Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette ]
WASHINGTON. April l.

8 WIDOW ana minor cnilQren unuer tne
age of sixteen years surviving him,
such children may, after attaining the
age of sixteen years, and where the
death of the mother occurs thereafter
without payment to her of any part OF
the pension, apply in their own right
and receive the same pension as the
father would have been entitled to had
ne been totally disabled, to commence
from the date of his death, and to con-
tinue until they respectively arrive at
the age of sixteen years. A large num-
Der of claims will be favorable affected
by this decision.
The bill for cable telegraph to
Japan and China, via the Sandwich
Islands, was voted down by the Senate
commerce committee to-day, but will
probably come up again at subsequent
meeting.
Contracts for the erection of the
building of the Consumers Brewing
Company at Roslyn, near the Aque-
duct Bridge, in Alexandria county, in
which company several Alexandrians
are stockholders, were awarded to-day,
and the new brewery will soon be COM
pleted.
General Walker will leave here this
evening for Bristol to attend the repub-
lican convention of his, the 9th Virginia
Congressional district. Colonel Lamb,
chairman of the State republican COM
mittee, will also attend that convention,
and probably that of each of the other
districts in the State.
Race horse people here to-day say
the parties arrested at the st. Asaph
race course yesterday will not be taken
to Richmond, as the case will be argued,
not on the petition for writ of habeas
corpus, but on rule of the Court Of
Appeals upon the Attorney General of
the State to show cause why that writ
should not be issued. They say they
are confident that such cause cannot be
shown, that therefore the writ will be
issued, that that will end the case, and
that racing will Immediately recon-
mence at the st. Asaph track.
The House District committee to-
day, with the unanimous consent of all
its members except Mr.. Babcock, the
chairman, agreed to make favorable
report on the bill allowing the Wash
ington and Falls Church Railroad to
enter this city by ferry at the south
end OF Analostan Island. The District
Commissioners had reported against
the bill.
At the headquarters of the silver
party here it is said to-day there is no
doubt that the silver men will control
the national democratic convention,
and that Virginia will send silver
delegation to that convention is count
ed on with certainty. 1t is said that
the silverites are well organized in Vir-
GINA and have been for months.
Commissioner General Stump, be-
cause of the heavy influx of immigrants
at Ellis Island, N. Y, has authorized
DIR. Senner, the immigrant superinten-
dent there, to increase his force tenn
porarily. On March 80 last there were
on Ellis Island SS1 immigrants, of whom
37S were barred, and 500 were detained
for further examination. Additional
stories are now being put on buildings
there to afford better accommodations.
Most of the immigrants arriving now
come from Italy, from which country
the males of army age are fleeing to
avoid being drafted for service in the
Italian army in Abyssinia.
In response to the invitation of Sec
rotary Olney, the diplomatic represen-
tatives of the countries concerned with
the United States in the management
of the bureau OF the American republics,
met in the diplomatic room Of the State
Department this morning and had an
hours conference with Mr.. Olney and
Mr.. Kurdish, the director of the bureau.
The meeting was called for the purpose
of outlining new programme of work
for the bureau, which task was confid
ed to q committee to be selected by
Secretary Olney. The presence of the
Gillian minister at the gathering caused
some surprise, as Chill originally de-
clined to enter into the arrangement es.
tablishing the bureau.
1t is reported among Virginians at
the Capitol to-day, though on what
foundation cannot be ascertained, that
one of the reasons that induced the
Governor of their State to remove Col.
S. Wexford Corbin, democrat, from
the State Board of Agriculture, of
which he was one of the most compe-
tent and efficient presidents it ever had,
and appoint Mr.. E. o. Hine, republi-
can, in his place, was that while the
former is pronounced silverite, the
latter is gold money man. 1t is also
reported that Colonel Buford will
probably be the new president of the
board.
Congressman Turner of Virginia,
who has been home, looking after his
fences, has returned, and reports them
to be in very satisfactory condition.
While the House elections committee
has decided the contested election case
from the Petersburg, Virginia, district,
in favor of the republican contestant,
there seems to be some doubt about its
decision in the case from the Staunton
district, and Mr.. Tucker, the contestee,
seems to be confident that he will re-
tain his seat.
I. o. Epes was nominated for post
master at Blackstone, Va, to-day.
The House committee on agriculture
to-day ordered a favorable report on
the bill creating special commission
on highways to consist of the chief of
engineers of the army, the director of
the geological survey and the chief of
road inquiry of the department of ag-
riculture.
JOHN RECH's CoNFEssIoN.-AtM Mays
Landing, n. J., the coroner's jury yes