Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, June Is.

WASHINGTON, June IL.
"There would never be any such
thing heard of as Cuban uprising"
said Minister Dupuy de LONE, of Spain,
"if it we're not for the Florida cigar
makers and their sympathizers IN Ne"
York, Philadelphia and balllmoie.
Florida has been the base OF operations iII
of this last so-called rebellion, as well
as those that have preceded It," Sec
rotary Olney, when encouragement,
did not hesitate to express his strong
disanproval of the course of the U. S.
marshal and district attorney of Flori.
da in attending a publicly announced
meeting of Cuban sympathizers. 1t Is
known that the immediate removal of
these officials was only averted by their
tclegraphing a technical denial assert
ing that statements that they had "par-
ticipatedn in the meeting were false,
though they never denied the fact that
they were present. The whole course
of the State officials of Florida and the
attitude of Senator Call from that State
have been such as to put the United
states in most embarrassing position
in regard to its attitude towards a
friendly power.
Secretary Hoke Smith to-day had q
conference with the President in re-
gard to the appointment of an Assist
ant Land Commissioner to succeed Mr..
E A. Bowers, who began his new du-
ties of Assistant Comptroller of the
Treasury Department to-day. 1t is re-
ported at the Interior Department to-
day that the appointment lies between
Judge w. r. Anderson of Kentucky
and Major Robert Hunter of Virginia
and the appointment will be made very
soon.
The efforts to settle the estate of the
late Fred Douglass out of Court, appar-
emily has been unsuccessful. Nathan
Sprague, whose wife is one of Douglass's
children and heirs; says suit to enforce
her rights will be begun in few days.
She will make the widow and her
brother, Lewis H. Douglass, the admin
istrators under the will, defendants.
Sprague says that the widow, by the
most recent arrangement, is to get about
everything in sight-that is, if there is
not proper Intervention. "Why," he
says, "she wants US to concede to her
$4,000 in money, $4,000 in govern
ment bonds, one-third of all the real
estate, and will allow us 5000 for the
Cedar Hill property. This property,
to begin with, is worth $50, 900, and my
wife has been offered IS, 900 for her in
terest in it alone" According to
Sprague's accounting the widow wants
to get $65, 900 in all out of the estate,
which, it has been stated, is worth less
than 100000.
The United States Court OF Claims
adjourned to-day until Monday, Octo-
Der 2Sth next.
The hearing in the case of Captain
Howgate, on trial for misappropriating
signal service funds, was resumed to-
day with the witnesses for the defense
on the stand. No new testimony was
developed.
Secretary Carlisle will leave here
this afternoon over the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad for Louisville,
where he will deliver an address on
the financial situation on Friday
night. 1t will be Mr.. Carlisle's final
appearance in the Kentucky campaign
this year.
The President to-day denied the ap-
plication for pardon in the case of James
l.. Travers, convicted in the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia Of
m lrder, and sentenced March 80 last to
be hanged on Friday, July 10Th, 1895
The President in denying the request
says that nothing has been presented to
him which justities his interference with
the sentence of the court.
Secretary Olney this morning inau-
gurated a new diplomatic function
when he received the chief representa-
tives of foreign nations at present in
Washington, spending half an hour in
making their acquaintance and estab-
fishing agreeable relations with them.
None of his predecessors had held such
levee upon their induction into Office,
but the Secretary has already shown
his intention not to be sharply limited
by precedents and purpose of i'm.
pressing his individuality upon depart
mental methods where manifest i'm
provements may be secured.
Among the visitors here to-day are
Congressman Elicit Of Richmond, and
Postmaster Herbert of Portsmouth.
The latter was at the Postoilice De-
partment to see if he couldn't get per-
mission TO employ more clerks.
"A prominent Kentucky democrat,
here to-day, says Senator Blackburn
will not be reelected 10 his State, but
will be defeated solely by the use of
money, and that an attempt will be
made to defeat all the other prominent
silver men now up for reelection by
the same means. Hesays whole coun-
ties have been bought there, and that
the supply of money for that purpose
seems inhaustible.
Mr.. Beck, who formerly resided in
Alexandria, but is now q dealer in
stocks and bonds, with headquarters
in this city, has just returned from a
trip to the mining regions of Pennsyl-
vania. He says the reports about the
prevalence of the silver feeling in Penn
sylvania are greatly exaggerated, and
that during his entire trip he never
met single man who was in favor of
free silver.
Senator Dubois of Idaho, republican,
who is here to-day, says the people of
his State, republicans and democrats
alike, are for free silver, and will vote
for free silver man for President. He,
being: "a republican, be says, would
rather vote for the republican nominee
if he be free silver man, but not 9TH
erwise. If neither of the old parties
shall nominate q frae silver man he