Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
rrespondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.

A prominent republican from the
West at the Capitol to-day. and, strange
a,it may SEEM, not an Office seeker, VINO
was an original and pronounced Nc
Kinley man, conided to a democratic
friend his fear that the administration
had already proved a failure.
The Treasury statement for May
shows that the total receipts were $780,
797, 800, and the expenditures S29,1O9,-
$50.
Joel T. Olive, special Indian agent
of the Interior Department, removed
last week, is reported to have COM
mitted suicide at st. Georges. Utah.
The Searles trial was resumed to-day
and Judge Bradley rendered his deci.
sion on the motion of the counsel for
the defense to order an %acquittal in the
case of the government against John E.
Searles, secretary OF the sugar trust, for
recusancy before the Senate sugar in
vestigating committee. Both MIR.
Searies and MIR. Haveneyer were pres
emit. The Judge said it must be held
that the questions asked were not per-
tinent, and if construed to be pertinent
that they were an unwarranted prying
into the private affairs of the company
and therefore beyond the jurisdiction
of the Senate. Judge Bradley there
tore sustained the motion of the defense
and ordered the jury to return a yer
dict of acquittsl. The jury accordingly
rendered a verdict of not guilty and Mr..
Searles was free. The cases of Z. J.
Edwards and John S. Shriver, the
newspaper correspondents. were post
poned until next Monday.
When Senator Tillman was asked to-
iay for an expression concerning the
decision of Judge SimontoD in the
South Carolina ~dispensary case he said
hat the State undoubtedly would
appeal the case to the SUI
preme court of the United States.
There is nothing else to do" ne said,
so far as this case is concerned. The
State has exhausted her present re-
sources and must wait upon the SUI
preme court and Congress-" He said
he decision annulled the Wilson act OF
1890 and that if it should be sustained
by the supreme court nothing.would be
left but to get Congress to pass another
law that could be made binding.
The following fourth class postmas-
,ers in Virginia were appointed to-day:
Calverton, j. II. Cheatwood; Mobjack,
NJ. l.. Lewis.
w. II. Mccormick has made applica-
cation for appointment as supervising
inspector of steam vessels at Norfolk,
Va.
Senator Pettigrew to-day introduced
d bill to provide for the submits
zion to q popular vote at the con-
gressional election of 1898 of the fol-
lowing questions: "Shall Congress at
once enact a law providing for the i'm
mediate free and unlimited coinage of
silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to /.
Shall the constitution of the United
States be so amended as to provide for
the election of United States Senators
and of the President and Vice Presi-
dent by direct vote of the people,"
Senator Davis has introduced a pro-
posed amendment to the tariff bill pro-
viding that nothing in the act shall i'm.
pair the provisions of the reciprocity
treaty with Hawaii. Senator Davis
says that the treaty contains a decla.
ration that it should not be abrogated
except upon one years notice. The
bill as it came from the House contain
ed a provision substantially the same
as the amendment of Senator Davis,
but it was stricken out by the Senate
finance committee.
U. S. Attorney Montague of the
western district of Virginia, who has
been here for the last few days, has re.
turned to his home. He seemed conf
dent that he would be nominated for
Attorney General of his State by the
democratic convention thereof. His
present Office will be vacant by the 1st
of August, by resignation, if not other
wise, and the republican applicants for
it would do well to come here and at.
tend to their own interest and not be
content to entrust it to other people.
To-day is the designated time for the
appointment of the free school superin-
tendents in the counties and cities OF
Virginia by the education board in
Richmond, and several of the appli-
cants for such positions passed
through here yesterday and to-day on
their way to that city, among them
Messrs. l.. M. Shumate, the superin.
tendent for Loudoun county, and his
contestant, Mr.. Ernest Leith.
Congressman Hay of Virginia went to
the Postofice Department this morning
to see about the postofices he had asked
to be established at Bowles and Spring.
berry, in Clarke county, Virginin. He
was informed that they had been es.
tablished, but when he said that
couldn't be, a clerk was called up, who
some humming and having said
they had not yet been established be-
cause Mr.. Bowden had not as yet desig.
mated the men to be put in charge Of
them. When that will be, Mr.. Hay
says Is highly problematical, as he
doubts if a reputable white republican
can be found at either, competent to act
as postmaster.
Congressman Rixey says the state
ment that he has appointed Brooke
of Warrenton, to the cadetship
at the naval academy at Annapolis in
place of Charles E. Stuart, was prema-
ture and incorrect, and that he will
not appoint any one to the cadetship at
until next week.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
received a telegram from Special In
Hampton at Fort Landerdale,
Fla, stating that ne boarded the steam.
Or Biscayne off New River Inlet at 5
yesterday morning while she
transferring arms, ammunition and