Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alaxandria Gazette.
Washinofou. June 3.

from Honolulu to Manila ID now COM
plete" was the naval comment today on
the new treaty between Spain and Ger
MANY. "Whst use she can make OF
that fact In the future will depend upon
the relations with the United States or
rather upon the American policy in the
Pacific. German occupation OF the La
drones means the possession OF one fine
island 40 miles from Guam and of Tana-
pac harbor on Sapon Island, @ better
harbor, nominally, and more easily de-
Tended, perhaps, than that OF Guam.
When the Charleston was ordered to
stop and take Guam Admiral Dewey
asked permission to send the Boston or
Baltimore to take the whole Caroline
group as we'll as the best OF the La
drones, but instructions were cabled him
to stay at Manila bay. With Germany
at Kow Chow, Saipan, Pelew, Panspe
and the Marshslls, her sphere in the
Pacific is precisely that Of England in
other parts of the globe. Her chain OF
closely connected bases Is complete. 1t
will be question Of sea power whether
they can be held in the event of war;"
The Duke d. Areas, the Spanish Min
lister, was presented to the President
this morning By Secretary of State Hay.
The ceremony took place in the blue
psrlor. The Duke was dressed in the
gorgeous full dress uniform of a Spanish
Minister, and wore the star of the
famous order of Isabella Ia Catalica.
The addresses were of the usual stereo.
typed formal kind. The Minister ex.
pressed the hope that the relations of
the two countries would hereafter be IS
pleasant as they had been before the
war, and the President assured him
that as the representative of Spain the
new Minister would find hearty vel
come from the American people.
Serene E. Payne, of New York, Re-
representatives. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
aud Steel, OF Indiana, called on the
President this morning and held long
conference concerning the contest for
the speakership. 1t is still thought
here that the influence OF the White
House may be sufficient to secure the
election of MIR. Sherman.
Minister S!raus at Constantinople has
informed the State Department that
the legation is in receipt of note from
the minister of foreign affairs to the ef
feet that the regulations prohibiting the
expectation of horses from Turkey have
been removed and that q duty OF five
Turkish liras will be charged upon
each horse exported.
Colonel U.L. Boyce of Clarke county,
Virginia, yesterday got an order from
the Secretary of the Treasury to put
one of his patented smoke consumers
10 the Treasury Department, by the
use OF which he claims that one ton OF
soft coal is saved in every four. His
patent would have been adopted at the
Capitol, he says, but for the fact that,
by law, only hard coal can be used in
that building.
1t is reported at the census bureau to-
day that an agreement about the ap-
pointment Of supervisors in Virginia
will be made by the Virginia Senators
and the republican executive commit
tea OF that State, probably toward the
close of next week. The supervisors
will appoint their own enumerators.
The parties to the two contested
election cases from Virginia, from the
81 aud 9th districts, have had their pa
pers sent to the public printer, and
gone home. Those of the contestants
greatly exceed those of the contestees
ia bulk, but in strength, those who
have seen both, say the latter greatly
exceed them, or rather, would do so
before any unprejudiced jury.
The funeral services of the late Mr..
William D. Peachy were held at St.
johns Church this afternoon and were
attended by large number of the Vir
GINA colony here ard by the members
OF the Confederate Veterans Associa'
ton.
Judge Waddill and Chairman Ag
new, accompanied by Senator Martin,
all from Virginia. went to the War De-
partment yesterday and succeeded 10
having a young man named Allen from
Richmond, now at Manila, discharged
from the regular army.
The contributions to the Dewey
Home Fund today amounted to Sill,
making total of S., 903.
People from Ohio here today say there is
no doubt of the fact that the promises of fed
eral patronage aud the direct use of money
were the cause of the Hanna victory in their
State yesterday, and that the promises refer
red to can now be fulfilled under the Presi.
dents recent change in the civil service rules,
and some anti Hanna republicans 90 30 far as
to say that the time for making these changes
was selected in order to effect the victory.
Mr. Frank Hume of Alexandria county
he ,ofyA far fhal
House of Delegates for the district composed
of that county and the city of Alexandria,
but will make no light for it. Mr.. Hume has
heen trying for some time to get two small
Spanish cannon from the government for an
Alexandria artillery company, and says if a
hundrsd young men, between the ages of six
teen and twenty, can be raised in that city, he
will see that they get the guns.
People here today from the first Virginia
district say that Congressman Jones from that
district will certSinly nave opposition for re-
nomination, and that eZ.state Senator Little
of Fredericksburg is already cpoken of as
candidate bat they also say the course Mr..
Little pursued in 1896 will seriously initiate
against him.
THEIR ROMANCE CUT SHORT.-A. M.
Beasley and Mrs. Emma Harrington, of
Caroline county, arrived at Frederioks-
burg one night this week, riding on the
front of an express Car. They stopped