Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-12
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY -, 1899
FROM WASHINGTON.
TOorrespondence Of the Alexsndris GSHette.
Washington, July II.


The proposed western trip OF the
President TO St. Paul may have TO De
postponed on account OF Mrs. Mchln-
Lewis indisposition. 1t is stated that
the President will not go without her
and that she is never so we'll as when
near him and that she is very sensitive
of his absence. In case OF postpone
ment of the trip it will probably be
taken 10 conjunction with his trip 10
Chicago next October.
Henry Vignaud in reply to a letter
from the State Department asking
whether the grave OF Paul Jones is now
known and marked in Paris says that
be has more than once taken occasion
to look into this matter but has been
unable to discover the whereabouts OF
the grave. He says that certainly Jones
was not buried in the cemetery where
the remains OF Lafayette lie. On July
is. 1882, Paul Jones died in Paris ano
was buried with highest houors by the
French government. 1t may be, that
owing to custom prevailing then, the
remains were deposited IN renteo
grave for term of years and that long
ago. upon expiration of the term, the
bones were thrown into potter's field.
Gen. 4. Z. Bates, Of the Pay Depart
ment, was today appointed paymaster.
general of the army with the rank OF
brigadier general, to fill the vacancy
eau led by the statutory retirement OF
B.iCader- General A. B. Carey.
Orders have been issued by the War
Denartmept for the organization OF al
army nurse corps under the supervision
of Surgeon General Sternberg and III
charge ofDr Anita MCGEE.
The talk of the proposed enforced
resignation of Secretary Alger still con-
tinues, but today s TO the effect that he
will be allowed to prepare his report OF
both the Spanish and Philippine wars
before he will be driven out. 1t nat
nrally has caused tn. Secretarys
friends to rally to his defense and has
Increased their number, and they
now say the President was a.
we'll aware of his cereliction six
months ago as he !s now, and
should have removed him then, and
that to do SO now would only show mis-
w llingness to sacrifice friend to WIN
the praise of men who, he vainly imag
ines, represent popular feeling. The
Secretary, however, still keeps q stiff
upper lip, and says he has received no
intlmation from the President that he
is not agreeable to him, and that when
he does, he will leave iostanter, and let
subsequent proceedings progress as
&hey may.
The State Department has not wait
81 for Congress to authorize the crea-
ton OF the proposed Colonial Depart
ment, but is already collecting informa-
ton in respect OF the conquered prov
inces and foreign trade upon which 10
formulate reasons for the establishment
Of department of colonies and foreign
trade.
The delay in appointing 2 successor
TO Judge Cox of the U. S. court for
this district, is not caused it is said, by
desire to select an efficient one, but.
as an old democratic member of the
bar here says, by the difficulty of deter
mining who, of all the many applicants,
IS toe most intense republican.
Brig. Gen.. Rosser, who has jus
reached Washington. from Cuts, cali
ed at the White House today.
The follow changes in the fourth
class postoffices of Virginia were made
today: Broadshoals, Floyd county,
Martha ]. Akers appointed postmaster,
vice L. G.Akers, resigned; Cisco, Meek
lenburg county, G. II. Harris, vice JOS
eph A. Love, resigned; East Richmond,
Henrioo county, Mrs. w. NJ. McEwen,
n ra-inpad. Hnffviila ElOr6
county, II. j. Ridinger, vice John Weaver,
resigned; Piikinton, Powhstan county. Mrs
Victoria Oorsetv vice Cora Pilkinton, resigned,
and Rollins Fork, King George county Net
tie F. Covington vice Hosea Rogers, resigned.
Now that several army officers have been
punished for robbing the government of
small sums it is intimsted at the Wan
Department that Captain Carter, of Ohio. VINO
stole over two million. cannot expect to es
cape much longer, notwithstanding the pow
srful influence thst has been exeited in his
behalf; but that his term of imprisonment
will be short.
Senator Martin did not go home last night.
as expected and he and Representatives
Swanson and Epes were this morning at the
Riggs House, which, since the former pro
pretor, Spoford, who, by entertaining ne
groes, broke it up, has gone, has become
popular Southern resort, and for several days
past its lobby has been crowded with Vir
ginisns. The Virginia congressman will re
turn to their homes today or tomorrow. OF
Che army commissions they have obtained the
only one known is for Lieut.. j. II. Plummer.
of Petersburg, who was recommended by
Representative Epes, Repres entatives Hay
and Lamb who got one each, aud Senior Dan.
iel got one or two. They have not yet been
announced, rs the War Department thinks
that had better not be done until the commits.
sions have been out and the cases thereby
closed.
At the War Department it is conceded that
the President now realizes that the army i.
not large enough to conquer the Philippine
Islands and hold it and the other newly ate
ouired provinces, and that in his next aunusl
message to Congress he will ask that its
strength be ineroased at once to one hundred
thousand men.
There is no truth in the story to the effect
that President Mckinley Intends to have the
Gubsns vote on the annexation question.
While such action would not be unWelcome
20 this government, the executive will not
ask it or account of the fact that the nation
is in honor bound to grant independence to
the island. Then. TOO, il is known that such
"A vote would result overwhelmingly for in
dependence.
Capt Thomas W. Woodruff. 9Th infantry,
was among the victims of yellow fever near
Santiago de Cuba yesterday. he was native
of New York.
Senator Hanna has arrived at Paris.
He ia looking well, but suffering much
from rhegmatism. He will leave for
AK 10 a few days. The President, he
saws, has examined every phase of the