Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-03-08
improved greatly In manners, II not in morals
since Mr.. Jefferson Davis wrote her book.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
(Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gasotte.
Washington March 8. z
Surgeon Gsssaway, at San Francisco,
having been wired yesterday by the
surgeon General for full Information
concerning the reported case OF the
plague there, late last night replied to
DR.. Wyman as follows: Twelve blocks
OF G. ainstown are condemned. Street
cars stopped, but to be allowed to run
tomorrow under strict rule, providing
tina, no passengers allowed on Outside
of cars and each Car to be disinfectt q
daily. TIL dwelling and the under.
takers chop which hold the suspected
case have been disinfected with formal-
dehyde. Situation thus far apparently
we'll ia hand" Surgeon General wy
man states that a quantity OF the anti
nest serum which ne has recently I'M
ported from the Pasteur Institute in
Paris is already in the hands OF the Ma
rine Hospital officers in San Francisco.
The remains of w. K. Vaughn, the
Young newspaper man VINO lost bis lie
10 a railroad wreck near Kansas City,
left Kansas City for Washington this
morning The funeral will take place
from his fathers home here.
James r. Sovereign was cross-exam-
ined by Col. Dick before the House
committee on military affairs 10 the
Couer d'Alene investigation this morn
ing. He testified that he witnessed the
blowing up OF the mill and heard the
shooting, but he did not know the o..
ject of the fusilade nor did he witness
the killing of the men who lost their
lives. He admitted that the situation
on that day was beyond control OF the
civil authorities. The witness stood by
the meaning of a paragraph from an ar
ticle read yesterday which was to the
effect that the soldiers would have to
stay there forty years unless the Bun
ker Hill people should concede union
demands. IF Bunker Hill keeps on
discriminating, if it fails to treat its men
az other mines treat theirs" he said, ''it
will be necessary to keep soldiers there
for all eternity"
1t is believed that the free trade
amendment to the Puerto Rioan tariff
ILL offered by Mr.. Davis will be de-
fested in the Senate when the matter
is voted upon, The steering commit
tee, in view of the complications that
have arisen and President McKinley's
willingness that the fifteen per cent.
tariff and time limit amendment should
be adopted, feel that the easiest sOlu-
tion is to accept the compromise effect
I'd with the House. 1t is probable q
caucus will bs held to determine what
csn be best for the party.
Adiutant General Corbin says the re-
call OF troops rom the Philippine L.
lands is not mean to decrease the army
there but rather to increase its efii-
cheney by emptying the hospitals. The
sick and those who have less than six
mouths to serve will be brought home
and there will be corresponding trans.
fer of we'll men to the battalions that
are to remsip.
Representative Otey of Virginia went
to see the commissioner of the land
office this morning to try If be would
reinstate as messenger Robt. Thurman
of Bedford City, Virginia, who had
been laid of on account OF i'll health.
He promised to do so at the first vacaL
cy. Mr.. o ey also went to the At
torney Generals Office 20 have cloud
to title of piece of properly OF Adam
w. Moulin OF Lynchburg. removed, To-
Gated in Dallas, Texas. He took the
matter under consideration
Representative Lamb of Virgiri,
succeeded today 10 having the trans
portation orders OF Captain George E.
Pickett, u. S. A., for Mantle, changed,
50 that he may 90 via New York and
tue Atlantic. rather than by san Frau
cisco and the Pacific.
Mr. Zsregs, OF Aldie, lIoudeu1
county, Vireioia, was at the Capitol
today, trying to have q geological sur
vey made of that region by this gov
ernment. He is pronounced republic
can and says Mr.. Mckinley 10 the best
President the country has had 10 years
He says he has been asked 10 accept
the congre s .ional nomination 10 bic dis.
trct aud i, holding the matter under
consideration.
The argument in the contested cleo
ton case of Walker W. Rhea, from the
9th Virginia district, before the House
elections committee, was commence d
yesterday evening by Col. Dudley for
the contestant. He did not conclude,
however, and will resume tomorrow.
Senator Daniel of Virginia has re-
turned from a short business trip to
North Carolina. and was 10 his seat at
the Capitol today.
It Ia said here that the friends of Mr..
Embrey. the memb n OF the Virginia leg
islature from Fredericksburg, ARE urging
him to become candidate for Attor-
neg General of his State. VirgiDians
here say that the 9Th congressional dis
trict will have two candidates for that
Office, State Senator, Jefries and ex-
State Senator Walton Moore.
The House committee on naval affairs to-
day heard Arguments fsvcring the PROPOSE.
tiOD to allow Brooklyn navy yard . share in
the construction Of the'proposed war ships
Mr. Warner, now agent of the International
Master Machini,ts Association, of New York;
Wsl or Atterbury. chairman Of the republican
county committee Brooklyn; Register Howe.
Broohlyn; Secretary Bennett, OF the United
States Senate, and Congressman briggs, of
New York, addressed the com nittee In favor
of the proposition.
The House committee on appropriations tc-
day reported an additional mrs ency de6cien.
cy bill amounting to $1.439, $50. including
appropriations for repairs for various public
buildings and for printing and binding.
The ship subsidy bill hss been ordered re-
ported today by the House committee on
merchant marine The bill agreed on 10 the
same as that reported to the Senate.
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