Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
FCorreqpondsncs OF the ahxsndria Gazette
Washington, June 80.

FCorreqpondsncs OF the atx4ndr'a Gazette. !
Washington, June 80.
The contest between the American
Ordnance Company and the briggs
Seabury Gun and Ammunition Com
pany was continued by hearing be-
fore Secretary Ager today. The claim
of the American Company is that q
certain contract for guns should not DC
awarded the briggs Company because
the latter i. in default of delivery on a
previous contract. Assistant Secretary
Meikle iohn had taken that view and
rescin1ed the second contract and as
sessed penalties for default in the first
when the matter was appealed to the
Secretary, who heard the arguments
TODAY aud reserved his decision.
Rebeckah A. Burchett was appointed
postmaster at Amorita, Grayson coun'
ty, Virginia, today, vice John o. Bur-
cnett, resigned.
Quite number of young men with
pulls have been appointed to tempo
larry positions in the departments, with
the understanding that in the fall they
arc 20 be sent to the Philippine Islands.
They are studying Spanish so that by
The time they arrive they will be able
TO sp ak that language fairly well. The
officials say these young men will be
valuable especially in the postal SER
vice TO be established in the Philip
pines, and most of them are familiar
ring themselves with postal affairs.
Not many of the people regularly EN-.
ployed in the departments seem anxious
TO 60 to the Orient. and that is why
utsiders are given the opportunity.
They include the class fond of adven'
lure and travel, and who apparently
have no fear of the climate in the
tropics.
The US. consul at San Salvador re-
ports an outbaeak ofyellow fever there
General Otis at Manila in dispatch
to the War Department this morning
reports that the transport Morgan City
has sailed for San Francisco with 464
sick.
The census Office Is daily besieged by
men and women who areispplicants fol
clerkships there. They are doing every
thing in their power to procure iDhuen'
| iial Inducements. The applications
are enormous, though the big force O
clerks will not be appointed until mex
year.
People from Richmond, here today
! say that nobody there has any idea tha
Governor Tyler will allow himself tt
De set up for the q. S. Senate, merely
for the purpose of being knocked down
1t is current talk in financial circles
here that proposition to call for anoth
or gold bond loan of one hundred mil
lion dollars, to make up the deficit o
that amount in the annual receipts o
the government, is now being consider
ed at the Treasury Department.
The determination of the administra
ton to send force of twenty Thousand
unacclimated men to the Philippines il
said here TO be an embalming and I'm
ettaking trust.
General Wood called upon the Score
airy OF War this morning. He has
positively declined the presidency o
he Washington street railway com
oany, and will leave this country TO
Santiago next Tuesday.
At the cabinet meeting today Score
tary Alger repeated his former state
ment that he would have 10000 men il
the Philippines by the middle of Sep
TENDER, A few cabinet officers though
the regiments to be raised should be of
6cered by political appointees from civil
life. There are already about 6 900 ap
plications on file for the officers places
The experience of the administration will
negro troops. it is said at the War Department
has been sufficient to prevent it from organ
ng any more regiments of such troops, ever
FIR service in the Philippines.
The President has directed that final order
| De prepared for the organization in this coun
| try of nine volunteer regiments to be held il
readiness to send to Gen. Otis if he thinks h.
can utilizs them at the close Of the rainy sea
son. This force will aggregate IL. $50, eacl
regiment being !, 1920 strong. The minimum
egimental organization has been adopted 8
t is thought to he large enough for yoluntee
| 5fficeIs to control. The nine regiments def
! nisely determined upon today will be il
| addition to the three volunteer regiments Sen
eral Otis has already been authorized to raise
| 2egimental officers for all these commands
viii! be taken from the commissioned officers
of the regular service. Company officers vii
| De chosen from those volunteers who had
service in Cuba, Porto Rico and Luzon. The
)rders to recruit this force bsye slready beer
| mailed to seventy recruiting stations, subject
telegraphic modification and release. Over
5000 men have gone to General Otis this
week from San Francisco.
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