Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1898.

l4amar'S successor, Salu III Notilu NC INC
b st one the President has made if it
were the last. He also said Blaine was
more admired for his brilliant vices
than Harrison for his feeble virtues.
Col. John NJ. FAINT, formerly of Fau-
quier county, Virginia, is dangerously
i'll at his residence in this city.
A telegram in a New York newspa-
pers of to-day, to the effect that Senator
Brice OF Ohio has leased the Metropoli-
tan Hotel in this city, and will enter
tain there, during the Inauguration,
free of expense, every citizen of ONO
who calls upon him and establishes the
fact that he is an Ohioian, regardless OF
his politics, race, religion and previous
condition of servitude, is without the
slightest foundation.
The Senate judiciary committee TINS
morning took up the nomination OF
Judge Jackson, of Tennessee, TO be
Associate Justice of the Z. 5. Supreme
Court. but its consideration was post
pone until next Monday at the request
of the two Senators from his State. 1t IS
understood that at the next meeting Of
the committee an effort will be made 10
cause the nomination to be favorably
reported to the Senate. There Is no
d 5ubt that it will be confirmed. After
the assembling of the Senate Associate
Justice Brown, Of the Supreme Court,
appeared on the floor and held brief
conference with Mr. Hoar, chairman OF
the judiciary committee.
No information of definite charac-
ter can be expected concerning the
Hawaiian question until after the coll
ference tomorrow morning between
the annexation commissioners and the
Secretary OF State, and not much then.
1t has come TO be believed almost gen
orally that nothing can be expected
until further advices from Honolulu,
particularly with reference TO the atti-
tude OF Great Britain towards the new
government. The contradictory re-
ports that The English minister ut Ha-
waii has and has not recognized the
provisional authority will, it is thought,
be explained by the arrival Of the
mail steamer at san Francisco, and UNI
til such adviccs are received little Of a
definite character can be done.
The e. 5. Supreme Court to-day rem
dcred an opinion to the effect that knit
woolens. shirts. drawers and hosiery,
nuder the Mckinley bill, must pay n
duty of GO per cent. The Court also
denied the motions to advance the two
cases involving the constitutionality OF
the railroad laws of Georgia.
The rules committee of the House to-
day decided not TO report the resolution
Of Mr. Enloc requesting authority to
continue the investigation into the man
agemcnt Of the Pension Office under
Commissioner Raum. The remainder
of The session, they say, is too short for
the purpose. The Raum committee,
however, will be assigned day for the
disposition OF their report in the House,
and in case it is not disposed of in that
time they will be recognized on Il sus-
pension day for disposition oftheir find
ings.
To-day's session of the sub-commit
tee ofthc House Judiciary committee
investigating the whisky trust was de
voted TO watching experiments by Mr..
Ncasey in producing liquors by adul-
teration. BY The use of essential oil,
essences and coloring matter, he pro,
ducod in few minutes WHISTLES, rims
and gins similar to those Fiat are
placed on the market anl-gold as pure
goods. The basis -f&af his production
was an odor..GGss and colorless liquid,
known 70 the trade as spirits. 1t was
Worth about one dollar and thirty cents
per gallon. BY the use of compounds
worth about one and one-half cents he
produced gallon OF liquor that would
Sell for as high as four dollars. The
production of adulterated goods repre-
sentcd one half the liquor business of
the country. BY misrepresentation
these goods were worked upon the en-
tire trade of the country. Mr.. Neasey
urged that certain witesses (no names
givcn) be called us soon as possible, as
some of them would find it more con-
venicnt to be in Europe than before the
committee, if they were given time.
The President has so far refused to
approve the new treasury circular sus-
pending the operation Of the 20 days
quarantine, though it is not now rigidly
enforced, but may be revived, if neces-
sity requires He has simply pockcted
it.
There are divers and sundry reports
in circulation among the Virginians
here in respect offs reported combine"
by which certain prominent men in that
State imagine they can secure the long
and short term Virginia senatorships
aud the solicitor generalship OF the ma
tional government The consensus OF
opinion among them on the subject is
that if any such combine has been
made it had better be dissolved ut once,
for the good of the combiners, as the
public knowledge of it would necessari-
~ prove injurious to all.connected with
an affair so contrary to the recognized
custom of Virginia, where heretofore
every political tub has stood upon its
own bottom.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster has
decided to appoint Robert J. Wynne,
his private secretary, deputy comp
troller Of the currency, to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the resignation of r. NJ.
Nixon. The place pays $500.
The U. S. Supreme Caurt to-day took
q recess for one month.
The President today granted pardon to
Edgar Swan, ev-president OF the City National
Bank of Lynn, Mass. convicted of violating
the federal banking laws.
After many delays the Panama investiga
ton was begun this morning by the special
committee appointed by the House for the pur-
nose. Chas. Colne, of Brooklyn, secretary of
the American committee of the Panama Com
panv. testified that he had disbursed about
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