Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandris Gazette
WASHINGTON. Sept. %.

command, mat any persons enlilAeo ~
prize money, bounty, back pay, etc.
will have their clnims promptly set
tied by applying directly to the auditor
for the Navy Department, through the
Navy Department, and that the en-
ployment of an attorney is entirely un'
necessary. This department IS in
formed by the Treasury Department
that large numbers of claims are being
presented by attorneys 10 the names OF
persons interested. This employment
Of an attorney does not advance the in
terests Of the claimant in the slightest
degree.
Senior Agoncillo and his secretary,
Senior Lopez, are still awaiting expect
antly here for evidence from Aguinaldo
before making an effort to present the
cause of the Filipinos to the President.
As yet Agoncillo and Lopez have not
been officially notified of the organiza'
ton of the Filipino republic.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Scott
has made ruling that the msnufactur-
ers of the imitation cider which con-
tains per cent. alchol must pay spe-
ciel tax and dealers must pay special
tax as liquor dealers.
ONLY four members of the commission
to investigate the conduct of the War
Department in the war with Spain were
present at this mornings session. The
session was spent in going over % or ~
complaints that had been received.
Most of these complaints had already
been sent to the President. With but
few exceptions the charges that have
been made are general and not specific:
| The commission has not vet considered
the question of going to Santiago.
A delegation of score or more Penn
sylvanians arrived in the city this
morning to call on President Mckinley
aud invite him to the peace jubilee ct
Philadelphia on October 81 and IS.
They feel confdent the President will
accept the invitation.
Secretary Long has decided 10 con-
tinue the course in naval architecture
at the Naval Academy at Annapolis
which was started last year by Naval
Constructor Hobson. This is in accord
ace with report of Captain Dickens,
who visited the Massachusetts Institute
Of Technology at Boston for the pur-
pose OF determining whether the course
could be advantageously transferred to
that institute. He reported in favor
Of retaining it at Annapolis. 1t is prob
able that Constructor Hobson will con-
tiuue in charge of the course and will
be ordered north from Santiago as soon
as he can be spared from the wrecking
operations: perhaps in the course of q
| few weeks.
Miss Clara Barton is seeking through
the President and the State Depart.
ment to secure the removal of obsta-
Giles that prevent the sending of relief
by the Red Cross to the starving resi-
dents of Cuba. Even the people OF
Spain, it is reported, have approved
the project OF the Red Cross. While
the government will send rations it is
said by some that the Red Cross can
render much aid in caring for those
who may be overlooked and in giving
special attention to the sick.
The following message was sent from
the White House to-day:
Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard, Wilmington,
Del:
With sincere sorrow I learn of the
death of your husband, and beg to ex-
press to you my heartfelt sympathy
Mr.. Bayard's high attachments and
sterling qualities endeared him to all
who knew him while his distinguished
services to his country add his name to
the roll of illustrious Americans.
VIM. MCKINLEY.
1t is reported here to-day by the Vir.
ginia republicans who are opposed
to the Aguew- Brady wing of their
party that Mr.. Hanna, who ar.
rived here last night, has told
the leaders of that wing that the
congressional campaign committee has
supreme and entire control Of such
matters as the recognition OF republi-
can candidates for Congress, and that
he has no appellate jurisdiction. They
also say that Mr.. Hanna when called
upon in New YORK. by Mr.. john Wise
told the latter that he had never seen
the cormorant disposition developed
more noticeably in any other politicians
except those of Louisiana, as in those
men who call themselves the executive
committee OF the republican party of
Virginia.
An old-time New York republican,
here today, says the nomination of
| Colonel Roosevelt for the governorship
of his State was Whimsical craze, Ut
terly inexplicable on reasonable
grounds, the weakest that could have
been made, and that he is sure to be
defeated by large majority as his ad-
vocacy Of the civil service law and of
the anti-liquor law make him exceed
ingly unpopular. Then too, he said,
even according to Mr.. Roosevelt's sup.
porters, he must be either q perjurer
or else cheated his State out of his tax
bill.
Among the republicans now here
is Congressman Yost of the 10th
Virginia district. He says the re-
suit of the congressional election
in his district will be close, but
that he thinks Walker, in the 9th
district, in whose district he has been
stumping, will certainly be elected,
and that political feeling is more ex-
cited in that district than in any other
in the State.
The following changes in the fourth.class
postotiices in Virginia were made to-day:
| Cascade, Pittsylvana county. Duval Porter
appointed postmaster, vice Jesse B. Price re.
moved Pals King William county, Miss NJ
/. Huckstess vice George T. Tebbs, resigned;
Perth, Halifax county, w. H Glass, vice
Walter c. Harvey resigned.
! Pressing invitations to visit western cities
are being showered upon the President by