Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-17
FROM WASHING TON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette,
WASHINGTON, June II.

Southern Railway. The train consists
of ten Pullman sleeping cars, one
Giaiug-room car, one cooking car and
combination coach. 1t is fully equip
ped for hospital service, with medicines,
surgical instruments and apparatus as
complete as first class hospital. From
time to time as it becomes necessary
one or more coaches will return north
ward with sick and wounded soldiers,
sailors or marines who will be taken TO
Fort Myer, Va, Fort Mcpherson, Ga,
q I'd other points where there are army
hospitals, and those whose condition de.
msnds lofty altitude will be removed
TO Asheville, n. G.
The Secretary of the Navy has de-
cided on the method o! recognizing the
services of Naval Cadet Joseph
Wright Powell, who held steam
launch under the bluffs at the entrance
to Santiago harbor while searching for
the crew of the Merrimac. The papers
rlready have been made out advancing
Powell one year to the rank of ensign
and three numbers in that list. Powell's
promotion will be Immediately put in
the hands of the President who will
forward it to Congress simultaneously
with that of Naval Constructor Hob
son, the hero of the Merrimac.
Surgeon Murray, one OF the experts
at McHenry, Miss, wired an official re-
port to-day that he believed the yellow
fever is confined to the town of Nc
Henry.
Gen. Miles, accompanied by Col.
Maus, DR.. Greenleaf and Maj. Davis,
of his staff, returned to Washington
this morning. The general shortly af-
forwards went to the War Department
and was in conference good part Of
the morning with Secretary Alser.
People from the 10Th Virginia district
here to day say the chances now are
that Mr.. Flood, who was the defeated
democratic Congressional candidate
there in '96, will be renominated, as he
has more delegates than any of the
other candidates.
Only two members of the Senate for.
eign affairs committee, Messrs. Turpie
and Mills, were present to-day when
that committee agreed to report favor
sbly the bill for the annexation of Ha-
wall, aud they contented themselves
with simply voting against it. MIR.
Morgan, another democratic member,
was, by his authority recorded as voting
for it, though be was not present. The
bill will come up in the Senate to-mor'
row, but the debate on it will probably
not commence until Monday.
Secretary Alger has designated Maj.
G. w. Baird of the Paymaster's De-
partment as the War Department mem
Der of the board to adjudicate the
claims of the States and Territories for
! expenses incurred in the maintenance
aud subsistence of the volunteers prior
to their muster into tie United States
service. A representative frcp the
Treasury Department is to be the
other member of the board, which will
start to work Immediately.
Secretary Long announced at the
opening OF the Cabinet that there had
beon no important official dispatches
to-day and that there probably would
be no decisive news from Santiago be-
fore Sunday.
S6QaICT lIdulcl AllOi u StCaO NCtsi Va
work and trouble has finally succeeded
in obtaining promise from the War
Department that half the officers of the
four companies of immunes to be en-
listed in Virginia shall be Virginians,
the selection of the other half to be left
with the department and be taken from
where it may pieaes it to take them.
There are already so many Applicants
for such places that not g tenth of them
| can succeed.
Among the nominations the President
sent to the Senate to-day were the fol-
lowing To be Brigadier General, Hen
ry v. Boynton, of the District
of Columbia to be Assistant Adju-
tant General with rank Of Major, CbaS.
b. Mills, of Texas; Stuart Symington
Janney, OF Maryland, to be captain In
the 9TH regiment of volunteers; to be
First Lieutenants 4th volunteers, Wade
L. Jolly, of the District of ColumbiaI
William II. Mellach, of the District OF
Columbia, and VIM. w. Parker, of the
District of Columbia; to be Major Of the
Eth regiment, James r. Branch, of Vir-
GINA; Charles G. Estea. Of the District
Of Columbia, to be captain in the Sth
regiment to be First Lieutenant, Frank
h. Burgess, Of the District of Columbia;
to be Second Lieutansnt, Thomas Il.
r. Clarke, of the District of Columbia;
Erastus l.. Hews, of the District of Co
lumhia to be ma or of 10th regiment;
Thomas Mccormick Lippitt, of Yir-
GINA, TO be assistant surgeon in the
navy.
Assistant Surgeon Daniel II. Mr'Can, at
tached to the cruiser Cincinnati, which receil.
~ just arrived at Norfolk from cruise in the
West Indies, hiss been ordered before q gener-
al court martial for trial on charges of cu,ps-
bic inefficiency in the performance OF duty
and disrespectful language and department to
his superior officer while in the exercise of
his Office.
Congressman Lamb of Virginia was at the
White House and War Department this morn.
ing to urge the immediate payment of the
soldiers bills made in Richmond on orders of
their quartermssters and on those of the Gov
ernor He was informed that arrangements
would be made at once for paying all such
bills.
Brigadier General Rosser arrived here yes
to-day. and, having been confirmed, he will
receive his commission and qualify at once
Though considerably stouter than he was dur
ing the war between the States, he looks as if
there is q good deal of fighting material in
him yet
1t is stated to-day that an agreement has
been reached by the confer ees on the bsnk.
rupt bill which will be satisfactory to neither
creditors nos debtors.