Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandra GsDette,
VI Arrrrnrrr,nN March @

Correspondence OF the Alexandra GsLetto,l
WASHINGTON. March 8.
The President today appointed Even
L. Barryte, of Colorado, to be consul
of the United States ct Tunis.
The bills for the funeral of the late
Congressman Diugley of Maine are 60
larce-over four thousand five hundred
dollars. that even the republican clerk
o.lne House, Mr. Mcdowell, has re-
fused to pay lieu. The u >. treasury
is so full now that every body VINO has
claim against the government thinks
he mas right to double it.
The claims whose payment has been
authorized by the recent passage of the
omnibus bill are being audited at the
Treasury Department and will, it is
said there, be paid during the next
twenty days.
1t is said here that as the position OF
Dreadier general in the regular army
i life one, and carries good salary,
General Ftzhugh Lee will accept it, ii
il De offered TO him. General Wheeler,
1t is expected, will have TO be content
with his seat in Congressman is I'M
| less the natives in the conquered prov
inces make further and larger ln-
crease III the army necessary.
i 1t is reported here that Gen. Wheel
err, at whose instance it is not posi-
tiyelv stated, has interested himself N
the case of the West Point cadet from
the Alexandria district, and that at
his request the War Department may
give young Mr.. Jourdon, who failed TO
pass the last required examination, an
other chance.
Respecting the news received from
Europe regarding the demands OF Italy,
Russia, and Great Britain, of China, as
we'll as the attitude of the Chinese gov
eminent, one of the State Department
officials says that no official commu
nication bad been received on the sub.
iect by this government. So inten-
does this country now seem upon inter
fering with foreign nations, that many
of the Senators and Representatives
now here really entertain the idea that
the United States should take hand
in the proposed dismemberment OF
China.
Some of the friends of the Nicaragua
canal scheme now say the defeat of that
scheme is due to the money still at the
disposal of the Panama company; and
so prevalent is the idea that congress
sional legislation is effected chiefly by
money, that many people credit the re-
port.
Congressmen DeArmord, of Missouri, and
Richardson Of Tennessee, are spoken OF rs
possible lea7ers of the minority in the next
House but if one should be elected, of which
there is at present great doubt, he will more
probably be Mr.. Bankhead Of Alabama.
Mir. Frank Hume has written a note to The
Secretary Of War in reference TO the appro
pration of five thousand dollars recently
made for continuing The Surveys and plnn
for the proposed Arlington Bridge, and vii
confer with him upon the subject in day o.
two Ali the people at the War Departmon
are in favor Of the construction of the bridg'
referred to.
All the extra and emergency employees il
the government printing office, about TIVE
hundred, have been discharged, and other
are expected to be on Saturday.
1t is reported that two negro ex-cOnvcts
Fremont and Cheshire, well known in Alex
sndyis, are here, plying their old vocation
that OF collecting money for negro schools il
| Alexandria, though none of it reaches thos
schools, but all remains in the pockets of TIT
collectors.