Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria eazette'l
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Nov. I.

WASHINGTON. ID. C., Nov. I.
MIR. VIM. K. Smith, superintendent
of the botanical gardens here, proposes
that the State buildings at the Chicago
fair. with their exhibits, be removed to
this city and set up in some accessible
place, with permanent exhibits to be
renewed and kept up TO date, rs con-
,iuual object lesson 10 Washington WIS.,
;tors. the site to be on Sixteenth street,
extended, or on the prospective park 10
be made from the reclaimed Hats, or
out in the eastern part OF the city.
The President to-day appointed Jas.
phelan. of Detroit, to be collector OF
customs for the First district of Mich
oan. to succeed James II. Stone, the re-
nnblican candidate for Congress in the
Detroit district.
A formal order made public at the
Navy Department so-day directs Com
modore Joseph S. Skerrett to be exam
ned for promotion. He will assume
command of the Asiatic station. He
relieves Admiral Irwin, who exchanges
places with him.
Two of the new naval vessels recently
bid for will, it is said at the Treasury
Department to-day, certainly be built
at Newport's News, Virginia, and
probably the remaining one, though
possibly the building of the latter may
be given to San Francisco bidders,
whose bid was $4,000 in excess OF that
of the Newport'5 News company; AS
the latter company intend to build
; more ships in place of those they have
recently sold to Brazil, the Virginia
ship carpenters will have plenty of
work this winter.
In the annual report Of Superintend-
ent Stump, of the Bureau of lmmigra,
ton, Just made public, it is stated
that among the ports at which imml,
grants are received in the United
States are Newports News and Nor
folk, Va. During the last fiscal year
1913 immigrants arrived in this
country, decrease of III ,03i over the
previous year. Of these 439, $50 were
landed and | ,O63 were debarred for
special causes, in addition to which
number 577 were returned, having be.
come public charges within one year
after arrival.
Representative Burrows, q republ-
can member Of the House ways ami
means committee, when asked about
the new tariff bill that committee is
preparing, replied that be knew moth
Ing about it, that the democratic mem.
bers had it in charge, and that whether
they met in the crypt or the dome OF
the Capitol, he did not know. He had
heard. however, they were going &c
nut both coal aud iron on the free
! list.
4 train of eleven freight cars from
New York, loaded with food and cloth
5 ing for the negro sufferers on the coas!
+ of South Carolina and Georgia by the
! late cyclone, passed through here this
morning. Senator IIoar did not con
tribute, though he tried 10 get q bill
through Congress TO make every body
else do so.
1t is rumored at the Treasury that
v the Treasury coin notes issued under
It the Sherman law and redeemable il
!. gold are TO be withdrawn from circula
ton aud be substituted by silver GER
tificates redeemable in silver dollars.
:, The report that the steamer Costs
c Rica was fired upon by the Honduras
: authorities is confirmed at the State
Department A dispatch was received
Z from Minister Baker on Monday last
c in which the details of the outrage were
: briefly given. The Department is moi
}. likely to take action in the matter unit
;. fuller report has been made by Mr.
Baker. The latter is the diplomatic
C representative of the United States at
: the republics of Nicaragua, Costa RIGA
c and Salvador.
People from Norfolk here to-day say
that Notwithstanding the fact that
: Captain Hudgins of Caroline county
was recommended for marshal of the
eastern district of Virginia by the con
gressional junto thereof, q strong
+ effort is being made by other Virginians
, to have Mr.. J. L. Duke of Norfolk ap
!, pointed.
VIM. n. Monf, of Bloomfield, Ind
5 has been appointed supervisor OF Indian
!, schools.
Judge Patterson of Tennessee, who
went to Accomack c. H, Virginia, te
;. speak at the request of Senator Hun
Il ton and Representative Jones, bu
c didn't do so, as no arrangement haC
e been made, and as he declined to stand
o on street corner in a northeast rair
storm and hold forth Ikea patent med
y icine vendor, when asked about his
trip to-day, said he doesn't feel at al
hurt by the treatment he received, ant
: has no cause to do so, but that he thinks
e somebody else ought to.
9 When the late deputycomptrollerG. I
rison of Virginia was removed, Secreta
u ry Carlisle told him that as he entered
G the Treasury Department at the loves
d rung and had successfully assembled al
o the others to the position from which
he was discharged, he would appoin
u him to another place if the civil servic
s commission would make no objection
l. But it did, and so he is out in the cold
is and civil service reform has received
another blow.
r The North american Rerie,C for No
T. vember has been received from its pub
a fishers in New York. Its contents are
Misrepresentation of the Senate, b,
Senator Stewart, of Nevada; Obstruc
is ton in the Senate, by Senator Lodge
IN of Massachusetts,; Highwaymen of tn
: Railroad, by William A. Pinkerton
u The Wealth of New York, by the May
:" or of New York The Revision of tn