Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l

CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandra Gazette.l
WASHINGTON. March %. 1898.
Beyond the inward rush of scores OF
place hunters with their escorts OF Sen
ators and Representatives, there was
little of interest at the White House to-
day. The Presidents Office was crowd
ed constantly. To Congressman who
asked him concerning the position of
pension commissioner and public print
err, the President said he would not ill
these Offices for some time to come. 1t
is certain that number of candidates
for the pension commisionership have
already been rejected because they do
not come within the requirements Of
Mr.. Cleveland's expressed intention to
appoint only man of established busl,
ness capacity against whose political
reputation the charge of "bossism" has
never been brought The candidates
for the commissionership are numerous,
but the number is exceeded by the ag-
greeate of those who want to be public
printer. Tennessee alone has seven
candidates for the latter office.
Baron de Aguiar de Andrada, Brazil
ian Minister in Washington, was strick
en- with apopleSy and paralysis last
night and lies in the Arlington Hotel In
Critical condition. The Baron had at
tended the performance of"Still Alarm"
at the National Theatre and fell just as
he was descending the steps at the ell
trance on his exit from the building.
A telegram has been received at the
Treasury Department at Portland, Ore,
stating that Deputy Collector Cornell
and Inspector Armstrong at midnight
Thursday had permitted 81 Chinese
passengers to land there. Orders have
been sent suspending the officials and
directing a thorough investigation.
The Treasury Department is also adj
vised of the arrest at Deming, n. NJ, Of
five Chinese, who came from Mexico.
These Cinnamon, upon conviction, will
be sent to San Francisco, then to be
deported to China. Since the begin
ming of the present fiscal year 1877
Cinnamon have been returned to China.
Last year l75 Cinnamon were return
ed.
The rule agreed upon in Cabinet yes
terday setting apart Tuesdays and Fri
DAYS of each week when heads of eS-
ecutive departments would not receive
visitors, abolished all the special days
selected by the several secretaries
when they would work behind closed
doors. This new rule, therefore, gives
four days in each week on which visit
ors will be received at the several de-
partments. The President has hereto
fore set aside Monday of each week for
himself.
The office seekers here are in what
NAV be called decidedly mixed condi-
ton. There are q great many OF them,
but as the weather is mild so that they
can scatter, the hotel Hobbies are not as
crowded with them as they have been.
Some have called on the President and
the cabinet ministers and some have
not. The former, judging from what they
say, have been politely received and
patiently listened to, and so thankful are
some of them for small favors and so
sanguine, that they consider such treat
ment as indicative ofsuccess. Others, on
the contrary, are not satisfied, and say
that their failure to receive any positive
evidence of gaining their object indi-
Gates sure defeat, and are depressed ac-
cordingly. Then, too, the different or
ders on the same subject, and the diff
frrent ways the same orders are con-
strued by different members of the ad-
ministration, confuse them nightly and
tend to increase their uncertainty. In
addition TO this, some of the Congress
men, Senators and Representatives
alike, are so pressed by them, that in
self-dcfense they hide themselves from
them, and this naturally adds irritation
to their Observation-Disclosures and, worst
of all, as the days roll by the amount OF
their hotel and boarding house bills in
creas $50 that altogether and as q whole
icy are not particularly happy, and to
sooth their nerves many of them resort
to the bars, and their misery thereby is
Jar ased the next day. None OF them
knows whether or not he will be APP
pointed, for, as has often happened dur
ing the last three weeks, nominations
considered as good as made, have been
changed within an hour before they
were sent to the Senate. The Virgin
! ians seem to be in more perturbed
state than any of the others, probably
because there are so many OF them.
That 4Ir. Cleveland thinks they are nu-
merous is proved by the fact that the
other day, when delegation from Nor
folk told him if he would come to
Hampton Roads to witness the naval
review, they would guarantee that not
q Vircinian would ask him for an
office during his trip, he replied by
asking if it were possible that there
could be any more Virginia oilice-seek-
ers than he had already seen? There
are many for every one of the federal Of
fees in their State, and nearly all OF
them have each others endorsement,
and few have congressional endorse
ments, but not many, as most of their
congressman have declined to endorse
until the committee they have appoint
ed to find out of what avail their en-
d6rsement will be, shall report. That
committee were to have waited upon
the President to-day, but did not, and
that they didn't adds to their uneasi-
ness, as it prolongs their uncertainty
aud expense. Altogether, things are
not well with the office-seekers, and
though few Of them have as yet COM
menced cursing, there is no use in de-
nying the fact that many have their
mouths set that way.
A private telegram received here to-
day :rOm Mr.. G. A. Mushbach of Alex
andria says that he is still an applicant
for the office of internal revenue collec-
tor for the upper Virginia district, and
that he will return from Gorfolk in s