Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
(Oorrespondsnoe OF the Alexandria GnSot,e. !
Washington. August 25.

WASHINGTON, August IO'
At the War Department it is init
mated that the question of enlisting ne
groes for the Philippine war has not
vet been definitely settled, and that as
The President still mas it in his power to
call for two more regiments, both of
Them may be composed of negroes, as
the negroes in some of the close States
of the North sre not at all pleased with
the practical exclusion of their race
from the army, and may manifest their
feeling vt the next election.
Affairs are so unsatisfactory in the
Philippines that familiars at the White
House and the War Department say if
the condition doesn't improve there, a
determination will be made, not
withstandiug all OF Secretary Roots
war preparations, to hold the horses,
and wait until Congress shall meet and
decide what shall be done. The anti
war feeling in the North is said to have
no little TO do with the reported change
OF programme.
1t is again rumored today that Cap
tain Carter, .. S. A., of Ohio, who de-.
frauded the government of over mil
lion and halt dollars, may be given a
new trial, as the pulp he has is said
to be exceptionally strong; and also,
that such leniency will do the admins
Jration no harm, though it would drag
down government in any other
country.
Major O. E Rine, OF Fairfax county,
Vir1inia, republican, here today, says
ne doesn't think his party will run a
candidate this fall for the legislature,
against Captain Willard, the demo-
cratic nominee.
The prevailing impression among
the democratic politicians now in the
city is that General Buckner, of Ken
lucky, and the other gold democrats
who refuse to come back to their party,
have left it for good, and gone ever en-
trely TO their old enemies, the repubi
cans, and will stay with them.
Representative Jones OF Virginia, the
only man OF all the famous May confer
ence who has gone on the stump to ad-
vocs.e the election of Governor Tyler,
passed through here yesterday evening
IN his way to the mountains of his
State, where his family is summering.
He doesn't speak at all hopefully Of
the success of his efforts, and when ask.
ed if the fight in which be is engaged is
like o jug, handle On one side and jug
on the other, only smiled and talked oil
other things. The fact that Mr.. Jones
is the only man who urged Governor
Tyler to run who has fought for the
Governor, is favorably commented upon
here by some of the democrats from his
State.
DR.. Bedlow of Philadelphia, U. s. Consul at
Canton, who has been ordered homo and his
office put in the hands of somebody else.
charged with assisting another Philadelphia
III selling arms and ammunition to the Fill
pines, is expected here in short time.
Some of the few Virginians in the War De.
partment say il Governor Tyler shall include
Capt. Kent of Wytheville, in his list OF rec
concentrations for commissions in the Philip
pine army, he may possibly be appointed
major in one of the new regiments. Capt.
Kent is the son of Lieut.. Governor Kent and
was recently mustered out of the volunteer
army.
A democratic congressman hero from ono
OF the Northern States says the banks of his
state never had moro money nor more trouble
IN dsposing OF it, as good borrowers are few,
there being no profitable investments in sight.