Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Alexandra dazet'e'l
WASHINGTON, June Is.

Savannah are opposed TO Tree silver,
the vast majority of the other people in
the district are in favor of it as they
n. in all the other districts of the State.
News from Kentucky here to-day is
10 the effect that though both the adj
n1inistration and the Breckenridge in-
hueuce is actively at work against Sen
;or Black burn, and though his oppo-
n ants are supplied with money al
libitum from New York, he will still
be reelected.
Postmaster General Wilson has re-
ceived communication from brother
West Virginian in the postal service
seeking aid as the result of loss sus.
tanned by fire. The writer is postmas-
ter of town il Upshur county. He
asks that on account of the burning Of
his store and postoffice the Postmaster
General, President Cleveland and the
members of mis- Cabinet should give him
something to make up for his loss,
which amounts to between 81 800 ard
$1,000. He hopes that the President
and his e eMGseiai family will donate 500
-e:.ch. Accompanying tt Q letter is a sub
scription list for the citizens of Wash
ipgton to affix their signatures to and
place the amounts subscribed opposite
their names. Postmaster General Will
son has replied that this request was
only one of great many received, and
he could not see his way clear to make
it special by bringing it before the Pres
ident and Cabinet.
The civil service commission to day
submitted TO the President report
supplemental to the one laid before
Congress at the beginning of the last
Sc. sion. Up to January, 1895, the
whole number of persons employed in
the civil service of the United States
was about 100000, one-fourth Of whom
were classified under civil service
rules. Those not in the classified ser
v;cs include generally the higher Of
fcials, such as Cabinet officers, members
Of Congress and heads of bureaus in
The various departments. Appended
to the report are the details of the in
vestigations of the commission into the
violation of its rules by office holders
charged with levyiug assessments upon
government employees for political
purposes, but no mention is made OF
the findings of the commission in its in
vestigation of G. H. J. Taylor, the ne
gro Recorder of Deeds of the District OF
Columbia. who was charged with col
lecting money from the employees oil
his Office for campaign use. The re-
port of the commission in his case is III
the hands of the President, having been
sent to the White House nearly yeal
ago.
Mr.. Kerr, clerk of the House of Rep
resentatives, who is in the city, is one
of the leading coal operators in the
Clearfield, Pa, district. He was asked
to-day if the coal business was respond
ing to the improvement noted in other
branches of trade. IL can't say that il
u.s." was Mr.. Kerr's reply. "The coal
trade seems TO be among the last
to feel the benefits of improved condi
tions in general" "You have not
heard of any increase in wages to the
miners ?" mo, have not" Mr.. Kerr
responded. "Prices do not warrant
any change in the present schedule
We made contracts last week for sup
plying some of the street car compa
MES of New York city, and the prices
agreed upon were the same as we re-
ceived last year."
One of the firm that has the contract
for removing the garbage of this city,
being asked to-day if the garbage was
being cremated said it was not, but was
towed down the river in scows and
taken by farmers who used it as fer
tilizer. When he was told that it was
towed down as far as Alexandria ana
at night dumped in the river near that
city, he smiled, but had nothing else to
say.
Mr.. Lacey, well-known republican
of Alexandria county, here to-day. says
he testimony in the contested election
case in that county is closed aud that
it amounts to nothing, and that he is
sorry Mr.. Hume went into it. 1--WE ali, +"
said he, "voted for Douglass, but he
has no case" 1t is said by other people
from the county that possibly Judge
Chichester may not try the case, but
request the judge of al adjoining coun.
ty to do so.
The papers in the contested con-
gressional election cases of Cornett vs..
Swanson, Hoge VS.. Otey, and Yost W..
Tucker, from Virginia, were opened in
the office of the clerk of the House 10.
day. Mr.. Jerry Wilson appeared as
counsel for Cornett and Mr.. John l.. Lee,
OF Lynchburg for Mr.. Swanson. The pa
pers on both sides were defective, but
will be printed. Mr.. Lee also appear
ed as counsel for Mr.. Otey, but no.
body appeared for Mr.. Hoge, and the
chief papers in his case were extracts
from the Richmo nd Times. He will be
notified that he or his counsel must be
here by Monday next or the case will
be made up without them. In the Yost-
Tucker case the contestant was repre-
sented by himself and Col. Brady, who
is also counsel for the contestant in the
Thorpe Mckinney case.
Congressman Kendall of Kentucky,
who is here to-day, says he thinks the
silverites will carry his State, though
the capitalists there, as every where
else, are opposed to them. Senators
Dubois of Idaho and Carter of Mon
tana said, before they left here, for the
republican league convention, there
would be no fight in that convention
for free silver, but that the people OF
the whole country would make that
fight at the proper time.
Col. X. w. Burke of stanton is here
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