Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-13
FROM WASHINGTON.

500 wards and that with loss of 60 is
ANYTHING else than encouraging. Gen.
Corbin today issued orders increasing
the strength of each company on duty
in the Philippines by l6 men. When
the 24th and 25th regiments arrive at
Manila there will be 1876 companies in
the Philippine service. Gen. Corbin's
order therefore will Increase General
Otis's force by 3,l36 men.
The Comptroller Of the Treasury rem
dered decision against paying the
greater part of the expense OF the Board
of Managers of the National Soldiers
Home for trip of inspection to Los
Angeles, CAL, amounting to 50 ,S05W.
Only part of the board were on the
trip. They took with them eight friends
and relatives for whose tickets and ex.
peuses they charged the government.
They hired special Car and travelled
in state. Besides this enormous ac-
count Treasurer Birmingham and In.
Spector-General Brown charged mile.
age AT cents mile when they paid
nothing for transportation. The treas
urer also charged $l63.15 for the ser.
vices of an attendant.
The comptroller holds that the private
persons must pay their own expenses,
allowed the mileage charged but de.
clared that this would never be the
course in the future, and disallowed
Treasurer Birminghsm's charges for a
personal attendant. One of the claims
put forward by the board was that
''they were used to ell the luxuries OBJ.
tainable." The claim had been approx.
ed in It's entirety by the Secretary of
War.
Quite a number OF white Virginia re-
publicans are now here, interested more
or less in the appointment of the
census supervisors for their State
that will be made tomorrow. Among
them are several members of their ex-
ecutlve committee, including Chairman
Agnew, Generals Brady and Walker,
U. s. Marshal Brown Allen. Colonel
Stith Boiling aud J. L. Gleaves, also
Messrs. G. M. Tucker, R. NJ. Caller, j.
4. Frazier and J. a. Turner. The COM
mit,se referred to and the two demo.
cratic Senators from Virginia will proba.
bly meet tomorrow or, if not, agree by
letter, upon the Ave districts that shall
nave democratic, and the ave that shall
have republican supervisors. IL is pretty
we'll determined already that the Rich
mund, Norfolk and Alexandria dis
tricts shall have republican supervisors,
and the President some time ago in.
structed the commissioner of the cen
sus bureau to let ex-Congressman
Walker dictate the supervisor for the
9th district.
The Virginia democrats here fnlly
expected the democratic committee OF
their State to do just exactly what they
did do last night, and some of the few
OF them who were in iavor of electing
u. S. Senators by the direct vote of the
people, say they hope the whole move
ment to change the mode of electing
Senators will now subside nntil after
Senator Martin shall haye been elected
in the way provided by the Constitu-
ton.
Certificates for deeds to property purchased
at TAX sale in this city for the month of May,
1895, numbered 422, and for the correspond.
ing month of 1899, co.. This means that
times are very, very good in the District OF
Columbia--for 3 few capitalists with ready
money TO purchase at tax sales valuable prop.
erty for less than Eve per cent of its real
value. on account of the owHer not being able
to raise the money to pay the tG=as due. The
commissioners, at the request of Mr. Gee. B..
g.inkins have increased the clerical force In
the INK sale office three, on q count of the in.
crease III business.
The $500 for xho marble bust intended to
represent Mr.. w. j. Bryan but which re-
sembles him as little as itdoe5 lny other man,
and which will be presented to his wife, has
been paid for, but only by the promoters of
the undertaking raising the amount of the
desyed subscriptions BY mortgaging certain
lots ct Lakewood, near this city.
While all the several prominent democrats
Of various parts of the country now here
speak in the highest terms OF ex Senator Cor
man and say he would make model Presi.
dent, they sill express the belief that Bryan IS
the mGp Of destiny, and that he and the Chi
cago platform will be re-endorsed next year
Naval Paymaster Willard B. Wilcox has
been ordered under arrest at Mare Island,
San Francisco. The charges against him are
that be was drunk at the Mare Island navy
yard anG conducted himself dsgracefully
He was appointed TO the navy from Iowa
He gained notoriety at Honolulu year ago
by making remarks at dirner rejecting
upon young ladies related To Capt Writings
wife. Capt. Whiting who, segeral years be-
fore, had married the wealthy Miss All Fong
OF Honolulu, was present at the dinner and
had Wilcox placed under arrest, but the at.
fair was hustled up after Wilcox became sober
and had apologize2.
Orders were issued by the War Depart.
ment today directing the Twenty fourth and
Twenty fifth Infantry, colored, to proceed to
San Francisco for emharkation on transports
REVENUE RULING.
Collectors Agnew and Brady are
flooded with applications for the posi-
tions OF deputy collector, gauger, and
storekesper n their respective districts,
ro5arotood to he made vacant by the