Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 8.


day: Chas. T. Hemingway of Connec-
ticut, immigrant inspector; John h.
Behan of Louisiana, special inspector
of customs; Alonzo r. Benjamin, as
sistant keeper of light house, Grand
Pointe au Sable, Michigan; Jas. o. Gal
lagher, second assistant keeper of light
house, Squaw Island, Michigan, and D..
II. Yancy of Florida, chief of division,
registers office.
Comptroller Eckels is determined
that bank directors shall know the
obligations they assume when they be-
come such, and with that object in
view has had a circular printed con-
tanning the sections Of the law
defining the duties and obliga-
tons of bank directors. When
a new bank is established a copy OF
this circular will be forwarded to each
director. 1t also contains the penalties
prescribed for neglect of duty. Comp
troller Eckels says he will endeavor to
make bank directors understand that
they are liable under the law for the
fulfllment of their duty to stockholders
and depositors. -,
A gentleman from Norfolk, here
to-day, says that soon after MIR. Harrl-
son was inaugurated, when many OF the
EMPLOYEES at the Norfolk navy yard
were democrats, they and all the re-
publican applicants their positions were
required to stand competitive examina-
tions before republican examiners, the
result being that nearly all the demo.
cratic incumbents were removed and
nearly all the republican applicants APP
pointed. No examinations have been
ordered there during the present adj
ministration and all the republican in
cumbents are retained. The practical
effect of the civil service law, under
democratic as we'll as republican admin
istrations, is to keep republicans IN, and
democrats out of office.
Eighty-two 4th class postmasters
were appointed to-day of whom q will
fill the places of removed republicans.
The changes in Virginia were as fol-
lows: Calverton, Fauquier county,
5. w. Simpson appointed postmaster,
vice Ida Schumate, removed Early
Grove, Scott county, A. B. Pippin, vice
C. F. Barker, resigned ; Gibsonville,
Russell county, ]. G. Wagner, vice
Mrs. Lou. NJ. Wagner, resigned Gla-
dys, Campbell county, Cornelia +.
Withers, vice w. D. Jacobs, removed !;
Moss Neck, Caroline county, B. NJ.
Skinker, vice w. II. McCalley, resign
ed Purchase, Scott county, w. II.
Reynolds, vice NJ. L. Jennings, resigned;
Dickinson county, G. w.
Sutherland, vice NJ. f. Sutherland, re-
signed Wayland, Scott county, S. w.
Mcconnell, vice NJ. c Mcconnell, re-
signed; Alumine, Henry county, Stoke
" Dyer, vice j. o. Martin, resigned.
Among the appointments to-day was
that of ID. II. Iancy to 4 division in the
Office of the register of the Treasury.
Mr.. Yancy is the son of the late w. l..
Yancy, one of the most distinguished
statesmen of the Confederate States.
Representative Meredith, of the AL
exandria district, was at the Inferior
Department to-day urging the appoint
ment of Mr.. Moran, ofLoudoun county,
in his district, to position as chief OF
division in that department..
The applicants for the position of
bank examiner from Virginia are J. r..
Branch and j. +. 3. Stuart of Rich
mond, X. NJ. Guy Of Staunton, J. NJ.
Miller of Buchanan, J. CT. Miller of
Danville, +. U. Northup Of Warrenton,
II. d. Fuller of Winchester, and L. B.
Balm OF Norfolk. J. t. Karkasdon of
West Virginia is the present examiner
for the district, which includes Virginia
with sc banks, West Virginia with 30.
North Carolina with %, South Caro-
lima with II, and East Tennessee with 20.
John B. Brockeubrough, formerly OF
Lexington, Virginia, but now of Orc
gon, has been appointed special agent
of the land office with salary of
81 200. Major John Lane, son of the
democratic Vice Presidential candidate
in 1860, was appointed an Indian agent
yesterday. The Major is q West Point
er, and came all the way from Oregon
to fight for the South, in which he still
has many friends.
Representative Wilson of West Vir-
ginia now here, in talking about the
probable action OF the next Congress,
whenever it shall meet, says it is pos
sible that the ten per cent. tax on State
banks will be repealed as concession
in order to secure the repeal of the sill
yer bill that reduction will be made
in the tariff, and that the South and
West are decidedly in favor of an in
come tax.
Governor Mckinney and Mr.. Bigger
of the Virginia Board of Visitors to Mt.
Vernon, who made their annual trip
to that place yesterday, left here this
morning on their return to Richmond.
They spoke in the highest terms of the
present management of Mt. Vernon.
RICHMOND TERMINAL AFFAIRs.-The
Baltimore committee of Richmond Ter
minal underlying bondholders have
submitted proposition to Drexel,
Morgan s. Co., and are awaiting re-