Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
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opened the exposition by wire from tne
White House at one o'clock to-day.
The wires were made direct to NASH
vile. by way of Richmond, Va, and
Asheville, N. c., repeaters being used
at the former place. The circuit was
a little over 700 miles in length. I'm.
mediately upon the completion of the
circuit into the exposition grounds, the
President was notified and at once
walked across the hall to the telegraph
room where he stepped up to the desk,
placed his finger on the Morse key and
slightly depressed it, which action in
stantly gave the signal to the Nashville
end and put in motion the wheels of the
exposition. The members of the Ten
nessee delegation in Congress, Pension
Commissioner H. Clay Evans and sew
eral other prominent Tennesseeans
witnessed the ceremony.
The President to-day ordered the
suspension for four days of the man.
date sentencing Joseph Dunlop, pro-
prietor of the Chicago Dispatch, to two
years in the penitentiary for sending
obscene matter through the mails.
The convict made personal appeal to
the President for this length of time in
which to arrange his business affairs
before going to serve his term in Joliet.
Joseph Gully to-day filed his applica
ton for the place of supervising inspec-
tor of steam vessels at Norfolk, Va.
The Senate committee which has I'M
dertaken the investigation of the work
ings OF the civil service laws held its
second meeting to day. Letters were
presented from Secretary Long and
Postmaster General Gary recommend
ing that the civil service laws should be
modified, although they recommended
no changes. F. w. Palmer, the public
printer, stated that the only persons
not included in the classified service in
his office were char women and laborers,
and said "As applied to this office,
which is simply great manufacturing
plant, involving varied branches Of
skilled labor of high grade, the civil SER
vice rules are an obstruction rather than
an aid to efficiency and economy. The
civil service rules as promulgated for
enforcement here should be modified
radically, suspended or repealed"
A. T. Brown has been appointed
postmaster at Gainesville, Va.
A delegation of one hundred republi
cans from the second congressional dis
trict of Virginia, headed by Mr.. John
S. Wise and DR.. Richard A. Wise, the
contesting member of Congress, and
including Messrs. Lamb, Martin and
Libbey, the delegates to the st. Louis
convention, came here to-day and pro-
tested against the recognition of nation
al committeeman Bowden in the pa
tronage of the State. They made q
vigorous attack on Mr.. Bowden's fol.
lowers, characterized them as disor-
ganized, treacherous and turbulent ele'
ment, and asked that the patronage of
the district be given to Mr.. Wise, an.
nouncing that they would not compro-
mise with the Bowden faction. In o
numerously signed petition they
charged fraud in the elections and that
the national committeeman had lost
cast personally and politically.
President Mckinley to-day received
the new Chinese minister, MIR. WI
Ting Fang, in the Blue parlor of the
White House. The ceremonies we're
very formal. Mr.. Fang accompanied
by three secretaries and the retiring
minister, Mr.. Yang Yu, accompanied
by two secretaries, drove over to the
White House with Secretary of State
Sherman and Assistant Secretary Rock
hill. They were dressed in their flow
ing silk robes and made picturesque
appearance as they were ushered into
the Blue parlor, where the President
was awaiting them.
The determination Of Germany to
limit the stay of German Americans in
that country, will, it is said, be a mat
ter of correspondence between the two
nations.
Among the strangers here to-day is
young Mr.. John Popham, who has just
returned from Costa RIGA, where he
has been engaged in the purchase Of
gold mine property for syndicate of
capitalists in this country.
A gentleman from Fairfax Court
house here to-day says the only effect
of the presence of the troops during the
late exciting trial at that place was to
expedite the action of the jury and to
render the immediate lynching of the
offender the more certain if the jury
had either failed to agree or had not
awarded the death penalty.
Elk. Ambassador Ransom, who has
been here for day or two, returned TO
his home in North Carolina this even
ing.
People from Georgia here say the
proposed appointment of negro post
master at Augusta in that State will be
very likely to provoke trouble there,
and that it is as Objectionable to re-
publicsns as to democrats.
A gentleman here whose services are
much sought by Virginians who want
official, or any other kind of employ
ment, says he was never in such request
as now and that he knows he is annoy
ing the railroad people, By his appli-
cations.
Senator Frye is authority for the
statement that the reciprocity section
of the new tariff bill will be stricken
out.
a Marylander here to-day, who had
read in the GAZETTE that his State
would certainly 60 democratic at the
next election, says there is no doubt
of it, and that the vote of the
land owners there will be a unit,
as under law the republican legislature
has proved 1t is almost impossible to
obtain loans on real estate, and that
the lands there are being bought up
by trust companies.