Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
rrespondence OF the Ale1andria Gazette.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. s.
Up to noon to-day nothing had been
heard at the departments or at the
White House as 10 whether or not the
French ambassador had received SPANS
reply to the Presidents peace terms.
Officials at the Navy Department are
expecting that an armistice will be de-
clared bv the last OF this week and are
making their plans in that direction
Rear Admiral c. 5. Norton, com
nandant Of the Washington navy yard,
will be retired Wednesday on account
OF age, but will retain his present posi-
ION until the close Of the war. Capt.
Philip, of the Texas, will be promoted
very soon and may succeed AdmirS!
Kirkland, at Mare Island.
Secretary OF State Day declpeS 10
dis :uss the report that he is 70, DC one
Of the peace commissioners 'nu a!tei-
wards TO retire from the cshinet. When
Judge Day was promote 10 the mead
# the State Departmeat from the post
!; assistant secretsty, it was with the
nr5ersfsndine tfst he would shortly
rs,iTa A. for BE report that Secretary
AIsar is 10 re,re it appears to be based
sItopetbe- agon the controversy as to
no. conFsct of the War Department
ava re publication Of the Roosevelt
49, ~ correspondence. When asked
lit the truth of the report Secretary
liser only smiles.
Il is pretty we'll understood here that
the government TO be established for
Hawaii will be milar in every par
.icular TO that that now exists in Ar
iona and New Mexico, and that it
would be such was said by one of the
members OF the Hawaiian commission
before he left this city for Honolulu o
day or two ago.
Ex-Congressman Brown, of the Dan
Vile, Va, district, is still here. The
republicans OF two counties of his dis
trict nominated him for Congress last
Saturday, aud he is confident that the
district Convention will do so likewise,
though Mr.. 3. a. Davis, Of Rocky
Mount, will, it is said by republicans
from there, receive complimentary
vote. Mr.. Brown came here 10 see if il
were possible to get any money for his
campaign from the national republican
committee, but, it is understood, ne
vas informed that the committee had
40 money, except what was controlled
By Senator Hanna, who does not think
il wise to waste it in Virginia.
Congressman Walker, OF Virginia,
who was here Saturday and called on
the President, has gone home. Ii isre-
ported that he, too, when here, called
a: republican headquarters and re.
ceiveG similar Information to that i'm.
parted 10 MIR. Brown.
Mr.. Cowen, gold democrat, and re.
ceiver for the Baltimore Il Ohio Rail
road, now here, says the result of the
war, in respect OF the acquisition Of for
rign territory snd foreign people, "has
given the democrats an option on free
trade"
As the work Of the joint commission
to settle the Philippine question will
have to receive the approval Of the U.
s. Senate, it seems to be understood
here that the American half of that COM
mission will be composed of members Of
the Senate, and therefore likely to re.
ceive the support of their fellow menu
bers. and not, as has been suggested, of
such people as exPresidents Harrison
sud Cleveland, and others having no in
fiuence with Senators.
Mr.. Campbell, the owner of the land
upon which Camp Alger isilocated, says
the newspapers OF this city have not
only Injured his property but that of all
the other land owners in the neighbor-
hood of that camp, By creating the i'm.
preston that typhoid fever prevails
there, though it is we'll known there
that not single case OF such fever has
among the officers, and only
low fever among the men who were
drilled to death in the late prevailing
not and humid weather. Mos. all the
troops, he says, have now left that
were encamped on MS land.
Three members of the cabinet called
upon the President to day. They were
Secretaries Alger and Long and Attor=
ney General Griggs. They all said
nothing further had been received from
Spain, but there is 3 feeling among the
higher officials that the terms of the
United States have been uncondition-
ally accepted. The final answer is ex-
pected either tonight or tomorrow
though Ambassador Csmbon has given
no intimation that he has been com.
municated with since Saturday. The
officials here base their opinion on the
press dispatches from Madrid, London
and Paris.
The President is said to feel so Ger.
tain that Spain has accepted the terms
submitted by him, that he is seriously
the peace commissioners
ne will soon name. Those most prom.
jnently spoken OF to-day are Secretary
Day, ex-senator George F. Edmunds
OF Vermont; Gen. Horace Porter, Us
Ambassador TO France; ex.Secretsry
Oiuey. Mr.. Coudert, the well-known
New York lawyer, Senators Allison
and Davis. Ii cannot be learned that
the name Of eX-Pres;dept Harrison has
been ssriously considered. There may
he three OF five commissioners selected
on the part OF this government. The
belief now is the President will ap-
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