Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria aasetts.l
WASHINGTON, June Is.

the material to be used in the prepare
ton of circulars relative to the war
loan authorized by the act approved by
the President to-day. Almost 4. 900, 900
of these circulars, subscription banks,
and pamphlets descriptive of the bonds
were required. Captain Bryan hesitat-
ed as to whether or not the Government
Printing Office, with all its vast facilities,
would be able TO accomplish SO great an
undertaking in the time required; that
is, between $3.50 p. N. Saturday and
8 q. m. Monday, it being the desire
of Secretary Gage that fifty OF the most
rapid mailing clerks in the Treasury
department be in possession of the ma.
terial at the latter hour. This morn
ing, before the time indicated, the en-
tire work of printing mad been done.
At the State Department it was said
to day that neither Ambassador Hay
nor any other official had informed it
of reports that Manila had fallen. At
10 o'clock the government had no Of
fetal advices concerning the marines
fight at Guantanamo. During the fore
noon the President had frequent coca
sion to explain that there had been no
fresh important advices from the front.
1t was formally announced at the
War Department this morning that the
first military expedition had left Key
West at daylight to-day bound for San
tiago All day yesterday there was 6
lively conference between the officials
OF the Navy and War Departments and
after an all day session the war board
completed its plans for conveying the
transports. Major General Shafter,
who commands this expedition, has
with him q force of 773 officers and
IA ,564 enlisted men. The United States
regular troops make up the greater part
of the force, there being but three vol
unteer organizations on the ships.
These are the list New York Infantry
Volunteers, the Second Massachusetts,
Infantry Volunteers and two dismount-
ed squadrons of four troops each from
Col. Woods's Rough Riders.
Senators Lodge and Elkins made a
partial canvass of the Senate on the
Hawaiian question to-day and they say
they are satisfied that sufficient num-
Der of advocates of annexation will re-
main in Washington to make quorum
OF the Senate and to insure the passage
OF the House resolution through that
body. They count upon prolonged
daily sessions until action is had. The
annexationists have received renewed
assurance of the earnest support of the
administration and hope on this &C.
count TO control practically the solid
support of the republican side of the
chamber They count upon eight to ten
votes from the democratic side.
Chairman Richardson has called a
caucus OF the democrats Of the House
to meet tomorrow afternoon to con-
slider the question of Hawaiian annex
alton. A fight over making it a party
question will occur, many of the demo
Gratis who favor annexation being OPP.
posed to taking party action. A large
majority of the democrats oppose an
nexation, but an appreciate number
advocate it.
Among the nominations the Presi-
dent to day sent to the Senate were
the following: Mary H. s. Long, to
be postmaster at Charlottesville; to be
commissary of subsistence with rank of
captain, William w. Statham, Vir.
ginia; to be chaplain in the 4th regi-
ment U. S. volunteers, Rev. Samuel F.
Chapman, Virginia; to be major,
Theophilus Parker, Virginia.
The House to-day passed bills to give
American registers to five or six Eng
fish built ships, for the benefit of their
owners who live in the North.
AS Northern republicans have sud-
denly become dead in love with Eng
land, it was proposed in the House to-.
DAY to pay the award in the Behring
Sea case, but q Texas democrat OBJ
jected.
In the House to-day Mr.. Hay, of Vir-
GINA, introduced a resolution for the
investigation of Camp Alger and of
everything relating to it and to the &C.
commodations aud treatment of the
soldiers camped there. Mr.. Hay also
introduced bill for the relief of r. L..
Pritchard g. Co., of Page county, Vir-
GINA, from whom property to the val
ue of Sc, GIG was taken by U. S. author.
ity in June 1896.
Nothing has been heard here of Mr..
A. NJ Hughlet, professor of the Ran
dolph Macon school at Bedford, Vir-
GINA, who suddenly disappeared last
Tuesday. His accounts are all right.
The three marines reported as among
those who fell in the first battle on
Cuban soil at Guantanamo belonged to
the same company. They were com.
rades in Company D, of the first batal-
lion of marines, and had joined the
battalion together when it was organic
ed on quick orders early in the war to
proceed South and join the naval expe-
dition. OF the men found victims of
Spanish bullets on the battlefield just
beyond the camp of the m arine detach-
meDt near the old cable station, one
had served in the barracks here. Two
others were New England men who
were scarcely beyond their majority in
age. Sergeant Charles Hampton Smith,
one of the victims, is native of Mary
land, born at Westminster 81 years ago,
and has relatives in that section of the
Safe. His next of kin, who will be
promptly officially notified, is his sister,
Miss Coral G. Smith, of Smallwood,
Md. Much anxiety is felt here as to
the fate of Lieutenants Neville and
Shaw, who commanded the advance
picket line and who were reported in
the early dispatches as not heard from.
First Lieut.. Wendall G, Neville WAS