Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
,rrsapondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Aug. "a.

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{ t customs for the port Of Patchogue.
The Governor of West Virginia has
requested the War Department to es
tablish a military reserve camp in the
vicinity of Charleston. 1t is understood
that Major Mills, of the Inspector
Generals Department will be sent to
inspect the locality.
The commission selected by the
President to settle the question of the
Philippine Islands is composed of the
following: VIM. r. Day, Secretary of
State; Cushman K. Davis, chairman of
the Senate foreign relations committee;
Wm. P. Frye, Senator from Maine;
Justice White, of the United States Su.
rsme Court, and ex.Secretary of the
Navy Benz. F. Tracy. Secretary Day
does not agree with Senator Allison
an other prominent men who have been
quoted in this connection, that negotia-
lions will be long drawn out. On the
other hand he looks for speedy con-
clusiou. In this matter the War De-
pariment does not agree with the rep
resentative of the State Department.
Ia General Corbin's dispatch OF instruc.
tions to General Merritt, forwarded
Yesterday, it was said: THE question OF
returning any troops (from the Philip
pines can only be decided after the rat
ifcation of the report of the peace COM
mission, which may not be for some
weeks and even months yet"
The interview with General Miles at
Ponce, reproduced here to-day, created
q stir at the War Department. Officers
generally decline to discuss the matter
for publication. General Corbin, who
5 criticised in the interview, does not
credit the alleged utterances of General
Miles. When his attention was called
o it to-day he said: General Miles is
90 discreet man to speak in that
way"
The War Department was informed
to-day of the death last evening of
Lieut.. w. H. Osborn, of the First
Cavalry, at Montsuk Point. He had
been wounded. He will be buried at
Arlir gtop, Va, tomorrow.
The following are the only regiments
so far ordered to be mustered OUT
First Vermont infantry, FIRST Maine
Infantry, Fifty-second Iowa infantry,
Sixth Pennsylvania infantry, Fifth
Maryland infantry, Battalion Ohio
light artillery, Second New York in
fautry, First Illiuois cavalry, Second
Nebraska infantry, 18TH Indiana in-
fantry, Batteries A and B Georgia light
artillery, Twenty-eighth Indiana light
-o,,ar,, opI tho ponDcu ua MA apS tuo
New York cavalry troops now with
General Miles in Porto Rico. They
will be ordered homs and mustered
out at once. Others will follow from
;ime to time and be announced as they
are selected. The department is cor
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of allowing all
the volunteers from the several States
who want to go home to do so, and
thereby to reduce the numter of regiss
ments from such States.
The appointment of Secretary Day,
Senator Davis and Frye, Associate JUS
tics White and exSecretary Tracy, as the
american members of the peace com
mission, S perfectly satisfactory to the
raukest jiugoes here, who say they are
sure such commission wouldn't agree
that the American flag should be low
cred even in the moon, if it could be
raised there. With the exception Of
the Justice, all its members are ultra
and sectional republicans.
Republicans here who know what
they are talking about say that the
republican candidates for Congress in
Virginia this fall will enjoy their no.
toriety at their own expense, as
neither their State nor the ma.
tioual republican committee will
give cent to any of them.
Tne State committee has none to give,
and the national committee say they
tn! ew away too much money in Vir-
gil ia at the last election, and don't in
tend to throw away any more in that
State this fail.
Congressman Jones of Virginia is
here, hurrying his work OF preparing
the democratic campaign book for the
use of the democratic speakers this fall.
The work will soon be done AID the
b ok be printed at an early date. 1t
will endorse the Chicago platform and
4 'vocate the free coinage of silver.
The surgeons in attendance upon tine
sick soldiers who have been lying in
tae cars at st. Asaph for the last two
days, came here this morning to get
permission, if they could, to remove
hem, as lying in the cars in the hot
TN is by no means conducive to their
recovery. They came from Tampa
and are on their way to Long Island.
The six hundred mules that reached
st. Asaph night before last, were ship
ped TO the Long Island camp thi
morning.
Among the Presidents callers to-day
were General Ruggles and General
Bernard, Governor aud Deputy Govern
or respectively of the soldiers home
here. a son of the latter was killed in
The battle known as the storming of
San Juan hill. General Bernard, who
is native of Tennessee, was commits
stoned Q second lieutenant for con.
spicuous bravery at the battle of Val
Veidi, Mexico, through the influence of
General Candy. He remained 10 the
regular army and fought in several of
the hottest Indiana campaigns in the
far west prior to the war between the
States. The President on learning that
he has son of the proper age for West
P oint stated that he would appoint
him as soon as vacancy occurs.
Representative Mahoney of Buffalo
C illed on the President this morning.
Mr.. Mahoney brings the information
ttat most of the people in his section
favor the retention Of the Philippines.
Being asked if there was much
of q stir in behalf of Colonel
2 ,nsevnlt for enyarnnr in his no ri Of thu