Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Of the Alexandria Gazette

A committee from Charles B. Rouss
Post of Confederate Veterans in this
city, called on the President today and
presented memorial which complains
of the manner in which the graves OF
the Confederate dead are cared for in
Arlington Cemetery. DR.. Samuel E.
Lewis chairman of the Committee,
said after the conference. There are
14l graves OF Confederates in Airing
ton. Many OF these men died in
Northern hospitals. They are scattered
in three groups in different parts Of the
burying ground and are mixed with
the graves of Qusrtermaster's en-
ployees, citizens and negro contrabands.
The graves of the federal soldiers are
nicely marked with hesdstones but the
Confederstes are treated no better than
the negro contrabands. The President
recently pledged the administration to
Join in the care of Confederate graves.
Arlington is good place to begin the
carrying out of that promise. We want
the Confederate dead gathered into one
plot and the graves deoently marked
''The States that have Confederate dead
in Arlington are Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Flor.
ida.n The post that makes the COM
olaint was named for Charles B. Rouss,
the blind New York millionaire. The
President promised to take up the aues-
ton and see what can be done.
The President has postponed his
promised visit to the encampment of
the Daughters of the Confederaoy at
Glen Echo from Wednesday to Thurs
day of the present week. He will be
escorted to the gathering place by Gen.
Joseph Wheeler and will deliver brief
address to the Confederate Veterans.
The hastily called conference at the
White House at twelve O'CLOCK last
night between the President and the
chief officers Of the War Department
was in consequence Of dispatches from
Manila, and it is rumored, resulted in
determination to allow General Otis
to have his own way in the Philippines
and to supply him with ell the men and
means he may ask for and to let him,
if ne shall so choose, prosecute a cam
paign even during the rainy season,
as the United States have the men,
money and ships to do IS they please.
The prevalent opinion here today On
the subject is that Col. Henderson of
Iowa will be the Speaker of the next
House, and Il is even believed that Mr.
Sherman, the New York candidate for
that position, and who, with the prom
ise of the support of the President and
Mr.. Hanna, was induced to resign q
lucrative sinecure in his own State In
order to ill it, will be Withdrawn.
A prominent business mau Of this
city to-day says he reads accounts in
the newspapers OF business boom here
and of ready and profitable sales and
leases OF real estate, but that from what
he sees and hears business was never
duller and real estate In less demand
here than st present. Trusts and stock
brokers and banks. he says, may be
prosperous, hut that other business is
not, is plain to him.
The Comptroller of the Treasury de-
cided today that soldiers who enlisted
for the Spanish war only and were dis
charged Oh their own application prior
to the close of the wsr, are not entitled
to the extra pay allowed by SGT of Con-
gress, unless their discharges were on
account of sickness or disability.
General Miles is we'll aware that
the President and Secretary of War
and other officials of the War Depart
ment are still nursing their wrath
against him, and so he keeps quiet and
bides bis time. He has read all the
articles that have recently appeared
censuring him for his treatment of
President Davis, and on that matter he
also keeps mum, as the records of the
War Department condemn him.
W. 4. Mason, who was appointed I'd
lieutenant of infantry by the President
last Saturday, halls from Virginia. He
is a brother of Mr.. Victor L. Mason,
who is the privete secretary OF Secre'
tary Alger.
The receipts today for the Dewey
Home fund we're SIT, making total OF
$500.
The Secretary of War, has appointed
a board of officers to meet in the city
tomorrow to devise aud propose a sys-
tenn of rules under which enlisted men
of the United States army may make
allotments of their pay for the support
of their families or relatives, for their
own savings, or for other purposes dur
ing such times as they may be absent
on distant duty.
The Commissioners of the District Of Co.
lumbia have invited some of the prominent
men of Washington to meet them tonight and
make arrangements about the proposed le-
ception of Admiral Dewey in this city.
1t is generally believed In adEqi2istration
circles here that now and fol- come time pasi
the Filipinos hsve been supplied with guns
and ammunition by the Germans. Outside
of those circles it is said the Germans in the
matter OF the recent purchase OF the remain.
ing insular provinces of Spain hsye secured
valuable strategic positions which can be used
to the great detriment of this country, and
that the ease with which Germany obtained
them shows the difference between skilful
and shirt sleeve diplomacy.
4 private letter received here from Havana
is to the effect that negroes from Haiti, Jam.
aica and this country have already gone to
Cuba and are now teaching the negroes of
that island the rights, privileges and immGni.
ties they should have under the o. 8. Gag,
and that if they are not allowed perfect civil
and social equality with the white people
there they should fight for it, that such
tesching is readily acquired and thst its pos
sible effects are viewed with apprehension.
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