Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette

treaty with Cuba. On the Othcr mana
there is every reason to believe that the
President has not determined yet just
what course he shall pursue. If he shat!
receive assurances from the party leaders
that Congress during the next session
will take some definite action looking to
the reduction of tariffs on Cuban prod
Il is. he will abandon all notions of at
tempting to force reciprocity treaty
through the Senate before the regular
time of meeting. 1t is stated by the
Presidents friends here thatso thorough
ly in earnest is he on this question that
che would sacrifice his nomination rather
than let the Cubans starve or go into
bankruptcy or revolution"
1t is reported here that the Pennsyl-
vania member of the Supreme Court Of
the United States, George Shiras, jr., is
expected to be the next to retire. He
will be eligible for retirement October 10
,ext, when he completes ten years serv-
e. for the law requires that justice
hall have served 10 years and reached
he age of 20 before he can retire on his
full salary of So year. Justice
;hires, il will be remembered, at first
'Oted to sustain tire cOnstitutiOnality OF
he income tax law, but the next day
he leye.sed himself and thus changed
the dc csion Of the Supreme Court on
hat question.
Word was received this morning from
! Commander Mclean, of the cruiser
inc:nnati that his vessel had left
Pu ,rto Cabello for Guanta. The latter
IS the port of Barcelona, which city is
located about three miles up the Neveri
river from the coast. If, as reported, the
reyolutionists have been sacking the city,
Commander Mclean will land marines
1t once for the purpose of protecting
such American property as has not
be IN destroyed. Dispatches say that the
American Consulate has already been
p;llaged.
The democratic congressional com
mittee, of wh1chiCongressman Griggs, Of
Georgia, is the chairman, will give to the
public, late this week or early the next,
a democratic text book intended especially
for the guidance of political charmen
and those who will take the hastings in
the coming campaign. When the re-
publican text book came out the dem
0crats had finished work on their own,
and were ready for the issue. But the
democratic leaders took TO the study of
the republican book and they saw sew
cral things that were not there, subjects
upon which the book was silent. There
was no reference, for instance, to Cuban |
reciprocity; not a word on tariff revision. |
There were, moreover, chapter or two
devoted to intimidation Of the evils |
caused by the great American trusts.
These things moved the democratic /
leaders to revise their own volume and |
to add to it few chapters, dealing more /
especially with the sins of omission of
the republican party. The printer has
now nearly finished his work and the /
book will be ready for issue in a few days.
The war department is advised by |
cable from General Chailee that last |
night at midnight ten or twelve Mofos /
attacked the outposts of Company G,
9th Infantry, at Camp Wears, killing
Henry G. Carey and James Foley and
wOunding two other enlisted men. Camp
Wears is a newly established post a few
miles from Malabang, Mindanao, where
Lieutenant Wears and a number of
American soldiers were killed year ago.
1t was named in honor of Lieutenapt
Wears. This new outbreak was not
wholly unexpected and will serve to
strengthen the former determination of
the war department to suppress the
Moros. Orders have recently been issued
the force at the garrison
points through Mindana), and it is posi-
Die that still further increasings will be
ordered
The secretary of the local coal ex-
.hange says that two representatives of
he hard coal operators who are in {
his city have made the statement that \
he strike will be settled within two weeks.
Il this does not occur Washington will
,c in danger of coal famine. The
rice has not been raised here since the
rike began, but it is stated that if the
ettlement is not affected by August %, i
&c price will put up to 10 dollars per {
on. The visible supply here will only :
asst until September 10. =
The Treasury today made the suggest O
ion to the ST. Louis Worlds Fair Com "
lissioners that part of the gold dollars q
D be coined in cOmmemOration Of the p
xposition, bear on their face the portrait i
Jefferson and the remainder that of p
IcKinley. The design for the reverse is +
picture of the exposition with the b
ates lS02-l903. "
1t was announced today that the ID
mint property which was "
leffectually put up at auction some eI
me ago, none of the bids aggregating ID
ore than a million dollars and half, ri
as now been sold to the Philadelphia al
int and Reality Co., for two million. pI
The judge advocate general of the a
IVY has received a dispatch from the G
'ard of survey on the torpedo boat de- by
roy er Chauncey stating that she had a IA
Try successful speed tsial on the Barren lo
land course yesterday, making on the SCI
andardizing test $50 knots. Twenty M
ght knots were required. She was mi
nit by Neafie & Levy, of Philadelphia. la,
John Rhea, of Kentucky. VIC
rived today to take assignments from the e.,
mocratic Congressional Committee which ~,
III take him on the stump beginning with VI
SIT to Maine. Mr.. Rhea took his seat in the col
Il Congress with majority on the returns of pr
g. J. Mckenzie Moss, republican, contest
and the House unseated Rhea for Moss. rel
his farewell speech Rhea declared that he ma
,uld come back 10 Congress rs n vindica