Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. II.

The President to-day sent to the SEN
ate the following nominations: Edward
c. Butler, of Massachusetts,, to be Sec
rotary of Legation to Mexico Otto IL.
Boyesen, of North Dakota, U. S. Con-
sui at Gothenburg, Sweden; Bradley
B. SwalIey, Collector of Customs for the
District of Vermont; George w. Skin
ner Pension Agent at Pittsburg, Pa;
Thomas j. Lowe Secretary of Oklaho-
ma; James C. Caldwell, Receiver Of
Public Moneys at Kingfsher, Oklaho.
ma. To be Registers of Land Offices
VIM. D. Lindsay at Guthrie, Okla; Ed
ward G. Spilman, of West Virginia, at
Kingfsher, Okla; Edwin P. Hartman at
Denver, Col; John J. Beavers at Little
Rock, Ark. William C. Perry, U. S.
Attorney for the District of Kansas /;
Norborne T. n. Robinson, of Louisiana,
to be Assistant Solicitor of the Treas
ury Ga recess appointment); First AS
sistant Engineer Edward F. Hedden to
be Chief Engineer; Second Assistant
Engineer Eugenius A. Jack to be First
Assistant Engineer. and VIM. Z. Mac
coum, of Maryland, to be Second AS
sistant Engineer in the revenue cutter
service,
Senator Hoar will this afternoon call
up the resolution to admit Lee Mantle
to a seat in the Senate unless Senator
Vest postpones such action by q fiDan-
cial speech he contemplates making.
Mr.. Hoar says he will endeavor to Sc
cure vote on his resolution to-day.
Up to this time the number of sus-
pensions of pensions under the recent
act of Congress which provides that
no pension shall be paid to non-resi-
dent who Is not citizen Of the United
States, except for actual disabilities
incurred in the service, is 2,463. The
total number Of foreign pensioners
originally on the rolls was about 1000.
A call has been issued for republic
can caucus Immediately after the adj
iournment of the Senate to-day if the
hour is not too late. The primary
purpose is to dispose of the minority
patronage, but the situation i'll the Sen
ate will probably come under discus
sion.
Representative Oates, who was struck
by cable car last week and badly in
iured, is not so well to-day, and his con-
dition is unfavorable.
Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle and
Postmaster General Bissell returned to
Washington this morning.
Since the 1st of August the Treasury
Department has issued United States
bank notes on bonds to the extent OF
S5,577 ,405. Bonds have been deposited
to secure circulation to the amount OF
SO, III, $50 and United States bank
notes to the amount Of 1913 SOS, $50 have
been ordered printed. The national
bank note circulation outstanding is to-
day $3.50, l40,709, an increase of more
than five million dollars since August
1st.
Representative Breckenridge of Ken
lucky was at the House Of Represent
atives this afternoon for a few min
uies. He did not occupy his seat, stop
ping long enough to look over the
mail accumulated thereon. He held q
briet conversation with several men,
bers and then retired from the hall.
The trouble he is now in was not un-
expected.
Representative Meredith made the
rounds of the departments.again to-day,
seeking places for his constituents, but
seeking in vain, as everywhere his re-
quests met with the same reply: "No
vacancies, and your district already
has more than its fair share Even
the place from which Yardley Brown
of Loudoun county was removed was
given to man from another district.
The bill which Mr.. Voorhees, intro
duced in the Senate to-day allowing
national banks currency to the full
amount of the par value of their bonds,
received the approval of the democratic
members of the Senate finance commit
tee and of Secretary Carlisle.
Mr.. Thompson of Vermont, republi-
can, clerk in the Office of the Secre-
tary of the Senate, was removed to-day,
and the place given to Mr.. Givens of
Arkansas. The name Of Marshall Car
ter of Virginia was to-day added to the
list of Senate employees.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hunton in
troduced bills granting the Alexandria
and Mt. Vernon Electric Railroad per-
mission to run through the Arlington
reservation and to cross the Potomac
by bridge at Arlington.
The resolution providing for the eel
ebration of the centennial of the laying
of the corner stone of the Capitol next
month, which passed the House last
Friday, passed the Senate to-day. 1t
contains no appropriation.
All the Virginia congressman except
Messrs. Jones of the lst, Epes of the
4th, Edmunds of the 9Th, and Tucker of
the 10th district, will attend the Vir-
ginia State democratic convention.
The total number of fourth-class
postmasters appointed to-day was 70,
of whom 80 will fill the places of re-
moved republicans. The only change
in Virginia was the following: Reads
Wharf, Northampton county, G. o.
Hutchinson, appointed postmaster, vice
G. 81. Read, dead.
Senator Daniel has returned from
Chicago and was in his seat in the Sen
ate to-day. The Senator says he thinks
it is impossible to pass any bill for the
unconditional repeal Of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman silver bill. This
is the prevailing belief, and it is grow
ing stronger day by day.
Some delegates to the democratic
convention of Virginia, from the upper
counties of that State, are in this city
on their way to Richmond, where Mr..
O'Ferrall's friends are to confer to-mor-
row night. From them it is learned