Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
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presidential policy IN the Ihllippi'o'
as blundsr, morally, industrially, 20,
litically, commercially and financially"
and earnestly hus respectfully recon-
mend that the President order Gene
raj Otis to permit no further aggressive
movement on the part OF U. >. troops
and that Admiral Dewey be sent back
to Manila to confer with Agulnaldo
and bring the war to an end.
The following message from Genera
OILS was made public by the War Dept
partment today BATES returned from
Jolo. twenty Grs, Instant, having placl
ed garrison a. Sinssi and Bungam, Taw-
Tawi group; one company each place.
Affairs in archipelago satisfactory.
Bates saw chief insurgents. Zamboanga
still anxious TO receive United States
garrison on condition OF withdraw
should Aguiualdo succeed in Luzon.
Proposition not entertained. Zambosn.
ga having trouble with more Datos in
vicinity who have raised United States
flag. Dato Cagayan, Sulu Island, visi'
ted Jolo, gave adhesion and desired to
raise American flag instead of Spanish
flag on island. American flag will be
raised there. Ready to give six months
notice in order to establish archipelago
Customs regulations under protocol be-
tween Spain, Germany and Great Brit
ain of 1885. Bates report by mail".
The following dispatch from Manila
was given out at the War Department
this morning: Hughes, lloilo, reports
Lopez and sixty-four armed men sur
rendered to Byrne at Castallano,
Negros. Election in that island Octo-
Der 2 Sought conference. Chief in
surgents Panay wished to know what
promise could be given them in case OF
formal submission. Told no arrange.
ments possible until surrendered and
force dsbanded.
Some Indiana people made an inspec
ton today OF the statue Of the late Gov.
0. 7. Morton in statuary hall at the
Capitol. There opinion is favorable to
the acceptance of the figure, but not of
Tie base aud pedestal. Nehsus, of
New York, is the sculptor.
General Wade Hampton is here to-
day. He is looking we'll. His business
is OF private nature and he doesn't
talk politics for the newspapers. He is
as good and true a democrat as ever,
and still believes that the majority of
the people OF the country, if unbribed
and allowed to manifest their opinion
without fear ofthe consequences, are 10
favor of democratic principles and
policies.
Now that the building known as the
Freedmen's Bank, recently occupied by
he Department of Justice, has been
RACED for the assigned reason that it
was unsafe, it is said that in the pro-
cess of its demolition it was discovered
10 be in perfec; condition, infinitely
safer than most OF the buildings that
oave been erected since it was, and that
Is destruction was entirely unnecessary
aud only another means of spending
The peoples money.
The charges made by the New York
Tribune, the leading republican news
paper OF the country, to the effect that
corruption among the American Off.
Gals in the Philippines is more fragrant
than it ever was in India in the days of
Warren Hastings, afforded the chief
topic of public conversation here today
Manila hemp, out OF the Philippines. is
as scarce now as Southern cotton was
outside the South during the war be.
oween the States, and that it must be
very valuable is proved by the fact
that the sum of forty thousand dollars
vas paid for the fraudulent clearance
Of one vessel load of it.
Surgeon General Wyman's latest ad.
vices from Key West chow that 80 new
cases of yellow fever were discovered
there yesterday, and there were two
deaths.
A statement given out by the State
Department today says that the
Chinese whose landing in the Philip
pines was objected to by General Otis
we're mostly former residents of the
Islands, ard were permitted to land on
he promise of tie Chinese consul at
Manila that no more should be sent
rom China except in strict accordance
o the military regulations now in
force.
The Navy and War Departments were
Without any confirmatory advices at
noon today regarding the reported cap.
ture OF the Urdaneta. She is little 40
on launch purchased from the Spani-
ards. at last reports she was COM
handed by Naval Cadet Welborn C..
Wood, who went to Annapolis Sept.
6, 1895, from Jerusalem, Plckens county,
Ca, upon the appointment of Con-
gresham Tate and who finished his
studies last year and was sent to the
)attleship Oregon lest January for his
Two years. cruise.
E. Louis Evans, of Louisville, KY,
secretary and treasurer OF the interna.
tioDal tobacco workers association, was
before the industrial commission this
morning. He said the two great to.
oacco combinstions-the American and
Continental-controlled about so per
cent. of the tobacco output. These
combinations had considerably reduced
wages, the American having reduced
The wages of certain workers from
1925 to 81 25 per day. The consolida-
lion had also thrown great many peo-
pie out of employment. He cited the
buying up of three outside factories by
the com bination, and ofthe 600 employees
the three had only 100 secured places after
tho sale. Mr.. Evans said it was difficult for
his union to make much Roadway in the
South On account of the negro labor. The
negroes would work for sny wages offered,
lid not care how long the hours were, and
took no interest in unions. He said the in.
termingling of sexes in the factories was not
harmful from moral standpoint. Women
belonged to the union and in addition to hav-
ing the right to vote they also held office in