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

Commerce COMMISSION SupciN looi
power over all issues OF stocks and
bonds by railroads. A number OF SEN
ators called at the White House today
to 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 relnon-
STRANGE against the policy OF the Rus
sian government toward their country
men. Representatives of the most in
nueutial Jewish societies in the country
appeared before the committee on
foreign affairs to urge favorable
report on the resolution introduced by
Representative Francis Burton Harrl-
son, Of New York, which expresses
condemnation Of the attitude OF the
Russian government and calls upon
the president to use his good Offices III
the prevention Of outragcs against the
jewish people i'll Russia.
Charges that President Diaz, OF
Mexico, working through Wall street
interests indebted to him for cnor-
mously valuable concessions and mo-
npolies in the republic, has been able
to pcrsecutc political refugees and
members Of the Mexican liberal party
through ilimsy charges executed by
federal officers without color OF law,
vii! he filed before the House COM
mittee on rules tomorrow when the com
| niittce resumes its hearing on the reso-
luton introduced by Mr.. Wilson: dem.
Ia. creating joint investigating COM
mittee to probe the abuses. Evidence
i to be Introduced showing that the
| financial interests, intrenched to the
extent of 50, 200, 900, 900 of invest.
m"nts in Mexico through Diaz, have
brought pressure to bear on the fcde-
raj officers Of the government to eX-
tend through America the merciless
persecution of anti-Diaz prOpagandlstS.
Mr.. John Kenneth Turner. author
of "Barbarous Mexico" and l.. Quit
crrez de Lara, Mexican author and
lawyer, will appear before the COM
mittce tomorrow armed with doculnen-
tary evidence which they assert will
substantate the charges.
An electric car struck the president 5
carriage, near the entrance to the
White House this afternoon and
smashed it to splintera.
The seven members of the Interstate
Commerce Commission today began
preparations for a 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 intelligently
at a reasonable rate without knowing
the physical valuation Of Il road is puz-
cling them.
Representatives OF all the Eastern
trunk line railroads had a conference
with Chairman Knapp and Commits
sioner Clark of the Interstate Commerce
Commission today over the methods to
be pursued by them i'll carrying into
effect the agreement between President
Taft and the roads. 1t WAS agreed that
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 !, but for the
Intervention of President Taft. Ii
the railroad bill now pending in Con-
gress should by any chance be delayed
in its passage beyond August l, 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
pIOlioScu idleo Eiioi w tu0ii oe''ihiHS
elective.
The Treasury Department today i'll
vuked the countervailing 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 % cents a cord. The counter
yailing provision i'll the tariff ball was
that when any country imposed an eX-
port duty in connection with wood pulp
the amount of that export duty shall
be added rs an extra import duty here
Quebec recently issued regulations re-
curing that wood cut after May !
should be manufactured in 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 bc 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
I.awton, Washington. reported in dis
patches today to the adjutant general
that only one member of the 26th 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 daughters, aged 9 aud