The Holly chieftain., 1899-11-10
WASHINGTON NEWS.

4At duuuuh IeptFt CI tue uQJuIHul
general of the army, Brigadler General
Corbin, to the secretary of war, sums
up the military forces now in the SER
vice of the United States as follows:
Regular army. 81, 1856; volunteers, 34,-
514; total. 99,160.
President Mckinley has sent a hand
some marine glass to Albert weger.
captain OF the German bark Anna,
winch rescued the crew of the Ameri-
can schooner Johanna Swan last De
cember. To the mate, Carl Reimers, he
sent gold medal
The proposition for n national uni
versity ut Washington, under govern
ment auspices, WAS negatived by the
committee Of the National Educational
Association, which has been in session
here. Instead the committee has sug-
gestion contemplating plan by which
persons who have had exceptional edu-
cational opportunities may secure the
advantages afforded by the Institutions
at Washington.
The postmaster general has issued
an order forbidding postmasters in the
United States to collect postage due in
excess of the domestic rate on any let
ters sent by soldiers. sailors, marines,
or other persons in the United States
service in Guam and the Philippine ISL
ands. The order is given immediate
effect and postmasters are directed to
disregard all ratings Of postage due in
excess of the domestic rate, made prior
to this date.
There are three features Of interest
above all others in the annual report
of Admiral Crowninshield, chief of the
Bureau of Navigation. just made pub
lie. First, In an arraignment of Con-
gress because of the failure to reward
the officers recommended for advance
ment as result of the battles around
Cuba; second. the recommendations for
a change In the present system of re-
ceiving ships, and third. the sugges-
fions touching the new system of train
ing landsmen.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
Pension Commissioner II. Clay Evans
has been offered the governor general
ship OF Cuba by the administration,
providing he would resign as pension
commissioner. In letter, Commits
sioner Evans stated he positively re-
FUSED the offer; that he was doing his
duty, and was not to be intimidated
or exchanged" If he should be ex-
changed for doing his duty in the PEN
sion office and sent to Cuba, he might
be exchanged there also.
Dewey is receiving credit here for
another manifestation of sound judg-
ment. At dinner in his honor at the
metropolitan Club Saturday night.
Colonel Archibald Hopkins. friend of
Dewey, was to have read poetical
prophecy with respect to Dewey and
the presidency. Everyone expected 1t,
and all were surprised when 1t was not
delivered. Now, 1t is learned, the ad-
miral strongly limited to Hopkins he
would consider the suggestion Of his
name in connection with the presfden-
cy as In bad taste and disrespectful to
him.
For some time negotiations have
been in progress in Washington to-
wards establishing treaty relations be-
tween China and Mexico. The nego-
tiations have been carried on by Am
bassador AspiroZ of Mexico and Min
lister WI Ting Fang of China, and are
now SO far advanced that the signing
of the instrument is expected to occur
early next week. Aside from its i'm
portance in being the first treaty ever
negotiated between the two countries,
Its terms are such as to yield large
benefits to each of the contracting
parties.
Commissioner Wilson of the internal
revenue bureau has held that an ex-
press company which buys or sells for
eign exchange is subject to the special
foreign tax of $50 year, as a basis
on which 1t transacts such business.
Captain Nicoll Ludlow has been re
tired with the rank of rear admiral in
the navy on his own application, after
thirty years service, and under the
terms of the personnel bill comforting
one grade in rank in case of such re-
tirement. Captain Ludlow is n son-in-
law Of Mrs. Washington Mclean and
brother-in-law of Mrs. Hazen.
A recapitulation of the casualties In
actions and deaths in the regular and
volunteer armies between May /, 1893,
and June 80, 1899, contained In the en-
nual report of the adjutant general of
the army, shows a grand total of 10,076
men. The casualty list alone aggre-
gates 1854, of whom 35 officers and
458 enlisted men We're killed and 107
officers and 2,7G4 enlisted men wound
ed. The death list. numbering 6.619,
was made up of 224 officers and 6,305
enlisted men. or this total but 3S Off
GERS and ass enlisted men were killed,
the remainder of the deaths resulting
from various causes
The Cabinet has discussed the point
involving the right under the law of
our soldiers in the Philippines to send
through the mails to friends in this
country souvenirs of little or no CON-
mercial value. Under strict construc-
ticn Of the law articles of any CONNER
cial value except books are prohibited
from being sent through the mail. But
the government, realizing that with the
Rpproach Of the Christmas hnlidays the