Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-16
unchanged and Interchangeable, but, for
all that, Mr.. Mckinley vainly attempts
to ignore or override them.
From WASHINGTON.

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evening of the 14.b. reported the CAP.
ture of many supplies and Transports
ton north and east OF San Nicholas,
and that our troops are moVl 1g from
Hamingan and Tayug west on Urda.
meta. where an ineurgent force is re-
ported. Lawton has abundant supplies,
subsistence, forage and transportation
at San Isidro and Cubanatuan. but ia
unable to move it. Macarthur has the
railroad between Bamban and Tarlac
in operation for FIVE miles. The road
south of Bamban is being reconstruct
ed Removed rails were found north
of Tarlac. Macarthur sends four hat
talions and troop of cavalry forward
to Corona today. An advance has been
made from Aliaga to Victoria, five miles
Dorth of east TarDac
President Mckinley has concluded
to take no action at this time looking
to the establishment of civil govern.
Il. sent in Cuba. Congress will meet in
about twenty days and be is willing to
await it's sciior. He has been advised
that the appointment OF civil govern.
or now might be resented by some
republican Congressman.
The Depar ment OF Agriculture has
answered complaints from certain New
York cotton brokers that the special
report on cotton given out Tuesday
differed radicslly from The earlier enc.
and that the figures had been tamper.
ed with by some one, but it's explana.
ton is by no means satisfactory.
Representative Champ Clark, of Mo-,
10 speaking of the offer of the Treasury
Department to purchase $25, 000,0 600
worth of q. S. bonds, said today: ut
is the same old story. The gamblers
of Wall street have over played them
selvers and need money. Otherwise a
panic would be forced, Whenever
they get 10 tight place they appeal to
the Secretary of the Treasury and he
always helps them Officials of the adj
ministration declare that there is money
enough in circulation to carry on the
legitimate business of the country and
then turn right around and help
these gamblers under the guise
of relieving a stringency. All sorts
of calamities may happen to the west;
crestipg q sore Deed for an increase Of
circulation, but the appeals of that Sec
ton tsre never listened to. l notice
that it has been advocated that the law
set limit to the operations of Wall
street specuIations. 1t is not bad
idea. They should not be allowed to
everyday themselves and then run to
the government for relief. The law
ought to made them play limit game
or table stakes, just like other gamblers
do in poker game"
W. 81. Griffiths, OF the Washington
(Pa) Steel and Tin Plate Company, tes.
tl6ed before the industrial commission
this morning. He said the American
company is a most tyrsnical and arbi-
rrary trust and the greatest aim Of the
men 10 the com bination is to DESTROY
all competition. He said they had 272
mills in the United States and they had
closed so of then-possibly more:~ The
endencv of prices was downward until
the American company took hold of
things in this country; then the prices
went up.
OF the ffty-6ve House committees,
thirty of the chairmanships of the last
House went to men east of the Allega-
pies and north of Maryland, leaving
DOLLY twenty-five for ali the rest of the
country. The republicans of the West
those of the South don't count-are
kickipg against such an unequal appor
tionment, and say the new Speaker
will make fairer distribution. 1t is
pretty We'll conceded that the three
elections committees of the last House
will be reduced to one, and that Mr..
Taylor, of Ohio, will be it's chairman.
There will be ten contested cases to be
considered, two of which will be from
Vlrgiuia-.Wise against Young, from
the 2nd district and Walker against
Rhea, from the 9th.
B. F. Venable was today appointed
post master at Speers Ferry, Scott coun-
", Va, vice G. w. Belt, removed.
Congressman Swanson, of the Dan
Vile, Virginia, district, is here today,
making arrangements for the winter.
He has rented handsome house on
Dupont Circle and will entertain there
in the famous style of his State during
the coming session. Mr.. Swanson says
that of the one hundred and forty
members of the Virginia legislature,
Senator Martin will probably receive
the votes OF all except about twenty
i've, aud that his party in his State is
10 excellent condition. Should the
next House be democratic, Mr.. Swan.
son may possibly be candidate for the
Governorship.
Ex-CoDgressman Culberson of Texas,
now engaged here in codifying the
laws of Congress, says his Information
from his State is to. the effect that Con.
gresham Bailey will be the next Sena.
tor, from Texas Mr.. Culberson's
son, Ex-Governor Culberson, will be in
5ne coming Senate, and he and Mr..
Bailey in that body will be hard pair
to beat, no matter where their oppon-
ents may come from.
The races now in progress here CON-
tlnue to draw large crowds daily
and the present season bids fair to
prove very successful, the book making
privilege alone adding one thousand
dollars day to the receipts.
Surgeon General Sternberg today re.
ceived letter from Major Woodruff,
dated Manila, which states that sharp
and quite general epidemic OF dengue
fever prevails there and appears to
be spreading south.
Toe proposition to reduce the number of
Representatives from the South, on account of
the small vote cast in that section, is old and
receives no attention here from any Of re.
publican members of any note Mr.. Crnm.
packer of Indiana, who has favored turning