Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
fCorrespondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, April 80.

wares, and merchandise manufactured
by convict labor, to the State or Terri
tory in which they are produced.
Treasury figures which will be OH
cially proclaimed tomorrow show that
up to May /, the excess OF expendl-
lures over receipts for the fiscal year
aggregate $23 100000. For the month
Of Apri! the excess is $500, 900. In
round figures the receipts for the ten
months Of the fiscal year are 1914, OOO,-
600 and expenditures $29S, 900, 900.
Major Love, Commemorative Attor-
ney for Fairfax county, was here to-
day. He says Mr.. Willard will receive
the solid vote of that county in the DEM
ocratic congressional convention.
Capt. FoWle's nomination for inter-
nal revenue collector of the upper dis
trict of Virginia will be acted on before
Congress adjourns, and, as anticipated
in this correspondence, will be rejected,
to the great regret of the Captains
many friends in various parts of Vir-
GINA.
General Longstreet passed through
here this evening on his way home
from Boston. The General has failed
considerably in health during the past
few wears and is now so deaf that he
can hardly hear without his ear trum-
pet. He, like every body else familiar
with the facts of the case, says the first
great fault of the war was the failure to
advance upon Washington on the even
ING of the day of the first battle of Ma
nassas. He asked after the family OF
the late General Corse, of Alexandria,
who he said was one of his best fighters
and was always ready and willing to
obey orders. The General said Secre-
tary Lamont had promised him that
Capt. Ayers, whose family reside in
Alexandria, would be made one of the
assistant adjutant generals of the army
next fall.
Congressman Otey of the Lynchburg
district has been remarkably successful
in respect of bills for his constituents
at this session. He has had passed, bills
for the relief of Forester L. Taylor. re.
lieving him of the decision of the War
Department in deprivfng him of good
military record; for the relief of the
Misses Jack, money withheld for rent
of postofice at Roanoke, and for estab-
fishing U. S. Court at the city of Roam.
oke; and has obtained favorable reports
on bills for the relief of claimants un-
der the treaty of 1919 with Florida; for
the relief of DR.. E. 81. Murrell and Ar
thur Cornell of Lynchburg, of the heirs
of McVeigh of Alexandria, of the Free
and Accepted Masons of Keysville, for
an investigation of the Brooklyn navy
yard, and for giving Revolutionary
war pension to Irena Rsdman of Bed
ford City.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Martin pre-
sented favorable report on the bill to
nav the estate of w. B. Isaacs & Com
pany, of Richmond, ST., 900 for gold be-
longing to them, taken from the bank OF
Virginia by the U. 8. government on
the 23rd of August, 1865. Mr.. Martin
also introduced as an amendment to
the deficiency bill, a provision to pay
the awards of the court of claims in
the cases of many "loyal" citizens, in
Guiding several Virginians, among them
William Bushby, of Alexandria, SLIPS;
J. F. Febrey, of Fairfax county, 81 $50;
Jesse Owings, administrator of Mrs.
Anne E. Harper, Alexandria, 81, 6S5;
s. W. George, of Loudoun county,
$542; G.. W. Gunnell, of Fairfax coun-
ty, SIS, 100; Mary F. Lewis, of Clarke
county, $1,OO2; the Mullholands, OF
Fairfax county, 1920; Emily Taylor, Of
Fairfax county, $1,000; Rowena T.
Vaughan, of Culpeper county, $50,
and Matthew Woodland, of Prince Viii.
liam county, $3.50.
Secretary Olney on the 2Sth instant
telegraphed the Secretary of State of
the South African Republic that it
was assumed that the death sentence of
Hammond and other American citizens
was imposed with the understanding
that the sentence would be committed
and that he would like assurance on that
point. The answer came this morning
from the Transvaal Secretary as fol-
lows: "There was no talk Of an under
standing between judge and govern
ment before the sentence of death was
pronounced, but before the reception of
your telegram the Executive Council
had resolved to let mercy take the
place ofjustice and not to enforce the
death penalty"
General Walker told the GAzETTE's
correspondent this morning that the
Thorp. McKenny contested election
case, the report in which is in favor of
Thorp, the republican contestant, and
the Hoge.Otey case, in which the re-
port is in favor of Otey, the democratic
contestee, both from Virginia, would
come up in the House on Saturday next
and that both reports would be adopt
ed without opposition. He said he did
not know when the Yost.Tucker case,
also from Virginia, would be called up,
but that when it shall be there will be
a majority and minority report on it,
the former in favor of the democratic
contestee, and the latter in favor of the
republican contestant, and that he
(Walker) and Thomas, at least, would
sign the latter.
Among the visitors here to-day was
State Senator Mushbach, of Alexan.
dria, Virginia. He says the decision in
the race track case is just what he
thought il would be, and that he and
his colleagues, Senators Hay, Jackson
and Little, had said, in opposing the
anti-race bill, when it was before the
Virginia Senate, that it would not
stand before the court of appeals. The
decision, he said, was against pool
selling, which was not conducted on
the Alexandris county tracks, but
against nothing else.
President Cleveland this afternoon trans