Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria dasesse'
Washington, September Il.

Gen. Chatfee announces Vno ouoN
Of the Wilson expedition without cssu'
allies. in a disp .tch received this moro
mo nv the War department. 1t reads
as follows: Rockhill-Wilson expedition
returned. Object successfully accom-
nIished. No casualties to our troops.
Forsythe's squadron started northeast
forty miles, 10 relieve native CHRISTIANS;
retnrned brinqing 10 fourteen. Sui
rounding country daily growing less
hostile and more pe1ceful, so far as my
expeditions can determine questions.
la dispatch received yesterday Gen.
Cbaffee reported an expedition under
(4en. Wilson started on September 10
to expel the boxers to the westward 10
order to free the country so that Pekin
might be supplied with coal from the
mines. The reference to Rockhill prob
ably means that he has arrived az
Pekin.
The Cabinet decided upon the course
Of the government in the Chinese mat
tar at its meeting today. Those pres
ent were Attorney General Griggs, Sec
rotary OF the Navy Long and Secretary
of the Interior Hitchcock. After adj
tournament Attorney General Griggs
SAID to the assembled newspaper cor
respondents: "The course OF the gov
ernment has been decided upon aud
will be made public as soon as replies
Can be sent to such powers as are en-
titled to answers to notes submitted to
the United States. The policy will
probably not be made public before to-
morrow and possibly not before Mon
day" While the course OF the govern
ment cannot be made known officially
at present, it is understood that the Cab
met was a unit 10 the resolve to tear the
United States loose from the threatened
entanalements 10 Asia by leaving the
field to those powers that are resolved
upon territorial acquisition. The mat
ter of indemnity for Losses sustained by
American citizens will be left TO diplo-
matte settle ment. Exactly when the
United States will withdraw its troops
cannot be foretold, but it will be at q
date not long distant. The reply to
the German note will not be very pleas
ing to the Kaiser, it is understood, for
the President cannot bring himself to
demand with Emperor William the sur.
render of nigh G Iinese officials before
they have been found guilty by a
competent tribunal. This tribunal, the
President believes, ia the peace commits
sion that has not yet been formed. The
reply to Prince Ching'5 note, asking
that the peace commissioners begin
their work as soon as possible, was
framed as well as response to the note
Of query submitted by the Russian gov
| eminent.
E. Davis Durand, of the Leland STAN
ford University, California, has been
appointed Secretary of the Industrial
Commission vice William E. Sackett,
resigned.
The Venezueland: Minister and the
| President of the Chamber OF Deputies
of Perm have Joined the other high
foreign dignitaries in expressing their
coincidence on the Galveston disaster
Private letters received here today
from West Virginia, one from ex-Sena'
tor Henry G. Davis, say the latter is do
ing all he can to carry the State for MIR
Bryan, and that he is pretty certain his
Younger brother will be elected to Con
gress, from a district that ia now rep
resented by republican.
1t is understood at democratic head.
quarters here today that the organiza'
ton and growth Of democratic clubs all
over the country is phenomenal, and
that such clubs always increase the
democratic vote of their respective
towns and counties.
A disinterested citizen OF Montana
here today, says strong effort Is being
made to compromise the long feud be-
tween the Clark and the Daily factions
at least on the national ticket In thai
State, and that if it thall succeed, the
electoral vote of that State will Ger.
tainly be cast for Bryan.
Richmond people here today say they
didn't know Mr.. Edgar Allen, who hat
accepted the republican nomination fol
Congress in their district, had Con.
9ressional aspirations, and chat his
friends hope he, will not spend any
money in the campaign he proposes to
make, as all he may spend, will be just
that much thrown away, as the re-
election of Captain Lamb, the present
democratic representative from that dis
trict, is as certain as anything can bt
that has not actually occurred.
The Virginia democratic association
of this city will be addressed at Their
meeting tonight by Messrs. Murphy
and Turner, the latter the ex-Congress
man from New York known as th,
icemap, because he did in New YorE
what John Credit does ia Alexandria
Norval L. Coner was appointed postmsste
at Iynnwood, Rockingham county, Va, to
day. vice Serena II. Lewis, resigned.
At the brokers offices here today stock:
wheat and corn were all quoted rs weak, bu
cotton as strong.
At democr tic headquarters here everybod.
continues to be sanguine and not only New
York. but Michigan, Wisconsin, Montans
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are included anon
the. States whose electoral votes will be cas-
for Btysn. 1t is said that the betting odd
on Mckinley in New York are lessenin
every day and will be entirely gone by No
vember, and that in sill the other States th'
number OF republicans AID gold democrat
who will not say how they intend to vote Il
increasing.
The Situation in South Africa
Winburg, Orange River Colony. Sept
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