Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondeuce of the Alexandria Gazette.l

Chill; Owen McGarr, OF tennessee,
consul at Cienfuegos, Cuba; Albert 3.
Morlan, of Louisiana, consul at Belize,
British Honduras; Frank d. Hill, OF
Minnesota, consul at La Guayrs, Ven
ezuela, and Andrew F. Fay, of Illinois,
consul at Denia, Spain. AS all these
appointments with the exception OF
that of Mr.. Simpkins are OF persons
who were formerly in the consular SER
wee or in itat present, they are exempt
from the recent order of the President
requiring an examination in the case OF
original appointments.
r. A. Craft was appointed postmas-
ter at Kyle. Botetourt county, Virginia,
to-day, vice T. B. Myers, resigned.
The District Court of Appeals to-day
in an opinion delivered by Mr.. Justice
Morris sustained the verdict of the
Criminal Court in the case OF Captain
H w. Howgate, the former disburslug
officer of the Signal Service. Inc
Criminal Court fixed his term OF I'M
prisonment at eight years. Captain
Howpate is now in the custody of the
Marshal of the District. He can carry
the case no further unless his attorneys
should discover some constitutional
question not now apparent upon which
they can ask the decision of the Su-
preme Court ofthe United States. Col.
Worthington, counsel for Captain How
gate, says the last act has been per-
formed so far as the courts are concern
ed and nothing can intervene but e1-
ecutive clemency to prevent Howgate
serving his time in the Albany penl-
Tertiary. The prisoner was removed to
the District jail, where he will remain a
few days to permit him to close up mis-
business affairs prior to his removal to
Albany to begin serving his sentence.
He was accompanied to the Jail by
young woman who had just been con-
victed of bigamy. ),
This mornings session of the general
assembly of the Knights of Labor was
taken up with discussion of the re-
port of the committee on law. The
proposition to reduce the per capita
tax from two cents per month
to one cent, was defeated. The
constitution was also amended so
as to take from the Past General Mas
ter Workman, the right to vote in the
general assembly. Mr.. Powderly, al
though under suspension, is the official
thus deprived of the vote in question.
Mr.. James Sims, son of the late Col.
Sims, of Danville, Virginia, who was
consul 10 Colon under the Harrison
administration, has exhibited such pro-
ficiency in the Navy Department here.
in which he was employed, that he has
been promoted and transferred to the
Cramp shipyard at Philadelphia.
The Treasury gold reserve, which the
bond issue was intended to maintain, is
nine million short to-day, but no more
bond calls will be made before the
meeting of Congress, and certainly
none will be authorized by that body,
for though the House may pass bill to
that effect, it would never go through
the Senate.
People from Fauquier county, Va,
here to-day, say that most of the wheat
sowed there this season was on corn
land that did not require much pillow
ing. and that though the drought de.
layed its sprouting, since the late rains
it has come up beautifully, and the pres
emit indications are that next years
crop will be as good as usual.
Ex-Congressman Holman, of Indi-
ana, who is still here, says the Cuban in
surrectionists must be recognized and
that England will submit the Venezu-
elan affair in arbitration, as an Ameri-
can embargo ON her trade would de-
stroy her. He attributes the recent
democratic defeat, from which he says
the democrats will not recover for
twenty-five years, to the course the
President has pursued.
Senator Sherman, who is suffering
from O. severe cold and fever, is better
to-day than he was yesterday, but is
confined to his house.
Senator Daniel is here to-day, on
private business, but intends to return
to Lynchburg this evening.
A Virginia democrat here to-day, who
was defeated for denomination for the
legislature of his State last month by a
neighbor. says an attempt was made by
friends of his and his competitor to eff
feet compromise before the primaries,
and that when they came 70 him he
told them that as he was the first in
the field, he thought he ought to have
the nomination, and that if be got it, he
would not run again, but that if that
propcsit n were not accepted, though
seventy-two years old, he would wrestle
for it, the best two out of three falls to
have it, though his opponent is not
half as old as he is and is almost twice
as heavy. Neither proposition was
agreeable, and at the polls his oppo-
nent got more votes than he did.
It is understood that ex-Pos,master
Sherwood of this city stands coed
chance of being postmaster ofthe House
in the next Congress, and that Mr.. joe
Grayson, of Fairfax county, Virginia,
who for many years has been an assis-
tant in the document room of the
House, may be the superintendent Of
that room.
Admiral Walker this morning said: ~
cannot shut my eyes to cold facts. We
are not prepared to-day to engage in
war with any first-class power. We
are in the position that China &C.
cupied in her recent struggle with
Japan. We have vast population.
great wealth, boundless resources and
intense patriotism, But we cannot
maintain an offensive or defensive at
ti,ude against any one of the half dozen
foreign countries. 1t is useless to talk
about war with any European country
in our present conc ition."
The Postmaster General has denied the