Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
,orrssDondenos OF the Alexandria Gazette

he would Call meeting Vi lHaV Con unAo
tee for tomorrow morning to CONSIDER
the Hawaiian resolution which passed
The House yesterday. The Senator
said that be expected the committee to
djspose of the matter al one sitting and
that he had no doubt the decision would
be favorable to annexation. II ne ID
not disappointed in this expectation he
will report the resolution at the begin
ming of to-morrow's session OF the SEN
ate and will ask for immediate consid-
Grafton, resisting any movement that
may be made looking to adjournment
of the Senate until Monday. Senator
Davis expresses the opinion that the
outlook for action by the Senate before
final adjournment is improving. The
present intention is to consider the
question in open legislative session.
The Senate committee on military
affairs to-day authorized favorable re-
port upon the bill for the punishment
OF the willful injury of submarine mines,
Notifications or other works of defense
OF the government. The punishment
provided is fine of not to exceed $500
and Imprisonment for five years. The
committee amended the bill by provd-
ing like penalty for trespass upon such
works.
The amount of subscriptions TO the
new loan so far received at the Treas
ury Department, it is said, meets the
expections. Although several subscrip-
tons from one to three millions were
received today, the response of the
people OF moderate means is also said to
be large.
Official dispatches to the marine hos
pital service show there have been no
fresh developments in the yellow fever
situation in the South. They announce
the opening of the camp at Fontain-
bleau, the detention point just out of
McHeury, Miss, and that there are
now 81 suspects from McHenry in the
camp.
Up to noon to-day the President had
received no official dispatches Of de-
velopments at the front.
1t is understood here now that Con-
gresham Thorp will have no opposi
ton for the republican nomination for
the House in his, the Petersburg dis
trict. MIR. Thorp says he would have
no opposition for election, if it were not
for the election officers in his district.
a negro named Jones, it has been said,
would be candidate, but that is hard
ly probable as MIR. Thorp keeps him in
Office here, and then, too, MIR. Thorp
says, if he be, the negroes there would
not support him, as they have little or
no use for negroes who live in Wash
ington.
Congressman Swanson, of Virginia.
called at the War Department this
morning to make inquiry about the de-
lay in the nomination of Governor Ty-
ler's son, Heath, to position in the
army, which, it is understood, was
promised him some time ago.
People from Charlottesville here to-
day say that Mr.. Jefferson Levy, the
owner of Monticello, at the late com.
mencement of the University of Vir
GINA entertained Governor Tyler, Mr..
Carter who delivered the address, and
the Japanese Minister.
A Virginia Congressman who called
upon the Commissary General to-day
in reference to the complaint members
of the Virginia regiment at Camp Alger
have made about their rations, was in
formed that if there were any ground
for such complaint, it was the fault of
the commander of that regiment, as o
store house had been established at that
camp and kept filled with fresh meat, to-
matoes, potatoes and onions, and
baker of this city supplies the camp
every morning with a sufficient guam
tity of fresh bread, and that if the SOL
diers did not have enough provisions,
it was solely because their commander
did not make requisition for them.
A favorable report was authorized by
the Sepate committee on military affairs
to-day the bill for the amendment OF
the act increasing the military estab.
lishment so as to place the staff officers
of the volunteer army upon the same
footing and under the same rules and
regulations for assignment as those
governing the staff of the regular army.
The bill is intended to cure al omission
in the original measure.
The authorities here say they have
no intentio n of weakening the protests
at have been lodged by the United
states Consul at Kingston against the
clearing of the ship Purissima Concep.
con from that port for Cuba, probably
by Baabano. The ship is loaded with
food supplies and took out a British
register to avoid being seized under the
Spanish flag. Batabano is not q block.
AIDED port so that British ship is free
to enter provided she carries no con-
traband of war in her cargo. 1t is
probable because the United States
consul suspects that there are such
goods abroad that he objects.
General Miles, commanding the
army, is expected to return to Wash
ington some time tomorrow.
A subcommittee of the Senate COM
rnittee on education and labor to-day
gave hearing to the representatives OF
corporations and others which have
contracts under the government and
which oppose the extension of the
eight-hour law to contractors under the
government.
The weather bureau has made arrange
ments for furnishing the West India feet
with its reports so SIS to warn it Of the ap
proach Of the gales that may now be expected
in those seas
Congressman Thorp of Virginia was at the
War Department this morning to urge the
appointment of Col. j. T. Goode of Mecklen-
burg county in his State to brigadier gener.
alship.
Though provision for taking the next con-
sus has not yet been made, applicants for pc.