Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, May Is.

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WASHINGTON, May is.
Senator Daniel says there seems to
be very little interest in, and there is
certainty very little talk about, the pro-
posed constitutional convention in his
State, and that he has no idea how the
question will be decided. Mr.. Speaker
RYAN of the Virginia House of Dele
gates, who was at the Capitol to-day,
Says he hears very little about the re-
ferred to convention, and thinks the
vote taken on the question OF holding it,
will be very small.
Virginians from the district referred
to here to-day say the result of the
democratic primaries in Culpeper and
Orange counties last Saturday, shows
that Mr.. Jeffries will be the next State
Senator from that district.
Even in the matter of establishing
new fourth-class %postofices in the eight
districts of Virginia represented in Con-
gress by democrats, Mr.. BoWden has
to be consulted, and delay is expert
enced in establishing some that are
really needed, by the difficulty in find
ing competent white republicans to
take charge of them.
Robert Holt, former Lord Mayor OF
Liverpool, was mi of the callers at the
White House to-day. He was accom-
panied by his son and daughter. The
former is shortly to marry into a prom
inent New York family. He had a
chat with the President, to whom he
expressed his pleased surprise over the
beauties of America and the national
capital. The party were shown through
the White House. Senator Hanna, of
Ohio, who has just returned from the
Buckeye, State, saw the President for
a short time to-day. Col. J. j. McCook,
of New York, was another caller. Col.
McCook says neither he nor his BROTH
er, Gen. A. Med. McCook, has yet re-
ceived the letter which John A. Logan
AYERS was sent to the latter in Col. Nc
Cooks care, and until it is received he
does not care to comment upon it.
General Grosvenor, of Ohio, chair
man of the republican House caucus,
has sent word to all the absent repub-
iicans of the House impressing them
with the Importance of being present
at the session of the House on Thurs
day when a special order will be
brought in to secure action on the
Joint resolution for the relief of Ameri-
cans in Cuba. 1t is expected that the
democrats and populists will seek to
force a vote on the Morgan resolution
by some parliamentary expedient, and
the republicans desire to have their full
strength present to vote down any
proposition designed to complicste the
question raised by the Presidents
special message.
Consul General Lee at Havana has
informed the State Department that
Joseph L. Cepero has been released and
sailed from Havana on the 18th inst.
Cepero was a native Cuban but was
n~aturalized in the United States in 1881.
He was arrested on q steamer sailing
between Cienfuegos and Batabano on a
charge OF sedition, but General Lee
succeeded in having his case removed
to the civil courts which resulted in his
release.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt will
leave Washington to night for Norfolk
to investigate complaints made by Ia
borers in the navy yard of unjust treat
ment. He will spend tomorrow at
Norfolk and will visit Newport News
Thursday to look at the work under
construction for the navy in the yard
of the s%hipbuilding company there.
The President to-day sent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate: VIM.
w. Morrow, of California, to be Circuit
Judge for the ninth judicial circuit, and
George Morgan Thomas, of Kentucky,
to be Solicitor of Internal Revenue.
a good many Virginia republicans
are still here, nominally looking out
for fourth class postofices for friends in
their respective districts, but really
with the hope, faint though it be, of
getting something for themselves. The
general impression here, even among
them, is that there are too many close
States to warrant the throwing away
Of offices on n go Economically rock
ribbed as Virginia, and that only such
federal patronage will be given to that
State as lies within her own borders.
The Virginia applicants for positions
outside of Virginjs's limits are there
fore disposed to look upon their lot as
by no means q happy one.
Among the visitors at the Capitol
was Dir. Towies Tyrrell, OF
Orange county, Virginia. He says there
is no doubt of the fact that Major Hoge
is the favorite of the democrats of
his county for Governor.
That Congressman Jerry Simpson
not only wears bicycle socks, but &C