Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazc:tc.l
WASHINGTON. May -.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazc:tc.l
WASHINGTON, May ..
Scvcra! chiefs OF divisions in the cen
sus bureau testified before the Raum
investigating committee to-day TO
the honesty, impartiality, equality
and efficiency with which the duties OF
that Office are discharged by themselves
and the man who retains them III Office.
A petition from several. wholesale
sugar dealers i'll Omaha, Nebraska,
against the removal OF the tanil tax Oh
leiincd sugar, was presented III the sen
ate to-day. r.
the revenue marine, appeared before
| the House naval committee to-day III
opposition TO the bill 10 transfer the
revenue marine. 10 the naval service.
c. d. Gil!aspic was to-day appointed
D .stmaster al Green Spring Depot, Lou
+ /, county, Va, vice Y. c. Boston, re
signed.
Civil Service Commissioner Roosc-
vel, appeared before the House civil
service committee to-day in reference
to Postmaster General Namtlnakcr:
course iii the Baltimore pcstoliicc case.
lie said he had sent a registered letter
TO Mr.. Wanamakcr on the 10th inst, to
which no reply had been received, and
that ne mast attribute to Mir. Wanna
maker. The statements made in the in
spec;or's report sent TO the committee.
| Those statements, he said, were slan-
derous falsehoods. He had nothing to
do with Mr.. Wanamakers subordinates,
but with that officer himself, ana that
if he could get him before the commit
tee he would guarantee TO make his
own. Rooscvclt's, position even strong
cr than he had represented it.
The House committee on the District
Of Columbia to-day took up the bill Civ
inc the \. & w. r. II. an entrance into
this CITY by bridge across the Potomac
n or near the Three Sisters, but Con-
oressnlan Rusll Of Baltimore spoke in
opposition to it SO long that The hour OF
adjournment arrived before a conclusion
was reached.
A southern Cleveland man at the
Capitol to-day said the arrangements
for renominating the cx-President were
completed. and that he would be noml-
mated on the second ballot. All the
favoritc sons support would then come
to him and he would so through with a
rush. When asked what New York
would do. he said Tammany ruled New
York. and the democrats of the country
were tired of Tammany.
In the Senate to-day proposed
amendment to the sundry civil bill APP
propriating $1,000 for a postoiiic build
ing nj Fortress Monroe, was tayorabiy
reported.
The directors of the Washington and
Arlington Railroad Company, an invcs
ton of whose affairs has been asked fol
in the Senate, presented Il statement Il
the Senate District committee to-day.
Mr.. Ryan, OF Loudoun county, Vir
ginia, ono Of the delegates to the Chica
20 convention from the Alexandra:
district, was here to-day. He laughed
at the statement recently published il
Baltimore newspaper to the effect
that he is a Cleveland man.
General Garrison, chairman Of tho
national republican committee, break
tasted with Secretary Elkins this morn
ing and had an informal talk with hin
+ over the political situation.
Congressman Meredith, of the Alex
andria district, says nc hears that Mr.
jerry Simpson, the Kansas Alliance
Congressman, intends to speak Mt al
the court houses in his district. If he
goes to Brcntsville, he says, he will
meet him there and show him up.
The friends OF Senator Vance are very So
lcit0us about his health. He has had a second
stroke o! partial paralysis and is very de
spondent.
Il is r,lmored here that Governor McKin-
ncy OF Virginia has offered the Virginia Sen
atorship TO Mr.. Writ Henry, Il descendant O
Patrick Henry.
Al the morning session of the American
Home Missionary Society, after an address O
leone by DR. Newman and reply by Con
gresham Dnglcy, President of the Society. I'll,
Congrcgatioaal;stS got To work. Secretary
Clark said only onc-fourtecnth of the fund.-
were expended i'll the old southern States. II
: Virginia, Maryland and the District OF Column
ba there were but eleven churches.