Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gasette.]
WARRINGTON, Dec. %.


a.ked to-day concerning report that
Secretary Gage had rendered bis resig-
nation and that Mr.. Mckinley had re-
fused TO accept it said: There is
nothing in it.' Mr.. Vanderlip when
questioned further said that so far as
he was quoted as authority for the
assertion he could say that there was
nothing in it, for he had never so
sta ed to any person. AS to whether
or not Mr.. Gage had offered to resign
and Mr.. Mckinley had refused to ac-
cept it he (Vanderlip) could say nothing
for he did not know whether it were go
or not. The report is generally credit
Ell. II is said by Mr.. Cages friends
that he has found out that his gold
monometallism is Djuring the prospect
of Mr.. McKinley's denomination, and
that therefore he desires to resign and
may possibly do so yet 80 as to relieve
the President of all responsibility for
his currency views. The Secretary left
here this morning for New York.
l. is believed in some usually we'll
nformed circles that the report is sub
stantially correct, but that there was
no formsl tender of a resignation. 1t Is
regarded as probable that at some con-
yersation with the President Mr.. Gage
in an informal way said that he would
resign if his financial views were en-
barrassing the administration and that
the President in reply stated very posi-
lively that he did not want his Score
tary of the Treasury to do any such
thing. 1t is learned furthermore that
at the time of this conversation the
President informed Mr.. Gage that their
views were in accord and that he must
not think Of resigning.
TIE Spanish minister said to-day:
"This talk of intervention in certain
quarters has no other purpose than to
embitter both countries and to divert
the original purpose of almsgiving.
The extension of aid to the sufferers in
Cuba is no more Intervention than was
the action of ell the nations of the
world, including Spain, to extend help
to Chicago after the big fire, or that
of the Urited States in sending q ship
load of grain to Russia and last scar to
India, and TO the city of London in
sending food and money to Paris when
tire siege by the Germans was raised"
The Spanish Minister has received a
dispatch from Havana stating that the
sutono,nists mayors of Bejucal and
Juanabacoa had been inaugurated
amid great enthusiasm, the people re-
ceiving them with shouts of Long live
Spain" 49,
The Orange Free State has ratified
the extraiition treaty between that
country and the United States recently
negotiated and has returned the docu.
ment to Washington, where it awaits
the action of the United States Senate.
William A. Smith was appointed
postmaster at Newbern, Virginia, to-.
day.
Mr.. Eckels to-day stated that 10
order that there may be no delay in
placing the Chestnut Street National
Bank in voluntary liquidation in case
the creditors of the bank accepted the
plan proposed by the committee hav-
ing it in charge, be had instructed the
Deputy Comptroller to call meeting
of the directors of the bank to pass the
necessary resolution and issue notice to
the shareholds for meeting to vote to
90 into voluntary liquidation.
A private letter from a former resi-
dent of Virginia, now in Omaha, Ne
braska, written the day before Christ
mas, received here yesterday, says ::
1.-THE present attitude of parties is cer=
tainly encouraging to the friends of
bimetallism. ! feel kind of personal
triumph in the matter as | predicted
long ago the breaking up of the old
party lines on the money question,
especially on the point Of retiring the
greanbacks. We shall undoubtedly get
greal slice from the republican party
on this proposition, as nearly all the
strong republican papers are out against
the banks. The banks here are full of
money, but confidence is so shaken
that they dare not lend. The wheat is
nearly all sold and in the hands OF the
speculatols. There is spirit OF Christ
mas trade but no prosperity. Half the
stores of all these large cities are idle,
and thousands are out of employment.
The increased price of goods makes the
burthen heavy upon the people. No
man feels safe or satisfied. not even the
mouey lenders who sit by their useless
boards and wait for business in vain.
The wage cut in New England must
be followed on other lines unless gov
eminent employs men on public works
and thus sca;ters idle hands.
When the Norfolk delegation was
here the other day it was intimated to
them that good deal of repair work
might be expected atthe Gosport Navy
Yard.
Collectors Agusw and Brady and
other prominent Virginia republicans
are here to-day. The report that
the two former would be asked
to resign for noncompliance with
the civil service rules is not
credited. Indeed no charge of the
infraction OF those rules has been
brought against the former. Among the
Others are lhe applicants for the Lees
burg postofiice. But as the republican
committee of Loudoun county has not
vet made a recommendation in that
case nothing is expected to be done
with it until that committee shall take
action.
Representative Dorr, of West Vir-
ginia, called upon the President to-day
and secured his promise to nominate a.
@. Petty, for postmaster at Charleston
10 succeed Mrs. Kenns, widow of the
late Senator Kenna, for whose retention
a strong effort was made.