Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-23
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra aasette.]
WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
The Monetary Commission resumed
its sessions here to-day with ex Senator
Edmunds presiding. w. B. Dean, of
St. Paul, arrived last night, making
nine of the eleven commissioners pres
emf; namely, Messrs. Edmunds, Leigh
ton, Fairchild, Patterson, Bush, Fries,
Dean, Taylor and Laughlin. At this
mornings session a general discussion
occurred on the plans to be adopted.
Thus far the commission has not taken
up the serious work before it, but has
mapped out the preliminary organlza-
ton. Several of the members address.
ed the commission to-day on financial
topics. These discussions are private.
Surgeon General Wymsn to day is-
sued the following bulletin summarize.
log the yellow fever situation: The
reported cases as occurring on the 22nd
are at New Orleans, II; Mobile, 4; Ed
wards, Miss, IS; Beaumont, Texas, l..
Reports from Ocean Springs, Biloxi
and Scranton, Miss, delayed. Sus-
pected case at st. Louis reported as
malaria. No case In city. Suspected
dredge boats at Mt. Pleasant, Mo-, de.
clared free from infection.
A. B. Thacker was to-day appointed
postmaster at Locust Greek and A. P.
F1nter at Lyndhurst, Virginia. Both
Offices are fourth-clase.
Not satisfied with the appointment
of a disreputable negro as naval officer
from New Orleans, the President was
ready to make other appointments in
that city, among them that of man
who had been Confederate soldier
and taken part 10 the famous mas.
sacren at Fort Pillow, but as it was
thought that his appointment mig bit
sntagonize the G.. a. &. and drive the
negroes in Ohio away from the republi.
can ticket, no more appointments will
be made there until after the Ohio
election.
Senator Sherman had prepared his
speech to be delivered in Ohio, but was
required by the administration to have
it submitted to oensors. That being
done, it was found that it would be in
furious not only to the republican party,
but also to the Senator himself, and be
has accepted the advice to keep out of
the Ohio campaign.
The Interstate commerce commission
is preparing circular, and will soon
issue it, to the effect that the law pass.
ed by Congress requiring every railroad
car to be supplied with couplers, under
the penalty of 500 for every Car not so
supplied, will go into effect on the 1st
of January. This paragraph may save
the railroad companies that have for
gotten there is any such law, some
trouble.
A New York republican of the anti
Platt wing of his party, here to-day said
Senator Platt spent two days with the
President last week, and that the lat
ter is still smelling of machine oil.
A we'll known democratic lawyer of
this city who spent three or four days
in Boston last week, before leaving sent
for the proprietor of the hotel at which
be stopped and told him he had often
wondered why the intellectually of
Boston was unrepresented in Congress,
but he had found out that it was kept
at home to manage the hotels. He
then called for his bill, and says the
AMOUNT of it showed that not only board
and lodging, but intellectually were
charged for.
The Office seekers whom the Presi-
cd hxro
stay here until his return. They i'm
agine that the recent decision of the
court has knocked the civil service sky
nigh, and that Mr.. Mckinley can ap-
point them, if be shall choose to do 80,
without any difficulty.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, now in session
here, to-day adopted resolutions de-
bouncing the late shooting Of the strik.
ing coal miners at Hazleton, and con.
demning the ever ready use in late
years of court ipjunctions. 1t was also
determined that measures in the inter-
eat of labor should be formulated and
presented to President Mckinley with
the view of his incorporating them in
us ucA1 tQCcenSo W SooetOoo'
Testimony is being taken at the Of
Zee of the Southern Railway Company
here to-day before Commissioner Kirk
Craig, Srd Assistant Postmaster General
under Mr.. Cleveland, in the case of
the State of North Carolina vs. the
Southern Railway, which is brought to
prove the alleged charge that the lease
Of the North Carolina Railroad to the
Southern Railway was procured by
fraud. Nothing has been ELECTED so
far to sustain the charge.
The Worcester, Massachusetts,, Light In
fantry and the City Guards and Veterans of
Hartford, Connecticut. who have been visit
ing Richmond arrived here this morning.
rhey say they had delightful time in the
capital of the Confederacy and never were
more Hospitality trested than there.
WONDERFUL SURGICAL FEAT.-A