Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF tho Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.

Correspondence OF tho Alexandria Gazette. J
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.
Assistant Secretary of War Meikle-
John said this morning that the ques-
lion OF the landing of the government
supplies of the Comal now at Havana
was still unsettled. Two propositions
were made to the department Satur-
dAy. the first that the United States
pay duty on the one million rat o rs and
let the officers OF the United States dis
tribute them; the other that the Span
ierds pay the duty and distribute the
raiions themselves. The second propo'
sition was considered by the department
and refused absolutely, as it was il
local. Mr.. Melklejohn said to-day that
the stores would be distributed by
United States officers or the Comal
would return to the United States with
her supplies.
Chaplain in the Navy Joseph P. Nc
.tlre, OF the battleship Oregon, wi
be courtmartialtd for saying ADM a
Sampson hurried from Guantanamo
secure part Of the prize money for th
destruction of the Spanish ships in Tue
naval bat le of Santiago, and that the
U,i Iron Works at San Francisco,
were not given more contracts for po-
liticll reasons. His remarks are con-
slttred detrimental TO the service and
unbecoming an officer in the navy.
Chaplain Mcintyre has been given an
opportunity to justify himself but has
failed TO do so.
Congressman Bailey of Texas is still
here in attendance upon his sick wife.
MIR. Bailey WAS surprised when he
reached here to learn that the news
papers of this city mad announced that
ne had been turned down" by bis
State convention, when, in view Of the
circumstances, he and his friends at
home were highly gratifed at his treat
ment By that convention, and his own
denomination and his own platform were
endorsed by reclamation in his own
district. Mr.. Bailey says he feels as
>ured the democrats will have control
of the next House, and that his infor-
nation from the most reliable sources
is TO that effect, and that the gains will
not only be in the South, but in the
North also A change of twenty nine
votes will, he says, destroy the republi
can majority in that body, and that
when the democrats secure that num-
Der, they will increase it by passing q
free silver bill and repeating the war
tariff, and by having short session.
A republican from the Petersburg
dist; riot here TODAY saws Mr.. Thorp is
not popular with the negroes, who
compose the ajority of the voters in
that district, though he will probably
De renominated for Congress, bur that
many of the negroes will not support
him. He also says, however, that the
populsts there will support him, but
there ere SO few of them there now tina,
Juey are Insignificant.
II is reported here that the President
is bt ginning to realize that Secretary
Alger is heavy lead to carry, but he
mas made up his mind to stand by him
to tha end, in view of the past services
the Secretary mas rendered him. Their
20, the President also recognizes the
fact that ADLER men than those now
heading the anti Algerites have tried tc
buck against dmiJi.trations, and come
to grief by doing so.
The police boat OF this city, having
been informed that many of the reed
birds brought by the pot hunters tc
market here are shot at night while the
oirds are packed together on their
roosts in the marshes, is on the lookout
for the gunners, and will have them
prost cuted if caught. They watch the
irds as they 60 to roost in the even.
lpg, mark the spot, ard later return ard
shoot 10 the dark at the sound they
make. and then wait until daylight to
pick them up.
a large delegation of the organiza
ion wing of the republicans of the
Norfolk, Virginia, district among them
Ne5srs. Il ell, Bowden, Burroughs,
Kimberly, Elliott, Miller, CAST, West,
Nicholas, Banks ard other. and Chair
nan Agnew and Col. Stith Boiling oil
ne State committee appeared before
ne national republican campaign COM
niitee here this morning to urge them
revoke their ecent recognition of the
INTERPRETATION committee OF tie Nor
ok district. DR.. Wise, the republican
Congress man from that district, was
also present 10 oppose any such reyo-
cation.
To-day was Labor Day, and was observed
here by the closing of all the government
and District Offices and by an increased bust
ness at Il the saloons, bar rooms and grog-
-efies. large number OF government en-
aloycs also left here to Try their luck at the
st. Asaph pool room.
The War Department has wired the COM
msuding general at Chickamluga for the
srticnlsrs of the reported attempt to assassi-
nae Colonel Govan of the First Mississippi
Volunteer Regiment. The department has
no information that such an attempt had been
made as a result of the "undsciplined rest
lessness of the troops and that courtmar-
t al had been ordered.
The War Department has decided TO order
all iegments now in State camps which it in
tends to keep in the service, 10 general in
struction camps.
Constant reports, oral and written, are made
At the War Department of the fatal neglect to
which sick soldiers have been subjected
Many OF them, o: course, are groundless, snd
those III 1t sc not will be made subjects Of
special inquiry.