Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-28

Samoan Islands By the Cleveland aominis'
tration INIT removed By the came admins
tration for opposing lis policy on those Is
lands. and recently reappointed TO tue same
MACE bv MIR. Harrison, was confirmed oy
The ganste Yesterday evening. 4. Il. Farr
snd +. r Stewart of Virginia, were at the
same time confirmed, the former as marshal
for the eastern district OF his State snd the
latter az consul at San Juan, Porto klco.
President Green of the Western UNION
Telegraph Company appeared before .ue
House postoffioe committee tnls
and gave excellent reasons why fosl"a7eei
General Wanamaker's proposed Ia" COL.
pelipg the telegraph companies 10 ESTABLISH
postal telegraph at their e4pense auu
CHARGE less rates for such service than 1or
that 70 their regular customers, should not
bs passed. VT
A gentleman from Fauquier county, Viz.
einis, here to day, says the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad Company is surveying q
route from Riverton on their line to Wash
ipgtor, crossing the Blue Ridge at Linden,
and running by the whitstone and marble
quar,ies in Fauquier county.
In the House yesterday evening Gen. Lie
Introduced bill appropriating $1,000 for
roadway from Alexandria to the national
cemetery near that city Such bill was
fayorably reported in both houses OF Con
press last session, aud would have passed
butfor the objection of chronic objector.
tits rumored here that some of the demo
cratic Senators who were in favor OF con-
6rmiug Mr.. Brady as internal revenue COL
lector for the Richmond district have lost
linterest in his case since they heard that
he appeared before House committee with
q daepation of Virginia negroes who de-
nounced the white people of their State, and
that he is Langston's counsel in his contest.
ed election case. Mr. Brady's friends cay
that he did not appear with the delegation
referred to, but only dropped in the COM
| mittee room to see what was going on there.
The following changes in the 4th class postof-
! ices of Virgins were made to-day Mount Jack
| SON Shenandoah county, l. Jones appointed post
master, vice A. 8. Hussey, deceased; Woodlawn
Carroll county, T. N. Dobyns, vice g: r Kyle
removed. mr.. Glenn was appointed 10 the Mount
Jackson office few days ago. but his appointment
was revoked, and that of Mrs. Jones, the daughter
| of the late postmaster there substituted therefor
| Ex-Congressmsn Dezsndorf, of the Norfolk, va.
district. says there an attempt to reorgan'ze
the republican committee OF that district yester'
day bat that it failed sgnaly, the Rowden mer
winning by vote of to 1.
The Republican maj ority of the House ways and
| meaus committee in the tariff bill they intend tc
report will provide for reduction of the duty or
raw sugar to u per cent. pound; that on refined
sugsr to !. per cent. aud to pay bounty OF one
cent a pound 10 American sugar planters; 10 re
duce the internal revenue tax on tobscco to one
| h 1.-the present rate, and TO reduce the duty OIL
| steel rails from SIT TO St2 a ton. They say they
| will reduce the income to the extent OF from sew
| five to eighty million dollars. Their bill vii
l mt Ike no reduction in the tax on any Kind o
| LIQUOR and will continue the sinking fund.