Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-11
FROM WASHINGTON:
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. Il.


CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. Il.
Mayor-elect Scheiren OF Brooklyn was
at the Capitol to-day and called upon
the democratic members of the House
WAYS and means committee in theil
room. He announced in the presence
of witnesses that he was not q republi
can and had not been elected by re-
publicans.
Among the visitors here to-day was
Capt. Cooke, the late populist candi
date for Governor of Virginia. He says
that when the official returns of the
election come in it will be seen that the
democratic majority in his State is not
as large as reported. He attril u e. LIZ
defeat to the influence Of money, and to
moral cowardice-not the use of money
at the polls, bu. its influence upon en-
plovees and debtors, and the moral
cowardice being the fear of social ostra,
cism for voting against the democratic
party. The Captain says it IS tie inten-
ton of his party TO keep up its organl'
t on.
The friends of Burgess and Popham,
whose distillery in Culpeper county,
Va, has been seized by the govern.
ment for crookedness, fear there will
be more trouble in settling that affair
satisfactorily than they have anticipat'
ed, Judging from the statements made
at the internal revenue bureau.
Edwin F. Uhl, the newly-appointed
First Assistant Secretary of State, who
succeeds Josiah Quincy, was sworn into
office to-day.
AS soft coal is one of the products OF
Virginia. the people of that State here
are curious about what the new tariff
bill will do with coal. Dir, Springer,
ex-chairman of the ways and means
committee, said to-day he though coal
would he put on the free list, and whea
Mr.. Wilson, chairman of that commit
tee, was told that the newspapers said
the present tax on coal of 10 cents
ton would be reduced to so cents, he
replied that the newspapers informed
him ofmany things he had not heard Of
before. The protection democrats
saw that as the New England States,
which always go republican, would
be the only ones benefited by the re-
movai or reduction of the coal tax, they
see no reason why that tax should be
changed. Real democrats say coal
should be put on the free list. People
who Judge of the future by the past say
the democrats will compromise" and
reduce, not reu owe the tax.
In his argument before the House
ways and means committee yesterday,
Mr.. Hall said that under his scheme, If
a deficit in the revenue was apparent
the income tax could be increased, and,
in the same way, if there was surplus
the tax could be decreased. He also
asserted that for every dollar of rev.
enue thatw to the government there
were seven dollars Of protection that
went to the pockets of protected manu-
facturerS.
The following changes in the fourth
class postotiices of Virginia were made
to-day Jaratt, Sussex county, J. ).
Grigg appointed postmaster, vice Il. j.
Freeman, resigned Pungo, Princess
Anne county, G.. w. Land, vice Simon
Land, resigned.
From the talk here to-day, it is appa'
rent that the democrats are not only
divided on the silver, but on the Ha-
waiian question, as some of them are
denouncing the President roundly for
as they term it, putting negro wencf
back on her throne while others APP
plaud him for restoring the status quo
in Hawaii before the interference of I
U. Minister Stevens and the l. 5. Ma
rines, and for permitting the people OF
that country to attend to their own
matters without any foreign interior,
euce. Mr.. Hastings, secretary OF the
Hawaiian legation,is the only represen
tative of the usurping government al
Honolulu here, and he processes to be
greatly surprised at the course Presl'
dent Cleveland has taken.
Col J. Hampton Hoge of Virginia, who was
called back while on his way to Annoy, China
to which place he had been appointed U. 5
Consul, has not reached here yet. The San
Francisco Chronicle of the 9th instant, con
corning him SAYS "he has gone neither to China
nor back to his home in the Old Dominion
His baggage is at the Baldwin, but the Col
onel has apartments at the homo for the care
of the inebriates, where his friends have
placed him for the time being