Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-21

WASHINGTON, May 81.
There has never been case exactly
like that of Admiral Meadein the mill
tary service ofthe nation. No officer of
such high rank has terminated his Ca
reer under the cloud of "a public repri-
lnand by the Commander-in-Ch
But there is one most noticeable and
interesting precedent where on
Change of administration rebuke ad-
miuisterad under similar circumstances
has been reversed and the sentence Of
a court-nartial set aside. This was in
the celebrated case of Assistant Naval
Engineer George F. Sawyer, in which
President Grant, within ten days after
his first inauguration, reversed the &C
ton of the preceding administration
of President Andrew johnson, the case
creating quite sensation at the time.
The facts were as follows: A naval
general court-martial at Portsmouth.
N. H., in October, 1867, found Second
Assistant Engineer George F. Sawyer
guilty of saying, in the presence OF
officers of the navy and others, that
the President had violated his pledges
to the people and ought to be impeach-
ed. He was sentenced to be suspend
ed from rank and duty for the period
of one wear on waiting orders pay and
TO be publicly reprimanded, which SEN
teuce was approved. General Grant
was inaugurated March 4tb, 1869, and
on the 18Th ofMarch the sentence was
revoked and so much Of the pay as had
been stopped against Sawyer was re-
stored to him.
1t is said that if Congress be friendly
to Admiral Meade he could be restored
to active duty and serve at least three
years as the ranking officer of the U. S.
navy, inasmuch as he will not reach
tue age limit of retirement until Octo-
Der 8, 1899.
The Presidents private secretary
LEFT Washington this morning for Buzz
Yards Bay, Massachusetts, to make ar
engagements for the visit Of the Presi-
Dental family there for the summer
months.
Mr.. Stephen Bonsal, of Baltimore,
first secretary of the United States le-
gallon at Madrid, who is now at home
on furlouSh, will not return to his post,
aud a successor will probably be ap-
pointed soon. The salary of the posi-
lion is 81 800.
Over one hundred thousand dollars
have already been spent in arrange
ments for the collection of the income
tax, which now will never be collected.
Two hundred and fifty appointees in
the internal revenue bureau, forty in
this city, will have to be discharged by
reason of Yesterdays decision. Com
missioner Miller this afternoon sent the
following telegram to all collectors of
internal revenue in the United States ::
dispense with services of all persons
employed under allowances made for
income tax work, at close of business
on 25 h instant, reporting at once num-
Der discontinued and salary and ex-
pense allowance of EACH"
General S. S. Henkle, prominent
lawyer in this city, many years ago
Lieutenant Governor OF Ohio, died very
suddenly this morning. He married a
daughter of ex-Mayor Emery of this
city, and had resided here considera-
BILE time. Congressman Cogswell Of
Massachusetts is dying at his rooms in
This city; also, it is said, is Miss Dodge,
better known as Gail Hamilton.
The prevailing opinion here on the
subject, even by some of those who
would have been subject to the income
tax, is that, for the good of the country,
it would have been better if the de-
cision of the U. S. Supreme Court had
been the reverse of what it was. Sc
curity makes values, and security has
been shaken no little by yesterdays
work.
A citizen OF Alexandria county here
to- day says that though the assessment
of lands in that county will not be
higher than before, so many improve
ments have been made there that the
assessed valuation of property in the
county will be half million greater.
Governor O'Ferrall of Virginia and
his wife, accompanied by Mrs. E. G. Rob
inson, Mrs. C. E. Wingo and Mrs. j. S.
Smith, arrived here yesterday evening
and left this morning for Mt. Vernon.
The Governor says that no case of
lynching or infraction of the oyster
laws has occurred in Virginia since
his Inauguration that he has done
what he thought proper in the
Pocahontss strike and is satisfied
with the result, though, from what he
hears, he would not be surprised ifthere
he some trouble with the miners in
West Virginia. He would, he says, be
clad to stop all the alleged offenses in
Alexandria county if he could, but he
can not act in the premises until called
upon to do so by the proper authorities
of that county.
S. D. Splitter was appointed post
master at Maryland, Rockingham
county, Va, to day, vice ]. d. Hilly-
yard, removed.
The argument in the case involving
the ownership of the Potomac Flats
was concluded in the District Court to-
day, and the court set to work i'm
mediately upon the preparation of its
decision.
Commissioner Miller had occasion this
morning to reiterate his statement made yes
terday that TO returns of income tax would
be returned to the makers by his office. Sow.
eral requests for such returns were received
today from tax payers hero and in New
York, but to all such the same reply was
given.
FELL Down A WELL.-Clarence
Dowell, six years old, of Halethorpe,
near Baltimore, fell down well so feet
deep late yesterday afternoon, and