Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
,orrsspondence of Alexandria Gazettel


Elated over the success ofyesterday's
meeting in the east room OF the White
House the laymen interested in the
expansion OF the Y NJ. G. A. today
announced that immediate work would
he begun on the erection Of buildings
IN Japan, China and Turkey. Con-
tributions were pledged by the laymen
TO the extent of 81, 100000 and it is
with this sum that the work will be
advanced into the far east. The coun-
tries which will be benefited by this
movement are: Japan, Korea, China,
India, Ceylon, Russia, Turkey, Porto
Rico, Cuba, Portugal, and the Philip
pines.
An auction sale of secondhand fur
niture of all description is being held
today at the Postotfice Department and
is being largely attended by bargain
hunters.
1t was generally reported here that
Charles d. Hiles will retro as assis-
tant secretary OF the treasurer next
March, to 60 into private business.
Estimates for the appropriations for
the forthcoming year occupied Presl-
dent Taft and the cabinet for nearly
three hours. The executive is anxious
to clean up all routine business before
his Panama trip.
No one is to blame in the finding OF
the investigating board for the recent
sinking of barge from the battleship
New Hampshire in New York Harbor,
announced today at the Navy Depart
ment. The announcement states that
the board believes that the swapping OF
the launch and the consuquest loss OF
life was due to remarkable combination
of circumstances all contributing to
the final disaster.
President Taft paved the way far his
vote in Cincinnati on November by
today forwarding an affidavit of regis
tration. He will leave here on the
afternoon OF the seventh and will cast
his vote during the morning OF the
eithth.
His skull fractured at the front and
back OF his head, Leroy Wise, nine
teen years old, was found unconscious
near the car tracks at Thirty-sighth
street and Prospect avenue this morn
ing, and died later at Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital. How be was injured
is q mystery.
Argument was begun this afternoon
before the U. s. Supreme Court in the
famous libel suit brought by the gov
ernment against the publishers of the
New York World at the order OF PresI-
dent Roosevelt. The case came up on
the appeal OF the government from the
u. S. Circuit Court, which quashed the
indictment. The articles upon which
Roosevelt ordered the action brought
referred to the purchase of the Panama
Canal and involved Roosevelt, President
Taft, Charles P. Taft, William Nelson
Cromwell. Douglass Robinson, Rooso.
yclt's brother-in-law and others. The
attorneys for the Press Publishing Conn
panv. The World, also filed their brief
today in which they hold that the act
of July 7, 1898 under which the gov
ernmeut prosecutes the case does not
apply. The brief states the prosecu-
ton is without precedence.
A brief setting forth the gov
ernmcnt's position in appealing from
decision OF the U. S. Circuit Court
at New York, quashing an indictment
for libel against the New York World,
was filed in the Supreme Court Of the
United States today. 1t says the World
was indicted on March 4, 1909, on the
charge of "defaming and maligDiug'
Thco. Roosevelt, President Taft, Chas.
?. Taft, one of the presidents brothers;
Douglas Robinson, brother-in-law OF
Roosevelt and William Nelson Crom-
well. The World alleged in effect, the
brief says, that c. P. Taft, Robinson
Cromwell, and ]. P. Morgan aided by
their intimacy with Roosevelt and
President. Taft made large profits from
the sale OF the French Panama Canal
Co., to this government and that they
had part in stirring up revo-
luton in Panama. Theodore Roose-
welt, while president, directed
that the newspaper be prosecuted.
On a motion by the attorneys for the
World, made last January, the Circuit
Court quashed the indictment. The
substantial question" the brief says,
us whether the U. S. Courts have
jurisdiction to punish corporation
which printed in the city of New York
newspaper containing libel criminal
under the laws of the state Of New
York and circulated copies Of the same
within the federal territory of West
Point" Federal laws are quoted in an
argument that the United States Courts
do have jurisdiction in the case. The
brief is signed by George w. Wicker
sham. Attorney General and James c.
McRcynolds and Stuart Mcnamara,
special assistants.
To Recognize Portuguese Republic.
Berlin, Oct. 21.-Germany today re.
piled III the affirmative to the proposal
of Great Britain that all the powers re.