Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-03
FROM WASHINGTON

Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette. !
The Quartermaster General says it
is impossible to get any more trans
ports on the Pacific coast for the Phil
ippine service. He ought to have two
or three more, but can't get them. He
says the last of the volunteers will not
leave the Philippines for home until the
middle of September. Gen. Greeley,
of the signal service, says his service in
the Philippines is badly crippled. He
should have 70 officers. He is allowed
81. He has about 10. He says it is
impossible to get the officers needed,
because his corps is composed almost
entirely of unframed recruits.
John w. Mackey, of California, and
Il. II. Kohlsaat, of Chicago, saw the
President and Secretary Alger at the
White House in behalf OF Lieut.. Neall,
who was found guilty of misappro-
pristion of funds by military court.
Mr.. Kohlssat said his visit to the Presi
dent had nothing to do with his con.
,roversy with Senator Foraker. AS to
his motive for attacking the Senator
Kohlsaat said that for ten years he had
considered him an improper person to
10 entrusted with responsibilities in
public life.
Mrs. Lula L. Wright was appointed
postmaster at Aral, Carroll county,
Virginia, today, vice S. T. Wright, re-
signed.
People from Alabama here today,
who know General Wheeler well, sag
The talk about his running for another
political Office than the one he now
bids, amounts to nothing; that the
General still hopes to be sent to the
Philippines, and that the administra-
ton hopes General Otis will include the
General among the officers he will send
for.
Major Gen. Otis has replied to the in.
quiries of the War Department concern
ng the number OF men required to his
fill regular regiments. Adjt. Gen. Corbin
avs the reply indicates that the Cen
ersl neads little more than 5000 men
fill the regular regiments and about
1000 men for the volunteer regiments.
Gen. Corbin says more than enough
recruits to fill the order are on hand
and that they will be shipped as soon
az the transportation facilities can he
provided. This will give Otis about
iorty thousand men. There are still
.leveu thousand volunteers in the Phil
i)pines and they will be sent home as
quickly as possible. The organization
of skeleton regiments in the Pnilip-
pines does not seem easy. Otis's re-
quest for 1000 recruits to fill the two
regiments in course of organization
here indicating that not more than 800
have volunteered for the service, not
withstanding the special inducements
,fered. A call will be issued today or
lomorrow for the enlistment of four.
teen thousand volunteers, nsturalized
or not, and whether their feet be arch
I'd or fat.
The public letter OF Governor PiDgree,
the effect that he, like Secretary
Alger, is supporter of the President,
nas restored cordiality between the
President and his Secretary of War,
and no more limitations will be given
to the latter that his place is better
han his company at the cabinet table.
He says the letter was very pleasant
surprise to him, and that its contents
we're very gratifying.
A very well informed man, in the service
of the government, just returned from Ma.
uila. aud who keeps up with all the dispatches
from there, now here, in q talk with the Ga
1ettes correspondent today, said the termi-
nation of the war with the Filipinos is some.
thing that no man tell that the Filipinos are
determined to fight to the death against their
invaders, that the losses to the American
army arc much greater than the people of
his country suppose, and that unless that
army b. doubled or trebled, not only the pre-.
sent, but the next rainy season will have come
and gone before the one island of Luzon shall
be conquered, and that only by the extermi-
nation of all its male inhabitants.
The dispatch from Philadelphia about "a
men being in irons for mutiny on the U.S
5 Panther and that her commander, capt.
George c. Rector" has made an official report
of the affair to headquarters in Washington, is
not confirmed st the Navy Department