Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
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w ASHlNGION, u uue ~, IOSt.
For the Senate finance committee Mr..
Vest this morning offered an amend
ment to the income tax section, which
eliminates from the operations OF that
tax mutual life insurance companies.
The language of the exemption is as fol-
lows Nor to any insurance company
or association which conducts al It's
business solely upon the mutual plan
and only for the benefit Gifts policy hold
ers or members, and having no capital
stock and no stock or share holders,
and holding all its property in trust
and in reserve for its policy holders or
members nor to that part OF the busi-
ness of any insurance having capital
stock and stock or share holders, which
is conducted on the mutual plan, sepa-
rate from its stock plan of insurance
company and solely fol- the benefit OF
the policy holders and members in
sured in said mutual plan, and holding
all the property belonging TO and de-
rived from said mutual part of its bust
ness in trust and reserved for the bene-
fit of its policy holders and members in
sured on said mutual plan.
SecretaryLamonth has decided to allow
three of the West Point cadets who
failed of promotion at the recent eXami-
nation to continue in the service on pro-
baton. OF these Gwynn r. Hancock,
the grandson of Gen. Hancock, whose
only defect was q deficiency of five
pounds below the limit of weight, had
passed al his mental examinations
The other restored cadets are Harris
and Stanley.
Senator Patton of Michigan, the re-
Gently appointed republican successor
of the late Senator Stockbridge, made
his maiden speech in the Senate to-day.
He commenced it as follows: SIN ODE
dience TO the command OF Il great State,
at whose industries the pending tariff
bill aims deadly blow, and embolden-
ed by the examples Of other Senators
who have addressed this body, and
whose terms OF service here have been
but little longer than mine with the
cry of distress coming from every quar-
ter. feel that | should he guilty OF neg
lect of duty did not enter the protest
of Michigan against this bill, which
means only destruction to those inter
ests which have made her great and
powerful. The rest can be surmised.
Mr.. Robert A. Whitehand, of this
city, has a large, full length photograph
taken by Brady of the Prince of Wales
at the time of his visit to this city in
1850. The photograph shows blond
youth of nineteen years, bearing very
little resemblance to the present por-
traits of the Prince. At the suggestion
of one Of the attaches of the British
legation, he forwarded this photograph
through Ambassador Bayard to the
Prince of Wales, and has just received
the following acknowledgment from
Sir Francis Knollys, the Princes pri-
vatc secretary:
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.
PAIL MALL, S. W., June Is, 1894
Sir-I am directed by the Prince OF
Wales to acknowledg the receipt OF
your letter and to express his best
thanks to you for the photograph OF
himself which you have been so good
as to transmit for his acceptance. His
royal highness looks back with much
pleasure to his visit to the United States
of America, where he was so kindly re-
ceived, and he we'll remembers sitting
for the photograph in question. | am,
sir, your most obedient servant,
FRANCIS KNoLLYS.
Mr.. Robert A. Whitehand.
Senator Gray, chairman Of the sugar
trust investigation committee, appeared
before the grand jury to-day and testi-
lied to the refusal of E. r. Chapman, OF
the stock broEing firm Of Moore q
Schley to answer questions asked by
the committee, with a view to having
Mr.. Chapman indicted as a contuma-
cious witness. No indictments have
yet been prepared by the District At
lorney, in accordance with the findings
of the grand jury in the cases Of CORE
spondents Shriver and Edwards, who
also refused to give information to the
committee. 1t is understood that the
District Attorney is convinced that he
en- make stronger case against Chap
man, and he will probably use that as q
test of the constitutionaiity of the law.
Yes erday was bad day for the for
eign pool sellers at Jackson City, their
uses, it is said, amounting to twelve
thousand dollars.
Messrs. Anderson, Hume, Reed and
Sickles, the latter surveyor of Alexan-
dria county, appeared before sub
committee of the House commerce
committee to-day in favor of bill for
memorial bridge across the Potomac
at Arlington. The chairman of that
sub. committee, Mr.. Bartlett, who wore
white flannel suit and white kid slipper !,
seemed to have it in his mind that the
chief object of the bill was TO boom
Alexandria county property at the eX-
pense of the government, and intimated
that he would not recommend favor
able report unless the War Department
shall advise the building of the bridge.
NIr. Speaker Crisp came to the Capt.
tol to-day, thinking ne was well enough
to take his seat, but finding that he was
mistaken, he returned at once to his
hotel.
Representative McKaig, of the Cum
berland, Md, district, is another dem
ocrat who has got enough of Congress.
He said to-day he could not be induced
10 stand again for election.
The President has committed to
three months Imprisonment the SEN
tence of Harry S. Sauter of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who was convicted of
carrying concealed weapons.
1t is generally expected that the anti
option bill now before the House will
be passed by decisive majority, but
that it will never get through the Sen
ate