Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
lcorregpondence of tho Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.

pOnQentS VINO are uuuer iuusctuo a.
the Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia for refusing to answer GER
tain questions put to them by the
special committee Of the Senate, has
been transferred to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
The national board of steam naVlga-
ton, of New York city, to day present.
ed to Secretary Carlisle resolutions eA-
pr, ssiye of their full confidence in the
administration ofGeneral James A. u"
mont, supervising inspector general OF
steam vessels.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Gray intro
duced a bill to condemn for govern
maDt use the lot on which the house in
which Secretary Blaine lived, known
as the Blaine lot.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hunton in
troduced a resolution to allow Surgeon
P. NJ. Rixey to accept a distinction of
h )nor from the King of Spain, also a
bill to refund to S. @. Howe $4,000
paid on distilled liquor withdrawn from
y bonded warehouse.
The law imposing taxes upon cor
porations doing business in Mississippi
was sustained by decision of the Su.
preme Court yesterday. The Postal
| Telegraph and Cable Company was
sued in Kinds county by Writ Adams,
revenue agent, to recover S7S2.56, the
amount of tax assessed against the
company for the years 1890 and 81, and
recorded Judgment, which was affirm
med in the Supreme Court Of the State.
The telegraph Company appealed, con-
tending that the tax was in restraint OF
interstate commerce and illegal. The
Judgment of the State court was affirm
ed. the opinion being delivered by
Chief Justice Fuller.
The President to-day granted a par
don to Wingfeld S. Trueman, OF the
District of Columbia, sentenced to $50
DAYS in Jail for assault, and the sentence
of James Whiting, of the District OF
Columbia, for 260 days for carrying
concealed weapons and assault, has
been committed to six months actual
| imprisonment.
Intelligence here to-day from Front
Royal, Virginia, is to the effect that
Judge Turner, of that town, will not
recover from his attack of pneumonia
Chairman Wise, of the House
commerce committee, says to-day
he is sure there will be quo.
rim of that committee at its next
meeting, as he has made a per.
sonal request of them to be present
and that he is confident favorable re.
port on the bill for a bridge across the
Potomac at Arlington will then be
made.
1t is understood to-day that the Sen
ate will pass the Nicaragua canal bill
and that when that bill shall reach the
House an effort will be made to substi'
tute for it the House bill so as to throw
it into conference, by which its friends
think it will be passed.
In the House to-day Mr.. Turner Of
Virginia succeeded in having his bill to
pei SION the widow of the late DR.
Gustavus Williams of Virginia,
who was a surgeon in the Seminole
war at the rate of 80 month, passed
Congressman Meredith of Virginia
appeared before the House pensions
committee to day in advocacy of two
bills, one to pension Mrs. Strother Of
Culpeper, daughter of Major Roberts Of
the Revolutionary War, and mother o.
Major John STROLLER of Culpeper, and
the other. to pension Mrs. Speeks Of
Prince William county, daughter of a
so der of the war of 1912.
Judge Augustus ]. Kicks, Judge o.
the District Court of the United States
for the Northern District of Ohio, sp.
peared before the House judiciary com
lni,tee to-day to reply to the charges
made against him by the central labcl
union OF Cleveland, Ohio, upon which
the resolution of impeachment agreed
10 by the committee is based. His tes-
timony was to the effect that his official
conduct was open to the public, and
had never been assailed until be de.
cided a case against labor union.
Captain Mills, Engineer Secretary OF
the Lighthouse Board, has returned
from an official trip of inspection to
Diamond Shoals, Off Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina. He says he
found nothing to change the opinion OF
the Light House Board that it is en-
irely practicable to erect light house
on the shoals. Congress has made an
appropriation of 100000 to begin the
work and limited the total cost to
$4,000
Hon. T. W. Phillips of the committee
en- labor, has prepared report to &C.
company the House bill providing for
the appointment of q commission to
consider and recommend legislation on
the labor question.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Quay intro
duced bill to abolish the Office of pub
lie printer and create the office of con.
gressional printer; also resolutions for
restoring to their positions in the gov
eminent printing office certain persons
removed therefrom, and inquiring as
to the number OF ex Union soldiers who
have been discharged from that Office.
Comptroller Eckels to-day appointed
Marshall Winchester, of Baltimore.
Maryland, national bank examiner of
the State of Maryland, vice L. B Comp
resigned.
Supt. Stump to-day ordered that
Alex. ]. MCDANIEL, a school teacher
at Pembina, North Dakota, native of
Ontario, Canada, be sent back to Can
ada, he having crossed the line into
this country, under contract in violation
of the alien contract labor law,
1t is said at the Capitol to-day that
Mr.. Baker, the republican nominee for
q. S. Senate from Kansas, once stump
ed that State against the republican
ticket there.
The U. S. Supreme Court yesterday
decided the question, "Are juries judges
of the law as we'll as of fact in criminal