Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorrespondenee of the Alexandria Gasstte.1
WARRINGTON. Sept. 6.

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Correspondence Of tho Alexandria Gasstte.1
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.
The Agricultural Department is find
ing difficulty in supplying the demand
from the live stock centers for inspect.
ors required to examine the dressed
meats tor foreign shipments. There has
recently been very pronounced i'm.
provement in tho European market for
American meat, which the law re-
quires should be inspected before 1t ID
shipped, and as consequence inspect.
ors are called for from Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and other
western shipping points. The shortage
on inspectors is due to the fact that the
civil service list includes no eligibles for
the work. The deficiency has been
temporarily supplied by permitting the
unemployment of persons who have
heretofore been engaged as inspecsors.l
Collector Agnew, of the upper inter-
nal revenue district OF Virginia, is here
to-day, but, he says, on BUSINESS, not
politics. He says he hears of no
general demand for republi-
can convention in his State ex-
cept from the negroes, end that
the republican press Of the State, with
one exception, 30 far as he has seen,
sustains the State committee in their
opposition to such convention. As
to General Walker accepting the guber-
Material nomination of such q conven-
ton or of even fsvoiing a convention,
after participating in the committees
proceedings, he does believe it possible.
BE also says the committee has the
support of the administration. Re.
speeding Collector Brady's action in
the lower district, he says the ColonePs
case and his own are entirely dissimilar,
az whereas none of the formers en-.
ployees had been reappointed and
there were but two names on the eligi-
BILE list for that district, in his own
district all the employees had been re-
appointed and there was an eligible
list, on which were democrats and bolt
ers, from which he would have been
compelled to take his subordinates, if
be could have appointed any.
The President is expected back ON
Saturday. and the next cabinet meet
ing will be held on the following Tues
day, the regular day.
Travel on the Mt. Vernon electric
road was 80 great to-day that in order
to accomoilste it extra cars had to be
added to the trains.
Congressman Peter Otey, of Virginia,
his States member of the national
democratic committee, writes here that
"The faith of Virginia democracy is by
no means shaken in the certain success
of free coinage of silver. On the con-
trary it Is stronger than when it voted
80 solidly for William Jennings Bryan.
Why have not corn and other great
staples followed wheat?"
This Ia labor's day here, but the only
laborers celebrating it seem to be gov.
ernment employees, bank people and
negroes, everybody else having any
thing to do being at work as usual.
Mr.. Bees Edmondson, one of Gen.
Hunton's friends, here to-day, says the
General will be seventy.four years of
age on the 23rd inst. He also says the
General in his younger days was a
schoolmaster and prided himself on his
knowledge of geography, but that when
Douglass Tyler, one of his pupils, in an
swer to question, said the Potomac
emptied into Chesapeake Bay, he
whaled him with switch on his legs
and ankles, exclaiming, Chow many
times have I taught you that it empties
into the Gulf OF Mexico ?"
Among the visitors here to-day is
Congressman Swanson, of Virginia. he
is here to revise the papers in his con-
tested election case and to have them
printed. he says the populists in his
State will support the democratic tick
ct. They regret the democrats did
not endorse Col. Cooke for lieutenant
governor, but the fact that they didn't
will not deter them from voting the
democratic ticket, because that ticket ia
for free silver, and that is what they are
after. He says that 30 far as he can
learn, the rank and file of the republic
can party in his State are in favor of .
State republican convention, and that
it's only opponents in the party are
those who have been appointed to Of
fee, who hope to get Office or have
been promised Office. He also says
that District Attorney Montague
was reappointed for the reason that the
President is in doubt as to which
faction of the republican party in Vir-
GINA is the stronger, and is holding up
appointments in that State until that
doubt shall be removed. Mr.. Swanson
says if the republicans of the State will
now take the trouble to let the Presi-
dent know that their committee does
not represent the majority of their vot
era the slate of the committee will be
broken and some of those not now on
that slate be very likely to get Offices.
Mr.. Swanson says the Virginia demo.
Gratis are in excellent condition and
that there is not the slightest ground
for the contest that is being made for
his seat. He says Senator Daniel has
sewed up Governor O'Ferrall with a
single stitch, and did it courteously.
GEN. LEES RErURN.-Assistant Sec
rotary Day, of the State Department,
who returned to Washington yesterday,
was asked whether or not ii was true
as reported that Consul General Lee,
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