Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON. Nov. 81, 1898.


WASHINGTON. Nov. 81, 1898.
II has been determined to establish
permanent headquarters here for the
national republican campaign commit
tee. The executive committee of that
committee will meet either here or IN
New York next month, and at it will
be considered q proposed plan by which
the delegates from the certain demo-
cratic States in the South to the ma
tional republican conventions shall be
reduced TO two each, as under the pres
en- plan they now hold a power in such
conventions to which they are not en-
titled.
Representative Meredith was here
today aud called at the Treasury De-
partment, but neither Secretary Car
isle nor his son Logan was visible. DE
thinks that Col. L. w. Reid of Alexar-
dria will be appointed chief clerk of the
Registrars office when the republican
incumbent shall resign. Mr.. Meredith
saws he will go to the Agricultural De-
partment,t to see about MIR.
Wexford Corbin's application for the
place Of Assistant Secretary OF Agrl-
culture. He was told last summer that
as soon as the Chicago fair was over
the republican incumbent would be re.
moved, and now that the fair referred
to is over, he wants to know If what he
was told will prove true.
By patience and perseverance Repre-
sentative Tyler, of the Norfolk district,
is slowly but surely getting good
many democrats employment in the
Norfolk navy yard, in place of republic
cans.
Members of the bar of the U. S. Su-
preme Court manifest much interest IN
the remarkable opinion deliveredyester-
day.by Justice Field, reversingI hejudl-
cial decisions of century on the ques-
ton of what constitutes the high
seas" The opinion was very long: AS
soon as it is revised and put in shape
for official PRONUNCIATION it will become
of international Importance.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices in Virginia were made
to-day: Gardenia, Prince Edward coun-
ty, Mrs. n. w. Garden, appointed post
master, vice Sallie E. Garden, resigned;
Tyro, Nelson county, NJ. E. Massie,
vice B. Massie, resigned. AT Port To-
bacco, Charles county, Md, F. S. Barnes
was appointed, vice Mary F. Wade, re-
moved.
The House appropriations commit
tee is at work. 1t is understood that
the sundry civil bill will contain no ap.
preparation for the commencement OF
any new public building, and will cut
down the estimates for continuing the
work in progress. The destructive
storms have made unusually heavy ex-
penses necessary for the repair and re-
building of light houses and buoys and
beacons.
Many are now waiting anxiously for
the arrival of the Alameda, which sail
ed from Honolulu last Thursday and is
due at San Francisco day after to-mor-
row. Asthis vessel willbring advices five
days later than those brought by the
Australia it has been assumed that they
will be more significant and important
as indicating more clearly the policy to
be pursued by Minister Willis. But
there are assigned reasons for the be-
lief that the curiosity of the public IS
again doomed to disappointment. 1t is
doubtful whether the islanders, at the
date of sailing of the Alameda, had re-
ceiyed the news contained in Secre-
tary Gresham's letter to the President,
recommending the restoration of Queen
Liliuokalani. Unless they have done
so, and thus perhaps by popular agg-
itation, forced disclosure of Minister
Willis's plans, it is believed by persons
who should be well-informed, that
these plans had hardly developed to a
sufficient degree before last Thursday
when the steamer sailed, to fore
warn the inhabitants of the
islands of the purposes of the
United States Government. After
the Alameda arrives next Thursday,
there will be no mails from Honolulu
for about twenty days, owing to the
wreck of the Miowara, the next
steamer on the schedule, and there is
the best reason for the belief that in
that interval the administration eX-
poets events will occur on the islands,
second in Importance and interest only
to those that attended the revolution OF
last January.
The democratic members of the House
WAYS and meana committee were &C
lively at work on the tariff bill this
morning. 1t is reported that the bill
they will report will be radical one,
putting coal, iron, lumber, salt and 9th
err prime necessaries on the free list, re-
ducing the duty on steel rails from
$3.50 to $3.50 a ton, and imposing
either tax on sugar or an income tax.
It is also rumored that the bill will not
be submitted to a democratic caucus,
and will therefore be opposed on the
floor of the House by democrats as
well as republicans, and thus the di-
vision i'll the ranks of the former made
by the silver bill be widened still furth-
er. The bill will be submitted to the
republican members of the committee
next Monday Morning.
Senators Daniel and Hunton are both
in the city.
DELEGATES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mckinney has appointed delegates to
the Farmers Congress, which is to be