Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-13
FROM WASHINGTON
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, May Is.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, May Is.
Charles G. Clarke, distiller of PEG.
ria, H., testified before the industrial
commission today that the whisky
trust was formed to enrich the mem
bers of tue pool by increasing the price
to consumers. All tbs big distillers
were brought into it in 1892. The
combination lasted about four years,
when the Supreme Court OF
illinois declared the combination
a trust aud its charter was
amended. The New Jersey trust, the
Standard Distilling and Distributing
Company, capitalized at 100000
was incorporated in 1898 after which
smaller concerns were formed in Gin
cinnati and other places. The latest
attempt at control is now under way in
New Jersey, the Kentucky men behind
it hoping to do business with SIPS, 500,-
600 capital. This organization is not
yet perfected,
Some OF the delegates from this city
and the adjoining country to the recent
Confederate reunion at Charleston have
returned They say they had delightful
rip and visit, and were only saddened
oy the patent fact that so many Of their
old comrades have crossed the river
and are resting under the shade of the
trees" one OF them, Captain John H.
Alexander of Leesburg, will deliver e
lecture on Mosby;s command, Of which
he was a member, at Falls On the 9Th
proximo.
a life size bust of VIM. ]. Bryan, the
work of an Italian sculptor here
has been purchased by some of the
prcm,nent democrats of this city, and
will be CD public exhibition here dur
ing TIE ccming peace" jubilee. After
that it will be presented TO Mrs. Bryan.
Representative Jones of Virginia was
here today on his way home from
Richmond. He says he is highly graft
fed at the recent conference in Rich
mond and at it's proceedings and ex'
peeled results, and that he does not
think similar assembiage could have
been convened in his State for the con-
sideration of any other abstract ques-
lion. He says all the counties in the
Sth district were represented, also that
he thinks there were more delegates
from the 10th than from any other dis
trict. He says the statement that re.
publicans and boilers favor the meet
log can be offset by one equally as true
Ia the effect that people of the same
sort oppose it. With regard to his own
candidacy for q. S. Senator, Mr.. Jones
says he has never told say body that
he desires q Senatorial nomination,
but, on the contrary, has told many that
be does not do SO.
The design for the Lafayette silver
dollar has been accepted. On one
side will be profles of Washington and
Lafayette and On the other picture of
the Lafayette monument. Twenty-Five
thousand dollars were appropriated by
Congress for the purchase Of enough
silver bullion to coin fifty thousand
of such dollars, which the Lafay-
cite association will sell at two dollars
each. Silver was then cheap, snd it
was supposed that some of that appro-
would be saved, but its price
has advanced since.
& dispatch from Manila received at the
War Department this morning announces
that General I4awton had driven the insur-
gents from San I!defoDso. San Ildefonsc is
ten miles north OF Bosclor where the Fill
pinos are reported to have gathered in force.
Mr.. Rathbun, assistant secretary OF che
Smithsonian Institution, denies the story
that Prof. Langley has recently made an ex.
pertinent at Quantieo. Va, with his new air
ship. He says the professor is working on
the scheme, but there vii. not 10 go expert.
ment for weeks, probably months, to come.
The aerodrome is not near enough completion
for an earlier trial.
The following changes in the fourth class
postofficcs of Virginia were made today:
Swansboro, Chesterfield county. Miss Neva
H. Evsns appointed postmaster, vice J. NJ G.
Fitzpatrick. removed Veal, Pitsylvania
VIM. E. Motley, vice 3. W. Echols,
resigned.
Complaints of the impesfections of the ma
tionsl bankruptcy law, and CT the operation
of that law, are heard here as we'll as in many
other parts OF the country Indeed, they
seem to be so general that an effort TO amend
that law will probably be made at the next
session OF Congress.
The prevailing opinion of the ex-Confeder-
ates here is that the resolutions adopted at
the Confederate reunion III Charleston yes
to-day with respect to Confederate graves
arc not Objectionable that Southern people
cannot take care of the graves OF their soldiers
in the North and that as many OF those SOL
dlers were starved 10 death or died of neglect
IN Northern prisons, it is as little as the North
can DO to pay half the expense of keeping
their caves clesr of weeds, but that the care
of the graves Of the Confederate soldiers in
the South should be left to the women of that
section, in whose defense those soldiers cour.
willingly lost their lives.