Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-11-27


lucky during President Cleveiapds
first term rs deputy commissioner:
When Senator N. B. Scott, OF West
Virginia. resigned the commissioner
shin in January 1899 to take his seat in
the Senate Mr.. Wilson was appointed
by Secretary Gage to succeed him:
In his annual report made public TO-
day. the Secretary OF the Navy recon-
mends that the Office OF vice admiral be
revived as consonant with the dignity
of a greatly increased navy. Should
Congress ect upon this suggestion 1t Is
thought the result will be discountiDP
10 degree of Admiral Dewey's present
solitary grandeur and the securing OF
the elevation of Bear Admiral Samp-
sou. Ia he naval list Schley is Two
points higher than Sampson.
The claim TOR the k ling of Frank
Pears, of PiAsburg, by soldier in Hon
duras, has been paid by the Honduras
government. DIR. Hunter, the United
States minister, notified the State De-
partment this morning by wire tnat
draft for $40 900 10 gold had been paid
to him in settlement of the claim
Pears was killed by a sentry VINO
challenged him Pears did not undef,
stand Spanish, failed TO answer ana
was shot down
A nesting of the House military COM
mittee TODAY was attended By Congress
men Hull, Capron, Mondell and Brown.
low. They held brief session and
then visited the War Department TO
discuss with officials there the needs OF
the army during next year Ihese
members OF the com mittee all expressed
themselves as being in favor OF giving
the President as large an army as may
be necessary to perform the work that
will devolve upon the military arm OF
the government. With regard to the
ship subsidy bill Mr.. Mondell said he
was 10 lined 10 oppose 1t while Mr.,
Brownlow spoke fsvorsbly OF the bill.
Chairman Hull, OF the House mill
tary committee. said this afternoon al
ter a conference with Col Carter. OF
the Adiutaut Generals Department,
who is preparing an army reorganizs-
ton bill: II believa the bill which will
be presented TO Congress will closely
follow the lines of the Hull bill. 1t
will probably provide a maximum OF
SO 600 men and a minimum, t'kiDg in
to consideration the increased force
necessary to man the coast defenses,
OF $1,000 men. :,
The details of the agreement reached
by the foreign ENJOYS 10 Pekin as to
! the demands to be made upon China
which were received yesterday from
| Minister Conger, were laid before the
Cabinet today. That sgeement in
cludes proposition for the decapita-
ton of the eleven princes and msndaI-
ms who were named as the chief an l..
foreign offenders; provides for ipdem-
| mites to the governments, corpora.
lions and individuals who suffered; for
the destruction OF the foits between
Pekin and the sea; for the demolition
| uf the walls of the cities of Pekin and
TientsiD for the maintenance at Pekin OF
an International guard for the legations
prohibits the importation of arms and
ammunition into China; restricts the
powers of the Empress Dowsger; gives
foreign ministers right of personal Gu
dience with the Emperor; requires the
erection of q monument 10 Baron Won
Ketteler, the German minister; and
abolishes the Tsung-li-yamen, putting
the direction OF foreign affairs into the
hands OF one responsible person. This
ACRE ament is far from satisfactory to
| this government for the reason that
the Chinese government cannot comply
with some OF the demands laid down,
while others are against the pol
icy of the United States. Ii the
demands are not modified and are
presented in their present shape to the
Chinese government there is no doubt
that they will be refused and that such
refusal will result in open war against
the whole Chinese Empire. 1t was de-
cided at the cabinet meeting that this
government should endeavor to secure
modification OF the terms agreed on
by the Pekin ENJOYS, and that its whole
Influence should be exeried to that
end. The principal point to which the
United States objects, is the severe pro-
gramme of punishments mapped out
for the Princes and Mandarins The
United States holds that the Chinese
court is practically in the power
OF these eleven men and that
the Emperor and Empress will
not be able to punish them severely no
matter how willing they might be to
do so. This Government is also not In
sympathy with the plan of prohibiting
the importation of arms into China. and
has already pointed out that it will re-
Qu'rs the authorization of Congress to
the projected military occupation OF i'm.
portant points on the road from Pekin
to Tientsip. 1t ia believed that Russis,
France, japan and probably Great
Britain will join with the United States
10 bringing about the adoption of
modified programme, while Germany,
with her allies, Austria, and Italy, are
supposed to be stubbornly insistent up
on extreme measures.
The Census Bureau today gives the
population Of Montana at 243 ,329, aud
that of Texss at 3,04S 10; hat OF North
Carolina ! 1893, $40, and of Utah 276 749.
The races continue to attract large
attendance, though there are not 80
many bookmakers as when the season
commenced. There is a current report
that none of those interested 10 the
races that will be run on the tracks after
the first proximo will be admitted to
the Southern tracksf as winter racing
10 Virginia and north OF the Potomac
has been outlawed. Racing in Virginia
was broken up by the legislature OF
that State because horses were run in
Enthusiastically The better time