Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, June is. 1894.

Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON. June is. 1894.
Senator German was before the Sen
a orial sugar trust investigating COM
m!ttee this evening. He answered mo
to all the categorical questions relative
to speculation in sugar stock. He was
asked about the interviews he had with
representatives referring to other Sen
ators and replied that these interviews
were such as honorable men might hold
in an honest endeavor to arrange q
tariff bill upon which the party would
unite. When asked about campaign
contributions Mr.. German said that
while he was n member Of the national
committee. he never heard anything
about contributions from the sugar trust
or anyone representing them.
At Indian Head proving ground
last Saturday n twelve-inch Sterling
shell representing a lot Of tifcy offered
for trial under the government specifi-
cations was fired at a Bethlehem plate
which had previously passed all the
requisite tests, and at 1900 feet velocity
ii passed entirely through the armor,
being afterwards recovered entire. The
lot OF shell will be promptly accept
ed and some of these projectiles may
be used in trying the Carnegie l7-inch
plate about the end OF this month.
The House appropriations commit
tee to-day agreed TO report a joint reso-
luton continuing for a period OF 80 days
from June 30 all appropriations that
may be %unprovided for on that date.
Senator Hill in the Senate to-day de-
clared that he had never said he would
not vote for the new tariff bill if it
| should include Il tax on incomes, and
that no uttered words of his could be
construed to convey any such idea.
| Senator Vest said nothing is surer than
the fact that the income tax will be in
cluded in the bill referred to.
Doctors Harmon and Cole, both orig
inally of Alexandria, are applicants for
the place of physician to the Jail here.
Representative Meredith had promised
his Influence TO the former before he
knew the latter was al applicant.
General Hunton was not in his seat
in the Senate to-day, being detained at
his home in Warrenton by the sickness
by his wife.
There is no truth in the report that
the government has sued the Union
and Kansas Pacific Railroads for any
sum, let alone for $4,000, 900.
Representative Tyler was at the
Postoflice Department this morning,
trying to have the salary Of the chief
of the letter carriers branch of the
Norfolk postoffice increased, but IA
not induced % believe that his request
would be favorably considered.
Nobody here believes there is the
slightest foundation for the cock and
bull story Of an attempt having been
made to Guy Fawkes any of the public
buildings here. Morrison Swift of Bos-
ton, who was testifying before the
House labor committee this morning,
being asked about it, said he supposed
it must have been started to injure the
labor cause.
Senator Henderson, as sub-commit-
tee of the Senate District committee,
heard medical testimony to-day in the
cases Of four of the men whose lives
were lost in the Ford's Theatre acct
dent, and for the relief of whose heirs
bills are now before Congress.
A well-known democratic politician
from Virginia, here to-day, says there
will doubtless be opposition candidates
for Congress in all the districts of his
State next fall, but that it may be stated
as a fact that all of them will be repub-
licans or of republican antecedents.
Commodore John w. Easily, who
died here yesterday, will be recollected
by some old AleXandrians, as he lived
in their city 40 or 45 years ago. He was
IS years old, and a son of VIM. Easily,
who was for a long time a ship carpen-
ter at the navy yard with considerable
repute. Mr.. Easily doubtless followed
his fathers trade, as it is stated that he
wheeled a w~heelbarrow from George
town to the navy yard many q time.
He later became a naval constructor
and was stationed at Portsmouth, Va,
and Portsmouth, n. H. He worked
his way up by slow degrees. and about
10 years ago was chief naval construct
at Washington. He retired as "com-
modore.n He was an old-fashioned
Presbyterian, and was a leading men
Der of the First Church when he lived
in Alexandria.
The Senate to-day passed p bill to reduce
the tax on delinquent tax bills here from two
10 one per cent.