Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Ale1sndris Gazette
Washington, September l.

The Comptroller Of the Currency tnls
morning issued call for reports snow
ine condition of national banks at the
close of business on Thursday, Seot: T.
SURGEON Carter of Havana today
cabled Surgeon General Sternberg notl'
ficstion that Second Lieutenant Stanley
u limerick. battery D, Second arlil'
Ierv- and Private Bernhard Kramer,
battery K, Second artillery, were the
latest addition TO the soldiers at Ha'
vsna sick with yellow fever.
State Senator Louis Emory, of Brad
ford Pa, an oil producer aud rehner,
was on the witness stand before the in
dustrial commission this morning.
Twenty-Five years ago, he said, the
Standard Oil Company was small
corporation 10 Cleveland known as
Rockefeller and Andre US, with a capital
stock of less than a million dollars.
Now. the witness said, he does not
know of Giving independent refine
ry." The Ubiquitous franchise given
the Southern Railway Security Com
PAW of Pennsylvania in 1881 which
was bought by the National Tran
sit Company gave the Standard Oil
Company its unlimited powers. This
agreement practically bars out every
outside oil shipper and retiuer. Sena
ator Emory told the commission that
had he so wished he could have been
'in on" the monopoly at it's birth, but
he thought two much of his principles
TO surrender them aud violate the com.
mon laws of the countries.
The city today is full of visitors, by
far the most of whom are members OF
the G.. A. r, who have been to their
reunion in Philadelphia. Many OF them
are Western men who were not in the
Army OF the Potomac and who were
never in this part of the country before
| The Southern men who talk with them
soon find that Notwithstanding all the
wears that have past since the close o.
| ne war between the States, their ole
nate for the "rebels." as they still tern
the people OF the South, abides with
them yet, and will be likely to do sc
until they die.
One of General Fitzhugh Lees per
sonal friends now here. says he hal
heard nothing of the Generals report
ed return to this country either with Of
without furlough and that he doesD'
believe it, though, he says, the admin
istration has perslstently kept the Gen
eral in the background, and apparently
| intends TO continue to do so until th'
term for which he was appointed shal
expire.
People now here who have recent!
been to Madison and Green counties ii
Virginia say there is no doubt of thu
fact that large deposits of copper exis
IN both of those counties and tina
! Northern capitalists who have hat
them inspected are 40 we'll satisfied O
The value thereof that they have de
termined to develop them aud to con
meet them with railroad line.
A prominent Ohio democrat who or
rived here today says he attended {
meeting of the democratic committed
of that State last Saturday night, ant
that every member of that committee
is satisfied that the cities of Cincinnati
Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton ADD To
ledo will 90 democratic at the comins
election, and that the expected appear
auc9 there of Mr.. Ham will do tn
democrats more good than all tn
money be brings with him will d.
them harm, as mis- presence is as rel
flag to bull TO thousands of the mem
5ers of his own party.
Pennsylvania republicans here toda.
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have been polled and that it is an as
sured fact that Mr.. Quay will be ad
mitted to seat in that body on the ap
pointment of Governor Stone of hi
State, though q majority of the Senate
mas recently voted against the admis
sion of men appointed by the Govern
ors of their States under precisely
similar circumstances.
This has been terrible day to the four
footed dogs of this city, no less than ffty-fou
| of tho poor animals having been killed for M
| other reason than the fact that being lost and
not abe TO find their way homo they wer.
caught by the catchers also much 3 hesd
and carried to the pound They hadn'
! harmed any body, but, unlike their two foot
ed brothers, who have, they had to go" sno
now no bldy will harm them any more.
| A republican correspondent OF Northern
newspaper, who has been summering III up
| per Maryland, says that judging from the way
| The republicans there talk, he is afraid the
| democrats will carry that State at the coming
! election, and that the democrats there fee
assured that they will He says the republic
| Ca rs are not satisfied with the management Of
| their party, and that all, or nearly all, the
| democrats who left their party on account Of
their opposition to ex-senator German, have
returned to it again.
| A dispatch received here this morning from
! Admiral Dewey says he will certainly arrive
| at New York on the 2Sth.
! Secretary Root is sending letter this after
noon to the Governors of States informing
them that the exigencies in Porto Rico still
exist and expressing the hope that relief sup
| plies may be collected and sent IS hitherto to
/ the committee in New York.
& 2. Holland was today appointed post.
| master at Bells Cross Roads, Louisa county,
vice S. w. Butler removed.
Picrpoint Morgan, president of the New
| York Yacht Club, called on Secretary of the
Treasury Gage today and urged that the reve.
nue. cutter service be used to protect the
yachts Columbia and Shamrock from the ex-
urson boats and private craft during the
coming race. Captain Shoemaker, chief of
the revenue cutter service, was called in and
Mr.. Morgan WAS assured that all aid possible
will DO lent to give the yachts free course
aud prevent them being ham pered. Mr..
Morgan also called on President Mckinley.
NEWS Of TIE DAY.