Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria 6aaette.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.

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WASHINGTON. Nov. 10.
At the examination before the army
investigating commission Gen. Breck-
inridge put all the blame on the ac'
knowledged bad treatment OF the troops
upon Congress from failing to make the
necessary appropriations and that, too,
though for its length, it was the most
extensive war on record. DR.. Geo. L..
Magruder of this city, testified that the
site of Camp Alger was about as healthy
q one as could have been gotten in the
neighborhood of Washington. There
was great deal of mismanagement and
more sickness than there should have
been. He attributed most of it to
lack of water supply. The men, he
said, had to 60 dirty because they did
not have water to wash with. Much OF
the sickness was also due to the things
the soldiers purchased at the booths.
He claimed the officers from the highest
to the lowest were responsible for the
state of affairs.
Brigadier-General Francis n. Greene,
commanding the First division of the
First army corps, accompanied by Dis
staff, left Savannah last night for Ha-
vaua, where be will direct the prepa-
ration of the camps to receive the Sew
enth army corps now at Savannah and
destined to do garrison duty at Ha-
vana and vicinity.
Judge NIGEL of Virginia is leading
counsel in the case of the will of the
late Or. Evans the American millionaire
dentist of Paris, who left large estate
including valuable property in thi:
city, Philadelphia, New York and
Paris.
AS there will be no reduction in the
war tariff, the immense surplus in the
Treasury, will continue to increase, and
the robbers have already set their eyes
upon it, and are devising all sorts Of
schemes by which to get some of it in
their pockets, among them river and
harbor bill, the erection OF public build
iugs, the enlargement Of the navy, the
building of the Nicaragua canal and
others, which, if successful, will soon
leave it as bare as it was when MIR.
Cleveland issued the gold bonds.
Many Of the democrats of this city
say that, like Baltimore, there is nc
democratic newspaper here, though q
mejorty of the white residents are
democrats. They are now, and have
been for some time, talking of estab-
fishing first class journal, which they
can read without being provoked ard
the news in which will not always be
favored with republicanism and with
expressions unfavorable to the South
from which section the democratic
party derives its main supply Of
strength.
Judge Duke of Charlottesville, Judge
Ssner of Fredericksburg, and ex Mayor
Ksmper of Alexandria, escorted by
Senator Martin, who came here fol
that purpose, called at the White
House this morning by previous ap
poiutment aud invited the President to
deliver the Masonic address at the
cOmmenorationof the centennial of the
death of General Washington, at Mt
Vernon in December 1889. The Pres.
ident practically accepted the invita-
tion and stated that be was Virgins
Free mason, having been initiated il
Winchester.
Among the arrivals at the Norman
die to-day were General Eppa Huntor
aad Congressman Walker of Virgins
Mr. Browning, republican from the
same State, says that Rhes, by the re.
,urns, defeats Walker by four hundred
votes, but that eleven hundred Walker
ballots were thrown out on technical
defects.
At the meeting of the Board OF Trade o.
this city last night resolution was intro
ducod by Mr.. 2. H. Warner favoIing III.
erection of s monument in one of the parks
here to the memory of General Grant, and
though Mr. Frank Hume said supreme e.,
fort is and has been for some time, in pro
gress for the erection Of Grant memorial
bridge across the Potomac at Arlington, and
implied that it might be difficult to obtain
Congressional appropriations for both, the res
Olu;iun was adopted.
The races here are proving decided sue
cess The racing is excellent, the attendance
.srge aud fashionable and the order could moi
Dc better.
Colonel Isaac Hill, deputy sergeant at arms
OF the House, who lives in Ohio says seventy
six thousand democrats who voted at the cleo
lion there in 1897 refused to 20 to the polls
last week. because they hsd become disguised
with the influence the boilers bad gained in
the democratic party, which disgust it Wa;
impossible 10 overcome. The democratic vote
there, he says, was less than that at any cleo.
con since 1913.