Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March 81.

There are indications of forthcom-
ing investigation of the navy yards OF
the country, especially that at Brooklyn,
growing out of alleged gross practice
with reference to the skilled machinisls
employed in the various shops.
The House committee on merchant
marine to-day favorablv reported the
bill amending the law protecting SEE :
mems wages from attachment by ex-
tending its provisions to embrace sea-
men in the coastwise trade and the
trade between the United States anu
Canada, New Foundland, the We
India Islands and Mexico, and to those
jn the whaling and fisheries industries.
The bill abolishiug compulsory coast
wise pilotage was ordered up in the
II ,use the first morning hour the mer-
chant marine committee is called.
The official figures of government
receipts and expenditures, which Will
be made public April 1st, for March,
will show deficit for the month Of
81 ,25O, 900 and for the year to Date OF
100000.
Secretary Lamont to-day sent TO the
House the report of Capt. Casey, corps
of engineers, on an examination for a
channel from Hampton Roads to the
Norfolk Navy Yard. The cost OF a
channel $50 yards wide and Is feet
deep from the roads to the yard Is estl-
mated at $780, 900, and channel 200
feet wide and 20 feet deep in the west
ern branch of the Elizabeth river is
placed at $4,000
The Senate committee on naval af-
fairs this morning ordered favorable
report on bill providing for the con-
struction of four new submarine torpe'
do boats, of the Holland type, at cost
not exceeding $175 900 each.
The President to-day sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of William A. Lit.
tie, of Georgia to be assistant Attor.
ney General vice John Hall, resigned.
Capt. Allen V. Reed, U. S. N, whose
nomination as commodore was sent
to II Senate yesterday by The Presi
dent with provisional statement, vii!
BE- sent to sea as commander of a yesseI
of size commensurate with his rank
1t is to determine Capt. Reeds pro-
fessional fitness for promotion that be
will be given this assignment, in order
to make it clear whether or not he is
entitlsd to exercise the Gu les f a com
modore At present he is commandan'
of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. The allegations against
Capt. Reed did not affect his integrity
but were chiefly that be was careless in
his attention of naval matters.
A colored man employed on the new
postoAice building in Washington fe
from that building to-day and was kill
ed. This makes about the fifth mai
who has been killed by falling from thi:
building.
People from the upper Valley anc
Piedmont counties of Virginia here to
day say the wheat crop there will be
sad failure, not by reason of colo
weather, but because the wheat did moi
sprout last fall on account of the ther
long prevailing drought.
T. L. Ruth was appointed postmastel
at Horizons Summit, Scott county, Vir
ginia, to-day, vice D. T. Horton, re
signed.
Chamberlin's new hotel at Old Poip
Comfort will be opened on the 4th prox
imo.
Kentucky people here to-day say
the talk about the delegation from
their State to the Chicago convention
being for Carlisle is CAB, simply tina
and nothing more.
A kha sSro ~ Of ha n
to-day was Mr.. Hurt, of Pittsylvaui'
county, president pro tempore of TIT
Virginia State Senate. He says Tit
wheat crop in his section is very prom
ising, the wheat being already tai
enough to hide rabbit. He also say
the people out there are as much il
f,vor of Cleveland as ever, and that tn,
silver craze is not as prevalent as i
was.
A well-known Virginia republica,
here to-day, though Reed man, say
he thinks the delegation from his State
to the St. Louis convention will be 70
Mckinley, and that Mckinley mer
and Mckinley money were at worl
there while the Reed men were
lille. He also says he fear
the negroes in Virginia will cause
much trouble by asserting tlemselvt
and demanding full recognition il
the party. At the Caroline county con
vention yesterday, he says, they at frs
determined that the entire delegation
from that county should be of thei
race, but finally agreed to division.
A delegation from Portsmouth, Va.
consisting of Messrs. Hatton, Maynard
Sherwood, King, Reid aud Postmaste
Herbert, were at the Capitol to-day
urging the Virginia Congressman Il
try 10 obtain an appropriation for s
public building in their city.
Senator Brice says that no matter
what other people may say to the con
trary, ifhe be alive and well at thai
time, he will be at the national demo
cratic convention.
In the House to-day Mr.. Meredith
introduced O bill to increase the pen
sion of William Hall, of Fairfax coun
~, soldier of the Mexican wal also
| bills for the relief of Charles Stunkle
Paris Sims and Alvena Maxwell, o
Alexandria.
Among the visitors here to-day wa:
Mr.. Rixey, of Culpeper county, Vir
ginia, candidate for the democratic
congressional nomination in his district
He says that among the votes he will
receive at the convention will be al
those of his own and of Orange and
Louisa county, and three-fourths Of
those of Fauquier county.
1t is rumored at the Senate to-day that