Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
,respondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

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The following order was issued to-
day: BY direction of the President the
offices of the members of the Cabinet
will not be opened on either Tuesdays
on Fridays-Cabinent days bat VIII
be closed on those days until other
wise ordered This has become neces-
sary for the uninterrupted and more
efficient transaction of the business OF
the government.
(Signed) HENRY T. THURBER,
Private Secretary.
Mr.. Nathan Smith, republican, who
for many years has had charge of the
records in the cases of presidential APP
pointments in the Postoflice Depart
ment. has been promoted to be chief OF
the bond division, vice Caldwell, re-
signed. Mr.. Smith, however, will con,
tinue to have charge Of the presidential
records.
Secretary Carlisle to-day appointed
NJ. F. Bailey superintendent of repairs
mt the custom house and sub-treasury
building at Chicago, III. Mr.. Bailey
occupied the same position eight years
ago.
Mr.. Cleveland saw few visitors to-
day, the cabinet meeting interfering
To one Of the callers, Representative
Enloe, of Tennessee, he made the i'm
portant statement that he would APP
point "no demagogic politician" to be
commissioner Of pensions. 1t is infer
red from this significant announce
ment the President will appoint to the
Office of commissioner of pensions a
man more closely connected with bust
ness than with politics. In fact he has
expressed his intention to divorce the
Office from politics and to select a com
missioner who will conduct it purely on
business principles.
The resignation of Representative
McCreary as q member OF the lnterna'
tionai monetary conference, and the
doubts raised as to whether the Presi,
dent will appoint new commissioners
to represent the United States, brought
Senator John Sherman and Senator
Teller, holding opposing views on the
silver question, to the White House
this morning. They had talk with
Mr.. Cleveland on the selection of q
new commission.
First Comptroller Matthews has de
cided that certain sums of money hello
up by the Treasury Department from
the direct tax refunded by Congress tc
the States, on account of the States hav'
ing received an excess Of arms, and
equipment from the militia flnd wa:
done without warrant of law. Acting
on this decision the Treasury Depart
ment is now paying to the States the
amounts withheld. Virginia has re
ceived Sc, 406.
Frederick Douglass is negotiating fol
the purchase of 'The Villa" one of iht
most valuable and beautiful estates il
Talbot county, Md. The mansion
house there was built by Col. Richard
France at a cost of $4,000. Douglas
is native of Talbot, where he was lori
a slave.
Representative Marshall of Virginia
now here, says that since he has paiC
his second visit to the federal capita
he has become thoroughly convinced
that the idea generated by his frs
visit, namely, that every man here i
looking out for himself, is rock-ribbet
truth. He has called upon both tn!
President and the Postmaster Genera
and is profoundly impressed with th'
siz, of both. They are, he says, a:
large rs the trump of fame.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Genera
| Maxwell appointed thirty-one demo
Gratis to 18th class postotiices to-day. bu
only four to five places from which re
publicans had been removed. Not ono
of the changes was in Virginia.
The committee appointed by the Sir
ginia democratic congressional delega
ton to wait on the President and find
ou5 from him whether or not the recon-
mendations of that delegation in respect
of the disposition of Eirginia's share Of
the federal patronage, would have any
effect, will discharge that duty to-mor-
row. The members of the committee
are Messrs. Wise, Jones and O'Ferrall.
Mr.. John Harrell of North Carolina
called upon the President yesterday
and applied for the office of public
printer. He told Mr.. Cleveland that
no southern man had ever held that Of
flee, but that whether the South got it
or not, she would continue to be as faith
ful to him as old dog Tray was to his
master. He also told the President that
he didn't want to bother him any more
than he, the President, wanted to be
bothered, and that if he would tell him
plainly that there was no chance of his
getting the place, he would go home at
once. The President, who continued
to hold his card in his hand, wrote on
it, "This man wants to be public print
en-" and laid it on his table, and the
call was over.
When the democrats had possession
of the Senate for the first time since the
war they retained large number of
the republican employees. They pro-
pose to do the same now, that is, ifthey
can succeed in their proposed attempt
to elect the officers of that body, of
which there seems to be great doubt.
Their repinings at the slowness with
which the President removes republi-
cans come with i'll grace in View OF
their retention of republicans in the Of
fees under their control, and of their
appeals to Cabinet officers for the reten-
ton of republicans in the executive Of
fees.
Postmaster General Bissell told Con-
gresham Jones, of Virginia, yesterday,
that in appointinspostmasters, he would
be governed by the wishes of the ma
iority of the democrats who are served
with mail at the respective offices.
By decision rendered by the new Secre-
tary of the Interior, in the case of the South