Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-06

only slight OASIS Tor the complaint. he
said the meat was good, obtained from
the best firms and brought to camp in
refrigerator cars.
General Dodge then read from a let
ter written by Chaplains Dooley and
Ryan who charged that Camp Thomas
was "a hell on EARTH" the food was
rotten" and the camp full of dis
ease.
General Boynton said that neither
Chaplains Dooley and Ryan could sub
stsntate the charges. These chaplains,
he said, remained closely in their tents
aud exaggerated the situation. Gen.
Boynton denied that the water the
men bathed in was used for cooking
He admitted that there YVES suffering,
but none was caused by criminal ne
glect. The increase in sickness was
due chiefly to the neglect of the sinks.
Toe brigade and other commanders did
lneir duty, but it was difficult to make
the men pay proper attention TO the
sanitary conditions. At the conclusion
of General Boynton's testimony the
commission adjourned unit! 3 o'clock,
when General Fitzhugh Lee will tes-
tify.
Upon the reassembling of the COM
mission, General Lee was called upon
to testify regarding the details of his
appointment and his commands. He
said ne had very little knowledge re-
garding the way the army at Tampa
was supplied.
The President will not announce the
selection of successor to Mr.. Hay, as
Ambassador to London, before his re-
turn from his western trip
1t is now pretty well understood at
republican headquarters that none OF
the republican congressional candidates
in Virginia will receive any pecuniary
assistance from the national republican
committee. That committee is alarmed
at the danger OF losing the pext House,
and sc>y Shhey will put what money they
have, in the North, where it at least
may tell, and that they have none for
the squabbling factions OF their party
in Virginia, upon whose proper DISPOSE
ton of it there can be no reliance.
The President will leave here next
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and will return on the evening of Oc-
tober 22nd.
Southern people here say there has
been so much talk about the "Daugh-
ter of the Confederacy" that Mrs. JET
ferson Davis, whose intention was to
have those words inscribed upon the
tombstone Of her daughter, has de-
termined not to do so.
The General Episcopal Council now
in session here has determined that on
the 18th instant they will make q visit
to jamestown, Virginia, where the
first Episcopal Church in this country
was established in 1907.
People just returned here from Porto
Rico say the United States got one
elephant when they seized that island,
and larger one when they took Cuba;
that the natives are mostly unhealthy
negroes and half breeds, who are con-
stitutionally opposed to labor; that the
only chance of profitable business
there is the raising of sugar and coffee
and that Americans there almost with
out exception become sick after short
residence. They also say that the true
condition Of the troops there Is NH.
nitely worse than has been reported.
The President to-day, at the request
of committee of negroes headed by
P. B. S. Pinchback, Lieut.. Governor OF
Louisiana in reconstruction days, Or
dered the 10th regular cavalry, colored,
to remain in this city Saturday, while
en- route to Huntsville. The President
will review the regiment and the troop
ers will be given a reception and ban
quet by members Of their race in Wash
ington. The regiment fought beside,
the Rough Riders on San Juan Hill.
Felipe Angoncillo and Sixto Lopez
will leave Washington this afternoon
for New York. They will leave Ne"
York Saturday for Havre. Having
met with no success in Washington,
except unofficial courtesies, the Fill
ipinos will try to get hearing before
the peace commission at Paris.
1t is stated at the War Department that tbs
q. S. troops that fought the Indians in Min
nesota yesterday had Just returned from San
tiago, but for their own sake, had better stald
there, as they suffered more from the Indians
than they did from the Spaniards.
The republicans here fear that the testi.
mony in the Quay case will injure their party
so much in Pennsylvania and New York that
it will be the cause of their losing several
Congressman in those two States.
Among the strangers here TO day Is Mr..
Richard Payne, formerly Of Co. 4. 18th Va.
Regiment, G. S. A, who is on his way from
ST. Louis to his old home in Warrenton, and
Mr.. Jack BERNARD, one of the Rough Riders,
OF the same town, who has been sick in New