Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria GsEette.]
WASHINGTON, May %.

ing NOMINATIONS 10 tne SENATE: William
Woodvlle Rockhill, of the District Of
Columbia, to be minister to Greece,
Roumania and Ssrvia; Rounsevelle
Wildman, of California, to be consul.
general at Hong Kong, China; George
F. Lincoln, of Connecticut, to be consul
general at Antwerp; Edward D.
Winslow, of Illinois, to be consul-gen-
eral at Stockholm; o. J. D. Hughes, OF
Connecticut, to be consul at Coburg;
Henry H. Morgan, of Louisiana, to be
consul at Aarap; George Il. Jackson, OF
Connecticut, TO be consul at La Roch.
ellie; Edmond Z. Brodowski, of Illinois,
to be consul at SolingeD; Richard L.
Greener, of New York, to be COZ
sui at VIadivostock; Herbert }.
Hageman, of Colorado, to be secretary
of the embassy at st. Petersburg, Rus
STA: Rufus A. Lane, of California, to be
secretary of the legation to Nicaragua,
Costa RIGA and Salvador; Charles E.
Macrum, of Ohio, to be consul at Pre-
toria, South African Republic; Victor
f. Nelson, of California, to be consul at
Bergen.
Representative Robbins of Pennsyl-
vania was given authority to-day to go
to the front 10 the Cuban invasion ss
captain and assistant quartermaster, U.
5. volunteers. While away he will be
paired in the House.
Senator Chandler to-day introduced
bill providing that during the war
with Spain the President be authorized
to place upon the retired list any officer
above the rank of lieutenant-colonel
and commander, and to fill every
vacancy happening through retirement
by promotion through selection and
uot according to seniority.
The .. 5. Supreme Court to-day de-
cded convictions under the oieomar-
garine laws of Pennsylvania and New
Hampshire to be invalid, thus holding
the laws unconstitutional.
Senators and Representatives who
saw the President to-day left the White
House without cleaning any new facts
about the war situation. So far as oth'
cial dispatches indicated there was an
entire absence of important advices
from the front.
Secretary Alger sent to Congress to-
day an estimate for deficiency appro-
priation of $50, 900 for the medical and
hospital department of the army,
caused by the large preparations and
outfits required for the Philippine ex
pedition and the necessary establish
ment of large general hospitals at Fort
Mcpherson, Ga, Fort Thomas, KY,
Key West, Fla, and Fort Myer, Va,
&C., expenses Of State boards for the
examination of physicians for the volun-
teer forces and other extraordinary ex-
penses.
President Mckinley gave positive as
Sur .nce to-day OF the appointment OF
Gen. John A. Wiley, of Franklin, Pa,
as brigadier-general of volunteers. Gen.
Goblin, the commancerin-chief of the
G.. A. r., had been urged for the place.
Representative Lybrand, of Ohio, in
troduced bill to-day extending the
free ranking privileges through the
mail to officers and enlisted men of the
army and navy of the United States
under such rules and regulations as may
be prescribed by the Postmaster Gen.
eral.
The Mr.. Haight, hailing from Vir-
gnia, recently appointed by the Presi-
dent an officer in the U. S. army, is not
from Virginia at all, but from Ohio. and
when appointed was at the Soldiers
Home, at Hampton.
Congressman O:ey, of Virginia, after
no little trouble, has been able to locate
two hundred acres OF land in Pennsyl-
vania, Revolutionary grant, which
rightfully belong to the heirs OF George
Martin, of Roanoke.
General Groner of Norfolk has re-
turned to his home, having been as un-
successful in obtaining a military, as q
civil commission from the present ad-
ministration.
Ex-Congressman Meredith of the
Alexandria, Va. district was here to-
duy. He says be knows no intelligent
man in his county who favored the war,
and that from it the country will derive
no profit nor honor.
The Second Regiment of Virginia
Volunteers, Col. J. G. Baker, was or
dered to Tampa to-day, and regiment
ITOu AbuSdS W Sdup 0iSoi, uSluLns
Senator Chiffon in the Senate to.duy said
that if the House had passed the Senate resc-
luton recognizing the belligerency of the
Cuban insurgents In the spring of 81, or the
President had recognized that beligerency
at any time during the year 81, there would
have been no war.
Congressman Jones of Virginia, who has
been to Ohio on party business as q member
of the Congressional campaign committee, has
returned and was in his seat in the House to-
day as usual.
Colonel Preston of Backsburg College,
Virginia, is here, seeking Congressional back
ing for his application for q commission in
the U. s. vO unteer army.
Congressman Rixey of Virginia and De Ar
mond of Missouri, have gone to Orange Viz
ginis, where they SPOKE to-day.
Congressman Hay of Virginia has written
to the Commander of the Confederate Camp
of Virginia, asking whether or not he shall as
member of the House military committee
support the resolution for the return of the
Confederate flags. He looks upon the reso-
luton unfayorably, in view of its introduc.
ton under existing conditions, but will favor
1t if it meets the appreciation Of the Exon
federstes of his State.
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