Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
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story of young American newspaper
man named Easton being a prisoner in
the hands of the Beers is false, that the
young man is at the front with the
Boer force and is treated in the best pos.
sibe manner. The dispatch is in re
ply to the request of Rev. MIR. Easton,
OF Tippecauoe, Ohio, stating that his
son was g prisoner and asking the good
offices of the State Department to Sc
cure his release.
First Assistant Portmaster General
Heath, in his forthcoming annual re.
port, will recommend that Congress
shall fix the salaries of assistant post
masters at 30 per centum of that OF
pcstmasters; that postoffice clerks shall
be classified on the same basis as letter
carriers and postal clerks; that the
postoilice appropriation shall be made
Interchangeable, so that the unexpend-
ed balance of one appropriation may
be transferred to other appropriations,
and that where consolidation of post
Offices is deemed advisable, and some
may be effected under existing law the
money saved thereby be made available
for clerk hire and other expenses at the
newly established offices. The depart.
ment will also ask for an increase for
additional clerks; also for the payment
of substitutes for clerks on vacation in
the smaller Offices, and a material in
crease in the appropriation for tempo
rary clerks at summer resorts, election
aud holiday service.
DR.. E. p. Niles has just returned from
Chicago, H., where be attended meet
ing of the Interstate Association Of
Live Stock Sanitary Boards as a repre-
sentative of the Virginia Board Of Con-
troll. The association had under con.
sideration live stock quarantine matters
and the federal rules and regulations
are made TO conform to large extent
10 the recommendation of this associa-
ton. By a resolution adopted cattle
can be transported from below the
quarantine line during the months OF
November and December to any point
east of the Mississippi without restric
ton, end the quarantine rules and regu
lations will again GO into effect on Jan
uary first 1900. Parties desiring pur
chase stock cattle below the quarantine
line should bear these dates we'll in
mind. The quarantine rules and regu-
lations in Virginia will be made to con-
form to the recommendations set forth
in the resolution. All quarantine re-
strictions in Virginia are, therefore,
suspended from November first to Jan
uary first.
The President, the Secretary of War,
the Secretary of the Interior, the chair
man OF the House commerce committee
aud the whole commerce committee Of
the Senate, are in favor of bridge
across the Potomac at Arlington, and
people here interested in having such
a bridge, say the prospect of obtaining
The necessary appropriation is more
favorable now than eyer before.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoflices of Virginia were made
today: J. A. Dyer appointed postmas-
tor at Maple, Betetourt county, vice
Laura Lyle, resigned; r. N. Reamy ap.
pointed postmaster al Newland, Rich
mond county, vice A. NJ. Nash, re-
signed.
Congressman Lamb of Virginia, who
came here yesterday from Richmond
with delegation to invite the Pre-: ident
TO visit that city, says the newspaper
report that Senator Martin had publicly
expressed himself in favor of Mr..
Swanson for Governors entirely incor-
rect and utterly without foundation.
This is what Mr.. Martins friends here
have said ever since they first heard OF
the report, and its truth would dis
credit his common sense. There are
several candidates for the gubernatoral
nomination, all of whom are the Sena-
tors friends, and until his own re.elec.
ton shall be announced it would be
any thing else than wise for him to be
taking an active part in the election OF
anybody else except democratic can
didate for the legislature.
The register of the Treasury, a Georgia
negro, app inted by Mr.. Mckinley, having
completed campaigning tour in Ohio hiss
now abandoned his office again and gone to
Maryland to mako incendiary speeches to his
race there and stir them up against tho white
people among whom they live and upon
whom they depond for support and induce
them to vote the republican ticket And
yet there are protested democrats in the
south who approve tho civil service rules
A business man from Baltimore here today
says money is very tight there, and the banks
there have no trouble in lending all they
have at six per cont. But tho Treasury has
several hundred millions of gold in its vaults,
and has had for months, drawing no interest.
And yet the government is in the banking
business. What would be thought OF bank.
or who would do business In that way
The title deed to Admiral Dewey's Wash
ington home has been formally delivered to
him ard this morning he sent tho following
letter 70 Mr.. Yandclip, chairman of the
Dewey homo fund committee: II scknowl-
edge the receipt this day of tho title deeds to
the beautiful house presented to me by my
countrymon. NY heart is full of gratitude
to them for this overwhelming expression of
their regard for me, and l request that you
will accept and convey to the committee my
heartfelt thanks for your and their offorts.u
THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.