Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-21

ofthe leaders, Allen. Waddill, Bowden.
Brady, Treat, Walker, Agnew and
others, will not be held until to-mor-
row. Those now here are chiefly
bothered about fourth class postofices,
and seem to have abandoned all hope
of places here or abroad at least Tor the
present. The appointment OF Mr..
Robinson at Riverton has, it Is report
ed, been held Up because most OF the
republicans served with mail at that
Office are opposed to him, and a dele
CATION of the republicans Of Flint
Hill are here TO protest against the
proposed removal of Mrs. Settle from
the p~ostofice there, and the appoint
ment Of a man from another part OF the
country TO the place she holds. One Of
their prominent men told the GA
ZErTE's correspondent this morning
that some few negroes from bis State
would get laborers places, but mat
would be the extent OF patronage tha'
would be accorded them.
Among the visitors mere today Is
Colonel Granville Gaines of Warrenton,
on his way home from Richmond,
where he attended the meeting OF the
Virginia State democratic committee
last night. He says forty-eight Of the
fifty members Of which the committee
is composed were present. He heard
nothing, he said, at the meeting 0
the proposed constitu iional convention,
nor did he near anything from when a
conclusion in respect of the possible
L---to;o nnyofpaa 1ArlA ho n re Urn
A large humber OF U. S. Senators,
some Of them accompanied by their
wives, left here this morning to visit
Monticello, as the guests of the present
owner of that place, Mr.. Levy of New
York.
Mr.. Frank Hume, Of Alexandria coun-
to, was called to Brandy station, Gull
pepper county, Virginia, to-day, by a
telegram which stated that his aunt,
Mrs. Sarah E. Rawlings, seventy odd
years Of age, had, by an accident yes
terday evening, broken her hip joint.
Among the guests at the National
Hotel here now is p republican from
Wisconsin who says his property there,
Hhich cost him forty thousand dollars
cannot now be sold for five thousand,
an / that he is seeking an office III
order TO get money enough to pay his
taxes.
The resolution in favor of the Cuban
insurgents having passed the Senate
will be sent TO the House on Monday
naxt, when the democrats in that body
| will do their best to have it adopted
over the objection of at least some OF
the republicans. Mr.. Bailey, the demo
cratic leader, will not be present, as he
il booked for several speeches next week
in Missouri, where q congressional cleo
ton is to take place. If the House
shall pass the resolution, that the Presi.
dent will sign it is not doubted, though
that he is really opposed to it is well
known.
Assistant ISecretary Roosevelt has
re u-ned to Washington from a visit OF
inspection to the Norfolk navy yard and
| the shipbuilding works of the Newport
News Company. The primary pur-
pose Of Mr.. Roosevelt was to look into
complaints that had been rather nu
meroua, of violation of the spirit of the
labor employment rules in the navy
yard. Mr.. Roosevelt found that in
only q few cases was there any sub
~s:antial foundation for complaint, and
even these will require further con-
-id-ration. AS to the yard generally
the conditions were excellent, and such
%dlsconteut as manifested itself among
the workmen is attributed to the fact
thar, owing to the lack of money and
wo:k, it has been found necessary to
make heavy reductions in the force Of
workmen. When a force of 1000 men is
r duced suddenly to about 600, it is no
matter ofsurprise that the unfortunates
v no are dismissed should feel that they
have been Disseminated against. Mr.
Roosevelt inspected the plant of the
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
aad was much pleased with the charac-
tnr of the work being done for the navy
in that yard, as well as with the rapidity
with which 1t is being prosecuted.
At the Cabinet meeting to-day the
action of the Senate in passing the
Morgan resolution was regarded as q
movement that threatened, if carried
out to the end, to interfere with the
| efforts OF the executive branch of the
government to accomplish something
substantial for the Cubans. The de-
tails of the plan which President
Mckinley is said to have in mind
"re subject to arrangement upon the
basis of the latest official information
that is received from Mr.. Calhoun. But
ii was manifested to-day that the Presi-
d.nt has now come to the determine
ton to use his powers to stop the blood
she'd Oh the island so far as this can be
done without involving the United
StnteS in war.