Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington. March 81.

Among the visitors here today is ex-
State Senator Marshall Mccormick Of
Clarke county, Virginia. He is now
Interested in the settlement of West
Virginia's share of the original Virginia
debt. Mr.. Mccormick is being urged
by his friends for the next democratic
subernatorial nomination in his State.
The letter of Senator Hoar just made
public, in which he says the Filipinos
are brave people struggling for their
liberty; that shame is in the path OF
the Americans; that the United States
are trampling the rights Of the natives
of the Philippines under foot, and are
lighting them in violation Of their own
Constitution, is discussed here pretty
generally today, many Southern and
conservative Northern men endorsing
every word of it, but the jingoes from
tue latter section denouncing it and
terming the writer TRAITOR"
The report that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company intends to abolish
surface crossings in this city and to
erect higher Long Bridge across the
Potomac has melted some talk here
about an Improvement in the ferry line
between this city and Alexandria, and
lt is said that with faster and better
boats and five cents fare the profits OF
that line would be greatly increased.
Under thc impression, apparently
that the bitter taste CT the spoilt meat
that was fed to the soldiers can be eff
faced from their memories by sugar
candy. the Secretary of War has added
ldf mound of the latter to the army
ration,
MIR. Il. n. Harper of this city, former
OF Leesburg, Virginia, this morning
lease1 a part OF the large new
building he proposes to erect on Q, be-
ween 6 h and 4! streets, but to the
District government.
A citizen OF Leesburg, Virginia, here
today, says he has no doubt that the
people of that district acted from the
best and purest motives in voting
against liquor license law, but that
oy doing so they injured the business
Of the town and reduced its revenue,
without preventing the use Of liquor,are
well known to all the intelligent people
thereof.
The following dispatch from General
Otis at Manila, was received at the War
Department this morning:
''Manila, March 81.
Troops resting at Malolos. Consider
.ble portion of city destroyed by fire.
Our casualties, one killed and fifteen
wounded. Hall has returned with
troops to former position north Of Ma
uila."
Ex-Copgressman James Hamilton
Lewis, of Washington, VINO has Just re-
turned from Cuba, says the conditions
IN that island are alarming and Ameri-
cans will have much trouble establish
lug an orderly system there. There
is treachery among the Cubans,
and says the assistant health officer in
Havana has heaped abuse on President
Mckinley and has circulated the report
among the people that the President
mas been bribed. Ii the Philippines
also Mr.. Lewis sees much to cause con- |
earn. The situation in Samoa, too, is |
alarming, he says, and if America and |
England should act in concert there |
and decide upon taking the islands, we |
must look for trouble from Germany. |
The Germans would welcome war, for |
it would give them the opportunity to
the divisions of their empire |
and unite against the world. The Ger
mans are a determined people and
they will brook nothing which to them |
seems unjust.
A distinguished lawyer of this city,
talking to the Gazette's correspondent
today about the proposal for "peace
Jubilee" here, said it is disgusting and
that those engaged in promoting it
should be ashamed of themselves, as
1ostilities are not only in active prog
ress in the Philippine Islands, but also
in Samoa, and American blood is being |
shed profusely in both. But. said he,
as Mr.. German told you year ago,
the people of this country are not GO
ing, but evidently have already gone
crazy.
Before the court of inquiry this morning |
Col. Greenlesf, assstsnt surgeon general testi-
lied that what he had seen of the canned meat
was mawkish TO the taste and not at all pleasant
to the sight Col. Pope, deputy surgeon gen.
eral of the army, said, that what he saw Of
the canned roast beef was pretty bad When
made into stews or hashes with vegetables,
salt and pepper, it WAS not so bad, but when
esten out OF the cans without cooking, the
stomach turned against it. DR.. Pope could
not attribute the sickness at Santiago directly
to the beef. BE believed that the constant
diet of canned beef aggravated the disabilities
of the soldiers. 1t WAS trying diet, he said,
and was pretty hard to get down unless the
men shut their eyes and ate it between pieces
of hardtack.