Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-02-19
have lost the sense of fair play" he
said. "a body of $4,000 undisciplined


farmers is fighting against 213, 900 train
ed troops. WHAT the sword cannot &C
complish famine is expe tied to achieve,
Tor the British will not allow 30 much
as bag of -four to reach the Transvaal.
English resort to the fabrication that
this is just and necessary war, but
they do il only in the hope OF getting
the sympathy and support of the Amer
lean people. But the Americans show
no disposition to be misled and their in
telligence is proof against such soph'
isms."
A Virginian, interested in the Trigg
ship building company, here today
Tvs that though no specific offer has
come from Alexandria TO that company
to move its plant to that city, the com
pany is cramped 10 respect OF both wa
ter and ground a. Richmond, and that
rs it wants I'D interior location, it is
not at sll impossible that If sufficient
inducements were offered they
would be favorably considered.
He said Alexandria would be a
model site for such plant as
his company proposed TO establish,
and that as Congressman, who make
appropriations for government work,
could 90 there and see with their own
eyes how the money is spent. Rich
mond. he said, would doubtless give a
large sum to keep the plant there, but
that the company would soon be re-
organized on an enlarged basis, and in
tends TO expand its plant, and present
indications are that it will become the
most extensive establishment OF the
kind in America. He said they
wanted twenty-five feet of water,
and could not do with less. He
also said, which is strange, that he
heard at the Navy Department that the
water at the Kettle Bottoms, in the PO-
tomac, is too shallow for a shipysrd at
Alexandria, and that the government
does net want to increase depth, as
that would enable hostile vessels to sail
up the river and lombard the federal
capital.
At the Clark bribery investigation
ibis morning Senator CIstk's letter to
members of the Montana
legislature was read by Mr.. Chandler,
Mr.. Clark stated in his letter that if be
was elected TO the United States Senate
be would favor and vote for legislation
mat would protect Montana raw ma
terisl, mentioning in particular Lad,
wool and hides. DR.. Treacv was the
first witness called. According to the
testimony of Supreme Court Justice
Hun, DIR. Treacy offered him bride of
800. 600 to dismiss the Welcome dis
parment case. The witness ADM ted
{ hat he had conversation with Justice
Hunt during the tendency OF the
Welcome disDarment proceedings and
that be told the Justice there was
partv who would give him $4,000 if
he would dismiss the Welcome case.
Tne same evening he sew the Justice
apain aud told him if be could make
$50 900 or 100000 and do it deceDtly
he would like 10 see him do II. he
stated that he saw the Justice again
while the Welcome case was being
tried and asked him if he had changed
his mind, and when the Justice said he
had not, the witness replied that he
was glad OF it. When he learned that
the justice bad been subpoened to come
to Washington he stated that he told
him that be was not 10 earnest when he
made the offer that no one had
ever authorized him to make
il. The witness stated he bad CONVEX
sation with Attorney General Nolan 10
which be told him lie hsd better get
slOO, 900 out Of the case and quit bus
ness No one had ever authorized him
0 make au offer OF 100000 to Justice
Hunt. Witness SAID further that there
Vas a great deal of talk at that tlme
about Justice Hunt. He was we'll
known as Daily man. 1t bad been
umored that he could be bought and
lis only reason for approaching him
vas to test him. The Nolan matter,
ne witness stated. was Joke. He was
great friend of the General, he said,
md had joked with him many times,
10Th when he was drunk and when he
as sober. The witness stated that he
,slieved that fully 80 per cent. of the
rope of Helena question Justice
iuut's Integrity.
The board of army engineers and
rchitects appointed by the Secretary
If War to consider and report upon the
slative merits of plans for the pro-
,osed memorial bridge across the Poto-
nae met this morning 10 consider the
Dor plans submitted.
The House committee on military sf
today went into an investigation |
j the conduct of the United States |
my aud officers ct Idaho during the Couer
PAlene mining trouble as provided for by |
he Lentz resolutions adopted By the House. !
hsiJman Hall endeavored to put Messrs. |
ulz3r and Lentz. democratic members OF |
he committee, who have taken great inter |
ST In the case, in the roles of prosecutors |
ath,r than judges, to which these gentlemen |
lsde strenuous objection Mr.. Marsh, re-
ublican member of the committee, made |
eated speech demanding that every request |
( Messrs Sulzer and Lentz be complied with |
o that no intmstion of suppressed informs.
i)n Can be made and so that the responsible. |
y OF expense for invest CATION ESTIMATED at |
20, 600 may fall on them
Senator Daniel said today he thinks Mr.
.day should be ad aitted to the senate on the
ppointmep of the Governor Of his State, and
nat he will SO vote, aud that as between
nay and his chief opponent, Wapsmsker,
e believes the former is the better man.
In the Senate today Mr.. Daniel introduced
bill making an appropriation for the repair
ST. Georges Episcopal Church in Freder-
ksburg. Virginia, that WAS injured by the
deral army during the war between the
tates.
1t is now generally conceded at the Senate
lat Mr.. Bynum will never be confirmed as a
lember of the Board of Apprssement of
CIV York as the republican members of the
rnste, though they may use political desert
IS when they need them, don't trust them,
nd are done with them as soon AS their work
completed
Congressman Jones OF Virginia has re.
lrDed from the Lewis trial ut Heathsvile,