Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
tCorrespondence Of the Alexandria Gasette. ]
Washington. September b.

washington, SeptemUoA "
The President this morning received
IN the East Room a delegation OF 200
KNIGHTS Templar OF the Occur de Lion
Com mandery OF Boston. The knights
were In uniform and we're accompanied
nv their ladies. Following this came a
reception to the members of Lincoln
Post. G. A. R., of Newark, N. j., and
their ladies. There were 265 OF these
latter who are visiting the city on an
outing.
A dispatch has been sent to Gen.
Chsffee telling him to remain in Pekin
with his troops until further orders.
He has also been requested to notify
the War department of what dis
patches be has received from Washing.
ton, the impression prevailing that he
has failed to receive many of the COM
munications that have been sent him
during the last ten days and the desire
being to find out where the trouble 10.
According to the returns OF the 18th
census the population OF Birminghs m
Ala, is 3S,4l5, against 26.17S in 1890,
showing 40 increase of 12,237, or 1919
per cent; Lancaster, Pa, Al, 459; Ak
ron, O., APPS; salt Lake City. Utah,
81, 5SI; Albany, N. Y, 94,15l, a de-
crease of 772.
At democratic headquarters here to-
dav eyerybo " was in the best OF
sDirits. That they were, ia attribut-
able to the following statement.
current there That the loss in the
republican majority in Vermont is
over twenty per cent; that the gain In
ne democratic members OF the leglsla-
ture of that State exceeds all expecia-
tons. and tLat as a means to offset the
expected consequent depression, dis
patches from New Yerk reported that
Wall street had put up the price OF
stocks: that the democratic end
less chain in Massachusetts call
ing for ten cent contributions Is
so successful that additional clerks and
repositories had been engaged; that q
poll in the composing rooms OF me
New York Herald sho,gsed l1S votes
for Bryan y 10 for Mckinley, and
mat Maryland republicans concede
that the negro and republican defec-
ton, the latter headed by U. S. Senator
Wellington, had already deprived them
of their State. Glee and jOllity were In
strong evidence there. and 1t was said
that not only young Vanderbilt, but all
the other milionaires of New York
might be delegates to the republican
convention of that State, but the poor
people there were for the poor mans
candidate, Mr.. Bryan, and though
they would, had been instructed,
as accept all the brides that
have been and that may be
offered them, they would stand by their
OWE people, who were opposed to trusts,
Increased cost of living, the destruction
of the republics of South Africa, the
disregard of the Constitution, and the
assumption of imperialism.
Large numbers of the @, A, K. on
their way home from Chicago we're
here today, many of them going to Ar
lington and to Mt. Vernon.
Stocks owing to the manipulation OF
Wall street we're quoted strong at the
brokers' offices here today, but wheat
and corn as weak.
At the State Department here the
condition of affairs in China ia said to
be anything else than favorable, and
that the occupation snnd looting OF
Pekin by the allies has stirred up the
whole empire to intense opposition to
all foreigners, and that the effect
thereof is now only matter OF con-
lecture.
At the pension bureau 1t is said that
since the commissioner, Mr.. Evans, has
withdraw from his fight against Mr..
Brownlow in Tennessee, 1t has been
discov cred that he is entitled to pen
sion for partial deafness.
At the Navy Department it is under
stood that the estimates for naval ex-
penses next year will be upwards of
eighty million dolIars-a greater
amount than for any previous year In
the country's history.
Mr.. Clevelsnd's acceptance OF President
McKinley's appointment as a member OF the
international arbitration commission recon-
mended by the famous peace conference at
The Hague, is coupled with 80 many condi'
tions that il is said here the appointment
may be rendered to somebody else.