Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. Is.

district OF OTeBOu, OWeH q. Al. JUL
mers, U. S. attorney for the northern
district of Florida; Jefferson A. Huff,
judge of probate in the county of Grand,
Utah.
The Secretary of State has received
cable advices from Paris which con-
firms the bulletin that the decision of
the arbitration tribunal on all points
involving exclusive jurisdiction over
Behring sea has been rendered against
the United States.
The committee on finance, by prac-
t;cally unanimous vote, this morning
decided to report favorably the bill in
troduced yesterday by Mr.. VOORHEES,
providing for the issuing of circulating
notes to national banks to the par value
of government bonds on deposit to Sc.
cure circulation. Mr.. VOORHEES, will
eudeavor to put the bill on its passage
to-day.
Official changes were announced in
the Treasury Department today as fol-
lows: Appointed-Robert B. Mayes,
Mississippi, Chief of Division, 9th Audi
tors Office; John Mason, Colorado,
Special Inspector Michael ]. Flaherty,
New York, Assistant Custodian of U.
S. Court House and Post Office Build
ing, New York city, $500; George T.
Galavan, Illinois, Chief Engineer, U.
s., Custom House, Building, Chicago,
81 500 and Charles R. Schecht, New
York, Epgraver, Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, 5000. Resigned-W. II.
Kitchin, North Carolina, Chinese In
spector.
Among the bills introduced in the
Senate by Mr.. Hunton to-day We're the
following To pay to the heirs of Mrs.
Mary Ann Randolph Gusts Lee of Fair
fax county, Virginia, $2l7 1858, the
amount awarded her by the court of
claimsf,r quartermaster's supplies taken
from her for the use of the federal army
during the war; to pay the claim of
Samuel March of Norfolk, Virginia,
$3.50, incurred in 1862; directing the
purchase of lot opposite the Norfolk
navy yard; to pay the Potomac Steam
boat Company the amount they were
compelled TO pay the Baker Salvage
Company for raising the steamer Ex-
celsior, sunk by the US. vessel Fortune;
providing that the U. S. court of claims
shall retain jurisdiction of the claims Of
certain citizens of Virginia heretofore
referred to that court, and that the
court shall make a report upon them.
The rumor grows here that the Pres
ident is really sick man. But relia-
bic Senators, who have seen him since
he left Washington, say he exhibits no
signs of serious illness, and Secretary
Lamont is authority for the statement
that his indisposition is the result of no
organic disease.
The belief that the Senate will refuse
to pass an unconditional bill for the re-
peal of the Sherman act is not so firm
to-uay as it has been, for the reason of
a rumor to the effect that some of the
members of the Senate finance COM
mittee. though now opposing such q
bill, and who will continue to oppose
for q time longer, may be induced to
vote for it finally.
A good many delegates to the Nir-
GINA State democratic convention that
will meet next Thursday are here to-
day on their way to Richmond. Among
them are Messrs. Alexander of Rich
mond, Ryan of Loudoun, Mccormick an
Thomas of Clarke, Major Bob Mason Of
Albemarle and several others. The
nti-O'Ferrall men among them say
their fight is by no means a forlorn
hope, and that they intend to keep it up
till the end.
Senator Daniel, accompanied by
Messrs. Mccormick and Thomas Of
Berryville, Virginia, called at the Agri-
cultural Department to-day in the in
terest of the latter, who is an applicant
for government position, and who was
the chairman of the Berryville meeting
at which the O'Ferrall delegates to the
Virginia democratic convention were
elected.
Democrats from Norfolk here to-day
say the O'Ferrall men in that district
are all for Backston of the Eastern
Shore for Attorney General.
1t is understood that the lobby agents
of the Norfolk and Western Railroad
are eXerting all the influence at their
command to secure the appointment Of
a House District of Columbia commit
tee favorable to their plan for bridge
across the Potomac at Georgetown.
Representative Meredith called upon
Secretary Morton Of the Agricultural
Department this morning in the inter-
est of Mr.. Wexford Corbin, of Virginia,
an applicant for the position of Assist
ant Secretary of Agriculture. Mr.. Nor
ton spoke very favorably of Mr.. Corbin,
but said the place was at the disposal
of the President. The President, when
talked to on the subject some time ago,
said it was at the disposal of Mr.. Nor
ton. Mr.. Meredith was at the Interior
Department to try to get Mrs. Penn of
Alexandria place, but was unsuc-
cessful, as he was for other applicants
at other departments, at all OF which
he called.
The total number of fourth-class
postmasters appointed to-day was rs,
of whom A will fill the places of re-
moved republicans. The changes in
Virginia were as follows: Barbours-
vile, Orange county, G. S. Parker ap-
pointed postmaster vice j. NJ. ?. Will
liams, removed Fauquier Springs,
Fauquier county. Geo. S. Cooper, vice
Mrs. S. c. Coons, removed; Foster,
Mathews county, L. r. Hurley, vice
w. T. Foster, resigned Meherrin, Luz
nenberg county, w. P. Wall, vice Mrs.
N. G. Prince, removed.
The report that Mrs. Pollard and her
brother are attempting to shoot Rep
resentative Breckenridge is not credit
ed here, for the common sense reason
that if either of them ever contemplate