Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorresponderee OF the Alexsnaris Gazette ]
WASHINGTON Tan. 4

w WASHINGTON. Jan. +.
So far as can be learned the members
of the House committee on naval al
fairs are disposed to incorporate an APP
preparation for two and possibly three
new battle ships and twelve torpedo
boats in the naval appropriation bill,
which will be reported to the House
within few days.
1t is currently reported at the Capt..
tol to-day that Mr.. Cleveland says II
the democratic majority in Congress
suppose he is going to prod them to the
performance of their duty, they will b.
~ much disappointed; they know,
he says, the urgency of financial legs
lation as we'll as he does, and it is for
them to enact ii; he will see to its exc
ion. 49,,
The presence of Senator Hill at the
White House dinner last night is the
chief topic of talk at the Capitol today.
The prevailing opinion on the subject
is. that while politics should have moth
ing to do with social relations, the
treatment the Senator received from
the President last fall would have just
fled him in declining the invitation.
Beverley IS. Ferguson was to-day
nominated for postmaster at Neapolis,
Va. and Geo. NJ. Doak at Taswell.
The Postoffice Department has rees-
tablished free delivery mail service ut
Stephens City, Frederick county, Va.
Senator Daniel and Congressman
Turner of Virginia have taken rooms
in the building adjoining the Arlington
Hotel on | street.
At Smyrna, Bedford county, Virginia,
Mrs. Sallie E. Luck was appointed
postmaster to day, vice j. w. Hatcher,
resigned.
The formidable opposition to the in
come tax which has developed in Con
gress, it is understood, finds partial en-
enlargement and support in admins
tration circles.
The fact that the District government
ha smade contract for removing the
garbage of this city from its present
place of deposit by barges that are to
| force their way through the ice down
the river, is of interest 10 Alexandria,
as the contractors may dump it into the
river of that city if not prevented by
| the authorities thereof.
Recent action of some of the demo-
cratic managers in the Senate leads to
the belief, that an effort may be
made to patch up truce of some sort
that will permit through the medium OF
the urgency deficiency bill, the correc-
ton of various errors now in the t,r Il
law and which would have been correct
ed had the conferrees finished their
labors on the bill before it was accept
ed bv the House as it left the Senate.
The Court of Claims has awarded the
estate of w. j. Moore, formerly OF
Leonardtown, $1,040, for stores taken
during the war. The claim was for
$4.302.
Mr.. Bartlett, of the sub. committee of
the House commerce committee, to
whom the bill for the memorial bridge
was referred, says that sub committee
would have met to-day and, he thinks,
would have reported the bill favorably
| if its other two members had been pre-
sent, but they have not as yet returned
from their Christmas holiday.
Among the strangers in the city to-
day is Rev. Father Ducey, who follow
ed DR.. McGlynn in disobeying the or
ders of Archbishop Corrigan, and Mr..
Mcintyre, secretary Of the Virginia
Jockey Club.
The blank forms on which persons
and corporations will make their re-
turns under the income tax law have
finally been prepared and approved by
Secretary Carlisle. Any person whose
income exceeds $500 per year must
Gil out this blank form. The depart
ment will begin sending out these forms
to the sixty-three collectors to-day.
These blanks must be filed in and re
turned to the collectors on or before
the first Monday in March, which this
year falls on the fourth. Although in
comes of less than $4,000 are not sub
iect to the tax, all persons having In
comes exceeding So, 800 must make re-
turns. Debts cannot properly be re-
turned as worthless unless legal proceed
ings have shown them to be so or the
debtor is insolvent.
The old receiving ship Dale, assigned
to the State of Maryland to be used by
the naval militia. departed from her
moorings in the Washington navy yard
this morning in tow of the tug Britannia.
She ran aground soon after starting,
but after an hours hard work was
safely gotten off. She will reach Balti-
more, barring delays, sometime to-
night.
Col. Armstrong whe resigned his place in
the Indian Bureau did 50 to accep' the more
profitable one of manager of the railroad in
terests in Oklahoma.
The Virginia delegation in the House is
as yet undecided hoy they will vote on tie
Carlisle banking bill, now before that body.
FAUoUIER NoTEs.-Mr. John. T..
Hackley died at his home, near Orleap,
on the oath of December, in the S0th
year of his age.
The home of Capt. and Mrs. J. NJ.
Goldsmith, near Warrentop, was the
scena IN Friday EVENING last of a feS