Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
,-r.anondenoe Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April "A.

Spanish Minister Polo q maze maj
preparations for departure immediate
" Madrid instructs him to leave. The
French Ambassador will care for SPANS
interests.
The President to-day nominated
Luke c. Strider to be justice of the
peace in the District of Columbia.
The form of the Cuban resolutions as
they will ultimately pass both houses
and reach the President for signature is
causing considerable interest among
the House foreign affairs committee.
Several members of the majority of the
committee stated to-day they had strong
hopes but not entire confidence that
the House resolution finally would be
agreed to but conceded that, if the
House resolution cannot prevail, they
would be willing to accept the Senate
committee resolutions.
In his testimony before the Senate
committee on foreign relations yester-
day Consul General Lee said: 81 am
satisfied the explosion of the battle
ship Maine was from the out.
.iie. I cabled the State Department
q few days after the board assembled
that it was almost certain that the eX
plosion was from the exterior. l have
always had an idea about the Maine
that, of course, it was not blown up by
aoy private Individual or by any prl'
yate citizen, but it was blown up by
some of the officers who had charge oil
the mines and electrical wires and tor
pedoes in the arsenal there who
thoroughly understood their business,
for it was done remarkably well
I saw Gen. Blanco's proclamation,
which said the Queen Regent, at the
request of his holiness, the Pope, had
issued an armistice; but that is not
worth the paper it is written on, be-
cause q truce or armistice between two
%contending forces requires the consenI
of both before it can be of any practica
effect, and it will not have the con
sent of the insurgents. | never
have been certain that the submarine
explosive was placed there prior to the
entrance Of the Maine into the harbor
1t might have bean done afterwards
| Gen. Lee said that sll but about 10000
Spanierds of the population of Cuba
which is about one million five hundred
thousand, were Cubans, and that hi
never saw one that was not friendly K
the insurgents.
Consul General Lee to-day declined
the reception rendered him by tn
Union and Confederate soldiers of thit
city.
Mr.. Hull. chairman of the Hous'
military committee. says he will repor
the army reorganization bill to tn
| House tomorrow, and On the next da.
| the adiutant generals of as many States
as can reach here will appear before
that committee and express their views
Of that bill.
It is understood here that some o
the members of the women's Confed
crate organizations in Alexandria pro
pose rendering Consul General Lee ant
his wife a reception in that city at al
early dav.
Mr.. VIM. j., Bryan called on thu
President this evening and received
cordial greeting.
Ofthe nineteen members Of the House
who voted against the Cuban resolution
Yesterday l is a populist, 5 are republi
| cans and u are democrats. Their as
signed ground for doing so is that the res
| olution is unconstitutional, as Congress!
cannot delegate its war making power
| But, no matter what may be the rea
cause OF their objection, and though thu
war craze is sweeping everything before
it. there is no doubt that the conserva
| tive and business interests of the coun
|! try are finding expression here, art
frequent remarks are heard to the ct
| feet that the men now bowling for wal
will, in less than six months, De crying
for peace. The resolutions of the Sen
ste foreign relations committee vii
probably pass that body, but not unit
after debate, aud one Senator at least
Mr.. White of California, will Oppose
them. It is the prevailing impression
that the Senate will do no other bushes;
until the resolutions referred to be dis
posed of.
1t is said that if a resolution goes to
the President recognizing the present
Cuban government he will veto it.
As stated in this correspondence yesterday,
the elections committee Of the House on that
DAY practically agreed to report in favor OF
Mr.. SNanson, the democratic contestee, In
the contested election case OF Brown vs. Swan.
son, from the Danvilie, Virginia, district.
Two fair republican members of that
committee-Messrs. CochIane Of New York
and Boutelle OF Chicago-were IN favor OF
Mr.. Swanson.
Lieut.. ]. h. L Holcomb, U. s. N, has been
ordered to the Independence, one of the aux
iary ships.
Congressman Jones was ths Gully virginian
who spoke st the Jefferson banquet here last
night. His speech was gn excellent one and
is highly praised by oil who heard it.
At the meeting of the negro republican club
OF this city l2at night Congressman Walker of
Virginia was commended for his gallant
fight for the Virginia contestants"
An old and intelligent newspaper CORE.
spondent st the Capitol to. day, talking about
the parties engaged in the disgraceful dis.
iurbance in the House and the embracing of
Messrs. TillHan and Foraker Ia the Senate
yesterday, said they are only samples of the
men who are forcing the country into q
causeless and unnecessary war, that can bene.
fit it in no conceivable way, but must infict
serious injury upon nearly all its material
interests.
Senator Lodge, one of the jingces, has sold
his summer cottage as Nahsnt to the govern
ment at a high figure, fer a signal station.
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