Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-10

If they numbered only dozen or two,
and his conspicuous omission to give
any details about the latest vessels
sailing causes some comment at the
War Department. Secretary Aiger
last night telegraphed to Gen. Otls !or
a detailed report upon his plans for
starting the volunteers home and asked
him specifically why some could not be
started at once, and Adjt. Gen. Corbin
teleeraphed him this morning asking
if there were any volunteers on the
transports which left the Philippines
Yesterday and today; also whether any
would return on the ships which are
scheduled to leave in the near future.
The poor printer who first told about
Col. Dudley's famous "blocks of five"
letter has been removed at the ColonePs
request by the present administration,
and is now in straitened circumstances
with wife and children dependent
upon him.
A telegram from the Hot Springs of
Virginia, received bere today, says the
long promised order exempting from
the operation of the civil service law,
bureau chiefs and responsible and conf
Dental clerks and some other people in
the service in the government. would
soon be issued.
Senator Kyle HIS resigned the chair
manship of the industrial commits
sion, but not his membership of that
commission, SO that Vice President
Hobart will not have the appointment
of another Senatorial member of the
commission, which is taking q great
deal of testimony about the trusts and
combines, that will be printed-simplY
that and nothing more. r. G.. Brooks
mine owner of Scranton. Penn
sylvania, testified before the COM
mission this morning as to the con-
dition of the miners in his dis
trict, and was of the opinion that they
received fair treatment at the hands OF
the operators. The mine owners do
not receive on an average more than
five or seven per cent. on their invest
ment, he said. The labor law in force
in Pennsylvania had greatly improved
the lot of the miners in later years, he
admitted, and, when he came to think
it over, he believed that the operators
had also benefited by their enforcement.
Mr.. Brooks did not believe the stories
of tyranny alleged to be committed by
the coal mine operators. No matter
how things are run, he said, some men
will always claim that they are mis-
treated.
Sixty representatives of the Western
trunk lines were present at Senate
conference with the interstate commerce
commission today, called for the pur-
pose of agreeing upon some form OF
concerted action TO prevent rate cutting
in future.
Mr.. Quay is in a peck of trouble in
respect of the Speakership of the next
House. He, like all the other Northern
republicans, really favors Mr.. Sherman
of New York for Speaker, but he is more
iesirous of admission to the Senate, land
consequently doesn't wish to antago-
nize Western Senators, who want
man from their own section. How he
can please the North and not displease
the West is a question that worries him
no little.
The proposed erection of monument to
General Rooert E. Lee just beyond the limits
of the federal cemetery at Arlington by some
southern women, meets with the disspprova!
of many ex.Confederates here who are not
gushers. They say the name of General Lee
is engraven ON the hearts of tho people OF
their section, and will last longer than bronze,
brass, marble or granite but that if monu-
ment were necessary 10 perpetuate it, the site
thereof should be on the land to which he
pledged his fortune, life and sacred honor,
and not in federal reservation.
st the Postoffice Department today it is
said Fredericksburg may have free mail de-
livery by next September, and after that no
more towns in Virginia will be allowed such
delivery until they shall increase in populs-
lion