Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-02
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at republican headquarters here that
the republicans are likely to lose seve-
raj Congressional districts in that State.
The managers are anxious to devise
means to settle the trouble, but they
do not know how to proceed, in view
of the fact that the republican governor
of the State has not called on the fede-
raj government for assistance. Pri..
yately Governor Russell is denounced
ia Washington by his party associates
as being without backbone, but some
OF the North Carolina republicans in
the departments say that outsiders
have 10 idea of the intense feeling, and
that an embarrassing feature of the
situation is that wtite men who have
heretofore affiliated with the republi-
cans and populists under q fusion ar
rangement, are deserving by the thou
sands, and have announced that they
arc going to vote for local govern
ment that does not recognize the negro
as an office holder.
Comptroller Dawes will appeal from
! the decision of the New York judge
| who held that the sheriff could levy on
! the assets of the Trsdesmen's National
Bank because a receiver had not been
formally appointed. Mr.. Dawes says
that if the New York decision is up.
held it will cause heavy losses and al
most endless confusion in the settle
ment of the affairs of suspended ma
tional banks. 1t will enable creditors
to descend upon a bank with attach
ments within half an hour after the
examiner has closed the doors and
before the comptroller has had time to
place receiver in charge.
The President to-day appointed John
B. Waddy postmaster at Norfolk, Va.
This appointment, it is said here, indi-
Gates that the President has "gone
back" on the republican executive
committee of Virginia and Mr.. Bow
den, and taken the part of the republi-
can congressional campaign committee,
and. republicans here say, strengthens
the idea that the delegation from Vir.
GINA in the next Congress will be
solidiy democratic, as the republicans
of that State think they can manage
their own affairs better than people
from Iowa and Indiana.
Senator Martin Of Virginia was at
democratic headquarters here this
morning. He says his information
leads him to believe that every
district in Virginia will be repre-.
sented by a democrat in the next
Congress. Some of his correspondents
in the 9th district, he says, say that dis
trict is doubtful, and ne is here to re-
move that doubt if means can be OBJ
tanned to do so. He will go to Rich
moud tonight on the same business.
1t is reported here that the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company intends to re.
pair the wagon road from the south end
of the Long Bridge as far south as the
brick yards.
Congressman Rixey of the Sth Vir-
ginis district, who spoke in Alexandria
last night, was here to-day. While
there, be says, he was informed by Mr..
Hughes, one of the republican candi-
dates in his district, that Mr.. Agnew
would not get many republican votes
if he were a candidate. Mr.. Rixey
says his majority will be larger
than it was last year, though the vote
will probably not be as large, as he has
practically no serious opposition.
A good many Virginia democrats
we're here to-day, among them Senator
Martin, Representative Rixey; Messrs.
Pitcher, Thomas and Wickham, mem.
bers of the legislature; Walton Moore,
Marshall Mccormick, and Secretary
Button, and Mr.. Witcher, a leading
populist CT the Danville district was also
mere.
| Democrats here to-day from the
North say the attempt of the admins
tration to scare people into voting for
its candidates next Tuesday as q
means of preventing renewal of hos
Titles, is such a transparent fake that
nobody will be deceived by it; also that
the truth about the late so.called war,
though the 18th Virginia regiment, @.
5. A, lost almost as many men at Will
liamsburg as the whole U. S. army did
in all Cuba, has now been learned
there, and that neither the war nor the
conduct thereofis IS popular there now
as it was.
The following changes in the organi-
cation of the 7th army corps have been
recommended by the commanding gen.
eral and ordered by the Secretary of
War: Brigadier General Edward B.
Willston, U. s. volunteers, is relieved
from duty with the Second brigade,
First division, and assigned to command
the First brigade, Second division;
Brigadier General Henry T. Douglass,
o. S. volunteers, is relieved from duty
| with the First hripade Secnnd division
and assigned to command the Second
brigade, First division.
The war investigating commission resum.
ed its hearings in this city to-day. The
! first witness called was Captain Henry
vations at Tampa led him to the belief that
the regulars were well cared for, but there
was very bad management go far as the vol
| unteers were concerned. The embarkstion of
! the troops for Cuba was also mismanaged,
there being lack of surf boats, and the stores
| of many of the regiments were left behind.
| On arriving in Cuba it was found that the
| supply of tents was short and not suitable for
| the campaign N the island. Transportation
| facilities were poor. Captain Romeyn wss
wounded in the leg while in Cuba, and after.
wards was yellow fever patient in the hos
pital near Siboney. Not enough doctors and
| attendants were available and the food was
not such as the sick should have had. The
only milk they had was matted. All the
! mon in charge Of the sick and wounded did
their whole duty. Captain Romeyn was very
| severe In his references 10 the condition of
the transport Conche in which he returned
from siboney along with several hundred
other sick The water was putrid, having
| been in the tanks for two months when it
was obtained at Tampa, the captain admitting