Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
rOorrospondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.J
WASHINGTON, May IS.

Inc HreSlucnt tU-uaJ Iutoi LAO@ SS
tor Daniel of Virginia that the urgency
of public business would not permit
him to accept his invitation TO attend
the Memorial Day ceremonies at Rlch.
mond. 1t was also stated that he had
been forced to decline an invitation to
attend the dedication ceremonies st the
University of Virginia on that day:
He will, however, attend the memorial
services at the National Cemetery at
Arlington. This afternoon at $50
o'clock the President went to Camp
Alger, near Falls Church, Va, to re.
view the troops. He was accompanied
by Secretary Alger, General Miles, Sec
retarv Porter and the members of their
families ard number of other promi-
nent people. at Dunn Loring the party
took carriages for the camp.
To all inquirers, including number
of Senators and Representatives VINO
called upon him in relation to other
matters to-day, Secretary Long was OBJ
liged to return the same answer;
namely, that be had heard nothing
from the squadrons, either our own or
tie Spanish.
NJ. G. Butler, who was to day nomi-
mated by the President to be maj
eral, was, until the Tillman regime, In
the u. S. Senate from South Carolina.
He is a one. legged ex-Confederate. w.
c. Oates, of Alabama, who was appoint
ed brigadier general, is also an ex.
Confederate. He was a member OF
Congress and at one time Governor OF
Alabama. He is one.armed man.
MIR. Cole, who was also nominated for
brgadier's position, is business man
of St. Louis. He was an officer in the
Union army. Mr.. Waties, the remain
ing brigadier named to-day is a young
man in business in Houston, Texas.
Col. Dunwoody has severed his con-
nection with the Weather Bureau to as
sumo his new duties in the Signal Corps.
Mr.. Speaker Reed said to day "The
question is not of Hawaiian annexation
at all. Probably majority of the re-
| publicaps of the House are for it II
obliged to vote; but many prefer not to
have the question up because it will
lead to delay, keep Congress here all
summer and prevent them from look
! ing after their districts, and at the
same time not annex Hawaii If the
annexation bill can not pass and &C
ton on it will prevent speedy ac-
ton on the revenue bill it seems
bad politics to bring it up solely to cause
trouble. Ii the Senate passes it under
Mr.. Lodges lead it will have free way
| in the House. In word, the question
is not of annexation but of sound party
politics. The main thing is for the
Congress to pass the revenue bill, make
the appropriations, avoid a long session
fee Washington from local politics and
leave the President and his advisers
time to prosecute the war to success
full conclusion. Aunexations will then
take care of themselves"
The President to-day sent these
nominations to the Senate: To lie
major general of volunteers-MattheW
| c. Butler, of South Carolina: to be briga,
der generals Of volunteers, James 4
Waties, of Texas; Nelson Cole, of Mis-
souri,; William G. Oates, of Alabama
to be assistant adjutant general with
rank of major, NJ. Fred Bell, of Mis-
souri,; to be qusrtermaster, among
others, Charles J. Goff, of West Vir'
GINA; to be commissary of subsistence
among others, Charles Ellet Cabell, o
Virginia; to be chief surgeon, Frank 5
Bourns, OF Georgia; to be additions
paymasters, among others, George E
Pickett, of Virginia; Charles Albert
Smylie, of Virginia, and Otto Becker
of Georgia.
At the monthly meeting of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
held here to-day, resolution was adop
ted to the effect that every member U
ira. organization unite ct once in ar
eff Irt to succor the needy families o
slch soldiers as patriotism has induced
to go to the war for humanity's sake.
In the House yesterday evening MIR
Otey of Virginia introduced bill tc
appoint q dentist to every regiment IL
the army.
1t is reported here that Mr.. Bowden
collector of the port Of Norfolk, will re
sign that place and accept the more lu
crative and permanent position OF clerk
of the U. S. courts for the eastern dis
trict of Virginia.
1t is the current impression among
| Southern democratic Senators and Rep
resentatives that their recommendation
for military commissions do no good.
Mr.. Evans, commissioner Of pensions
has been supplied with information
upon which it is expected that several
arrests will be made in King George
countv Va for mansion frauds.
DR.. Birdsall, now of this city, but formerly
Of Alexandria wants to raise company OF
soldiers for the Spanish war; and says he will
60 near the Quaker settlement in Loudoun
county, Virginia, in order to get the requisite
eighty-four men.
People now here recently from Cuba say
the armed and organized insurgents in that
island do not number two thousand At the
Capitol. to,day's conundrum is, In what is
Mr.. Speaker R9ed unlike the Cuban insur-
gents anu the ansWo, il, because you can al
ways find him.
A Virginia Congressman being ASKED to-
dsy if he had succeeded in getting army COM
missions for any of his constituents said he
had not, aud that ali he went to the War De-
parilnent now for, was to get youngsters dis
charged who had enlisted without the consent
of their parents: but that be had as much OF
thst sort of bu ,ioess as no could attend 10.
The President has decided that negroes
shall not be excluded from any position in
The army, and that there shall even be negro
surgeons
Mr. Ryan, ex-internal revenue collector for
the south srn district, of Virginia, is an appli.
cant for commission in the qoartermsster's
service of the Spanish war