Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-16

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demoralze regimental esprit du CORPS.
Secretary Root took up the matter rs
soon as he was installed aud an uDsuc-
cessful effort YVES maGc 10 have tie
major general commanding modify his
objection. This he refused to do and
Secretary Roots action today is consid
cred as q rebuff to him. In accordance
with Gen. Brooke's recent recon-
mendation FIVE battalioDs of regulars
will be brought home from Cuba for do
nestle garrisons as soon as transporta-
ton eau be provided.
Why Surgeon r. II. White, of the u.
s. A, who was appointed from Virginia
thirty odd years ago, would not he re-
tired on $4,000 year, but demanded
that his resignation be accepted, Is o
question that is perplexins many
Northern people here.
Accounts received from the islands
of Cebu and NegroP, in the Philippine
archipelago, are to the ell CT that natlves
of those islands are. if any thing. more
united in their opposition to the Amer
lean invaders than those OF Luzon are,
and that il the latter shall be corquer'
ed, the work of subjugating the remsin-
der of the Philippine group will have
only been commenced.
The anti.eXpansion feeling, il is said
here, is growing so rapidly among re-
publicans all over the country, ard is
entertained by so many prominent
members OF the republican party, that
| if Mr.. Mckinley be renominated there
may possibly be are anti expansion re
publican candidate put up against him.
There is no doubt that many New Eng
land republicans sojourning here say
their party will stnltify itself if it shall
persist in its policy of depriVing brown
negroes of their liberty after fighting to
give freedom to those of a darker color.
The quidnuncs here are very much
concerned about tile public course Mr..
Thomas B. Reed is to pursue hereafter,
some saying be will continue to serve
in Congress, though not as Speaker,
others that he will abandon public life
altogether and confne himself to law,
aud still others, that he will head the
republican movement against expansion
and Imperialism.
Congressman Bankhead of Alabama,
whose name was included among the
Southern democrats recently at Sara
toga, is now here. He says he did not
| 60 to Saratoga. He says Mr.. Bryan
, will be nominated without doubt.
Even those democrats who ackuoWl-
edge that they were at Saratoga durlug
the snti-Bryan conference there. deny
| that any such conference was held, and
, say they went there only for the wa
| ters.
An exciting episode took place in the office
of the Southern Express Company this fore
noon. Express messenger George Davis
whose run is between Washington and At
anita, had been brought before Supt. Hatha-
way and charged with tampering with pack.
ages entrusted to his care Detective
| Ieonard, who worked up the case
| confronted Davis with George Raumgarten, d
| local manufacturer of rubber stamps, who
| had made stamp for Davis, the supposition
/ being that he had the stamps made that he
might reseal packages after opening them
| As soon as he was brought to bay Davis resch
| ell for his gun and began shooting. Che OF
Superintendent Hathaway's fingers Wac graz
| cd by one of the bullets and another passed
through the detectives coat over the should
CT. Davis is now locked up
Congressman Hepburn OF Iowa. chairman
of the commerce committee of the House, ex
presses great satisfaction at the nomination Of
Mr. Hume for the General Assembly of Vr'
g,nis over in Alexandria yesterday. He be-
came acquainted with Mr., Hume in his COM
mittee room while The latter was urging the
passage of The proposed Arlington bridge, and
! took great fancy to him. He and other
people here say Mr.. Hume has done all he
could to improve Ale xandria county.
Though Mira. Perot has agreed to surrender
her daughter to her grandfather from whom
she went to so much trouble to take her, /;
the o. S. government would withdraw its
demand for her own extradition, it is init
mated at the State Depar' ment today that the
| government cannot afford to do, and that she
mus. accompany her daughter back hero.