Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Of the sicxsndris Gazette.
Washinytou, June %.


Washington, June %.
It is currently reported here that the
President is losing faith in General
Otis, whose disappointing roseate dis.
patches have become tiresome, and
that it was his anxiety about the con.
dition of affairs in Luzon that brought
him back here, and not his wife's sick
ness, as reported in his organs. She
has been sick for years, and Is IS well
TODAY a; she has been for months.
While volunteers will not yet be called
for. it has been determined to enlist
three full brigades for the regular army
and to forward them to Manila as soon
as they can be organized, armed and
equipped, and transportation be OBJ
tanned for them. Mr.. Mckinley now
realizes that he has entered upon q long
aud expensive war. ands to save his ad-
ninistration and himself, will do all he
can and IS speedily as possible,t to bring
it to successful conclusion, whether
according to the rules of humanity or
otherwise, and to repudiate his policy
OF benevolent assimilation.
The story from Los Angeles, init.
mating that Gen. Otis has been sum-
moned to Washington in order that
President Mckinley may offer him the
portfolio OF war, is denied by sll who
ara presumed to have knowledge of the
aubject, the fact that Alger refuses to
resign not being the only thing in the
way of Otis's advancement to the post
in question. Statements of similar
character have repeatedly emanated
Los Angeles, Gen. Otis's come city. II
the General has been called at all which
War Department officials do BOT admit,
it is for the purpose of giving President
Mckinley the benefit of his experience
IN the Philippines and his opinion OF
the situation.
There are many people here who believe
hat the President cannot retain Secretary
Alger in his Cabinet much longer and that
if he shall do so, the fact will be plain that he
is afraid OF him. Such an opinion has long
prevailed and is strengthened By his promo
lion of General Eagan and by his refusal to
spprove the findings in the case Of Captain
srter All of Secretary Ayers colleagues in
the Cabinet, as almost everybody else here,
think he is too heavy load for the admins
ration to carry any longer. 1t is also salo
however, that the Secretary knows too much
about certain army contracts and about the
Presidents nomination and election for him
to be removed, as he is not the sort Of man
to bear injury from those who have profted by
him, without getting even.
Senator Martin of Virginia is expected here
about the latter part of this or the first OF
next week.
At the State Department today it is init
mated that the continuance OF the commits.
sion to settle the differences between Canada
and this country is q useless expense that
may IS well be stopped, and that not even 9
| modus vivendi in respect of the Alaskan
boundary line can be agreed upon and
hat trouble between the American and
British gold hunters is very liable to occur
The British and American alliance is all right,
according to emotional gushers but, so far as
practicable things are concerned, it is a myth.
The Secretary Of War, after a long confer
ence with the President today announced
that it had been decided to give General
Otis force of 10000 men in the Philippine;
| by the close of the rainy season, thus meeting
the wishes Of the American commander thai
ne be given an effective" fighting force o.
10000 men.