Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-04-05
FROM WASHINGTON.

Special Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette l
@WAsHINGToN d. C.. April j, 1889 An
order was issued at the Treasury Depart
ment today. directing that hereafter de-
hnquent internal revenue must be paid in
money, and not in stamps, as has hereto lore
been the custom.
! The President left this morning on the
1925 train for Florida A special car WAS
! provided for his party apd free tickets tur
the round "trip bad been given them by all
the railroads Oh the route. The only mem
Der Ct the Cabinet with the party was Mr..
Chandler, and he will leave, il at Peusa-
COLA while the President goes fishing
In entering the depot, which was by the
same door through which his predecessor
entered Il, and only litlls later in the dav,
the President was preceded by lis negro
valet and followed by his Secretar Phillips,
anu Nr:. Chandler. BE walked oyer the
star i'll the floor that marks the OF where
Garfield fell, but looked neithert the right
nor left, but straight ahead until took his
seat in the Car. A good many pc Ole we've
IN the depot. but there was no dcmonstra-
ton OF any kind. The President expects TO
! be absent about two or three weeks.
Members OF the House Of Representatives,
when that House is not in session. have
drafts for the amount Of their salary sent TO
their postottlce address at the expiration of
every month. The Senate being a continu-
Gus body, !ts members draw the amount due
them whenever they choose 10 do so. and as
there are so many new members now, and
as there was no extra session in which 10
swear those members in, a resolution was
adopted at the last session providing that
the presentation of their credentials would
authorize them TO draw their pay. Mr..
Palmer, the new Senator from Michigan,
was elected such short time before the adj
Journment Of the last session that he had
not time TO present his credentials. and Mr..
Beck, whose new term also commenced last
March, by an oversight failed to have his
credentials presented, so that neither he nor
Mr.. Palmer can draw any paw until the
Senate meets.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee. doesn't paw
MUCH attention to his dress Since the adj
Journment OF the Senate he went into ole
OF the committee rooms to look I'D a paper
relating 10 claim of man in bis State
The clerk OF the committee is not an OBJ
servant man. and failing to recognize him.
asked him if he was the claimant or his at.
torney. Receiving negative reply he ask
ed the Senator what interest he had in the
claim. TO this question Mr.. Harris replied
that as the people Of Tennessee had thought
proper to elect him to the Senate, and as
the claimant was one of his constituents, he
thought ipwas his duty to look after his
claim, but that If the clerk thought other
wise he would retire at once. 1t is needless
to say that the clerk will recognize the Sen
ator when he sees him again.
AT the star route trial to-day the witness
| Vale was again subjected to a cross exam
!nallon, but nothing new was developed up
to the hour Of recess.
n. w. Sheldon, New Yorker, but for
some time past resident of Baltimore, and
connected with the Herald Of that CITY, was
to-day appointed Associate Justice of the
8 l. ,. Court of Arizona, vice Hoover re-
moved. Judge Riley, of Accomac county,
Va, was an applicant for this place, aud
had the endorsement of Senators Malone
and Rddleberger. The following appoint.
ments were also made: s. Z. Snder to he
Indian Agent at Fort Peck and w. W. Car
ter to be collector of internal revenue in
) Indiana. w. d. Russell WAS to-day appoint.
, ed |. 5. Marshal for the Eastern District of
! Arkansas - esa1
A gentleman who attended the advertised
sale of the w. w. Railroad in Aleyandria
yesterday, says that one bidder was absent
| by reason of the death of Peter Cooper +;
! that be aud probably all the bidders present
[ yesterday will be at the sale on the 9th
proximo, and that the road will then be
sold to people who will extend it to The coal
and iron mines, but that he does not think
. it will bring more than 100000
gentleman here to-day who Is Interest
. ed in the Potomac Manufacturing Works at
Alexandria says that operations at those
r works are to be delayed no longer, but that
they will be resumed at once and will be
prosecuted on an enlarged scale during the
coming summer -
1t is reported that the National Republican
: newspaper Of this city. which has raised
,, S37, 600 by mortgage on its whole outfit,
pays ten per cent for that sum, and that as
With all the influence Of the Assistant POST
master General in its favor the paper is not
a paying institution it is likely that General
Malone will not have Washington organ
much longer
The application of King kalakaua for the
coinage of his bullion at tho San Francisco
mint has been granted.
Secretary Folger was so much improved to-.
day that he took drive. and It is now said that
his long talked OF trip to Bermuda has been
abandoned.
1t Is reported to-day that owing altogether to
active executive interference proceedings against
Mr.. Kellogg will net 90 beyond the presentment
heretofore mentioned in this correspondence
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