Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-23
son, if for no other, should be settled
solely and entirely by the government /
of which both parties to it are subjects. /
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF tho Alexandria dazette.]
WASHINGTON. Feb. %.

RESERVATIONS directly to the government
of Cuba instead Of forwarding his re-
TO the State Department
at Washington, to be in this way trans
mitted to Madrid and referred back to
the captain general, thus insuring inter.
minable delay. The consul general
thus occupying so important position,
State Department officials entertain L o
doubt that he has forwarded his resg-
nation in the same manner as other
officials of like rank, so as to place the
appointment of his successor at the dis
posal of MIR. Mckinley if he should
choose to act upon the resignation.
General Lees predecessor held office
through nearly FIVE administrations,
but his resignation was rendered quad
rennially though not accepted.
Notwithstanding the objections ad-
vanced by the commandant of the mill
tary academy, Col. Ernst, to the cadets
at West Point participating in the in
augural parade. the House committee
on military affairs to day by a practi-
cally unanimous vote ordered a favor
able report on the joint resolution pro-
vidng tor their attendance.
Secretary Herbert replying to the
request for his opinion on the advisa-
bility of bringing the naval cadets to
the inauguration, to-day wrote letter
to Chairman Hull, of the House mill
tary committee, in which he says the
Annapolis cadets have not participant
ed In any parade away from the acade-
NV since the inauguration OF 1873,
wien the day was cold and raw, the
cadets at their own request left oil
overcoats and much sickness resulted
in the corps though no cases were fatal.
The letter concludes: Most OF the Of
ticers with whom | have talked on this
subject think the cadets ought not to
bs permitted to participate in the
inaugural parade for the reasons that
it will interfere with their studies and
is likely to result in more or less sick
ness. l, however, do not share this
opinion. The cadets can come to
Washington from Annapolis and re-
turn upon the same day. They can, il
necessary, parade with overcoats, and,
il taken due care OF, but little danger TO
heath is to be apprehended, the inter-
vention would be simply one day"
The morning session of the Sixth
Continental Congress of the Daughters
of the American Revolution was chiefly
taken up with the reading of reports,
all of which showed satisfactory con-
dition of the organization. A resolu-
ton was adopted without discussion
that the Congress extend its sympathies
to the Christians in Crete.
A report from the Weather Bureau
observer at Harper's Ferry, w. Va
gives the height of the river at noon
to-day as twenty feet above low water
(which is four feet above the danger
Iine) and rising six inches an hour.
Two inches OF rain fell there since Sun
day. 1t is probable that the river at
Washington will rise above the wharves
and endanger property along the river
front, which should be removed to
places of safety. The river will proba-
bly, coutinne to rise here until to.mor-
row, but it is not anticipated that the
flood will approach in magnitude those
of 1877 or 1889. In the latter year the
river at Harper's Ferry reached stage
of 81 feet.
The Senate appropriations commit
tee has reversed its action in striking out
the appropriation for the fast through
Southern mail, which goes via the
Southern Railway, so that appropria-
ton will be retained in the regular ap-
preparation bill.
Mr.. Cleveland at the close of the last
Congress set the precedent of refusing
to go to the Capitol to sign bills in all
the rush of the last few minutes of the
session. 1t is understood he will take
a similar course with this Congress.
An application for the pardon OF
Hammer, the defaulting teller of the
LIST national bank, of Jynchburg, Vir
ginia, which was urged upon the Presi-
dent recently by Messrs. Manson and
Blackford and Congressman Otey, of
Lynchburg, and which was referred by
MIR Cleveland to his pardon clerk, has
been returned to the Presidents hands,
but Mr.. Oley, who went to the White
House this morning to find out what
had been done with it, was unsuc-
cessful.
The favorable report by the Senate
judiciary committee in the case of Mr..
Davis, who has been nominated by the
President for u S. attorney for the Dis
trict of Columbia, will, of course, con-
duce to his confirmation, but it is GER
tain that ~ strong fight will be made
against it, when the case shall come
before the Senate in executive session,
and his opponents still hope that the
confirmation, if not rejected, may be de-
layed until the end of the session.
The Congressional Record, like all
other publications, is liable to error. 1t
recently stated that the nomination OF
Mr.. Anderson for postmaster at Nor
folk had been confirmed. The fact is
that the nomination has been held up
in the postoffice committee of the Sem
ate on charges brought by Colonel
Lamb, chairman of the republican COM
mittee of Virginia, and by ex-Congress-
man Bowden of the Norfolk district, to
the effect that Anderson was pnrty to
the alleged frauds committed at he late
election in that district. The case will
come up for final action by the commit
tee tomorrow, and Mr.. Anderson has
been notified to be present with his
witnesses and documents to disprove
those charges.
The silver republicans in the Senate
and House to-day issued an address, in
which they say they believe that the
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