Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
orrespondence Of AIexandria Gazettel

-orrespondence of Alexandria Gazette
The agitation for the granting OF a
,ardon To Chas. w. Morse, the former
New York ice king, now in the fedora
prison at Atlanta, has penetrated tC
remote parts OF the country. Every
dav the mails bring letters to the
Department OF Justice and the presl'
dent is asked for all sorts of reasons
to open the prison doors for Morse.
two examples Of unique eplstle'
that are included in the large number
Of letters from normal people arrived
today. A woman at Cheltenham, Pa,
wrote that as a result OF the treatment
of Morse she was shocked with anger
and GRIEF aud walked the floor with
grief" Some Of her other remarks
were: "Why is Morse in prison al
all? Oh you say, he did etc. Many
others have committed crimes worse
than Morse ever did. Why should
Morse be placed in the cooler? say
Russia never bred greater socialists
as such injustices are doing today.
tell it on the rect cars, in church
and wherever people will listen to me,
We should beware" Another woman
living at Herkimer county, New York,
said: III | were shipwrecked, and
saw conoe near; to save my life
would use it for that purpose even II
Uncle Samuel owned it. Morse did nc
more
The last of the battleships complete.
night battle practice off Fort Monroe
last night. The storm having subsidized
so that the targets could be towed
across the range, the big guns we're LEI
loose mid the flashing of search lights,
making most spectacular display. The
result of the practice was satisfactory,
the targets having been smashed. Rear
Admiral Schroeder has issued orders To
to begin day battle practice on We'd
ncsday.
In Pennsylvania Saturday afternoon
is legal holiday and in the opinion OF
Commerce Club OF Philadelphia rail
roads should not include that time IN
charging demurrage on freight cars.
A complaint was filed with the Inter
state Commerce Commission today by
the exchange asking that the Pennsyl-
yania. Reading, and the Baltimore and
Ohio railroads be ordered to abolish
the practice OF including the half holi-
day in making charges for demurrdge.
Freight rates on lumber established
bv the western railroads in 1908 were
the subject of complaint filed with
the Interstate Commerce Commission
bv the Ingham Lumber Company, oil
Kansas City, Mo. 1t charged that the
rates assessed by the Kansas City
Southern and other western and south
western lines, from Arkansas and OK
lahoma to Des Moines, Iowa, and
other northern points are excessive.
The commission is asked to order re-
duction.
Among the complaints filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission to-
day was one by the National Refining
Co., Of Cleveland, against the Big Foul
Railroad asking that the commission
order a reduction from 1917 cents tc
10 cents per hundred pounds on crude
petroleum from Flat Rock, H., tc
Findlay, Ohio. The Colorado Goa
Traffic Association asked that the Santa
Fe and other railroads be ordered t.
establish through rates from Walsen
burg coal field in Colorado to plot il
the middle west and in the southwest
Government coinage is destined soor
to become a fading industry in this coun
try. - said a treasury official today. "a
large part of the work of the minis was
abolished few years ago when Congress
stop the coinage of silver dollars. In pari
the loss of this work for a time
was compensated for by the stamping Of
| coins for use in the Philippines" Colo
remains but if the recommendation Of
high officials i'm the treasury are adopted
the departments of the mint engaged IL
boiling down the yellow bars and con
Verting them into lustrous coins will be
closed. More than $SOO,0OO,0OO in golC
coin is now stored in the treasury vaults
There is little demand for the coins eX
cept in sections of the Pacific Coast
| Gold shipped to Europe is preferred IL
bars Lee McClung, treasurer OF the
United States and directors of the Min
Roberts are among those in favor of dis
continuing gold coinage.