Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
FOorrsspondonce Of the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.

Correspondence Of the Alexandra cia2etts.i
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.
a pension of $12 q month will be
granted to Mrs. Charles Ellis, widow
of the only American seaman killed 10
the battle with Cervera's fleet. Ellis
was chief yeoman aboard the Brooklyn,
Admiral Schley's flag ship. His head
was torn off by she'll from one OF the
Spanish ships. Mrs. Ellis lives in
Brooklyn and has one child, son.
Col. William J. Bryan has returned
from New York. He will leave to-
morrow for his home. He will make
speech 10 the near future at Denver,
Col, in which he will more deliberately
express himself against the expansion
policy of the administration. He be-
lieves that in less than one year the
masses of the people will condemn the
proposition 10 maintain large and ex-
Deusive army for duty in remote isl
ands populated by so many millions of
semi civilized people.
The House military committee have
resolved to report the Hull army bill
with some notifications on Wednesday
before adjournment.
1t was stated by Speaker Reed that
the agricultural appropriation bill will
occupy the attention of the House
Tuesday aud Wednesday.
At the meeting of the House military
committee to day Mr.. Hay OF Virginia,
offered the following as on amendment
to the army bill now being considered by
that committee. 1t was defeated by a
strictly party vote. Mr.. Hays object
was to restrict the use of the increased
number of soldiers, no matter how
many there may be, to the newly con-
uuered provinces: provided that all
Of the line officers and enlisted men au
thorized by this act over and above the
uumber of officers and men authorized
by law on the 1st day of April, 1898.
shall be used in the islands OF Porto
and Cuba, in the Philippine Islands,
the Hawaiian Islands and the Ladrones
Islands, and they shall not be used else
where.
.:The proprietors the famous foreign
Armstrong works have bought minori-
" interest in the Newport's News ship
ysSd and will establish there an i'm
mense foundry for the manufacture Of
guns, ammunition and steel plate.
The Comptroller of the Treasury
sent TO the Senate to-day, in response
TO q resolution of Mr.. Daniel in respect
OF his refusal to fulfill the Presidents
promise TO refund to Virginia 81, 957,
the amount she expended in equipping
troops fer the Spanish war, commun-
icaIiou, in which he says Virginia is in
debt to The government for certain To-
dian trust funds and that he cannot
pay Der until that debt be settled. He
makes no mention whatever of the
larger debt the government owes Vir-
GINA, and which it will not settle, for
the money that State advanced for the
erection of the public buildings in this
city and for the war of 1912.
An old S0utherner, who was q whig
aud rich man before the war between
the States, but is now poor, talking to a
friend this morning, said the President
evidently doesn't like the negroes, as he
proposes to keep the grass cut in South
ern grave yards so that the rabbits that
now feed in them and from which the
negroes derive no little profit, will have
to seek other grounds. He also said he
was in favor of expansion, for the rea-
son that the natural tendency of ex-
pansion is to burst.
In the House to-day Mr. Bailey denounced
the statement in one of the republican news
papers of this city to the effect that he had
made some arrangement with the Speaker in
relation to Ills opposition to General Wheeler
holding his &c 10 Congress and his commits.
sion in the army at the same time, as iDfas
mously untrue, and its author as unworthy of
belief
The following changes in the fourth class
postofiices of Virginia were made to-day
Lee Mont, Accomac county, Alfred L. Lewis
appointed postmaster vice Fletcher NJ. Lewis,
resigned: Snow Creek, Franklin county,
Thomas W. Pinkard, vice Charles @. Brodie,
removed Vinits, Goochland county, VIM. A.
Parsons, vice Richard T. Swami, resigned.
The Presidents remark that there would be
no revenue measures enscted during the next
four years, has cast damper over those re-
publicaus in Congress who have been hoping
an extra session necessary. They now seem
to have abandoned that hopo.
Representative Rixey of Virginia asked
Mr.. Speaker Reed to-day to allow him to call
up the bill for devoting some of the unused
part of the Arlington reservation to the pur-
poses of q national agricultural station, but his
request was refused.
A well informed Senatot-there are very
many of them who are not-is authority for
the statement that the Presidents treaty with
Spain will not be ratified by the Senate.
A bill WAS introduced in both branches of
Congress to-dsy providing for large bounty
upon American vessels to be rated in proper
ton TO speed and tonnage.
General Fitghugh Lee has reported to the
War Department the rioting at Havana on
Saturday snd Sunday. His dispatches are in
substance the samn as the press dispatches
General Lee says that the decision reached
by tho President to occupy Havana January
1 will hold The evacuation by the Spanish
will, he says, be complete by that time.
PETITION IN BANKRUeTCY.-Ap petit
ton in voluntary bankruptcy was filed