Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
rOorrespondenoe Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WARRINGTON, July IA.


the law, the Agricultural Department
will distribute seeds this year as last
year, by purchasing them already
packed and ready to mail. The law
appropriates $4,000 for purchasing
seeds and $40, 900 for expenses incident
to distributing them. Owing to the
lack of funds, thirty dismissals have
Just been made from the division hav-
ing charge of this work. The distrlbu'
ton of seeds will be begun in December
when the extreme South will be sup
piled.
The PostoGice Department hereafter
will select and appoint the first SET OF
letter carriers, without the advice OF
the postmastels, at offices at which tree
delivery may be established. This
policy reverses a custom that has ex
isted for years, and the change is due
to various causes, including in some
sharp instances sharp practices of post
masters in filling the offices.
"a The following four. b class postmas'
tiers were appointed to-day for Vir-
GINA: Barhamsville, A. r. Jennings;
Boston, 1. B. Popham; Magnolia, h.
P. Philhower; Willis, q. B. Dickerson.
The President has pardoned William
W. Waite, sentenced in Virginia in
1895 to FIVE years Imprisonment for as
sault.
The comptroller of the currency has
received telegram announcing the
failure of the Nebraska National Bank,
of York, Nebraska.
Representative McRae, of Arkansas,
to-day introduced in the House reso-
luton calling on the Secretary of State
for list of all Americans, native or
naturalized, who have filed claims at
the department against Spain for in
juries to person or property.
The Commissioners to-day called for
he resignation of Coroner Hammett.
1t is understood that DR.. w. F. Carr
will be appointed.
It is reported to-day among the Vir-
ginia republicans here that at the con-
ference of their State executive COM
mittee here yesterday, the prevail
ing impression seemed to be that per-
haps it would be the wiser plan to let
the two republican congressman from
the western portion of their State name
the marshal and attorney for that dis
trict, and that conse quently Messr5.
Bowen and Franklin would be recon-
mended for appointment. The COM
mittee understands that the nomina-
tons to both places will be made by the
first proximo.
The foreign affairs committee Of the
Senate agreed to-day to report in favor
of the ratification of the treaty for the
annexation of Hawaii, but Senator
Daniel, who is q member of that COM
mittee, didn't vote, nor did Senator
Turpie, another member. The COM
mittee in taking this action had no idea
that the Senate would consider their
report at this session, but, as that re-
port is we'll calculated to provoke
Japan, it may have to do 30.
The conferrees on the tariff bill are
still at work and say that though they
are not getting on as rapidly as they
hope to complete it within the next
supposed they would be able to do, they
day or swo, and that short work will
be made of it after it leaves their room.
1t is certain that it will be satisfactory
to all the trusts, no matter how unsatls-
factory it will be to everybody else:
The President to-day sent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate William
l.. Merry, of California, to be minister
to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador;
q. N. Allen, of Ohio, to be minister to
Korea; Perry M. DeLeon, of Georgia,
TO be consul general at Guayaquil.
TO be consuls-William L. Sewel!, of
o 10, at Toronto; Edward b. Ozmun,
i Minnesota, at Stuttgart; Henry w.
Diederich, of the District of Columbia,
at Magdeburg; Charles W. Erdman, oil
Kentucky, at Furth; Samuel E. Magill,
Vi Illinois, at Tampico; George J. Corey,
of Illinois. at Amsterdam; Granville
James, of New York, at Prescott; Rad
cl FIFE II. Ford, of Maine, at Yarmouth;
Frederick W. Hossfeld, of Iowa, at
trieste; John c. Covert, of Ohio, at
Lyons; VIM. K. Anderson, of Michieau,
at Hanover; VIM. W. Henry, of Yer.
mont, at Quebec; John F. Caples, OF
Oregon, at Valparaiso; Daniel T. Phil
lips, of Illinois, at Cardiff; Mahlon Van
Horne, of Rhode Island, at st. Thomas;
Adam Lieberknect, of Illinois, at Zu-
rich; james M. Shepard, of Michigan,
at Hamilton; VIM. Harrison Bradley,
Of Illinois, at Tunstall; Charles A. Nc
Cullough, of Maine, at St. Stephen;
Paul Lang, of New Hampshire, at
Sherbrooke; Charles Deal, of New
York, at St. Johns; Delmar j. Vail, of
Vermont, at Charlottetown; Edmond
z. Brodowski, of Illinois, at Breslau;
Joseph G. Stephens, of Indiana, at Ply
mouth.
Dan Williams, ex policeman, charged
with the embezzlement of fines imposed
in the Police Court, was arraigned to-
day.
The President has authorized the re-
instatement of ex-federal soldiers with
out regard to the length of time they
may have been separated from it, in
order to extend the privilege to persons
who served during the war as army
nurses, regardless of sex.
Secretary Alger will give hearing
tomorrow to persons interested in the
proposition of the Falls Church Electric
Railway to use portion of the govern
ment reservation at Arlington.
The Senate postofice committee to-day
sgreed to report fsyorably upon the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Les Brand for postmaster at Sa-
lem, Virginia, and ne will be confirmed.
Mr. Martin Of Virginia was not in his seat
in the Senate to day, having been called to
his home at Scottsville temporarily.