The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-06-01
NEWS FROM The NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Mention Made Of Many Important News
Items About the Capital City.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Washington, D. c., May 29.-There
seems to be an unanimous opinion
in the Senate that the Lorimer case
will be reopened. Additional evil
dence that Senator Lorimer secured
his seat by fraud has come to light
and it now seems pretty certain that
the blonde boss Of Chicago will be
relegated to private life when it
again comes to vote in the Senate.
Clean politics, clean elections. Lori
mer will have to go.
The Southern society here had as
it's guest it's first president on Mon
day night, ex-Secretary of War j..
M. Dickinson, of Tennessee, who re-
signed from President Taft's cabinet
to enter private life. The meeting
of the society was most enjoyable
affair. The love and veneration of
the South was extolled in song and
story.
Mr.. Platt R. Spencer, of Jackson
vile, Fla, is in the city visiting his
sister, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, a
prominent lawyer, member of the
District school board, and dean of
the Washington College of Law. Mr..
Spencer says he never felt it as warm
in Florida as here; that the days are
warm but the nights delightfully."-
cool and one has to sleep under a
blanket in Florida. Mr. Spencer
and Mrs. Mussey are children of
Spencer Of Spencerian copy book
fame, whose beautiful writing was
taught in the schools when we were
boys.
Monday, in brief speech before
the Senate committee on finance.
Senator Knute Nelson, in defending
and explaining his proposed amend
ments to the Canadian reciprocity
bill, attacked the President, declar-
ing that he was questioning the right
of the Senate to amend the Canadian
agreement, and was thereby treating
the Senate unfairly.
Frank j. Gould, of New York, has
quietly gotten control of the public
utilities of Richmond, Petersburg,
Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. These
interests have been merged with a
capitalization of S20,0OO,0O0. The
corporate name is the Richmond
Railway and Power Company, with
riparian rights on the James and
Rappahanock rivers. Electric lines
will be built connecting cities and
towns, and finally Washington will
be reached from tidewater Virginia.
The suit Of Daniel ]. Sully, the
erstwhile cotton king. against John
Hays Hammond, special envoy of
the United States to the coronation
Of King George, has been postponed
until after the London, England,
festivities are over. Sully is suing
Hammond for 81 5000 for defam-
alton of character and loss of bust
ness.
An event which has been of years
standing occurred Monday when a
monument was unveiled in front of
the mansion at Arlington to Major
Peter Charles l. Enfant, who planned
the laying out of this Washington
city. The President of the United
States, Ambassador Jusserand, of
France, and Senator Root, of New
York, spoke in eulogy Of Major
L'Enfant. The monument is tardy
recognition of the worth of this gal
liant Frenchman in planning one of,
if not the, most beautiful cities in
the world.
The Senate, having tried the
o'clock opening hour, and found it
did not work as expected, has gone
back to the noon hour as the begin.
ing of the days session. Tuesday at
the 2 o'clock hour only thirteen of
the ninety-one Senators were pres
ent when the chaplain opened the
Senate with prayer. Comment is
unnecessary,
Sensational charges against United
States postofice inspectors are made
in petition prepared by the attor-
ney for G. B. Perkins, H. H. Per-
kins, w. w. Perkins, Charles Frank
lin, A. Thomas. and J. J. Drew, all
of Pittsburg, Pa. asking Congress
to make an investigation of the in
spectors. The Perkins concern say
they can adduce proof that the post.
Office inspectors named conspired to
further the interests of the Burns
Detective Agency to the discredit OF
the Perkins Detective Agency. Turn
on the light. Do not tolerate United
States officials seeking to discredit
one private firm in the interest OF
another. Turn the rascals out. if
guilty.
By a vote of 214 to 81 the House
of Representatives Tuesday evening
adopted the joint resolution admit
ting the Territories Of Arizona anc
| New Mexico to Statehood. The
resolution proposes an amendment
will be re-summitted to the people
at the next general election. Viii
the Republican Senate allow these
two Democratic States to come il
thus reduce their majority? w,
will see. Will the President sign
the bill admitting them if it passe
the Senate? We will see.
Tammany Hall gets there. Pete,
Dooley, who lives in Representatiy,
Patterns New York city district, ha!
been appointed to $3.50 position
in the file room Of the House. W.
do not hear of any Southern Demo
Gratis getting big paying position.
like Northern Democrats. Why j.
it. Surely the South, surely Demo
cratic, is entitled to something good
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