, which has bit the fly some rather
bard rsps 10 the past, is planning to In.
sugurste o country. vide crusade against
him "a soon as spring opens. Hundreds
of scientists aided by all the laborers, sll
the il.-,melling drugs and chemicals,
aud all the cruel screens and mechanical
killers that can be pressed rto service,
viii make q concerted sttsck upon The
familiar pest for the purpose Of driving
him ont OF existence.
While TIE action Of Senator JEFF Davis,
Of Arkansas, 10 stating to ID ouse com.
mittee that the passage of cell in bill
would bring q large fee to him and after
wards explaining that he did net mean