Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-01-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
TOorro,pondsnoe OF the Alexandria Gasetf e.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3

w ASHlNGION, jail. q
The second warrant for the payment
of prize money issued by the Treasury
Department was seut to-day to Captain
Of the cruiser st. Paul. The
amount was 1915. The prize upon
which it was based Was the cargo OF the
cruiser Restormel, captured May %.
Warrants for amounts due the officers
anG crew of the St. Paul on account of
the capture will be issued as fast as ap-
plication is made for them.
The condition of young Mr.. Beuch-
Ter. who was shot in Leesburg last
week and is now at Garfield hospital
here, is improved to-day, and the sur
geons there say he will soon be able to
return 70 his home.
A pension OF thirty dollars month
granted to the widow of Brigadier
General J. I, Haskell, who died at
Columbus, O., after his return from the
Spanish-American war has been reject
ed by her, because she is not willing to
receive that amount. and is ready 10
take her case before Crngress.
At the Office of Lafayette Monument
Commission there was received to-day
from the State School Commissioner for
Oaio, $4,000, contributed by school
children for the Lafayette monument
to be erected in Paris in 1900. With
contributions sent direct by various
schools this makes Ohio's contribution
over s.. 900. Illinois sent over $4,000.
The parochial schools OF Baltimore
sent in to-day S6l5.
Virginia republicans here today say
that Congressman Walker of their
State, who recently submitted to sur
gical operation in Richmond, is recover
ing and will soon resume his seat in the
House. 1t is said here that Mr.. Walk
er is the only one of the republican can
didates for Congress in Virginia at the
last election who has taken the proper
steps to contest for seat in the next
House.
It was decided at the receptions here
Yesterday that at all social functions,
he Vice President shall come next to
the President, and before the cabinet,
the diplomatic corps and every body
else.
ct one o'clock to-day the condition
Of Mr.. Dingley, the republican leader
of the House, who is ill with pneu-
monia, was reported as improved.
Mr.. Porter, special commissioner to
| Cuba and Porto Rico, submitted to
Secretary Gage to-day a report con
cerniug the policy OF England in the
government Of jamaica. The problem
here, he says, IL the same as will be
met by this country in the govern
ment of CUBA EaQland's policy is at
present to interior as little as possible
with native religions, customs and
laws and to develop the trade of the
colony and to devote the revenues to
tae Improvement of the island.
Al the cabinet meeting to-day affair:
in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pinss were discussed. but it is reported
mat nothing was definitely determined
upon. Tie President is gretied over
The fact that the evacuation of Cuba
was acccmp lisbed with so little friction
owing 10 the refusal of General Brooke
10 permit the insurgents to take any
prominent part in the celebration. The
military governors are on the alert, anc
all the advices received have been tt
thu thsct that no risk will be run, sn(
thai ally of the Cubans who do not &c
cept the conditions imposed will be rig
orously dealt with. a dispatch from
Maior General OTIS at Manila, was reaC
ct the meeting N regard to the situation
among the Insurgents q, Iloilo. Gen
e-al Otis said that he believed the dis
quoting reports from the scene OF dis
turDauca were unwarranted and that {
conflict of arms would be averted.
The State Department is informed from
Queto Ecuador, that the American Company
having the contract to construct railway
from that capital TO the Pacific coast ha
bought ths ationsl debt of Ecuador, amour t
ing TO So. 500 000, held in England. TIE
company has also established bank witt
$1,000 600 capital
The report of the appraisers in the case Of
the Washington snd Falls Church Railroad
Company for right of wsy through the Hun
ter tract for a proposed branch Of their road
to the Alexandra Theological Seminary, hav
ing been appes cd TO, Judge Love of the Court
of Alexandria county. the Judge and the
counsel in the case. inspected the property
| this morning.
! congress Will reaSsemD,e 10 morrow after
It's Christmas recess, and bat very few Of the
many members who went home have return.
ed, only one. so fer, from Virginia, Mr.. Hay.
He spent his holiday in Richmond and says
the only politician he saw there WAS Sec rotary
Lawless who agreed with him that Senator
Martin would be reelected without any
! trouble
An American hospital will be established
at Cavite, near Manila, for the use Of the
American army and navy. Surgeon Parsons
with corps OF assistants will soon start from
this country for that purpose.
The President is expected to send to the
Senate 10 morrow OF the next day the nomi.
nations Of ambassadors to Great Britain and
| Russia.