Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Il.

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Mr.. Daniel of Virginia, who minor.
ity member of the Senate foreign rela-
lions committee, was to-day shown the
State Department bulletin regarding
the position Of the Japanese press on
the Philippine situation and which is
that this country should hold all those
islands, he said THAT statement was
evidently prepared with purpose, and
| I nave no doubt the sentiments eX.
pressed therein will be most gratifying
| TO the British" Mr.. Daniel is against
territorial expansion. He says it is s.
very serious problem and that nothing
should be decided in an offhand man
DER
The bricklayers on the new city
postoffice have stopped work, having
received no wages for the past two
| weeks.
The Board of Visitors to the Naval
Academy recommend that the appoint
ment OF candidates be made by July
of the year preceding their examination
for admission in order to permit them
to be more fully prepared; that those
cadets who pass into the line and en-
giueer corps be required, on the COM
pletion of their first three years. cruise,
TO return to the academy and pursue
two-years' course of advanced studies
in wither ordnance, marine en-
cheering or electrical engineering
that the department of seamsnship be
provided with a set of models of modern
men .of-wsr; that the, department of
steam engineering be supplied With
modern tools, and that the board ap-
proves of the plan for the rebuilding
of the academic buildings.
A large number of excursionists from
the 9:h Virginia district are here to-
day, having left at Lynchburg those
with whom they had started, who went
to Norfolk. Those of them who take
any interest in politics say the prevail.
ing belief in their district, on the sub
ject, is that the people thereof, even
the republicans, have gotten tired of
their present representative in Con-
gress. and want change, and that Mr..
Rhea, his democratic opponent, will
be elected in his place.
Chairman Agnew, of the Virginia
State republican committee, is here to-
day. He says the thirty members of
that committee recently elected-three
in each of the ten Congressional dis.
tricts-will meet in Lynchburg next
Monday night to reorganize and elect
their officers. Other Virginia republi-
cans now here say the new committee
will re-elect its present officers and also
its executive committee, with the excep.
ton of Judge Waddill, who declines a
reelection, and Congressman Walker, of
the 9th district, who is not in accord
with the other members.
4. c. Darlington was appointed post.
master at Gidsville, Amherst county,
Va, to day, vice J. NJ. Gunnaway, re.
moved.
From Ohio to-day it is learned that
while the feeling there is in favor of re.
tanning al the Spanish territory that
has been seized, the conduct of the war
has been SO censurable that the admin
istration has lost good deal ofstrength
in that State, and that the democrats
there confidently rely upon gaining sew.
eTai SoHSIcSSuueu AZ lue CoulHS eIeC-
ton.
Among the members OF the labor
commission recently appointed by the
President, it is reported here by those
connected with the labor organization,
is one negro, though that fact was not
stated when his appointment was an
nounced.
The fact that though Mr.. Davis, U. S.
attorney for the District OF Columbia,
still retains that office by appointment
OF the court, though his appointment bY