Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Of the aloxandris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April %.

80, ,vn,,ls re,nain neutral and that they
would not torcibly intervene TO prevent
Great Britain's occupation OF Corinto.
A. C. Wandless was appointed post
master at Armstrong, Bath county, Va,
~ day. vice NJ. NJ. Armstrong, resigned,
and +. II. Clayton at Otterhill, Bedford
c.nntv vice S. A. McGhee, removed.
rhe condition of Representative Il,
g Hit. of Illinois, continues such as to
cscite the gravest apprehension. He
p,.sed a restless night and al. 8 a. N i,
was reported by the attending physlc
ian as no better than when the relapse
set in yesterday.
The President has declined an invi-
tation to attend the dedication Of the
Washington Memorial Arch in New
York tomorrow. Hegives pressure OF
public business as the reason for his de-
clination.
The Navy Department has accepted
the four steel castings for the battle
ships made by the Atha and Hing
worth Company, Of Newark, n. j.,
which were rejected with somewhat
sensational results last fall, closely fol-
lowed by the arrest of and institution
of criminal proceedings against some
of the officials of the company on the
charge of attempting to defraud the
government. As far as known the
Department of Justice has taken no
steps to quash the charges, but the
navy having accepted the material on
which the proceedings were based, it IS
probable the case will be abandoned.
No advices, official or otherwise, had
reached Washington up to noon to-day
indicating any change in the Nicraguan
situation. Secretary Gresham, who
drove out to Woodley last evening, ac-
cepted the Presidents invitation and
remained there for the night, telephon-
ing instructions that any news of i'm
portance should be sent out to him
there. None has yet been received,
and, the weather being inclement, the
President has determined to remain at
Woodley and not come to the White
House to-day. Mr.. Warner Miller's
presence here accentuates the impress
sion prevailing that Nicaragua canal
concessions may eventually play quite
an important part in the adjustment of
Nicaraguan difficulties. Statements
that Great Britain acceded to Nicara-
gua's request conveyed through Ambas,
sador Bayard to grant fourteen days
extension of time in which to pay the
indemnity, are pronounced untrue
The news from London that Great
Britain now contemplates movement
against Honduras to collect overdue in
terest on bonds negotiated in London
twenty years ago adds gravity to the
situation. The principal ports of Hon
duras liable to blockade or occupation
ara Amapala, on the Pacific coast, and
Trujille on the Atlantic. One of the
trans-isthmian projects which at one
time was favorably considered was the
construction of canal 200 miles in ex-
tent over Honuriau territory from
Puerto Cortez on the Bay of Honduras
TO the Bay Of Ponseca on the Pacific.
Later in the day Mr.. Cleveland decided
to come in TO the White House where
he could have better opportunity for
consultation with Secretary Gresham.
Mr.. Gresham spent all the morning in
seclusion at the State Department and
towards noon granted an audience to
DR.. Guzman, the Nicaraguan Minister.
An unexpected development in the
Nicaragua British situation may be ex-
pected within the next "a or As hours.
From present indications an agreement
will probably be reached which will be
mutually satisfactory to both countries,
and will result in the withdrawal Of
British forces from Corinto and bring
the present complications to a close.
In the Supreme Court to-day it was
decided that State statute requiring
railroad companies to deliver freight at
the price named in the bill of lading,
under penalty of damages prescribed
ia the State law, was inapplicable to
interstate shipments since the passage
of the Interstate Commerce Law. which
fcrbids railroad companies to charge,
collect, or receive for freight on such
shipment. any other, either greater or
less, sum than that named in the tariffs
which they were required to publish.
An Alexandria county republican
politician here to-day, says the republ-
cans of his county will hold their pri-
maries tomorrow night to nominate
candidates for the district offices and to
elect delegates to convention to meet
on Thursday to nominate candidates
for county offices. He also says that
Cromwell will be the nominee for ST.
pervisor in Washington district, Fred
Corbett in Arlington, and Duncan, If
he wants to be, in Jefferson. He also
says that Johnson for Commonwealth
Attorney and Wibirt for Treasurer will
be nominated by the convention and
that there will probably be no nomina-
ton for sheriff, for which either Veitch,
the incumbent, or Palmer will be
elected. The republicans, he says,
have clear majority of three hundred
in the county, composed mostly OF ne
groes.
The net revenue from the new
tariff bill, since it has been operation,
has been less than that from the Nc
Kinley bill during the corresponding
period of last year.
An old Virginia democrat now living
here says there are mono. hi. and beg
metallists in this city, and that the lat
ter cost him at least dollar every
time he comes down town. He also
says the police here are great fools, for
though nearly every body is demand
ing more money, they yesterday arrest
ed and imprisoned boys who were do
ing the best they could to supply that
demand by making counterfeit quarters.
Senator Daniel of Virginia is expect
ed here to-day or tomorrow.
The Board of Trade of this city has
requested the War Department to re-