Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-04

the national republican committee in
1889 he occupied one of the committee
rooms at the Capitol and his room and
desk were broken into and many papers
stolen.
The House committee on naval at
fairs to-day began the consideration OF
measures looking to the relief of the
engineer corps of the navy. President
Harris, of the Maine State College, and
President Murkland, of the New
Hampshire State College, made argu-
ments in support of of the bill allowing
the appointment of graduates of col
leges Of the United States to the engl-
neer corps of the navy by competitive
examination. They favored the plan
of appointing half the engineer corps
this way and the remaining half from
the corps of cadets.
The following changes in the fourth
class postofices of Virginia were made
to-day Meadow Creek, Grayson coun-
ty, Josiah Davis appointed postmaster,
vice VIM. NJ. Cox, resigned; Saltcreek,
Amherst county, Leighton ID. Worth
am. vice VIM. 81. Phelps, resigned:
After unsuccessful efforts on all the
previous days of this week to catch the
Sneakers eve, Congressman Swanson OF
Virginia obtained recognition to-day In
order to call up bill for the relief OF
one of his constituents, but only to
have his hopes blasted by the single
objection of Mr.. Odell, republican
member from New York.
It is expected that the bill to repeal
the compulsory pilotage law, which
will come up in the House as soon as
the Cuban resolutions are out of the
way. will be defeated. On it the Vir-
einia delegation will be divided, Mr..
TYLER and some of them supporting,
and Mr.. Elicit and the others opposing
it. The ground of the former is that it
encroaches upon the rights of the States.
Major Seldom, proprietor of the Met
ropolitan Hotel, Southern headquar-
ters here, has just returned from a
trip to Mexico. He says the rich peo-
ple there live like princes, but that the
condition of the poems is infinitely
worse than that of the negroes in this
country during slavery; that the wo-
men there don't compare with those OF
Virginia either in respect of beauty or
style, and that excellent food supplies
there are ruined by garlic and grease.
He stopped at Columbus, Alabama,
three days, on his way back, and says
that free silver is all the go there as
we'll as in all the adjoining States.
A republican politician from the low
er part of the 1st Virginia district, now
here, says that among the candidates
for delegates to the st. Louis conven-
ton in that district are Scarbaoro,
Curlett, Trader, Griffin, Hardwick,
Broun, Briscoe and Walker, a negro,
who will probably be one of the two
Mcdonald would have been candi-
date, but the report of the republican
elections committee of the House in his
contested election case, to the effect that
he is not a resident of the district,
knocked him out.
A Loudoun county democrat here to-
day, talking about politics in his county
said he thinks Ryan is the favoEite
there for Congress, but that McCabe
had large number of supporters, and
that both Meredith and Rixey have 6
good many friends there.
Great confusion and excitement pre-
vailed among the three hundred anc
seventy five people in the Arlington
Hotel here last night by reason of ar
alarm of fire there. Men and women
boys and girls, in night attire, were
rushing about the corridors, passage:
and halls in all directions, but as the
hotel fire department was in excellent
condition, nobody was hurt, but little
damage done, and quiet was soon re-
stored.
Congressman Meredith was at the
Postoffice Department this morning
trying to get orders that had been
issued for the removal of some post
masters in his district, suspended. AL
but one were for failing to furnish the
requisite bonds in proper time, and the
other, the one at Falls Church, for al
lowing notices concerning a divorce
suit aud an oleomargarine case, to be
posted on the walls of his office. AL
the orders were temporarily suspended
1t is reported here that the New
York Jockey Club has employed addi
tional counsel to assist Attorney Gen
eral Scott of Virginia in the anti.racing
case to be argued before the supreme
court of Virginia on the 9th instant
Messrs. Moore and Brent are counsel
for the st. Asaph track, and Col. F. L.
Smith and Mr.. Edmund Burke, for the
track at Alexander's Island.
A prominent republican from Nor.
folk, Virginia, now here, says the Vir-
ginia republicans are for Mckinley by
a large majority, and that though
some of them do not want to turn
Colonel Lamb down, he thinks they will,
and appoint Colonel Stith Boiling to
his place as chairman of the State COM
mittee, and General Walker, as national
committeeman. He says that of the
four delegates at large to the national
convention, three of them will probably
be General Walker, Major Yost and A.
w. Harris, negro.
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