Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette

legation has no information whatever
upon the subject A member of the
diplomatic corps who has spent some
time in both Toxic and Honolulu says
that any assumption of authority in
Hawaii by the japanese government is
most improbable.
A republican Senator who stands
high in the party counsels said to-day
that the proposed senatorial investIga-
lions of private characters and the re-
organization scheme would come to
nothing this session. They could not
be considered while the contested seats
are under discussion and when that
Ibject is disposed of the Senate Will
probably adjourn, as a quorum would
o hersise disappear within TWO DAYS
ter the President notifies the poaS
tlat he has no further business to pre-
sent to it.
The Department of State has been
informed of the establishment of two
new transatlantic steamship lines,
having New York for their terminus
ON this side. The first is freight line
to Rotterdam. The other is a passen-
ger and freight line to Stettin, on the
Baltic
Secretary Morton has appointed five
State agents in the Department OF Ag-
riculture, to take effect April lSt. They
are Frank a. Dilalush of Illinois vice
S. D. Fisher, removed A. S. Mercer OF
Wyoming vice E. A. Slack, removed
G.I. Fryer of Tennessee vice 7. ii.
Reeves, removed L. NJ. Fay of Wis
consin vice II. c. Adams, removed, and
Nathan Pratt of Delaware vice Daniel
3. Stewart, removed.
D. NJ. Hall of Maine has been APP
pointed property clerk in the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Secretary Carlisle to-day appointed
s. NJ. Gaines, his private secretary,
chief of the mail division, Treasury De-
partment, at salary of s., $500.
Charles Cramp, the shipbuilder, here
to-day, says he hopes to have the
cruiser New York at the naval review
in some capacity.
The Z. S. consul at Queenstown de-
tanned the vessels that touched there
an unreasonable time while he inspect
ed every passenger. Complaint was
made and the consul has been instruct
ed that it is his duty to inspect only the
passengers that embark on vessels at
Queenstown bound for the United
States, but not the passengers that may
have come aboard at some other port.
Secretary Morton, of the Department
of Agriculture, has devised plan to
les, the fitness of applicants for posi-
tons in the department that are not
governed by civil service rules. Each
aspirant in filing his application will
be required to answer certain questions
as to moral and physical ituess and
also questions bearing upon the work
he desires to perform.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell to-day appointed 1876 fourth
cl,ss postmasters, which involved 50
removals. The largest number of APP
pointments was made in Indiana where
there were SO, involving is removals /:
in Tennessee 20 appointments and I
removals; in Missouri 1t appointments
and removals; in Vermont II appoint
ments and 10 removals; in Kentucky 9
appointments and removals, and in
West Virginia appointments, all OF
the incumbents having resigned. The
following were the only changes in
Virginia: Hillsville, Carroll county, II.
II. Farmer, appointed postmaster, vice
d. r. WoIrell, removed; Sylvatus,
Carroll county, T. 3. Smith, vice S. F.
Smith, removed.
There seems to be no likelihood Of
any changes being made among the
officials of the United States Fish Com
mission. Commissioner Mcdonald OF
Virginia was appointed Fish Commits
sioner by President Cleveland during
his first term as the first salaried COM
missioner.
Good Friday was spent quietly at
the White House. The President saw
a few congressman from ten to eleven
o'clock, when the cabinet meeting be-
gan. Mrs. Cleveland usually receives
on Fridays but she did not receive to-
day.
A subcommittee ofthe Senate COM
mittce on the judiciary was engaged for
q time this morning looking into the
charges that have been made against j..
J. McAlester, nominated to be United
States marshal for the Indian Territory.
1t is claimed that McAlester, by reason
of his having married Chickasaw wo-
man, is no longer citizen of the U. S.,
and therefore ineligible to appointment.
also that he has aided the Indians in
their recent uprising, supplied them
with arms and promised them money /;
and that he is man of great wealth
and power among the Indians and by
reason of his influence alleged to be i'm
properly used, is not the proper man to
be peace officer.
As tonight is the time when Repre-
sentatives O'Ferrall and Swanson are
to report to the full Virginia Congress
ional delegation what the President
told them in their recent interview
with him on the subject of the distribu-
ton of federal patronage in their State,
the Virginia ofiiceseekers who went
home last week have returned in force
and the lobby of the Metropolitan Ho-
tel was crowded with them to-day.
They are still in o decidedly uncertain
condition. They don't know whether
the delegation will do as those from
other States have done, agree to disa-
gree, or, if otherwise, to submit their
papers to them and let them, and not
the President, decide their fate. Some,
however, say if the delegation shall
recommend them, all right, but if re-
iected by them they will appeal from
them to the White House.
Mr.. Steuie Mason of Fauquier county
has filed his application for the office Of
collector of internal revenue for the
| upper district of Virginia. There are a