Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-10

of Japan's eight conditions have been
accepted by Peace Commissioner Lii
Hung Chang is very gratifying to di-
plomats here who have no longer any
doubt that peace proclamation Will
speedily result. AS understood here
the eight conditions were as follows;
l, independence of Corea; 2, cesslon
of Formosa; 3, cession of Liau-tong
promontory, including Port Arthur; 4,
war indemnity; 5, admission OF ma
chinery into China and PERMISSION 10
foreigners to establish factories; T.,
modification of Likin tax, and extern
sion of the system of transit passes for
imports; Z, opening certain Chinese
rivers to commerce, including the
Yangtse Kiaug to Chung King, the
Slang from Hankow on the Yangtse to
Sian Tan Kiang, the Canton river to
Ouchow and the Woosung and its ca
nalo 90 far Guch>olfe street 10 Dogan5
,..a.J Is Is t feet is ,ssalhsuow and Rangchow;
s, railway privileges and similar con-
c,ssions to Japanese and foreign capt.
talists.
A resident of the State of Washing
ton, here to-day, talking about the re-
cent appointment of General Meem,
formerly of Virginia, as postmaster at
Seattle, in his State, said the General
was o good democrat and would make
q good officer, but, for all that, his ap-
pointment would raise clamor at
Seattle, as haswas new conner. Con-
tinuing, he said that all the federal
offices in all the cities on the Pacific
Slope had long been called on that
slope Virginia poor's houses, from the
fact that most all of them have been
and are filled by Virginians.
A well-known New York democrat,
here to-day, said the income tax law de-
cision was not surprise in bis city.
He said that while nobody familiar with
the personal character of the members
of the u. S. Supreme Court had the
faintest idea that any of them could De
bought with money, still, all their asso-
ciates were rich, and all their associa-
tions were with moneyed people, and
that it was the same with their families,
and that, consequently, it would hardly
be possible for them to be entirely be-
yond the influence of the rich, as they
only saw and heard their side of the
case. He also said that Mr.. William
Waldorf Aston owns thirty-six million
dollars worth of real estate in his city,
the rents for which are collected by his
agents and forwarded to him at Lon
don, where he lives, and that, by the
decision, be pays no more toward the
support of the federal government than
the poorest man in the country.
TIE Southern Railway Co. has So
vet made no change in its rate charges,
though allowed to do so by the inter
state commerce commission, as stated
in this correspondence yesterday, and
as its superintendent is absent, may
not do so for several days, if at all,
as it is rumored that if it shall, the
coast line will make another cut.
DIR. McGill, of Leesburg, passed
through here this morning on his way
to Nelson county, Virginia, having been
summoned by telegraph to attend Capt.
J. w. Foster, formerly of Leesburg,
who is i'll there.
Congressman Livingston, of Georgia,
who is still here, having up TO to-day
been unable to see the President, says
the decision of the U. S. Supreme
: Court in the income tax case will do
the democratic party no good in his
State.
The State Department was informed
to-day that the Belgian government
will Impose o tariff tax of one and a-hali
francs per hundred kilos on imported
flour.
The auditor appointed by. the court
here to examine the affairs of the Fl
deity and Columbia Investment Asso-
Citations made his report this morning.
In it he says the business of the associa-
tons was run with an absolute disre-
gard of law, the articles of the constitu-
ton and all commercial interests, ex-
: cepting that of the officers of the con-
, Germs.
The U. S. Supreme Court to-day
heard arguments in the case of a dis
puted claim between the Catholic
J Church and the U. S. government fol
the possession of 430 acres of land in o
government reservation in the State Of
Washington. Ex-Attorney General
Garland and II. J. May were counsel
for the church, and Solicitor General
Holmes Conrad for the government.
Congressman Meredith was here to-day, q:
was his colleague, Mr. Elicit Of Richmond
They both called at some of the departments
to see if anything could be obtained for any
of their constituents but found little or moth
ing