Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, ID. c., July 70.


Washington, ID. c., July %.
Commissioner of Pensions Ware is re-
ceiying numerous applications from Vir-
GINA for pensions, from ex-Confeder-
a.Cs who subquently became Union sol
dicrs. The applications are made by
virtue of a law which passed the last day
of the recent session, and which was i'm
mediately signed by President Roosevelt,
giving those soldiers penslonable status.
Senator Pritchard, of North Caolina, war
the originator of the statute, he claiming
that it was for the benefit Of many sol
diers who had been wings in the ante
beIlum period, and who had little heart
for the Confederate cause, going over to
the Union side at the first opportunity.
When Hoke Smith was Secretary of the
Interior he refused to allow pensions to
this class of veterans, holding that they
were, in way, deserters from the Confed-
crate armies.
The State department in a few days
will receive from the Hague decision
upon the seal fisheries dispute which had
been in allegiance for dozen years or
more. 1t arose from the seizure of two
American sealing schooners near the
Bribyloff Islands by Russian man-of-
war. The vessels and the crew were taken
to Russian port and the men tried by an
admiralty court, resulting in their final
release. Later they made the claim that
they had not been fairly treated and the
State Department took up the matter and
wrestled with it automatically for years.
Last year it was agreed to leave it to
arbitration and Dr. Asser, the famous
Dutch publicist, was selected to act. 1t
is believed that the conclusion will be
favorable to the claimants.
General Harries says the reason Lieut..
Colonel Burton Ross commanded the
First regiment in the sham battle at
Leesburg was because Colonel May is not
competent to command regiment. Col.
Nav remained in his tent during the
battle and Immediately after the exer-
cises he returned to Washington, leay-
ing Colonel Ross in charge.
Three cases of smallpox have been
reported to the health office since yes
terday morning. The patients have
been removed to the smallpox hospital.
The condition of Commissioner Ross
this morning is reported unchanged.
A dispatch received here from Cape
Haitien states that the insurgent army
under General Salnave is moving toward
that place and that an attack on the
place is expected tonight No foreign
warships are in the harbor, the dispatch
states, and the foreign and other non
c)mbatants are in danger.
Reginald de Koven, the composer,
was made defendant today in a suit OF
81, 200, balance claimed by Richard w.
Henderson, a local decorator for decora-
tons, on Mr.. de Koven's home.
II. Heife & Co., of Baltimore, and
Joseph b. Jacobs, of this city, today
petitioned the District Of Columbia Su-
preme Court to declare the National
Dairy Co. bankrupt The claims are
for merchandise, prOmisory notes, and
wages.
Army orders received this morning
from Gen. Chaffee, commanding the
division of the Philippines, communicate
the findings in the case of Lieut. Lyle
Brown, of the engineer corps, charged
with assault and battery upon one
Charles O. Ziegenfuss, q Manila citizen,
and conduct unbecoming an officer and
gentleman. Brown is sentenced to be
reprimanded but the court says his con-
duct was not ungentlemanly. Gen.
Chafee in reviewing the court martial
says: '1n giving effect to the too
lenient sentence of the court Lieut..
Brown is reminded that the first qualifi-
cation of good citizenship consists in
scrupulously retaining from violation Of
the law under which he lives, either in
its letter or spirit. Having elected to
play the part of law breaker, Lieut..
Brown will doubtless learn in time, that
his method of securing personal redress
when smarting under adverse criticism,
inseparable from public life, cannot lead
to enviable notoriety, much less to
honorable distinction among officers and
gentlemen" The lieutenant had taken
ofense at an article which appeared in
q paper published by Ziegenfuss
The following amendments to goyeren
transfers and reinstatements in the clas-
si6ed government service have been add