Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette

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WASHINGTON, Aug. Z.
No matter what Collectors Brady and
Agnew may say about moving the head
quarters of their districts. Deputy Com
missioner Wilson of the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau, whose word ''goes" in all
matters of that kind, says no such NOV
Jugs can take place without his consent
and that OF the Treasury Department,
and that he knows his, will not be given,
and is pretty certain that that OF the
Secretary of the Treasury never will Do.
He also says there is nothing on Tile at
the department to show that change
of Headquarters from Lynchburg to
Alexandria or from Richmond to re.
tersburg is desired by any body.
Under the new civil service rules,
eleven 6rst.class proof readers were
turned down at the government print
ing office this week. OF course all OF
them are democrats.
So great is the dissatisfaction of the
republicans of Prince Georges county,
Md, opposite Alexandria, on account
of the Presidents civil service rules,
that some of tbs friends of Mr. Belt, the
republican candidate for clerk OF the
court of that county, here to-day, say
they fear be will be defeated by his
democratic opponent.
The friends of Mr.. Joseph Crupper
say that he has never filed an appllca'
ton or any endorsement for the post
msstership at Alexandria, and it is be-
lieved that MIR. Carlin will not be dis
turbed until his time expires, next
April.
Virginia rep: blicans here to-day say
the political friends of e1-Congressmar
Bowden are trying to have him ap
pointed collector of customs at Norfolk
Mr.. J. E. Clements, uperintendent
OF public schools in Alexandria county,
here to-day, says he has completed the
examination Of applicants for posi-
tions as teachers in the public schools
of that county, most of whom are col
ored, but has not yet footed up the re-
suit.
The Treasury Department is consld
ering the advisability of withdrawing
the Treasury Agent stationed at Pana
ma to supervise the transhipment Of
goods over the isthmus, in transit from
New York to San Francisco and from
San Francisco to New York. 1t is
thought that this service may be sat
isfactorily performed by the o. S. Con
sui.
Judge Waddill, one of the diamond
four, who control the federal patronage
in Virginia, passed through here yes
terday on his way home from the re
cent meeting of the Virginia Bar Asso
citation at the Hot Springs. He calico
at the Postoffice, and at one or two o.
the other departments, and had talks
with Colonel Browning and Mr.. Cole
from his State. the latter an applicant
for assistant U. S. attorney for the
eastern district of Virginia, but said
nothing of any public intest except tc
reiterate what he had said before, to the
effect that there are thirty members Of
the State committee, and that though
Colonel Lamb and one or two other
members of that committee might favor
the call for State republican conven
ton, all the others are opposed to it
snd that the majority rules in the re-
publican party.
Special agent Foster. who has just
returned from Europe, called at the
State Department with his associate in
the seal fisheries negotiations, MIR
Hamlin. and saw Secretary Sherman
He made no written report, but in con
versation with the Secretary gave the
Secretary of State an idea of the result
of his mission. General Foster and
Mr.. Hamlin will leave in day or two
for Lake Champlain where they will
rapport to the President.
Secretary Sherman says nothing will be
done in the matter of snnexing Hawaii until
after the meeting of Congress.
The President made the following appoint
ments to day: William L. Distin, of Quincy
Illinois to be Surveyor of Alaska; Levi:
Morris Iddings, of New York, to be Second
Secretary of the U. s. Embassy at Rome.
Mrs. Easily, the widow of Commodore John
w. Easily, Of the Navy Department who in
ante bellum days was engaged in shipbuild-
ing in Alexandria died at her homo here this
morning.