Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-01-28
FROM WASHINGTON

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of Master Mates and Pilots, Heretofore
the rules has been to appoint supervis-
ing inspectors upon engineering quail
lications but the pilots say that naviga-
ton is quite rs important an end to be
considered.
Confident OF victory in the House
next week in the tight for the Panama
canal exposition, the San Francisco
delegation today issued a statement
setting forth what they regard as the
claims OF their city for the exposition.
To patrol the Mexican border ad-
!itional U. S. troops will be sent into
Texas at once, it was announced today
by Gen. Wood, Chief OF Staff, U. S.
A. Since the beginning of the, revo-
luton in Mexico, troops have been
patroling the border to prevent viola
ton Of the U. S. neutrality laws. 1t
is now proposed to make this patrol
moro efficient since it has been re-
ported that hundreds Of Mexican are
crossing from Texas to join the rebel
forces.
Another cholera epidemic is sweep
ing over Italy according to report
received by Surgeon General Wyman
today, stating that the, deathdealing
disease is spreading rapidly, and that
Naples is in imminent danger of rein
lection. The reports declare the situa-
ton most diSquieting and warns pro-
spec.ive travellers to Italy that condi-
tons may get worse during the coming
spring and summer instead Of better.
The epidemic will not improbably re-
suit in huge financial losses at the ex-
positions which arc to be held in Rome
and Turin this year, and which have
been extensively advertised in this
country in an effort to attract tourists
in more than the usual number.
The capture of San Marcos de Colon
Honduran city near the Nicarguan
border by the revolutionists was re-
ported to the State Department today
by Minister McBreery The Minister
also states that General Seto and his
rebel army have. been taken TO the
capital of San Salvador where they
will be kept under surveillance
President Taft today commuted the
sentence imposed upon Colonel George
+. Cooke, U. S. A., retired, from dis
missal from the service to the forfeiture
Of one half OF his pay for ten years.
Colonel Cooke was recently tried by
court martial on charges of causing
the loss OF government funds through
neglect and carclessness, unlawfully
using government transportation III
Alaska for his personal benefit and
borrowing money from enlisted men
and others and failing TO repay the
same. The court sentenced him to be
dismissed but the president decided this
sentence was too severe.
How the powder trust was stung"
by tic old midnight tariff" scheme
Whereby it was led to arrange for cx-
| tensivc shipments in order to take ad-
vantage of marked rate reductions,
only TO have those rates restored to their
old figures on the very day the ship
mcnlS were to be made, was set forth
in decision handed down by the In
tcrstate Commerce Commission today
rendering sympathy but refusing re-
! lief The scheme was worked by sew
eral Central and Western railroads on
shipments eff sulphuric acid from points
in Illinois TO New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vauia. The low tariffs were effective
less than month, and when the pow
der trust shipments were finally started
they had to be paid for at the old high
rates. Reparation was asked on the
basis OF the reduction which led the
trust to make the shipment, but was
refused because no evidence was adj
vanced to prove the higher rates unfair.
As solution Of the Alaska coal
land problem the Senate committee on
public lands decided today to report in
favor Of the passage OF the Nelson bill.
1t provides Tor the development of the
Goa lends under . leasing system de-
signed to prevent monopoly and to
protect the public interests. All Goa!
lands to which the government has not
cedcd title shall be reserved from entry,
according to the terms of the bill, In
all patents hereafter issued on mineral
lands other than coal, coal shall be ex-
pressIy reserved to the United States.
Reasons for two months delay IN
referring the reports OF the Ballnger-
Pinchot investigating commission to
the House committee on agriculture
we're sought by the House committee
on rules in executive session today.
Asher Kinds, House parliamentariar
and clerk TO the speakers table, who
has charge OF the referring OF bills to
The various COMMITTEES, was examined
at length as TO his disposition Of the
Balliuger-Pinchot reports. He was in
cIincd to blame the delay on an order
to print an excessive number OF copies
OF the report.
Employees Of the U. S. Supreme
Court were today kept busy denying
and explaining rumor which spread
all over the country that the highest
court had summarily dismissed the
proceedings 10 determine whether or
not President Samuel Gompers, Vice
President John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison. OF The American Federation
of Labor, were guilty OF contempt in
the famous Bucks Stove and Range
Company case. What the court did do
was to hint that it would refuse to pass
upon the question Of whether the
| Bucks Company should be allowed R
permanent Injunction restraining the
labor leaders from continuing their
boycntt against the firm. 1t took no