Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, June 16, 1894.

w ASG1lN04OENt INV w. ~
Inman H. Payne has been removed
from the chief clerkship of the equip
ment department at the Norfolk navy
ward. Mr.. Wigg been promoted to
the place by Secretary Carlisle,
and a North Carolinian been APP
pointed to the l%atter's place, at the re-
quest of Senator Ransom. These changes
are not at all agreeable TO Congressman
TYLER of the Norfolk district.
Among the visitors here to-day Is
Postmaster Dupuy of Roanoke, who
came to get permission to rent a build
ing in that city for the postotfice other
than the one in which the office is kept
now. the lease of which has expired.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hunton in
troduced Il bill to pay the Richmond
College, at Richmond, Va, $4,000, for
use of the buildings of that college soon
after the wal between the States.
The report of the special inspector
who was sent to Bedford City to inves-
tigate certain charges against Postmas-
ter Mosby of that city, which was lost
at the Postoffice Department, has been
found. AS anticipated in this CORE
spondence, not one of the charges was
sustained, and the report is to the effect
that the p~ostotlice there was never con-
Quoted better than it is now, according
10 the unanimous testimony of every
body served with mail there.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Allen, pop
ulist, offered n resolution that every
federal soldier and sailor of the war,
and their widows and orphans, shall re-
ceive a pension of SD a month in addi
ton to their present pensions, and that
to pay them the Secretary ofthe Treas
urv shall print money until the aggre-
gate amount of circulation in the coun-
try shall equal fifty dollars per capita.
The viceregency ofthe Mount Vernon
Association, which has been vacant
since the death, nine years ago, of Mrs.
Herbert, wife of the present Secretary
of the Navy, has just been filled by the
selection of Miss Herbert, who now pre-
sides over the Secretary's household.
The Mount Vernon Association owns
and cares for the residence and tomb of
Washington.
Correspondents Shriver and Edwards
and stock broker Chapman were mott
fed to-day hat the indictments found
against them for failing to answer
questions in the sugar trust case would
be presented in court next Tuesday,
and that they must be present on that
day with bondsmen or go to Jail.
The Hatch anti option bill will come
nm in the House Monday. Mr.. Hatch
hopes to limit debate on 1.-THE measure to
three days and have q vote taken on
the bill by Wednesday. If he does
not succeed in making this arrange
ment it is understood that the commit
tee on rules will bring in a special or
der to enforce this programme.
The examination of Senators was con
tinued this morning by the Senatorial
investigating committee to ascertain
whether they had dealt III sugar stock
directly or indirectly, or had any deal
ings with the sugar trust curing the
tendency of the tariff bill. All testified
that they hadn't and never had any in
terest in sugar stock. Senator Ransom
testified to the effect hat his son told
a newspaper mar who had talked to
him on the subject, in his presence that
he, the son. had on four different oc-
casions gone into a bucket shop here
and bought sugar stock, TO the extent
of so each time, as he would have
bet that amount on n horse-race or at
faro. He also said that when his son
told the newspaper man this, it was the
first he had heard of it.
Mr.. Henry T. Wickham, counsel OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, was asked to-
day if the report was true that Col. w. G. p.
Breckinridge has been removed rs counsel OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad He re
pliel: Col. Breckenridge and Mr.. Shelby
are associate counsel and would have 10 au.
thority to make such removal without i'll
structions and have not received such"