Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-15

with the cooperation of the expert
ment stations in the cotton States, ex-
periments with view to producing
cotton OF home growth which may
serve as an efficient substitute for
Egyptian cotton.
The probabilities are that the clerks
and some other employees in the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing not
directly employed in the production of
greenbacks and other government OBJ
legations will have to take certificates OF
Indebtedness instead of cash for their
salaries for the balance of the current
Fl cal year as the result of an error in
me enrolment of the deficiency bill, by
which the word thousand was left Off
after an appropriation intended TO be
thirty-seven thousand dollars for de-
iciency in pay of clerical and other help
in the bureau.
The Postmaster General has notified
Senators and members OF the House OF
Representatives that hereafter he will
require in addition to their recommend
ations for postmasters some local eX-
pressions OF the patrons Of the office as
to the fitness of the applicant.
At the republican Senatorial caucus
to-day Senator Stewart of Nevada was
removed from his membership of the
appropriations committee because he
had accepted craftsmanship from the
democratic caucus.
Messrs. Walker, Gardner, Goodwin,
Warner. Edison, Sacks and Hay, q COM
mittee appointed by The G. A. r. of this
city, left here this morning for Rich
mond. to present to the Confederate
Home there furniture for an entire
ward of that home.
A delegation of people from Arizona.
among them Judge Wright and Mr..
Thornton, accompanied by Senator
Hutton, called at the White House this
morning and requested the President to
appoint Mr.. f. Burgess, formerly OF
Culpeper, Va, but now of Arizona,
Governor of that Territory.
Senator Roach, the new democratic
Senator from North Dakota, says he
cannot be arrested as fugitive from
Justice, as he is not one, and that pco-
pie here have been aware of his resi-
dence ever since he left here, fourteen
wears ago, on account of the Citizens
National Bank embeZzlement; and.
what's more, that he doesn't intend to
resign because that back number has
been reproduced.
Ex-Congressman Blount of Georgia.
who. as chairman of the foreign affairs
committee of the last House, pigeon
holed resolution calling for the Chill
ian correspondence ''lcst it might en-
barrass Mr.. Harrison's administration, .
has been appointed sole L. 5. Commits
sioner TO Hawaii, and started from here
for Honolulu last night.
Congressman Meredith, of the Alex.
andria, Virginia, district, was again al
the White House this morning to see il
exceptions to the new rule prohibiting
the appointment of eX-oilice holders
could not be made in some cases in bis
own district. Mr. Cleveland told him
plainly that the rule would be strictly
observed, and that except in cases il
which the cx-oflice holders are the only
applicants, none of them will be reap
pointed.
By the revised reorganization of the
Scnate's committees Senator Huntor
gets chairmanShip-that of the com.
mittee to establish the University o.
the United States.
Judge r. w. Hughes of the L. S
court for the eastern district of Virgins
is here to-day on his way from Abing
don to Norfolk, via Richmond. The
I,,.J ,,-aal-- ac q N
at the time in this correspondence, thai
the then existing relations between Mr.
Cleveland and his party reminded hin
Of the story of the quack doctor who
said if he could succeed in throwing
his patient into fits he had him just
where lie wanted him. When asked
about that remark to-day, he said ii
looked very much rs the President
had succeeded in throwing his party
int fits, but whether he could now cure
it time alone would tell.
Representative Meredith filed at the
State Department to-day the appica.
ton of Mr. G.. S. Shackelford of Orange
county, Virginia, for the consulate at
Lyons, France.
All the members ofthe Virginia dem
ocratc congressional delegation will
assemble here next week for the pur-
pose of comforting upon the subject OF
The distribution of Nirginias share OF
the federal patronage. If they knew
what little Importance Mr.. Cleveland
will attach to the proceedings of their
proposed conference those who have
any business at home would not take
the trouble of coming here.