Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-10
EkNIN WASHINGTON
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. J
Washington, September ~.

| Washington. September 10.
Minister WI has received roysl
ediot appointing Lii Hung Chang as
com missioner to deal with the foreign
ers to settle tn Chinese difficulties. de
is to have full power. The edIct Is
dated two weeks ago. The Minister
this morning transmitted it to the State
department.
In the decree the Emperor says he
will not interfer with Earl Ii and that
all his actions will receive his sanction.
It is the opinion at the Chinese Legn-
ton that the official announcement o!
the appointment of Earl Ii will clear
up the diplomatic taDgle, so far as it
relates to the objection of the foreign
governments to treat with Earl III, on
the grour DIS that he WAS not the othclal
representative of the Chinese govern
ment.
Gen. Chaffee wires the War depart
ment that Pekin is be merely a camp
for the foreign army until the powers
nave agreed upon terms. A dispatch
from aim received yesterday and made
public this morning reads as follows:
''Eyidence accumulates that diplomatic
relations will not be resumed here for
long time. Russian legation will
leave very soon for Tientsin. Appears
10 me certain that the Chinese govern
ment will not return while the foreign
army remains and if this be true cur
legation can transact no business. My
opinion is that Pekin will be merely u
camp for the foreign army pending a
settlement by the powers at other
points,
General Chafee's message, received
Yesterday by the War department and
given to the public today, confirms in
part the declaration OF Russia that she
had ordered her minister TO leave PekiD.
AS the message is dated September 4, it
is probable that the Russian legation is
now on its way to TieDtsin. Chaffee
appa emily fsvors The evacuatit n OF the
Chinese capital for the purpose OF facili-
tating peace negotiations and should
the War department remain true to its
declarations orders will be soon issued
for Chaffee to retire to Tientsin.
Notwithstanding the injunction
against the Photograph Company, ar
rangements have been effected here, 1t is
said today, for the rendition of the
peroration of Mr.. Bryan's Indianapolis
speech at Gainesville, Prince William
county, Virginia, at the emocratic flag
raising there next Saturday. 1t was in
Occoquan 10 the same county that the
Lincoln hsgpole was cut down by the
democrats IN 1861.
Not much interest is manifested here
10 the result of the Maine election to-
day, as Maine is generally conceded to be
one of four certain States which san
euine demo crats give to Mr.. Mckinley
The republicans have canvassed the
State with some of their most promi-
nent orators, but the democrats have
sent none of theirs there.
1t is common talk here that the coal
operators have been seen" and ar.
engagements made by which there will
be no strike of their employees until af-
ter the election.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley, accom-.
panied by DR.. Rixie and Mrs. Mathews, a
sister of Mrs. Abner Mckinley, left this morn
ing for Somerset, Pa, to attend the wedding
of Miss Mabel Mckinley, the Presidents
niece, and Dr Hermann Baer. After the
wedding the party will go to Canton o., 10
remain for some weeks.
Mrs. Rosa Kicking. who was arrested at
the White Honse on Saturday on suspicion Of
being insane, was today sent TO her home in
Philadelphia.
Brigsdier General Wheeler, q. s. A., was
retired at noon today. 1t is supposed he
will be succeeded by Cololel Dsgget who
will be promoted TO his rank.
1t is intimated at republican headquarters
here that though no money will be sent TO
Virginia to carry congressional districts, some
will be sent to North Carolina, Mary land,
Kentucky. West Virginia and tennessee.
At the brokers' Offices here today stocks
were quoted steady, wheat and corn strong,
aud cotton, very strong, in consequence OF
damage TO the crop in Texas by the storm.
At democratic headquarters here today it
was said that sll the intelligence there was to
the effect that in New York as we'll rs in the
larger States Of the middle West the trend of
public feeling is toward Bryan and away
from Mckinley, not because Bryan is psrtc-
ulsrly admired, but because the sentiment Of
the voters is opposed TO trusts and the high
tsriff that supports them, 70 the destruction
of the Boer republics, to the rule Of pluto
cratic parvenus, to the massacre Of entire
bridal parties in the Philippines and the
crushing of the native population Of the en-
tire Philippine archipelago and to the out
tsgeous course of the American army in China
A good many ex-COnfederstes residing in
this city will attend The Con ederste reunion
tomorrow at Fairfax C. II wheyesenstor Dan.
iel, Attorney General Montague Congress-
man RiEey, State Senator Donohoe, Dele
gate Willard, ex-Stste Senator Moore and
Others are expected to deliver sddrf sses
The reunion will last two days, and though
Fairfax is q dry county, old soldiers from
there say their friends shall not suffer for
want of wet groceries.