Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-01-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandra Ga2ette1 ]
WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1894.

bill introduced by NIr. LaUlmer, ueluo-
GRAFT, of South Carolina, to facilitate the
collection of State, county and munich
pal taxes assessed against railroads and
railroad property in the hands of re-
ceiver. No action was taken on the
bill.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices of Virginia were made
to-day Granite, Chesterfield county,
Patrick McGranighan appointed post
master, vice w. T. Vincent, resigned
Middleburg, Loudoun county, G. "a.
Downs, vice G.. w. Shuman, removed
Morris Church, Campbell county, S. T.
Joy, vice J.. w. -Armstesd, Ereemoved
Tie prevailing impression at the
Capitol on the subject is, that the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Peckham for Associate
Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court is
an evidence of personal spite, and that
il will be defeated by even large ma
ority than that of Mr.. Hornblower.
The term of Mr.. Banks, the republ!-
can collector OF customs at Norfolk,
will expire on the 3rd of March. Mr..
TYLER, the Representative from that dis
trict. has recommended Mr.. Mayo, who
held the place during Mr.. Cleveland's
first administration, for reappointment,
but some Norfolk people and Gen. Fitz.
Lee have recommended Mr.. Shields
Most of the Virginians in the House
voted against the bounty on sugar and
for putting refined sugar on the free
list.
Senators Daniel and Faulkner said
to-day it was impossible for them at
this time to form any idea of the fate
of the tariff bill in the body Of which
thew are members, and that before they
could do so it would be necessary for
them to wait until the House shall have
acted upon it, so that they may have
the whole of it before them.
1t is said at the Capitol to-day that
the bill for the new government print
ING office introduced in the Senate yes
terday will probably be passed, as the
site selected adjoins the present office,
and the building to be erected will be
merely an addition to that Office, and
consequently need not be as large and
expensive as it would be if located any
where else. The House committee on
public buildings and grounds does not
agree with the public building commit
tee of the Senate in regard to site fer
new government printing office, and
to-day authorized Chairman Bankhead
to report bill selecting 120, 900 square
feet of ground between G and d streets
and Delaware avenue and north Capt.
toll street for the location of the pro-
posed building and appropriating $780,
600 for It's purchase and Sl,5OO,0OO
for the erection of the building.
Representative Marshall went to the
Postollice Department this morning for
many scalps, but came away with only
one, that of the republican postmaster
at Tiptop, Tazewell county, in his dis
trict, whose place is taken by J. II.
Gillispie, democrat.
Representative Meredith called at
the State Department to-day to urge the
appointment of Mr. Kraft Of AleXan
dria to a consular agency in Germany,
but Mr.. Uhl, the Assistant Secretary,
was absent. Mr.. Meredith called also
at the bureau ofprinting and engraving,
and indeed at all the other departments
this morning. He got nothing and
knew that would be the case before he
went, but says what else could he do
with women crying and men bowling
for him to go.
Superintendent Kimball received
telegram this morning announcing that
the British steamship Rappahannock,
from Newport News to Liverpool
England, with general cargo on
board, crew of 50 men, stranded last
night abreast of Cape Henry Station,
Va. The ship was boarded by the life
saving crew. The ships crew remains
ed on board. Another dispatch an
nounces the stranding this morning of
the Norwegian bark Clythia; from
Genoa to Baltimore, laden with mar
BILE. crew of II men, off Woods, n. c.
The crew was saved in the breeches
buoy. The surf is high.
Representative Thos. Settle, of North
Carolina, has been informed that man
registered at the Gilsey House in New
York on January II, as Hon. Thos. Set
tie of North Carolina, and up to the
time he left New York used Congress
man Settles name. Mr.. Settle says he
knows whothe manreally is but because
Of his family which is an honorable one
in the South, has declined to take any
proc cling against him. He can i'm
agine no reason why this man should
have assumed his name and brought
it into notoriety and disrepute, and
he does not charge that he has suf-
fered any financial loss in consequence.
Secretary Carlisle to-day issued cir
cular, instructing bidders for the five
per cent. bonds az TO the form in which
they shall make their bids. The bonds
will be in denominations of from s. to
$4,000.
The supervising inspector general of
steamboat inspectionservice heard argu-
ments to-day on the bill providing that
lights on ferry boats and barges when
in tow shall be regulated by the rules
of the supervising inspectors. The
eastern men protest against any change
in the existing rules.
Representative Tucker having been
informed, as the readers of the GA
zETTE were months ago, that Mr.. Ed
gar Allen would not be removed from
his place in the Department of Justices
at least until after next October's term
of the u. s. Supreme Court, has ceased
to urge Capt. Figgatt of his State for
that place, and is now trying to get
him something else. Mr.. Tucker has
received several letters from people
who get their mail at Middleburg, Va,
en- lorsing his recent decision respecting
that office and telling him that the