Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-05-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
rOorrespondence Of the Alexandria Gasesse.]
Washington. Mays.

rOorrespondence Of the Alexandria Gasesse.]
Washington. Mays.
China will have to raise loan In ore
der to pay the indemnity to be demand.
ed by the powers. 1t is probable that
an effort will be made 10 float part OF II
10 this country. Because OF the ad'
vantages il would give them In main.
tanning a supervision over chinese az
fairs and increasing their opportunity
to obtain concessions, etc.. 1t is expect
ed there will be scramble among the
mowers for the privilege OF meeting the
loan. One plan that has been suggest
ed 10 order to satisfy all Of the powers
il that China may decide to place In
each country q loan equal to the In
demnity due that particular nation.
II this plan should be followed Russia
and Germany would get the largest
norton of the loan while the share OF
the United States would be between
fifteen and twenty-five millions accord
ing to the final determination OF the
ministers as to the division OF the az
eregate indemnity.
The recent revision of the census
enumeration In Maryland naturally re-
vises the total population OF the United
States. The regular figures, however,
will not be known until the issuance,
within thirty days, OF q five hundred
page monograph containing all that
will be printed 10 the fpal census re-
port OF the population Of the United
States. This will contain ell corrected
schedules of population, as we'll as
other figures. Maryland will not be
the only factor affecting the change In
the total population. In Nebraska
1000 Iodisns were incorrectly return.
ed, and the count of the soldiers In the
Philippines makes q radical change 10
the final figures. Previous announce.
ments OF the population OF the United
States have been only issued subject to
the changes which were known would
be necessary, as the first count Ia rarely
reliable.
Large numbers of pension attorneys
have been focking to San Francisco for
the purpose Of waylaying the returning
volunteers and increasing the rolls OF
the Pension Bureau. To prevent un-
sorupulous work among them, Commits.
sioner Evans has instituted rigid sys-
tenn OF surveillance. In San Francisco
the returned soldiers are hsrassed by
these pension attorneys and their agents
to such an extent that they are fire..
quently followed on trains on their
way East.
Minister Conger, the United States
representative at Pekin, called at the
State Department this morning. He
paid his respects to the officials but has
not yet attempted to discuss the situa-
ton in Pekin or make any report. MIR.
Conger refused to say anything about
his plans for the future.
The stock market need look for no
aid or comfort from Secretary OF the
Treasury Gage. at is not the policy
of the Treasury department TO inter.
fere In purely speculative movements"
he explained. "There is nothing
which the department can do. The
aim of the department is to 90 place its
money as to encourage legitimate en-
terprise. II the price Of money on the
market has affected legitimate enter
prise, we do not know It," The move
meut In stocks, being OF purely specul-
alive character. will receive no atten'
ton from the Secretary or the other
officials of the department.
AS anticipated In this correspond
ence, many of the volunteer officers
who were recently designated for ap-
pointment in the regular army have
failed in their examin ations and 1t Ia
said that at the present rate OF failures
1t is estimated that more than one-half
OF the appointees named under the
army reorganization act will fail to re-
ceive their commissions. From the
present outlook the President will have
another large batch of army appoint
ments at his disposal when he returns
from the Pacific coast, and this will give
that much more patronage to Congress-
men who are now besieged with appli-
cations for positions of any and all
kinds.
Hugh Campbell, president of the q.
s. Tobacco Company Of Richmond, was
before the industrial commission this
morning. Among other things he said
consumers received one-third less
tobacco now for cents than In 1898,
and they would get no more after the
20 per cent reduction in July. The re.
duction, he said, would not benefit the
consumers. He advanced several
theories as to how the power OF the
tobacco trust could be abridged. J. B.
Duke, President of the American To.
bacco Co., also appeared before the
commission.
Lewis Mortimer Monroe, supposed by
the police to be Charles Rohsn, the
notorious housebreaker, was to have
been arrsigned in the Police Court this
morning on the charge Of stealing
jswelry to the value of $1,000 from
Mrs, Olivia @. Starring. The prisoner,
however, obtained writ OF habeas cor.
pus this morning which Justice Barn
ard will hear this afternoon.
w. A. Rodenberg, the new member
OF the Civil Service Commission, will
soon start for Honolulu to supervise
examinations to be held there for places
in the civil service OF Hawaii.
The government has compromised
the issue over the use OF the nickel pro-
cess for hardening armor plate for war
ships 80 that 10 the future this process
may be used by the government itself
il 1t should undertake the manufacture
Of Its own armor, or by any private
concern furnishing armor for American
ships.
Late mail advices from Manila give
interesting details concerning the re.
cent civil examinations held In that
city. Nearly seven hundred English
and Spanish speaking competitors
made application for examination.
The national conference Of charities and
corrections will begin 3 weeks session in this
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