Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Aexandris Garette.l
WASHINGTON, March Z.

The argument OF the income tax
cases is to begin in the Supreme Court
of the United States this afternoon, al
though there is a bare possibility that
it may be postponed until to morrow,
as another case comes before 1t. FOR
the tax law Attorney General olney
will be assisted by Hon. James Z. Car
ter. of New York, and Assistant Al,
toruey General E. G. Whitney, WI
presented the case for the government
in the suit of John G. Moore vs.. JOS. ..
Miller commissioner of internal reve-
nne tried in the local courts. The law
will BIZ attacked by ex-senator Ed
mmnds Mr.. ]. 81. Choate, Mr.. w. d.
Guthrie and Mr.. G. A. Seward. The
Greer county" boundary case between
the United States and Texas was to-
day postponed until the second Mon
day of next term, owing to the illness
of General Edgar Allen, special coun.
sci for the United States.
Newspaper statements that the Cap
tain General of Cuba had formally de-
manded the recall Of the United States
Consul General at Havana aud that
the Spanish government had acceded
to the demand, lack confirmation here
and are discredited at the State De-
partment. Consul General Ramon O..
Williams has long been considered one
of the ablest men in the United States
consular service, his tenure of office ex-
ceeding in length that of any officer of
the corps. He was appointed vice con
sui general at Havana in 1874 from
New York by President Grant and 10
years later was promoted to his pres
ent rank by President Arthur. Rtiss-
salary of $4,000 year -iis the highest
paid to any consular officer, being
81 900 greater than that paid to similar
officeCSat London, Paris and Berlin.
lrrhhe fees of his Office for the last year
amounted to SIC, 900
The critical condition OF Robert Scott
Hume, student at Yale College, son
of Mr.. Frank Hume of Alexandria
county, was announced in this CORE
spondence Of yesterdays date. Tele.
grams state that an operation for ap.
pendicitis was performed yesterday at
iernoon by DIR. Mckinney of New York
city, assisted by New Haven physicians.
After the operation the patient rested
quietly. This morning at nine O'Clock
kilograms reached this city to the eff
feet that his temperature was 1Ol,
pulse 80, and his condition satisfactory
His parents are still with him.
As1ong the young gentlemen recent
ly appointed by the President as cadets
at the Naval Academy is Mr.. Harry
E. Lackey of Clifton. Fairfax county,
Virginia, who is well.known in Alexan'
dria, having gone to school at Potomac
Academy in that city. He is the son O.
thu late Oscar Lackey of Virginia, CHIEF
engineer in the navy.
The State Department has Instructed
Minister Hannis Taylor at Madrid &c
convey assurances to the Spanish gov
eminent that the United States is tax
ing extraordinary precautions to pre-
vent the organization of expeditions
from this country to Cuba, and that the
customs officers in ports from which
contraband articles might be shipped
TO the insurreclionists have been order
ed to be particularly careful in permit
ting doubtful vessels to leave port
These assurances are intended to indi
cate the very cordial attitude of the
United States to the government a
Madrid.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad share:
fell to 50 to-day, the lowest point We,
reached.
The prevailing opinion on the sub
ject here is that the new silver party will
not cut much of a figure at the neXl
election. as both the old parties will
trim their sails so as to catch the silver
vote. The President, it is stated to-
day. will not appoint his delegates to
the International monetary conference
until he knows whether or not such
Il conference will be held.
The new minister to Liberia, Penn
sylvania negro named Heard, was
seized with qualms day before yester-
day, when looking over official reports
from that country at the State Depart
men', by reading that his two predeces-
sors mad died of the fever that attacks
strangers in that unhealthy climate.
In speaking of the conviction yes,er-
day of Chase, the negro charged by
Taylor, the negro recorder of deeds for
this city, with slandering him, a well
known lawyer of this city, said there
was enough testimony to have con-
victed dozen, but as only one could
be, be had to be the defendant, as to
have convicted the prosecutor would
have put the court in an awkward posi-
ton.
Cadet Dennet of Maine, who, though
dismissed from the Naval Academy at
Annapolis for cheating at an examina-
ton, was reinstated by Secretary Her
bert, at the request of Congressman
Reed and Boutelle, has gone for good
now, having failed to pass his second
examination.
Commissioner Miller. of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, is i'll with the grip.
Comptroller Eckels has ordered
Bank Examiner johnson to take
charge of the First National Bank Of
Texarkana, Texas, which closed its
doors last night.
General Joe Wheeler, of Confederate
Cavalry fame, being asked to-day about
the Appomattox bill, said he knew
nothing about it and never had any
thing to do with it. Somebody, he
said, asked him to introduce it, but he
declined to do so. A private letter has
been received here from General Fltz
Lee, in which he says all he knows
about the matter is what he has read
in the newspapers, and that if Congress
is going to make national parks in the
South it should commence at York