Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-12-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorrespondence of the Alexandria Gsseste.l
Washington. December !.

sessions Monday. Two criminal cases
are among those on the calendar. One
IL the case of Sam Wright, sentenced
to be hanged for criminal assault, sp-
healed from the United States Circuit
Court of Z ,stern Louisiana. Virgins
attorneys question the legality OF the
iury that convicted him The other
case ia that OF jack Davis, under sem
tence OF death for murder in Idaho.
Davis was tried on an information. ID
attorneys claim that che prooeedlnes
were illegal bee use they were not
based on an indictment.
Congressman Dick, of Ohio, was
among the arrivals today. Although
this will be a very busy session." be
said, Congress will go at its work In
business like way and will dispose OF
all IN ter # WportsDce. Besides tue
appropria ion bills l believe tho mosl
important bills passed by Congress Will
by the army respportionment, Mica
ragua canal and ship-subsidy biiis.' :,
The funeral services of Rear A0miral
Men air were held this morning at CT
Johns Epi pal Church, Rev. Alex
ander Mex y.Smiih, the rector, ofnci-
atine. The body was inferred at Al
Lngton. The entire navy ooutipgen
10 Washington was present. Inc Ma
rIne Band headed detachment OF m'-
rines which escorted the remains to the
cemetery.
Mrs. S. F. Miller, widow o. former
Justice Miller of the U. s. Supreme
| Court. died mere today.
| A well informed newspaper CORES
pondent recently arrived here from
Cuba. where DO has spent year or two,
8 VS. the people oil that leland are tho
worst he ever came in contact with ana
the most treacherous, and that what
this country should do is to annex the
island at once and put it under terri
orial government. When asked about
those who brought on the Spanish war,
and called Cubaus "pa,rio g" he could
say nothing.
People from New York here today
cav that though the collector OF New
YORK., Mr.. Bidwell, certainly has vioiat-
ed the civil service law aud rules, anu
disobeyed the Presidents order IN re-
spect of "pernicious activity" duriOg
the late campaign. Mr.. Mckinley Is
not the man to modest one who so
greatly helped him.
At the State Department 1t is in
timated that the expanding tendencies
of Germany, as manifested by her in
creased purchases of islands In the
Pacific, supplemented by the rapid
growth of her population at home, Will
soon make her interest and those oil
England clash, and that as this country
lis now a "world power" she may
be involved and be forced to take 10
part of her new ally.
Eat the brokers' offices here today
stocks, wheat, corn and cotton were
quoted as little weak.
Congressman Lamb of Virginia while
doing all he can to help the pure butter
Dill, gays be is doubtful OF its passage,
and that he doubts if any federal legis'
lation can effect the object of the bill.
Mr.. Lamb was at the room Of the House
rivers and harbors committee today to
promote the improvement OF the chan
mel of the James river at Richmond.
What ia required there is the blasting
of some ROCK, but some of the commit
100 don't seem well disposed, or rather,
think that the improvement of other
harbors is more important.
One of the younger members OF Con-
gress from the South, talking today
about the proposed bill to reduce the
war tax, said he would vote for 1t OF
course, for most of his constituents are
poor and any saving will be blessing
10 them, but that would be all, be and
would not fight to have the reduction
increased, and that as tho poor people
of the North, by voting for Mckinley,
hsd forged their own shackels he was
10 favor OF allowing them to dance to
the clanking OF their chains.
The Marconi system OF telegraphv
has put damper on the scheme for
telegraphic cable from San Francisco
to Manila, and one OF the membera OF
the House commerce committee say
the millions suce cable would cost
may as we'll be saved. as before it could
be laid, the system referred to would be
In operation.
The government has determined to
send man of war to Morocco to col.
lect the $1,000 indemnity for the kill.
ing of neutralized American citizen.
The friends of the bill for bridge across
tho Potomac at Arlington are already ct work,
but there ara so IN any Of them and they have
so many different plans and are so divided
among themselves, not only about the plans,
but tho lobbyists they shall employ. that som,
doubt is expressed a"out the passage OF the
bill at the coming short session.
| he fo1 npdar aafah.
fishing civil service rules and regulations In
the Philippines
Senator Hanna, who arrived here this
morning, says he is confident the ship sub
sidy bill will pass.
Rev. DR. Bristol Of the Metropolitan NJ. E.
Church, which the President attends, bas
given the old shoulder to the w. G. L. U.
that meets here next week, because they
criticised Mr.. Mckinley for fsvoring the ar
my caDteen, and accused him Of being
wine-bib or.
The commission to report on the Isthmsan
canal spent the m on dollars appropriated
| for them, but have recommended no route,
leaving Congress to select one.
Tbs following changes in the fourth.ca's
postolfices in Virginia were made today
Msplewood, Amelia county, Rose l.. Allemong,
q, pointed postmaster, vice James NJ.
| Woodruff Iesignef; Pughs Bun, Shenandoah
| CouI ~, Jacob M. Stricken, vice Alice r.
Boehm, resigned
EUGENIA WASHINGTON DEAD AS
stated 10 the Gazette of that date Miss