Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
[oo7espondence Of the Alexandra Gazette
WASHINGTON, March 10.

CORRESPONDENTS Of the Alexandra daSette'l
WASHINGTON, March IL.
MIR. ]. E. Herald, president OF the
East Capitol bank of this city, u rlcn
man who owns some land near nun
ter's Chapel, in Alexandra county; IS Is
in earnest in his proposition to give Tue
land and erect g 500, 900 court house LOT
that county, provided the site De on DIS
land The supervisors of the county
w;ll teke the matter under considera-
ion and determine whether they nave
authority to accept the ofer. ,:.oa :
Judge Nowlin, who once editea a
Newspaper in Virginia and was suose-
ouently assistant postmaster OF the U.
& House of Representatives, says ne
bas experienced the vanity and vexa-
q lon of politics and realized that theie
/ is nothing true but heaven. He is now
c,nnected with Christian mission in
+ MS CITY. and says his conscience is clear
and he sleeps the sleep of the just.
People from Pennsylvania here to-
dav say the recent reported tally of the
legislature of that State in respect OF
the next republican Presidential nomi-
nation was taken by On enemy of Sen
ator Cameron, and that the feeling in
their State is largely in favor of Mr..
Cameron and silver, and is rapidly in
creasing.
Among the strangers at the Capitol
to-day was Judge Waddill, ex-republi-
can congressman from the Richmond,
Virginia, district. The Judge said he
was here on private business, but had
seen General Malone last night. He
said he wasn't taking much interest IN
politics now, but he supposed that all
parties interested in having fair cleo
lions in his State would be represent
ed at the coming conference in Rich
mond.
The papers of the contestant in an
other of the contested election cases
| from Virginia have been received by the
| clerk of the House, those of Cornett VS..
Swanson, the other two being those
of Yost vs.. Tucker and Thorp VS.. Nc
Kenney. None of them show that the
contestants received majority of the
votes cast.
The largest crowd ever assembled in
the U. S. Supreme Court room was
there this morning, to hear the closing
speech in the income tax case deliver
ed by Mr.. Choate. Among those pres.
emit were Judge Waddill of Richmond
and Mr.. Morgan Beach of Alexandria,
the latter remarking to friend that it
was well to be..there, as apparent inter
est in the case implied liability to the
tax. Mr.. Choate asserted that the tax
upon real estate, the rents and incomes
| therefrom was direct tax, and that
the members Of the constitutional
convention had them in mind as
a subject of direct tax when they
used that term. There had been
three periods Of direct taxation in
| 1892, when trouble with France was
app1 ehended; during the war of 1872
and in the war of the rebellion. The
first was emblematic of them ALT wa:
direct tax upon real estate, not naked
land, as Mr.. Carter had contended, but
upon houses and lands, productive ant
unproductive alike.
The New Orleans riot having beer
made an international affair by the
shooting of an Engliihman, in reply t.
an enquiry from the State Depart
ment, dispatch from Governor
Foster of Louisiana was received
al that department to-day, to the effect
that vigorous steps are being taken by
the municipal and State authorities tc
prevent recurrence of violence and tt
afford full protection to life, property
and commerce that the crews of yes
sells are in no danger; that the identity O.
the shot man was not known, and thai
the grand jury is now investigating the
whole matter.
Mr.. Frank Hume, of Alexandra
county, has returned from Yale Col
lege, where he witnessed surgical
operation upon his son, q student there
who is now almost well and will soor
be home. The abdomen was cut open
by long incision, and what is known
as the vermiform appendix, a short
worm like blind sack attached to the
bowels, which Lad become diseased, wa:
removed.
] here is current rumor here to the etfec
that among the first of the Presidents officia
acts on his return will be the removal of Tay
lor, the negro recorder of deeds for tho District
of Columbia, and the appointment of Mr.
La wrence Gardner, secretary of the national
democratic committee, to the place.
Little news can be obtained from the Treas
ury Department now, but there are rumors
to the effect that owing to the wording of the
last gold loan contract, some of the gold re-
ceived there is of light weight.
The Italian government called at the State
Department to-day for An explanation of the
lynching of four Italians in Colorado yester-
day.
THE ROBERT EDWARDS HEIRs.-The
true and direct heirs of Robert Edwards
are now residing in the counties of Lam
caster and Northumberland. and also
near Norfolk, and but for them being