Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Aexandris Gazette
WASHINGTON, Dec. %.

Messrs. Shellabarger and Wilson, as at
torneys for Moore and Schles, the New
York brokers, (who have orancn
Office here) to restrain the collectors OF
internal revenue from proceeding TO
collect the income tax. one OF tne
main grounds which will be relied up
on is that after paying the tax on
dividends received from corporations
az provided for under section %, the
petitioners would have to pay tax on
that same Income over again under
sections u, % and 80. Other points
will be strongly urged against the con-
stitutionality of the tax. 1t is the
purpose to carry the case from the
District Supreme Court to the Supreme
Court OF the United States with all con-
venient speed.
It is the understanding at the State
department and among interested
persons of the diplomatic corps that the
war between China and Japan has
practically ended and that, unless the
peace negotiations come to nothing,
treaty agreement will be entered into
by the two warning nations within a
short time.
Congressman Enloe, Of Tennessee,
had Slight difficulty in q restaurant
here last night with the bar keeper,
who had provoked him, of which, how
ever, one of the morning newspapers at
tempted to make a great sensation:
Secretary Carlisle to-day issued an
order directing that the Treasury De
partment be closed on Christmas and
New Years, and from II m. on Decem-
Der oath and December 31st. Inc
usual hours will obtain during the hol-
iday week. The same hours will be
observed in the other executive de-
partments.
A gentleman from Leesburg here to-
dav saws that Mr.. V. G. Saunders, a
we'll known and highly respected citl-
zen of that town, died there yesterday.
He was one of the first students and
graduates of the V. M. l., and was sub,
sequently one of the teachers there and
also at the Episcopal High School near
Alexandria. He was about seventy
five years old.
Among the visitors here to-day is ex-
Speaker Cardwell Of the Virginia House
of Delegates, now member of the new
court of appeals of his State. Judge
Cardwell says the court will meet in
Richmond on the End proximo and or
ganize, and commence its session on the
following Monday He says that no
president of the court or resident judge
has vet been determined upon. The
salary of the latter position is $500 more
than that of the other judges.
Among the executive documents pre-
sented in the House to- day was one from
the War Department to the effect that
Lyons creek, Virginia, is unworthy
of improvement.
Mr.. Elkins, who will be republican
Senator from West Virginia after next
Msrch, says be thinks it is pretty well
settled that Mr.. Reed will be tn. next
President.
Representative Springer expressed
great confidence this morning that the
substitute reported by him yesterday
for the Carlisle currency bill will pass
by fair majority. The substitute re-
moves many of the objections against
the original measure and makes it ac-
ceptable to representatives from the
East, who were, in many cases, strong
" opposed to the Carlisle plan. MIR
tSpringer believes that the democratic
members from New England, New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio will be a
unit in support of the measure, and
that it will receive fair support in the
West and Northwest, as well as t o
united vote of the representatives from
the South.
Congressman Turner of Virginia,
who. as previously stated, has employ
cd Mr.. Marshall Mccormick and Sena-
tor Hunton as his counsel in the case OF
the contest that he hears is to be made
for his seat, but intelligence from his dis
tr.ct here to-day is to the effect that
probably there will be no such contest.
Tho Cole viii case was again before the
| Circuit Court here to-day and will be on
Monday. on which day, the Judge Of tho court
says he hopes it will be concluded.
Ex-Mayor Kemper Of Alexandria, and Con-
gresham Meredith called on Secretary Her
bert this morning and requested him to pro-
mote assistant foreman Chase of Alexandria,
to foreman at the Nsvy Yard, but got little
satisfaction.