Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-04-18
FROM WASHINGTON
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of President Ralph Peters OF the Long
Island Railroad that the department IS
holding up carriers for $4,000 an
nually. He declared the government
to be paying what is at present consiq-
cred fair price for the transportation
Of mails. He added that even II the
charges Of Peters were true, Congress,
and not the department would be 70
blame.
Ambassador Wilson at Mexico City
telegraphed the State Department to
day that though be had been unable
thus far to get reply from the Dlaz
government TO President Taft's note OF
warning he expected TO receive a state
ment from the foreign office very soon.
He will immediately advise the State
DEPARTMENT.. Consul Garrett at Nuovo
Lardeo, opposite Laredo, Texas, re-
ported to the State Department today
that the older Madero had passed
through Eagle Pass on his way to Chi
huahua on his reported peace mission.
Rumors of the capture of the town
of Laran were received ut the State
Department today in J, Dispatch from
Consul Noopter, at Saltillo.
After considering the findings of
the court in the case OF Captain Austin
NJ. Knight, charged with negligence
in connection with the sinking Of the
Monitor Puritan in Hampton Road
last November, for nearly a month.
Secretary Meyer today returned the
case to the court for further consider
alton.
The commission appointed to inves-
tigate second class postage rates on
magazines will hold its preliminary
organization meeting at the White
House on May !, according to plans
agreed upon today by Associate Justice
Hughes and President Taft. Some
question has arisen whether the con-
nection Of Lawrence Maxwell. OF Gin
cinnati. o., as attorney for express
companies, may not detar him from
service. Justice Hughes and President
Lowell OF Harvard, the other two
members, and President Taft, feel that
MaxwelPs high standing would be a
| sufficient answer to any charge of bias,
and want him to serve. 1t is believed
they will persuade Maxwell to take up
| the work.
President Taft left Washington d.
| rectly after an early lunch, on special
electric train for Annapolis, Md, where
he is expected to deliver an address at
the unveiIiug Of monument to the
memory OF the soldiers and sailors OF
France who died in the revolution.
The memorial given by the Sons Of the
Revolution, has been erected in the
grounds Of St. Johns College. Am
bassador Jusserand, who will make an
address, was invited TO accompany the
president.
Edward A. Moseley, secretary Of the
InterstateCommerce Commission con-
spicious figure in the word OF govern
| uent regulation Of railroads died today
at his home in this city. He had been
in i'll health since last September and
gradually failed until within the last
two weeks when there was no hope for
recovery. Heart disease with other
complications caused his death.
A resolution practically instructlng
| Pr esident Taft to declare war on Mexl.
co at the next recurrence OF firing
across the American border should be
reported to the Senate by the COM
mittee on foreign relations according
to a statement made today by Senator
Stone, Dem. Mo- a member OF that
committee.
Responsibility for the next step IN
the Mexican situation was shunted
back upon President Taft today by
Senator Cullom(Rpn. I'D, chairman OF
the Senate committee on foreign re-
| lations, and Representative Sulzer dem.
In. ", chairman Of the House Com
| mttee on foreign affairs. Both Cul-
om and SuIzer asserted that no pre-
cipitate action would be taken by Con-
gress and that they wonld await a
special message from the president.
Word received today from Consul
Schumacher at Ensenada is a reassurng
report as to the status of Americans AT
Alamo, in Lower California where the
Mexican socialist revolution is in
progress. Schumacher said that the
families have provisions enough for
two weeks.
The departure of troops which have
been under orders to sail for the Philip
piues this spring has been postponed,
it was learned at the War Department
today. The postponement Is partly
due to the presence OF many OF The
organizations along the Mexican bor1er
and partly because OF a plan for length
euing the tour Of duty IN tie Philip
pines from two years to Two years aud
a half. The troops affected are com.
panies L and L, Ord battalion engi-
neers, nov at San Antonio; the 3rd and
4th cavalry; the 18th and 18th infan-
try, nov at Sap Antonio; the Oath in
fantry at Oswego. \. Y, the Sth in
fantry at San Diego and the 1st infan-
try at Vancouver barracks.
Informal notice that the United
States will shortly receive note fiom
Mexico with assurahces Of a definite
restrictive policy on the border" was
received at the White House today
1t was believed that the note would be
formally presented through the State
Department this afternoon.
The opening gun of the democratic
investigation of the Navy Department