Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazette !
Washington, April 3.

tive Hay, State senator JackSou, Ju''Se
Downing, Delegate Pitcher and others.
Senator Daniel is member of the ln-
6ustrial commission and will probably
remain here a week. His colleague
saws he had some business at the gov
ernment departments, and the others,
that they came on their own business.
Senator Martin is in the best OF spirits,
and saws his denomination and election
are assured, and have been for a long
time, and must be as well-known to
some of those who signed the recent
call for a convention of his antagonists
as they are to him. He, however,
doesn't oppose such convention, and
says his friends will do nothing to OPP
pose it. Senator Daniel says, as he
did some months ago, that he
can't see how his colleague can be
defeated: that Mr.. Martin has always
stood BY him and that he will certainly
veciprocate. as he is firm believer IN
the good old rule that one good turn
deserves another. Representative Hay
saws he has known from the first that
Senator Martin would be his own sue
cessor in the Senate, and nothing has
occurred that tends III the rem0test de-
cree to make him doubt it. Judge
Downing of Warren county says no.
BODY in his neighborhood apparently
lakes any interest in the call referred to,
and that the democrats of mis- Sena-
-orial district will not only elect Mar
lin men to the legislature, but instruct
nem if it be deemed necessary 10 do so.
Iadeed all of the Vjrginians referred to
With whom the Gazette's correspond
ut talked, seemed to think little or
nothing of the proposed convention
and that most all the democrats, they
know, agree with them.
At the Treasury Department it is
said that the faces of General Grant
aud Pre- sidents Lincoln and Mckinley
will be stamped on the new Lafayette
silver dollars. This shows that in the
estimation of the present administra-
ion this country is the North and that
Northero meu are its representatives.
The President today issued an order
that upon the arrival at Arlington on
Thursday of the cortege Of the soldiers
who persisted in Cuba and Porto Rico,
military and naval honors be paid them
and that on , o'clock On that date the
national ensign be displayed at hall
! staff on all public buildings, forts,
| camps and public vessels Of the United
States; and that at noon OF that day all
The departments of the governments
mere shall be closed.
The state of affairs in the Philip
| pines is by no means satisfactory to the
people IN the War Department, who
nad been led TO believe that Aguinaldo
aud his whole army would be bagged
at Malolos, and are disappointed at the
sase with which they escaped and are
| aow sale for an indefinite time. Some
# the American troops have had
o fall back upon Manila, others are
oeing assailed from ambush at all hours,
| and those at Malolos seem to stay there
eontentedly. The impression is ex-
ending that the fighting will be pro-
louged after the manner of the Cuban
Insurgents, and that at least sixty thou
| sand troops will be required to reduce
( ne natives to the subsection OF those
| gho say they went to war in their be-
half to give them liberty and indie
oendence from the alleged cruelty Of
,heir legitimate rulers, and who say
| new would 'assimilate them beneYo
lently."
A humber of cases decided by the U. S
Supreme Court today involved the val
lditv of the war revenue act, so far as
he tax on the sales in boards of trade
concerned. The court holds that
portion of the act valid and also held
nat sales at the Union Cattle Yards,
Chicago, come within the designation
/ of the statutes.
Senators Platt aud Depew, OF New York,
visited thu White House this morning. 1t Is
! understood they are to recommend some one
! for tho appraisership of merchandise which
vas recently declined By Representative
sherman. They intimatcd that the delega-
ton FROM the state had not fully agreed upon
The candidate but it is understood that they
sill most likely press for the place ex.Con-
gresham Fischer, of Brooklyn.
Vice President Hobart, his friends say, is
an i'll man. and some Of them talk as if they
ire alarmed at his condition, which they say
IS really serious.
Thousands of children, with their mothers
md nurses, thropged the White House
rounds today, rolling, picking and eating
hard-bolcd eggs. dyed with various colors.
Many of the crowd were negroes, who, as the
years roll round are slowly but surely squetz'
ng the white people out.
The spring racing season at BeHnings COM
menccd today. and though the weather was
DOL the attendance was quite numerous.
The following changes in the fourth-class
postotfices of Virginia were made today :
'ook Carroll county, Mary E. Williamson,
,ppointed postmaster, vice J. j. Davis resigned;
1Ieendale, Washington county, Margaret
Lee, vice Mary c. Casteel, resigned; Osso,
King George county, VIM. J. Rogers, vice T..
!. McClelland, dead; Potomac Mills, West
moreand county, Cora V. Costenbader, vice
Wan. II. Baxter, resigned: Stonega, Wise
county, John A. Esser, vice Aaron O'Neai,
resigned: Wheaton, Lancaster county, Alonzo
g. Tull, vice F. T. Adams resigned
The President hiss appointed Webster VIM
son, at-present postmaster at Fort Myer, Va,
major aud paymaster in the regular army.
a resident of Leesbirg, Virginia, here to-
lay, says recount of the vote on prohibition
here was tSken on Saturday and it showed
hat the town went wet by four majority, but
-be whole district went dry by majority OF
,legen. He also says that Mr.. w. N. Wise
vas nominated for Clerk of the County Court
of Loudoun on Saturday. the only office for
which there was any contest.
STEEPLECHAsE.-The annual point 10
point steeplechase of the Warrenton
Hunt Club came of Saturday afternoon.
The course was laid over FIVE miles of
stiff country. The first race for light
weights, was called at o'clock Mr.. E. O..
Hayes, on Shandygatf, started out to
make the running. leading over the first
lalf dozen fences. but fell over stone