Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. NAV q.

A bill was favorably reported in the
Senate to-day providing that after June
Both next letter carriers in cities OF less
than $4,000 population shall receive
for the first years service 5000; for the
second $500, and for the third year and
thereafter 81 900.
The Morgan joint resolution recog-
nzing the belligerency OF the CUBAN
insurgents was discussed in the Senate
committee on foreign relations this
morning but DO action was taken. 1t
is generally believed that the commit
tee will not take further action on the
Cuban question unless something oc-
ours on the island to give an entirely
new coloring to the whole situation.
Practically then, it may be said, that,
under ordinary conditions, no further
action will be recommended by tue
committee and MIR. Morgan will be
unable to secure favorable report on
his Joint resolution. The majority OF
the committee appear to believe that
the State Department is progressing as
satisfactorily as can be expected under
the circumstances and that any inter-
ference by this country will be inJu'
dicious.
The four members of the Buxton
family, the victims of the murderous
assault at Gaithersburg, Md, Monday
morning, were removed to Garfield
Hospital in this city last night. Mr.. Bux-
ton. his wife and the elder daughter,
Maud, are reported to be slowly i'm.
proving. Sadie, aged six years, is still
in a critical condition and the physi-
clans do not think she can recover.
Mrs. Cleveland and her children,
with the necessary retinue of nurses
and servants, will leave Washington
next week, probably on Monday, to
spend the summer months at Buzzard's
Bay. Mrs. Cleveland and her little
ones are still at Woodley, where the
preparations for departure are now 60
ing on. The Presidents stay in Wash.
ington is dependent on the adjourn
ment of Congress. He will leave for
Gray Gables Immediately after the ses-
sion ends.
MIR. Smythe, U. S. minister to Hayti,
now on furlough, left here to day for
his home in the 9th Virginia district.
Should he desire to have his furlough
extended until after the Presidential
election, he has been assured by the
highest authority that his wish will be
grati6ed.
At the sale of Mt. Vernon to the
Ladies' Association, the half acre con-
aiming the remains of Washington and
members of his family was reserved
and still belongs to the heirs of the
late Colonel John A. Washington.
Within that half acre there is monu-
ment with two blank sides, left for the
names of Col. Washington and his
mother. 1t was proposed recently to
fill those blanks, but, it is said here, that
objection was made to the words Lieu
tenant Colonel G. S. A., after the Col
onel's name; and, strange as it may
seem, that objection came, not from
the Northern members of the associa-
ton, but from those of the South.
The Senate in executive session to-
day confirmed many of the recent nom
nations, but took no action on the ad
verse report in the case of Capt. w. H.
Fowle, nominated for collector of in
ternal revenue for the upper district of
Virginia. There is no doubt, however,
of the fact that the report will be
adopted.
Congressman Otey. the head of the
silver organization in Virginia, says
that of the lis counties and cities of his
State 101 have already elected dele
gates to the Staunton convention,
leaving II to hear from. OF the dele
gates elected 1909 are for silver, 267 for
gold, and SO are not instructed, total
1851, to hear from 2SS !; total number OF
delegates 1889. The election in King
William, he says, gives the Richmond
district TO the silverites, thus securing
solid silver delegation to the Chicago
convention.
An agent of the Alexandria glass
works who was here to day, says that
establishment now employs about one
hundred hands and has more orders
than it can fill. 1t has, he says, almost
the entiro bottle trade of the whole
South
People from Rappahannock county,
Virginia, here to-day, say that the ex-
act result of the late democratic cleo
ton in that county was Is delegates
for Turner, 8 for Mccormick and for
Hay. They also say that the whole
Congressional district is for silver.
Congressman Meredith was at the In
ternal Revenue Bureau to-day in the
matter of James Kicwit, of Nokes-
vile, Virginia, who has got into trouble
with that bureau, and though the bu-
reau, by his mistake, improperly collect
ed four hundred dollars from him
short time ago, which it would not re-
fund, it now, by like mistake, exacts
from him the full amount of the penal
ty. Mr.. Meredith was also at the
Navy Department, trying to have john
Cogan, formerly of Alexandria, rein
stated at the Navy Yard.
Judge Cole to-day sentenced Irwin
Ford, the negro murderer of Elsie
Kreglo, to be hanged at the District Jail
on June Goth next.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations, to-day, made favorable report
on Mr.. Lodges bill for the reorganiza-
ton of the consular service. The bill
contemplates thorough and complete
SYSTEM of examinations for applicants
for the consular service, for both origi-
nal appointments and promotions.
The contract for the Sherman statue
to be erected in this city was to-day
awarded to Carl Rohl Smith of Chicago.
The bill giving the Home Telephone
Company a charter to do business in
this city will not be passed at this ses-