Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria eazette.l
III I.rrrxrnn,o,r NJ. 10

The probability that the Hawaiian
Congress will pass measure pension
ing Princess Kaiulani is foresbadowed
in official advices which reached here
to-day from Honolulu. She is the niece
Of the late King Kalakana. Her father
is A. S. Cleghorn, a prominent merchant
of Honolulu. When the national con.
gress assembled in special session last
June the government prepared bill
giving the princess a pension OF 1000
year. This was to compensate her
lur the loss which she sustained in the
establishment of the republic, inasmuch
as, had she lived, she would have sue
ceeded to the throne upon the death OF
her aunt, Lilioukalani. The radical
members of the republican party fought
the bill fiercely and defeated it. Since
that time public sentiment has grown
more favorable to the proposition and
it is not unlikely that the pension will
be voted to her when congress meets.
The Assistant Secretary of the In
terror has decided that the attorneys
title to fee is dependent on his clients
title to pension, and where pension
has been fraudulently obtained the
Commissioner of Pensions may require
the refundment of the fee paid the
ATTORNEY who prosecuted the claim as
we'll of the pension so paid the claim.
ant. Judge Reynolds has also decided
that where satisfactory evidence has
been presented that widow has aban-
doned the care of the minor children of
deceased soldier, ''or is an unsuitable
person, by reason of immoral conduct,
to have the custody of the same" such
children may be pensioned in the same
manner as if no widow had survived
such soldier, regardless of a certificate
of q probate court as to such facts.
The general assembly of the Knights
of Labor this morning paid its attention
once more to the Supreme Court of
the United States, the occasion this
time being the decision handed down
yesterday by Justice Brewer affirming
the decision of Judge Ross of the Cir
cult Court in the conspiracy case against
the American Railway Union at Los
Angeles, Cal. Grand Master Workman
Sovereign introduced and the assembly
passed resolutions by unanimous vote
protesting against the decision as a
travesty on justice and pronouncing it
an outrage on the liberties of the
people.
Consul r. J. Kirk writes the Depart
ment of State from Copenhagen that
the Danish Millers' Association have
petitioned the Rigsdag for protective
duty on all flour broughtinto Denmark.
While the petition asks for protection
against Germany it is really intended
to keep out flour from the United
States, which sends the greater amount
to Denmark.
The President has appointed John L..
Peak, of Kansas City, Mo-, as Minister
to Switzerland, vice Broadhead, resign
ed, and Otto Munchmeyer, of West
Virginia, as consul at San Salvador,
Salvador.
In addition to the bad condition Of
the ships of the navy, it is said here, in
naval circles, that should the country be
involved in a naval war, there would
not be near enough skillful engineers
in the service to run them safely and
properly.
Secretary Carlisle left here this morn
ing for New York. He will be the
principal speaker tonight at the Cham
Der of Commerce banquet. His address
| will be confined to financial topics. Iu
the Secretary's forthcoming report, he
will advise Congress to authorize the
Treasury Department to issue low in-
terest bonds of small denominations.
Senator Mills has arrived here from
his home in Texas. He says the prin-
cples of democracy can never die, and
that if the democratic party had a
leader in whom it had implicit conf
dence and who had won its admiration
and affection, it would soon regain its
ascendency.
State Senator Echols of Virginia, who
is here to-day, says he was one of the
four democratic Senators who fought
the Walton law when it was on its pas
sage, but that since he has observed its
practical operation his views of it have
changed, and that if it must be amend
d, he thinks it will only be by striking
O 1t the entire constable section.
President Roberts of the Pennsylvania
Railroad says the branch of that road
to run from the Long Bridge to the
Aqueduct Bridge, on the south bank OF
the Potomac, will be completed and in
running order in three on four weeks.
Mr.. Peter Keelap, the old and we'll
known night clerk at the Metropolitan
Hotel here, died yesterday evening.
Senator Daniel passed through here
yesterday ~ his way home from New
York. To people from his State with
whom he talked he said he had not yet
attempted to discover the reasons for
the late democratic defeat, the fact Of
that defeat being enough for him at
present. His colleague, Senator Mar.
tin, arrived here to-day.
Men of affairs here, familiar with ex-
Secretary Whitney, say that to his
friends and privately he laughs at the
idea of his accepting the democratic
Presidential nomination, as he thinks
there would be no chance of his cleo
ton. Indeed the prevailing opinion
here on the subject is, that no body ex-
cept Mr.. Cleveland would accept such
nomination.
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