Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
[Oorrespondence Of the Ale1andris Gazette

Of California as honorary representa-
tive of the Agricultural DeparltmenSs
abroad. who is charged with allegeo
sharp practices in San Francisco anu
Urgent orders have been cabled to
Admiral Kirkland to assemble Inc
ships of his squadron on the coast OF tne
ToIv Land to prevent q threatened
massacre of Christians.
Collector Manogue of the George
town custom house has reported to the
Washington police that an investlga-
ton has showed that there Is practi-
c,lly no foundation for the report that
onium was being struggled into this
city in wholesale quantities for use in
Chinese Joints. The suspicious of the
Customs officials were excited through
the low price at which opium was sold
by Chinese here, and in this connection
thew have discovered that this cheap
article is really compound. AS opium
enters into its composition its sale
without the payment OF the internal
revenue tax is contrary to law, and
prosecutions may follow.
Comptroller Eckels to-day closed up
the City National Bank OF Fort Worth,
Texas.
The presence of United States Of
ficials at the mass meeting at Jackson
vile, Fla, last night, at which resolu-
tions were adopted sympathizing WITH
the Cuban insurgents, has attracted
much attention in official cltcles mere,
and is likely to further complicate the
already confused relations between the
United States and Spain.
The condition of Mr.. Charles ID.
Mansur. deputy comptroller of the
Treasury, is reported this morn
ing to be very critical A slight
change for the better yesterday
gave hope of continued Improvement,
but Mr. Mansur is now apparently in a
more critical state than he was before
the change was noted.
Postmaster General Wilson, who at
tended his first cabinet meeting to-day,
saw all of his colleagues. Mr.. Wilson
arrived early and spent quarter Of an
hour chatting with the President and
such of his new associates as arrived
early. Secretary Gresham was the last
to put in an appearance. He did not
arrive until the door of the cabinet
room had been closed upon his col,
leagues for about a quarter Of an hour.
Rudyard Kipling, the author, visited
the White House to-day. He came
with Secretary Lamont, who introduce
ed him to the President and the mem,
bers of the cabinet.
Surprise is expressed in diplomatic
circles that the U. S. Consul-General
Ramon Williams still continues to dis.
charge his official functions at Havana
More than month ago Captain General
Calleia notified the Spanish Foreign
Office that the q. S. Consul-General
was in full sympathy with the insured
ton and that he was secretly giving
aid and comfort to the insurgents. He
suggested that this government be mott
fed in order that Mr.. Williams should
be removed. The Spanish Foreign
Office, acted upon the Captain-Genera'S
suggestion, but Mr.. Williams still re.
mains. 1t is now understood that
within the past ten days Spain has
made another demand for his removal
but be still remains.
It is confidently expected that the
u. S. Supreme Court will render its
decision in the case involving the con.
stitutionality of the income tax on
Monday next. The are many here
who expect an adverse decision, and
one of the reasons they offer for that
belief is the fact that neither the Presi-
dent nor any one of the Cabinet has as
yet made his return. But prominent
democratic lawyer to day fouted such
an idea, and expressed himself as per-
fectly confident that the decision
would be in favor of the tax. He add
ed, incidentally, that ninety-nine out
of every hundred voters in the country
supported the tax, and that if the de-
cision be adverse to it, Debs would be
the next President.
Deputy Sargent alarms Ike Hill of
the House has returned from Ohio, to
which State he went to vote at the re-
cent election there. He says that four
out of every five women who went to
the polls there voted the abolition
ticket; also that he is in favor of a
Southern man for the next democratic
Presidential nominee, and that he would
rather be defeated with a rebel than
succeed with mugwump.
A resident of Alexandria county
here to-day says he hears that at a
meeting of the negroes of Jefferson dis
trict held night or two ago it was
stated that the negroes had large ma
jority in the county, and that they had
not heretofore had their full share of
the offices, and that, as a consequence,
it was determined, if the negroes of the
other districts would agree, to nominate
negroes for all the county offices. He
also says that so many railroad routes
have been surveyed and located in the
county that the wheat, oats and rye
crops there cannot be cut this summer,
in consequence of the number of stakes.
As some jack leg lawyers here have
expressed the idea that Alexander
Island is part of the District of Column
bia and not of Virginia, the Department
of Justice, in order to satisfy every body
that such is not the case, has opened
correspondence with the Attorney Gen
eral of Virginia on the subject. Meth
er the national nor the district govern
ment wants the Island, nor is it proba-
BILE that either Virginia or Alexandria
county is particularly proud of it, but
it is supposed that the correspondence
referred to will soon put the question
beyond any more dispute.
o. s. Marshal Wilson called at the Treas
ury Department this morning and served Oh
Secretary Carlisle copy of the order of the
Supreme Court Of the District of Columbia to
sppear and show cause why mandamus
oil, ~ ho IL.