Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
TCorrsspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.

cead Immediately to Pekin and there 10
confer with Prince Ching. 1t Is under.
stood at the Chinese legation that Earl
RI II he has not already started, will at
once leave Shanghai for Pekin. Earl
Ii has asked this government and the
other powers to afford him protection.
Another imperial edict issued by the
Emperor requests Sir Robert Hart, Dr.
rector of Imperial Customs Of China, to
negotiate with the foreign governments
to secure a vessel on which Earl LII
Hung Chang can make the journey to
Pekin. In bis message today LII Hung
Chang, 10 asking that this government
as we'll as the other powers, afford MN
protection says that he will only under
| tsss the Journey on foreign ship, pre-
sumablv war ship, after he is conf
dent t5st his person will be respected
and thai his safety is guaranteed by the
powers. There are 80 or more vessels
| OF the Chinese merchant marine on
which Earl Lii could take passage. de
fears, however, to go on one OF these
boats as the war vessels OF the powers
might intercept it and delay the
journey.
Minister WI took Earl Li's appeal to
the State Department this morning.
Acting Secretary OF State Hill had an
hours conference with Attorney Gen
ersl G rigg, the leading cabinet officer
in the city, and the answer OF the
United States to Lis appeal for pro-
lection ia now being prepared. When
il had been transmitted both the
answer and the appeal will probably be
made public. 1t is possible that Earl
! LII will be conveyed to Tientsin on
| United States warship but this has not
vet been decided.
Twenty thousand rations were for
warded last night from Ft. San An
touio to the sufferers at Galveston.
Thirty thousand more are being pur'
chased today at st. Louis and will be
sent forward by express at once. The
thousand tents ordered by the War de-
partmeDt have been supplied by Gen.
McKibben. No requisition for surgeons
or nurses has been made upon the sur.
peon generals depart ment. 1t is said
that little need of surgeons will PROB
ably exist and that the demand can be
supplied by Gen. McKibben and by
local surgeons.
People here say that whether due to
heat or humidity today is rs oppres-
siye aid Oppressive as any previous
day this summer. 1t is particularly
severe upon sick, infirm and deblll'
lated persons.
A good mspy people left here this
! morning for Fairfax Courthouse, to at
tend the grand Confederate reunion
there, among them General Fitz-
hugh Lee, who arrived here from New
York late last night.
At democratic headquarters here to-
day the result OF the election in Maine
Yesterday is the cause OF great satisfac-
ion and announcement, as it is said
that a similar increase in the demo-
cratic vote 10 close States will elect Mr..
BRYAN by an overwhelming majority.
II 10 conceded there that the republic
cans have secured all the money they
want with when they hope to buy Mr..
McKinley's election as it was bought in
1896, and that it will be spent literally,
indeed that they have so much that
some of it will go even to Virginia.
but confidence is expressed that either
the men to whom it will be entrusted
will keep it in their own pockets, or
that, if given to the voters, they will &C.
cept it, and then vote their true senti-
ments and with their own people, and
against trusts and imperialism.
At the brokers' offices here today
stocks are quoted as strong, wheat and
corn strong, and cotton stronger.
As the President is away there were
no politicians at the White House to-
day, and everything was as quiet there
as at republican headquarters, where the
mice play for hours ut time without
interruption.
People from the Sth Virginia con-
gressioDal district, here today, say Mr..
Rixey, the representative from that dis
trict, spoke at Louisa Courthouse yes
terday, that he will speak at the court
houses OF ali the counties 10 his district
before the close of the campaign. and
that he has the united support of his
party is proved by the applause he re-
ceives everywhere. Mr.. K. E. Lee,
! the late General Rooney Lees son,
also spoke at Louisa yesterday, showed
the evils of Mr.. McKinley's imperial
ism in vivid colors, and delighted his
large audience by the plain truth, ap-
positeness and wisdom of his remarks.
Among the visitors here today is Colonel
Thomas OF Berryville, Virginia, OK member
Of the legislature of his State. He says polit.
ical matters in his district are very quiet
now, but that when the time comes for pOmi.
mating Governor, Clarke county will cast a
| solid vote for her able and efficient son, Mar
shall Mccormick.
The Comptroller OF the currency today is.
sued call for the condition of national banks
at the close of business on Monday Septem
Der 8.
Miss Clara Barton, President of the Bed
Cross Society, said this morning that as soon
as an answer is received from Gov. ssyers of
Texas to her telegram asking if Bed Gross
aid is needed In Texas the work OF sending
aid will be started through the New Orleans
branch of the society.
A dispatch from Capt. Rafferty, command
ing the port st Galveston, Tex. dated Sept. 8.
aud addressed to the Adjutant General says
that all records and books have been deg
troyed in the storm. He ask for books to
replace those lost. He centrsdicts press dis.
patches Of yesterday which states that both
officers and all the enlisted men save fifteen
at the Galveston Port had been destroyed
The first day Of the fall session of the indus
trial commission opened with John McMackin,
commissioner of labor statistics of New York
State, on the stand. The commission endeav.
orsd to show the advantage of capital and
labor submitting their difficulties to srbtra.
ton. The witness testified that at present
the percentage of unemployed labor in New
York State was 3.6 per cent. An increase Of
membership of labor organizations OF 100,
900, bad been noted since 1897. He said
there was no cause for the railway strike in
New York city and Brooklyn, the State law