Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazette.

The President to-day granted par
don to John Lyons, sentenced In Arl-
IONA to three and half years imprison-
ment for robbing postotfice. In this case
the district attorney held that the pIls-
oner was innocent, while the postotfice
inspector took the contrary view: Inc
President, in doubt, last June directed
a full investigation and Is now satisfied
that if the convict was not entirely in
nocent he was convicted upon testi-
mony so unreliable that justice requires
his release. The President also par
doned John Day Bryant, convicted i'll
western Arkansas, of larceny and who
has yet one mouth to serve of three
years sentence. In this case the par.
d, is granted solely on the declining
health of the convict.
Senior Andrade, the Venezuelan
minister, who has been detained here
to present evidence to the Venezuelan
commission, left for Atlantic City to-
day, where he will spend the summer.
Consul General Spencer Pratt arrv
ed at the State Department to day on
leave from his post at Singapore.
It is stated that Mr.. Ellyson, who, in
Richmond on Tuesday night, was re-
elected chairman Of the Virginia State
democratic committee, will give his i'm
mediate attention to the selection Of
members of his executive committee.
Senator Martin will certainly be one Of
them and Mr.. A. p. Thorn, of Norfolk,
and Gen. Hundley, OF Amelia, will
probably be two others. There is CO.
ing to be great demand for campaign
literature and the committee will try
10 provide all that is necessary.
1.-THE action of Senator Squire, Of
Washington, in declaring for Bryan and
free silver, did not come as surprise to
me-" said Vice Chairman Apsley, of the
republican committee. II had talk
with the Senator in New York a couple
of weeks since and l. gathered from
what he then said that it was case of
a drowning man grasping for straw.
He admitted to me that he had quite a
fight on his hands for reelection TO the
Senate and infer that this action is in-
tended, if possible, to make his re'elec
ton sure. The action of the Senator is
due rather to personal interest than any
deep convictions on the subject. The
same may be said of several other gen.
tlemen who have acted along similar
lines"
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
democratic committee, like Mr.. APPS
lev, Was not surprised at the action Of
Senator Squire. "Senator Squire"
said he, has always leaned towards
free silver. He now feels the pulse Of
public opinion and knows what the
people of his State demand. He has
Yielded to their wishes and proposes TO
become one of their champions"
Chairman Babcock telegraphed this
morning that he would return to Wash
iugton by Sunday. Immediately after
his arrival meeting of the executive
committee will be called to fill the va
cancy caused by the retirement of Sen.
ator Pettigrew, one of the boiling mem
bers of the committee. Representa-
tives Picker and Gamble. of South Da-
kota, are both aspirants for the vacancy,
but it is said that Mr.. Gamble will have
the better chance of election.
A dispatch has just been received by
the Department of State from the
American Embassy at Paris, from
which it appears that important modi-
ications have been made in the regula-
tions for the admission of foreign stu.
dents to the medical schools of
France and for granting them
nermission to practice their pro-
fession. The French government has
adopted stricter rule for the ad-
mission of foreigners to the French
medical schools. In the future foreign
ers DESTROYS of obtaining the same
diploma OF doctor of medicine as that
awarded to Frenchmen will have to
submit to the same conditions imposed
upon French students. To the foreign
students who do not propose to practice
medicine in France the facilities usual
ly extended to them will be continued
and even enlarged.
1t is believed here that Capt. Ayres,
U. S. A., stationed at Vancouver bar,
racks, who was recently tried on the
charge of having made libellous state
ments concerning brother officer and
sentenced to dismissal from the service,
will escape the sentence, as the court
which tried him was irregularly order,
ed and the proceedings were irregular.
It is also said that the cause which led
up to Capt. Ayres' trial was that he had
made his charges against his brother
officer in an irregular way or not
through the proper Enthusiastically
no grave ofense outside of army cir
Giles. Capt. Ayres is well known in
Alexandria, where his family recently
lived.
Senator Faulkner reports encourag.
iugly advices this morning from all
parts of the country. He received some
good news from Towson, Md, one Of
the thriving towns adjacent to Balti-
more. "Towson," said he, "has been
largely influenced by the sentiment of
Baltimore with which it is hedged
about, but l now learn that a strong
sentiment is beginning to be manifest
ed favorable TO the Bryan ticket and
platform in that vicinity. Maryland is
not going republican this year; that
much can be counted upon. The re-
publicans appear to be placing the old
democratic State in their column, but
there, as in many other places, they
will have hard time to keep the voters
in line on the electoral ticket, for our
advices indicate strong probability
Of Bryan carrying the State"
President Cleveland is expected to
make public his views on the political