Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, d. c., August 10.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington, D. c., August 10.
The name of Attorney General Knox
is being mentioned here today as a pos
sible successor to Associate Justice
Shiras, who, according to Pittsburg dis
patches, is to retire shortly from the
Supreme Court bench. Mr.. Knox, II
appointed, would be the youngest mem
Der of the court. The fact that he Is
from Pennsylvania, the same State as
Justice Shiras, is one point in his favor.
1t is known that the President has great
confidence in the attorney general
ability as a jurist and the appointment
" uld not be a surppise in Washington.
At the Office of the auditor for the
War Department it is asserted that the
government will not lose a cent by err
rors in quartermaster's accounts at Man
liza. Ifthey are unable to obtain reim-
bursement from the lighter people then,
they say, hey will fall back on the
ouartermaster and his sureties and ex-
press no fear of being unable to collect
on the bonds. There seems 10 be some
difference of opinion on this point. The
auditor apparently believes that the
bends are good but Judge Advocate
General Davis holds that promotion
vac tes the liability on the old bond.
The quartermaster department declares
that the officers were ready to put up
new bonds and that the treasury officials,
knowing the legal provision in the mat
ter. should have enforced it.
The State Department today received
a dispatch from U. S, Consul Smith at
Cairo to the effect that cholera has been
spreading to an alarming extentin Egypt.
In one province rs cases with 80 deaths
have been reported. The disease has
not yet appeared at Port Said or Suez.
Two cases have developed at Alexandria
and three at New Cairo
CONSERVATION reigns among the
''sporty" element of the Treasury De
partment because of the recent reduction
in salaries of three clerks who have been
to fond of poker. In one instance clerk
was reducted from 81, 800 to 81, 900.
The building oper ltions of the District
of Columbia during the fiscal year ended
June 80, last, amounted to SIS, 80, 24O.
This was an increase of 81, 116, 100 over
the preceding year.
| Congressman Griggs, chairman of the Dem
] Ocratic Congressional Committee, says that
all his information from the different con.
gressional districts of Virginia is that solid
delegation will be sent to Congress from that
State by the democrats this fall. II do not
know a single district in which there is any
real doubt, says Mr.. Griggs.
Under the amnesty proclamation issued
July by the President General Chaiiee re-
ports to the War Department that he issued
orders for the release Of 15s political prisoners
from the Preside de Bilibid and 80 from the
| L. 5. military prison at Lingayen, contingent
upon their taking the oath of allegiance.
General Chaffee in promulgating to the
troops the order issued by President RoOse-
welt on July transferring control of the
islands, excepting the Moro country, to the
civil authorities, issued general instructions,
copies Of which reached the War Department
today. The fall text Of the note Of defiance
sent the Americans by the Sultan of Bacolad,
now in open warfare against the Americans,
has also been received by the War Depart
ment.
The Treasury Department today made out
a warrant in favor of the State of Maryland
for $6,57S.32 and in favor Of Kentucky for
$67 ,960.65, the last payments TO be made these
States on account of expenditures incurred in
eluipping troops, etc, for the Spanish-Amer-
/ lean war.
An order issued by General Chafee in the
| Philippines July 10, which came TO the War
| Department by mail today, is interesting in
the light of recent dispatches regarding the
renewal the troubles in Mindanao with the
/ Moros. II says: 1.-THE second battalion of
/ the 18th IT, S. Infantry is assigned to duty
I in the Department of South Philippines, for
station at or in the vicinity of Malabang,
l Mindanao. The battalion will be fully
equipped for the field, the men to have 100
rounds of cartridges in their belts, and will
be accompanied by three field mortars and
600 rounds of ammunition"
Extra session gossip has again been revived.
/ The information has been guardedly dissem-
mated that the Presidents southwestern trip,
which he intended to take after the 6. A. K.
eneaBpment, to be held the week Of October
! 6, would probably be abandoned. The gen
eral impression is that the suggestion has
some bearing upon Cuban reciprocity and
! that the President is preparing TO remain
here 10 renew the fight So far as known
here there is no important reason for aban-
doning the southwestern tour save possible
intention on the part Of the Pres dent TO call a
special session of the Senate and to remain
here while the treaty is under discussion.
STAFFORD MINING PROPERTY SOLD.
Mr.. Frank Blackburn, acting for Mr.. ].
l.. Shackleford, the owner, on Saturday
last sold to the National Copper Ore
Company, of New York, tract Of land
near Garrisonville, in Stafford county,
known as the Pyrite Mine, which is said
10 be rich in iron and other ores, The
National company will begin immedi-
stely to develop this property, and ex-
pect to put in a complete plant of ma
chinery at an early date Frederick
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