Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-01
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette. J
WASHINGTON, Oct. l.
Felipe Agoncillo, the delegate from
the Philippines, Sixto Lopez, his inter-
prefer, and Major General Greene
visited the White House this morning.
They were ia conference with the Presi-
dent for nearly an hour. Their recep-
ton was not official. Agoncillo was ad-
mitted just as would be any individual
who had information of interest to offer
to the President. Interpreter Lopez
speaks English correctly but not at all
tluently. So it was that the presents-
ton of Agoncillo's argument proceeded
very slowly. 1t was in effect that the
Filipinos want the removal of Spanish
authority from the archipelago. Their
second desire is for independence with
American protection from outside in
reference. If they cannot get that
they are willing to have the affairs Of
the islands administered by the United
States. But the first great object is to
have the Spanish officials sent home
President Mckinley listened to all
Agoncillo had to say and asked ques.
tons to bring out more lights, but he
gave no assurances az to the course
that will be followed by this govern
ment.
Bids for the new single turreted
monitors to be named after the States
Of Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida and
Wyoming, authorized by the last ses
sion OF Congress, to cost not more than
81 ,250, 900, each, to be completed IN
twenty.seveu months, were opened at
the Navy Department to-day. There
was larger numbers of bidders than
in any previous competition and the &C.
casiop was notable for the larger num-
Der of new bidders. The vessels will
probably be awarded to Lewis Nixon,
the Union Iron Works, the Newport
News Company, and the Bath Iron
Works.
The war investigating commission
met again this morning. The commits
SION received q long communion
lion from a writer or New
York newspaper containing allie.
cations, reports and purported in.
terviews concerning Camp Wikoff ap-
p airing in the paper from July II TO
September 81. A long list OF names
was suggested that might be called as
witnesses, among them General Wheel
er, General Young, Colonel Forwood,
Miss Helen Gould, DR.. Cyrus Edison,
Dr.. William T. Jenkins, William Smith,
Philadelphia banker; Quartermsster
Kimball, L. s. A, and Dr. R. Heber
Newton. The commission promised
the matter careful consideration.
The President issued an executive
order to day creating the territory OF
Porto Rico into new military depart
ment, to be known as the Department
OF Porto Rico" with Major General
Brooke in command.
The recent massacre of white women
and children by the insurgents in the
Philippines, and the outrages and
threats of those in Porto Rico and Cuba,
and the appeals Of the Hawaiians for
the restoration of their deposed govern.
ment, have been sufficient to decide the
administration that it will have need OF
all the troops now in its service, and
that therefore no more of them than
those already notified will be mustered
out at present.
Mr.. Speaker Ryan, of the Virginia
House Of Delegates, the member of the
House from Loudoun county, people
from that county here to-day say, favors
the election of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to
the .. S. Senate in the place of Senator
Martin. 1t is also said by Virginians
here that all the democratic candidates
for the legislature in their State next
fall will be required by their constituents
to state their preference for U. S. Sem
ator.
People from Alexandria county, Va,
here to-day, say that the branch of the
Washington and Falls Church Electric
Railroad that is proposed to be run to
the Theological Seminary, near Alex
andria, has been completed to the
southwestern boundary of the Airing
ton reservation, and, before the expira
ton of the present fall. will be extend.
ed as far as the point at which it will
cross the Leesburg track of the South
ern Railway. They also say it is the
intention OF the company to run the
road into Alexandria and compete with
the Washington and Mt. Vernon road,
which runs from here to that city.
General Fi:zhugh Lee left here to .day
for New York to see his son who is at
West Point. He expects to return On
Tuesday next and then to go to Rich
mond, and to Cuba, but not Havana, in
November. Many we'll known Yir-
ginlars called upon him while he was
here, among them Mr.. John Goode.
The General will be witness in behalf
of the administration before the army
investigating commission.
The bill now before Congress to pro-
vide for bringing the remains OF Fred
Douglass, John Browns right hand
man, from Rochester, New York, to
Washington and reinterring them here
with distinguished honors, and to make
his tomb Mt. Vernon to his race, is
opposed by his children here. who OBJ
iected to his marrying his white wife,
as MANY of har raoa did