Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. Is.

Jersey. Collector of Internal Revenue
for the First District of New Jersey /;
Charles B. Aycock, United States At
torney for the Eastern District ofNorth
Carolina. Also 3S nominations Of post
masters appointed during the recess.
The President to-day called for the
designations of NJ. E. Smith, assayer OF
the mint at Denver, Col, and Philip
M. Hilderbrand, surveyor of customs
at indianapolis, Ind.
The U. S. cruiser Detroit will sail for
Brazil not Nicaragua. Orders were
sent from the Navy Department this
morning to her commander, at Norfolk,
Va, directing that the vessel be made
ready for sea in the quickest possible
time in order to sail without delay for
Rio de Janeiro to protect American in
terests there during the revolution.
Charles Robinson Of New York is said
by those who claim to have authentic
information to be slated as the success
sor of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts,,
as Assistant Secretary of State. Mr..
Robinson is only twenty-four years OF
age. He has been engaged in newspa
per work almost since his boyhood and
is now one of the editors of the North
american Recie,C.
The report of the United States Con-
sui at Nantes, France. which reached
here this morning, shows that cholera
is on the increase there to an alarming
extent. This morning, also, vague re-
ports of cholera from Rio de Janeiro
reached the bureau.
Mr.. Ellis Mills, the new Hawaiian
consul general, took the oath of office
this morning, his nomination having
been confirmed Saturday. Mr.. Mills
will make visit to his home in Staun-
ton, Va, before leaving for his new
post.
Judge Thomas Smith of Warrenton,
Virginia, whose appointment as Chief
Justice of the Territory of New Mexico
was announced in Saturdays GAZETTE,
was not an applicant for that position,
but at the solicitation of friends in New
Mexico, after reflection and consulta-
ton, consented to accept it if rendered
to him without effort on his part or that
OF his friends in Virginia. He did not
move in the matter himself nor call
upon any body in Virginia to move in
the premises, and the appointment is
exclusively under New Mexico intlu-
ence, exerted without the knowledge
of Virginia and unassisted by any coo
Grafton whatever outside of the terri
tory. 1t cannot therefore be charged
that the patronage is debit against
Virginia. OF course the Judge appre-
ciates the tribute that the people among
whom he once served so satisfactorily
as U. S. attorney have rendered him,
and is solicitous that the credit of it
Shall be theirs absolutely.
An excursion train from Danville,
Virginia, arrived here this morning. AS
the fare on it was low, every body from
the Dauyille neighborhood who had
any business here availed themselves of
the favorable opportunity it afforded.
Among them were some seeking offices
for themselves or for their friends. so
that the Congressman from that dis
trict had as much as he could well do.
Mr.. T. n. Hines, farmers alliance
lecturer, was among the excursionists.
He says the populists in his district are
booming, and that the vote they will
cast next November will surprise peo-
pie who keep their eyes shut. He also
saws that the democrats who will vote
the populists' ticket say that in doing
so they will sustain the democratic
principles of free trade and bimetalism.
George Washington Murray, the coal
black negro member of the House from
South Carolina, introduced resolution
to day appropriating 100000 for the
sufferers by the late storm on the coast
of his State, to help whom, he said, was
dangerous necessity" and asked for
its immediate consideration, but as that
was out of order, it was referred.
Representative Meredith is at Louisa
Court House, Virginia, to-day, to meet
the populist speakers who are there.
His colleague, Mr.. Swanson, was to
have gone with him, but found it i'm
possible to do so. Representative Mar
Shall of the same State is at Woodstock,
where he will meet Mr.. Jerry Simpson.
Sixty-nine fourth class postmasters
were appointed to-day, of whom 40 will
fill the places of removed republicans.
The only change in Virginia was as
follows: Dover Mines, Goochland coun-
ty, Mrs. Mary E. st. Clair appointed
postmaster, vice Patrick II. Duggins,
removed.
The democratic members of the
House committee to whom the bills
for repeating the federal election laws
have been referred met this morning
and agreed upon the bill introduced by
Mr.. Tucker of Virginia, with one or
two amendments. The whole commit
tee will meet tomorrow and concur in
this agreement, as the democrats have
the majority. The present intention is
that the bill will be reported to-mor-
row, and with the request that it be
taken up for consideration on Thurs
day. The bill as agreed upon deprives
the federal government of the power to
interfere in the slightest degree with
the registration or elections in any of
the States, as such matters are, by the
Constitution, solely under State juris-
diction. The committee has found
that the present election laws, those
that are to be repealed, are every whit
as Objectionable as the Force bill.
Mr.. Joseph Wharton of Philadelphia,
vice president of the American Iron and
Steel Association, consumed the entire
time of the House ways and means
committee this morning in vain en-
deavor to prove to them that the tax
imposed by the Mckinley bill Of SIS q
ton on steel rails and So 20 IN MO iron