Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
of the Alexandria Gazette.l

cbects hove been received and of this
number about $500 are addressed IN
care of pension attorneys, VINO on De-
ing refused letters sent IN their care
threaten mandamus proceedings. ID
response to inquiries as to what snail
he done in case mandamus proceedings
are begun the officers in charge have
been Instructed to consult the United
States district attorney. The depart.
ment will resist every effort to compel
the delivery of mail to pension attor-
news not intended for them personally
The talk of resorting to the courts Is
thought to be "bluff" and no atten-
ton will be paid to it unless proceed.
ings are actually begun.
a telegram received at the Postothce
Department states that at $3.50 O'Clock
this morning at Terre Haute, Ind,
robbers held up the mail wagon which
transfers the mail from the city post
office to the railroad station and secur-
ed three pouches of mail. The robbie
are still at large.
The Pan American Medical Congress
adjourned to-day to meet in the City OF
Mexico either in 1896 or 1897.
The only information the Postoffice
Department officials have of the report
ed disappearance Of Major Schreiner,
who is in charge Of the department ex-
hibit at Chicago, is contained in press
telegram from Chicago. No particular
uneasiness is felt, as it is confidently
ernected that Major Schreiner will put
in an appearance within short time.
An ordinary case of mysterious dis
appearance" is suggested as being the
probable explanation.
The President to-day sent to the SEN
ate the following nominations Theo.
dore Runyon of New Jersey, ambassa-
dor extraordinary and plenipotentiary
of the United States to Germany; AL
bert S. Willis of Kentucky, envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentia-
nv of the United States to the Hawaiian
Islands; Henry NJ. Smythe of Virginia,
to be minister resident and consul gen.
eral of the United States to Hayti
Ellis Mills of Virginia, consul general
at Honolulu; VIM. S. Carroll of Mary
land, consul general at Dresden, Ger
many. United States Consuls: George
J. Willis of Georgia, at Port Stanley
and st. Thomas, Canada; John r. Mob,
lev of Texas, at Acapulco, Mexico
Henry r. D. MacIver Of New York,
at Denia, Spain George Keenan, OF
Wisconsin, at Kenl, Germany; Henry
C. C. Astwood of New York, at Calais,
France Leopold Moore of New York
at st. Christopher, W. |.
Although the press reports abroad IN,
dicate an outbreak of cholera or at least
suspicious cases in the city of London,
the Marine Hospital Service has re-
ceived no word corroborating them.
The hearing before the House ways
and means committee to-day was open
ed by \. a. Gilbert, of the Shelby
Ohio, Steel Tube Company. The bust.
ness he represented was begun in 1891
and consisted of making tubes for BIZ
cycles. His was the only firm in the
United States engaged in this business
The raw material they used-steel bill
lets or blooms-was made from pecu'
liar grade of ore produced only in Swe-
den. The material was not CONNER
cially known prior TO 1891, as none was
imported, but under the law of 1890 it
was dutiable at one and sixteenth cents
per pound or forty per cent. ad valorem
This duty he thought was unjust, and
he advocated placing this class of steeI
on the free list. Mr.. Stevens, of the
Ludlow Cordage Company, of Ludlow
Mass. opposed the reduction Of the
tariff on the products of his company
aud asked the committee to extend to
them the same protection that was
given other industries, wooden and cot
ton manufactures, etc. Mr.. Turner
asked if it were fair to compel the
farmer to pay higher rates for his bag
cling when he had to sell his products
in the markets of the world on al
equality with foreigners. Mr.: Stevens
said this query opened up the whole
question of protection, and he did NOT
care to discuss it. The farmers of New
England as well as those of the South,
he said, were far from prosperous, and
he was sorry for it. l.. Moritz, bone
button manufacturer of Philadelphia
appealed to the committee for the reten
ton ofthe present duty on bone buttons
The republicans of the Senate held q
clucus this morning, at which the ques
ton of endorsing the action of the eau
Gus committee which had divided the
places given them by the democrats
among the oldest Senators in point o.
service, was, considered. There was
some little amusement over this distri.
button of the senatorial loaves and
fishes, and one or two of the younger
members from the western States good
naturally referred to the way the mat,
ter had been arranged as senatorial
bunco game, in which the new mem
bers had been made the victims.
Siyty-two fourth-class postmasters
were appointed to-day, of whom "a will
fill the places of removed republicans
The changes in Virginia were as fol,
lows: Allegheny Spring, Montgomery
county, Robert c. Colhoun appointed
postmaster, vice Edw. T. Dooley, re.
signed Jacksondale, Princess Anne
county, Afford Norris, vice LaSalle
Jackson, resigned.
Representative Jerry Simpson told
the GAzErrE's correspondent to-day
that ne would speak for the populists
at Woodstock, Virginia, next Monday,
aud at Winchester on the night of tina,
day; at Chatham on the 18th and at
Staunton on the 25th. He said that
Senators PETER, Allen and Kyle and
Representatives Pence, Davis and Har-
ris, and other populiss from the West,
would sneak in Virginia during the