Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-27

that COmOiuatiou liz
formed to iDjure Lowndes, and
while Wellington has been boast.
ing so loudly as TO what he individual
IL Will ccomplisn, not many believe
that MS resisna alton from the State
committee aod Bis predictions will have
as much weight as the Senator i'm.
AGNES Wellington's interview attract
ed considerable interest here, for the
reason that if ne intends to stick to his
statement it is evident that he will OPP
pose gorously next session the Fresi.
dents policy regar dirg the Philippines.
Senators Hoar, Hale and Mason and
other repu olicans are known to be III
the same attitude. They will doubtless
cause the imperialisls a good deal of
trouble.
A dozen national bankers called on
the Com missioner of Ioternal Revenue
today and urged that express companies
should be compelled to pay the war tax
on brokers of $50 year. The COM
missioner stated that the law did not
apply to express companies dealing in
domestic exchange.
A dispatch received here this morn.
ing says the relief which arrived yes
terday at Manila, took six naval officers
from Guam. Among these was Lieut.
Carmody, ofthe Marine Corps, Wash
ingson boy and son of a retired pay
master in the navy. On the 23d of o.
tober be disappeared from aboard ship
He bad been ordered home on sick leave
by Governor Leary of Guam.
Gen. n. c. King and other members
of the Frederickgbu national park
commission and Judge J. B. Seuer,
called on Secretary Root this morning
to get bis assistance in the movement
to establish military park. which will
include 10 a reservation y miles square
all the great battleields about Frede-
ricksburg. Ii is the desire Of the com.
mittee to urge Congress to take action.
Among the arrivals here today is that
Col. Ceb. Maddox, of Virginia. He
says the whisky business in bis State Is
booming, as the house with which he is
connected has just received an order
from one man for fifty barrels. He also
says that while he is convinced from
personal knowledge that Judge Rhea
was fairly and legally elected to Con-
gress In the 9th district of his State, his
knowledge of the republican members
of that body induces him to think that
he will not be allowed TO hold his seat.
A republican from Richmond,
here today, says there was no meet
ing of the republican State execu
i've committee there, as only two mem
bers thereof were present, Messrs. Ae-
new OF Alexandria and Boiling of Pc.
tersburg, though Messrs. Brady and
Allen were represented by proxy, nor
was any time set for a subsequent
meeting.
Ex.Congressman Bowden and some
other Virginia republicans were at the
Postoffice Department this morning and
urged the appointment Of Mr.. Welsh,
Of Phoebus, as postmaster there.
A delegation of Fredericksburg peo-
Pile, escorted by Congressman Rixey of
Virginia, were at the White House to-
day to invite the President to stop at
their town on his way to Richmond.
The whole time of the Cabinet meet
ing today was devoted to the consider
alton of plans by which the Filipinos
AN once more be crushed in short
order"
A month ago it was stated in this
correspondence that the organization Of
proposed bonding company here
would not succeed and that Mr.. Wigh,
.ould retain his place as District Com
missioner It's now currently reported
mere that the syndicate that recently
bought nearly all the railroad compa.
oies 10 this city has, still large blocks OF
It's stock unsold.
As delegation of Northern people
who had called on the President yes
terdsy and asked him to offer his SER
vices as a mediator between Great Brit
ain and the Transvaal Republic, were
leaving him, he assured them
he was always for peace and that he
would give their request his earnest
consideration.
The women clerks in the government
departments here who are married to
men who are also in the governments
service, are very much alarmed by the
revived rumOr that they are all to be
discharged.
General Eppa Hunton of Virginia is ex.
pected here next Monday, when he will make
An argument before the coult of claims in
favor Of claim of S350,0O0 for sugar and
molasses taken by the government in New
Orleans during the war between the States
People from the West here today say the
administrators evident sympathy with
Cheat Britain in her attempt to crush the
Beers, will deprive the republican ticket in
those States of thousands of German and Irish
votes
People going to Richmond to witness the
Tuesday, can get round trip tickets for four
!ollsrs, good from Monday to Saturday.
Mrs. Francis G. Newlands. the vito of the
Nevada Congressman, has been selected by
the Dewev home fund committee to spend
he 81 900 surplus of tho Dewey home fund
for rugs for the Admira's new home. She
eft for New York this morning to mako the
purchases. The Admiral decided this morn
ing to recall his acceptance of the invitation
TO visit Chicago between November 16 and
30.
Navy Department records show that
Captain Thomas J. Page who died at Rome,
this morning, was appointed midshipman
on October l, 1927, from Virginia. He rose
to all grades reaching that of commander on
September ID, 1855. The next entry reads:
Dismissed the service April %, 1861" This
means that Captain Page left the United
STAGES navy when the war between the States
broke out.