Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-04-18
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
'Corrsspondence Of the Alexandria Gasette.
Washington. April Is.
Reports from Gen. Macarthur con-
tinuine 30 favorable and the Increasing
surrenders OF insurgents IN the Philip
mines have caused the War department.
to make several important decisions:
First. that no more natives shall be en-
listed. either 80 regular soldiers or ~
scouts: second, that three regiments OF
infantry. four batteries of artillery and
nos ibly a regimes at Of cavalry, all OF the
reoular establishment, be brought home
diTeotly the movement of the volun-
teers shall have ceased; third, regi.
uents recruited at home stations shall
ha held at the various posts In this
country until by the outward move
mani of regiments from Manila the
number In the archipelago shall have
hsan reduced to 10000. Thereafter
repiments which have had two or more
wears OF service 10 the tropics Will De
replaced by fresh troops from tne
United States.
President Mckinley has decided to
announce all or nearly ell the appoint
menls of first and second lieuteuants be-
fore be leaves for the west week from
Monday. There are 5S8 places In the
list and the applications number INTO
the thousands. To sift, examine and
decide upon the best OF all these sppIi.
cations has been the most laoorious
work that the President and the Score
tarv of War have been called upon tc
nsrform since the close of the war VIII
Spain. Two.ihirds of the places Will g
to the states by apportionment, tn;
others going to the non commissionou
officers now in the service.
Members of the American socia
Science Association and ofthe ACADEMY
OF Science, both OF which organization'
have been holding their annual sessions
in this city, are discussing today the IT.
titude taken yesterday by Surgeon Cen
eral Sternberg OF the United States ar
nv relative to mosquitoes as the sole
disseminating agent VI yellow fever
Gen. Sternberg had stated that 1t hao
been positively determined that tne
MOSQUITOES known 90 the culex faciatu'
distributes the disease, and that 1t is mol
transmitted by the species Of mosquito
which is found at greater attitudes
High stone walls are known to operate
as preventives, because the mosquito
which carries the disease hies low. Inc
theory of Gen. Sternbere Is not accept
ed at full value by the United States
marine hospital service, which hal
charge of the general subject OF quar-
antine.
The War department this morning
received csbleRram from Gen. Mac
Arthur 10 regard to the alleged fraudl
in the commissary department 81
Manila. The dispatch Ia withheld iron
publication for the present, but It II
learned that it does not confirm the
sensational charges of conspiracy amonf
lhe officers to defrapd the government
although 1t admits that the investiga
ton Is not yet concluded.
Counsel for Oberlin M. Carter, th'
ex.army captain who is seeking releas'
from Leaven worth prison by means o
habsss corpus proceedings, today hlet
in the Supreme Court of the United
States q motion to have the recent brie
of the solicitor general 10 opposition q
Oarter's application stricken from 10.
files of the court as Irrelevant apt
soandalous"
The division OF insular affairs of III
War Department al ates that the inter
nal revenue collections In the depart
ment of northern Luz IN, for 1900 wer
s1O6, 791. 81. In the province OF Ma
Dila alone they were $5,O67 ~. I'm
Supervisor OF Internal Revenue for TIL
department reports that the people as
rule pay their taxes promptly and with
out complaint and says that largely in'
creased revenues for the year 1901 may
be safely predicted.
It is said that conference Amos
acrimonious in character, is being con
Quoted between the War and Navy De
partments concerning the transfer o
the army posts at Dry Tortugas to thu
navy for q naval station. The alleged
trouble arises from the disposal OF thu
old battery of 20 rifed guns valued q
5000, 900 originally.
Captain Richmond P. Hobson has reportet
to Admiral Bowles for special duty in tn
Bureau OF Construction sni Repair. While
on this special duty he will make Washing
ton bis homo.
The United States treasury holds the sun
Of $500552 526 in gross gold. This Is th'
largest holding Of gold in the history OF thu
treasury.
The report that Ge rman government cir
cles are indignant over the cir culation OF tn
staten mt that the indemnity demanded b,
that county from China is In excess OF tina
asked by France, causes amusement amonl
State Department officials. She is said to de
msnd &SO,OO0O00. The belief is ais
spreading in some quarters that the reasoi
for the extIavagant demands made by Ger
many is that she desires to build more Iron
clsds and wants China TO pay for them.