Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, June 3.


WASHINGTON, June 3.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was at
tended by al the members except Sec
rotary Tracy. who is at Annapolis.
Secretary Blaine came in company
with Secretary Elkins, but remained
only half an hour, returning to the
State Department and rcsuming a con-
ference with thcCanadian commission
crs which was interrupted by his de
parture for the Cabinet meeting. This
conference is in reference to alleged
discrimination Mt Montreal against
American merchants There were pre-
sent the British Minister, Hon. Geo. (.
Foster, Minister Of Finance, and the
Hon. Mckenzie Bowel, Minister oil
Customs. The government was repre-
scented by Secretary Blaine and Gen. j.
w. Foster. The appearance of Mr..
Blaine at the White House was gener-
ally interpreted as evidence OF desire
on his part to put a stop to the news
paper reports of q severance of personal
relations between him and the Prcsi-
dent, and as having no relation 10 po-
lltlcal matters.
In the census investigation J. II.
Wardweli testified this morning that
while an engineer in the census bureau
he had, by order of Chief Engineer
Gully. destroyed hundreds ofthousands
of official envelopes, already addressed.
and had burned 500 or 600 feet of lum-
Der. for which the bureau had paid from
$3.50 TO So a hundred. Supt. Porter
had appointed TO places persons who
were generally known about the city as
bad characters. Miss Clara d. Bos-
well, IAN old maid" as she described
herself, and former employee in the
census bureau, testified that the en-
ployees were told that speed was need
ed, and not accuracy. There was f.v-
oritism shown toward certain female
clerks, and they were always the young
and pretty employees.
Representative Richardson of Ten
nessee will on Monday next ask the
House to pass, under suspension of the
rules, bill 10 repeal the law imposing
tax of 10 per cent. on the circulation
of all other than national banks.
There was no session Of the Senate
to-day. At that of the House the at
tendance of both members and specta-
tors was small, and the proceedings by
no means interesting, the matter under
consideration being the postoffice ap-
preparation bill. The Capitol, there
fore, looked dull and was dull, and the
chief topic of conversation among the
few people there was the probable out
come of the Minneapolis and Chicago
conventions.
An Ohio democrat here to-day says
the prevailing impression among his
party in his State in respect of the re-
cent Syracuse convention, is that the
kickers sawed Off the limb between
themselves and the tree, with the inev
table result. He also says that the
Cleveland strength, if analysed, will be
found to be supplied chiefly by ex-otlice
holders.
secretary Fcster, who has been sum
mond under quo wa,-ranto proceedings
10 show cause why he ret;..Ses 10 pay
the owners of the condemned SocE
Creek property the amount awarded
eight hundred thousand.
dollars is in an awkward position, as
while his monthly statements show a
large surplus in his Treasury, the only
excuse for failing TO pay the claims re-
ferred TO is that the Treasury is empty.
The Virginia delegation to the Chi
cago convention have made arrange
ments for going there by the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad.
General Malone has recovered suffi-
cientlv from his attack of erysipelas to
enable him to go to Minneapolis, and so
he and his delegation, black as we'll as
white, started for that city this afternoon
by the C. & o. R. r., his check paying
the entire cost of the trip. His son But
Ter was in the party.
The only railroad running through
Alexandria that is benefited by the
special mail facilities appropriation, is
the one from Washington to Quantico,
which receives sd, 300.
A gentleman interested in the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad, here to-
day, says it will probably be month
before the reorganization of that road
can be completed but there is no doubt
that the principal Office ofthe road will
be brought back to this city.
To show what western Farmers al