Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Aug. "a. 1894.


House ways and means committee, has
decided to leave for Europe, September
5th, and remain absent about 3 weeks;
Mr.. Wilson believes that revival OF
business will now speedily begin. He
said this morning that the business OF
the country will improve within the
next few months and that this result
would follow even though the -Mchln-
lev law were in force. Under the new
talif' system the Improvement, IN MS
Judgment, will be more marked; be
does not look for boom" but thinks
the revival will be slow but sure.
The case of Lhe colored Recorder OF
the District of Columbia, c. d. J.
TAYLOR. who has been charged before
IN. civil service commission with send
| ~ circulars to colored employees
of the government, soliciting contrlbu-
tons Tor campaign purposes, was laid
b fore President Cleveland this after
noon by Civil Service Commissioner
Proctor, who has charge OF the matter.
Besides Taylor, twenty-five witnesses
were examined. Some of the witnesses
were at first afraid to testify, fearing
they would lose their positions if they
d d so. The commission could not
guarantee to the men that they would
not be discharged from their govern
ment positions if they made statements
affecting Taylor, because it had no
power 10 do so, but they were informed
that the commission would exert its IN
fiuence TO prevent the dismissal OF any
employee who appeared before 1T as
witness.
pointed Miss Martha c. Grymes, of
King George county, Va, assistant
keeper OF the light house at Matthias
Point. Potomac river.
At Liberty Mill, Orange county, Va,
J.B. Kite was appointed postmaster to-
dsy, vice w. H. Kite, dead.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Collector Shepherd, of the upper dis.
trict of Virginia. He says nearly all
the whisky in the bonded warehouses
in his district has been drawn out since
the passage of the tariff bill, and that
his receipts therefrom have been about
twenty thousand dollars q day.
Mr.. Elicit, the democratic nominee
for Congress in the Richmond district,
was in the city to-day, looking after his
supply of campaign documents.
Congressman Cooper of Indiana, who
exposed the fraudulent transactions of
MIR. Raum, the republican commissioner
ofpens;ons, and Mr.. Meredith of Virgin
ia, will speak at Luray, in that State,
at the congressional convention to be
held there on the Both inst, at which
Congressman Turner will be renomi
mated without opposition.
Internal revenue receipts continue to
be heavy, reaching to-day 81, l05, 900,
aud bringing up the total for the month
to date, to sd 100000, and for the year
to date, to S4S, lOO,0 200, against SS,500,O00
for the corresponding period of August,
1898, and to S24, 100000 for the cores
pondiug period of the fiscal year 1898.
All the Virginia members of the
House present to day endorsed the APP
plication of Rev. Benjamin Dennis, of
Amelia county, Virginia, a graduate OF
the Alexandria Theological Seminary,
for chaplainship in the army.
Among the bills approved by the
President to-day were the following :
To incorporate the Washington and
Great Falls electic railway to authrize
the Washington Alexandria and Mt.
Vernon electric railway, which runs to
Washineton's home, to extend its line
into the District of Columbia; to en-
power fourth-class postmasters to ad-
minister oaths to pensioners; to au-
thorize the commissioners Of the Dis
trict of Columbia to appoint q deputy
coroner, and to provide for reconvey-
ance by the district commissioners OF
certain lands to Andrew J. and Mary
E. Curtis.
Another effort was made in the House
to-day, also unsuccessful, to consider
the Hill bill for the exclusion and de-
portation of alien anarchists. An
amendment had been agreed upon by
the advocates of the measure and those
members who had previously antagon-
lied it, defining an anarchist to be a
person who advocates the destruction
BY force of all government or of the
government of the United States. This
,tis6ed the objections heretofore made,
but Mr.. English entered an objection,
because one of his private bills had
been objected to, and the bill again
went over-this time probably finally
for this session.
Among the bills passed by the Sen
ate in executive session to-day were
the following:
House bill to provide for the collec-
ton of internal revenue-appropriating
80 600 for additional force, and House
bill granting the right of way through
the Arlington reservation for electric
railway purposes.
The Senate In executive session to-day
confirmed, among others the following nomi-
nations: Alexander Porter Morse of the
District of Columbia, agent of the United
States before the commission to arbitrate the
claim of the Venezuelan Steam Transports
ton Company against the government of
Venezuela; Robert ]. MacBride, of Wisconsin,
consul at Leith Scotland. The latter place
is that for which Congressman Jones was urg-
ing DR.. Foster and Senator Hunton had at
one time pressed Mr. Crawley OF this city
The nomination of j. D. Porter for U. 5.
Judge of the eastern and middle districts of
Tennessee, was not taken up as no quorum
was present, and nothing could be done with
ont unanimouS consent