Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
rcorresnondence Of the Aexandria Gszette.1
WASHINGTON, June %.

today introduced a resolution direct
ING the committee on privileges ana
elections to inquire into the practlcaoll'
ity of applying the principle OF the
initiative and referendum to federal ieg-
islation in this country.
The Senate committee on territories
to-day heard a statement from j. Z.
Brideman, of Connecticut, bearing
upon the nomination of NJ. q. McCord,
to he governor of Arizona. MIR. Rridg-
man was an Indian agent in Wiscon.
sin, in 1876 and charges Mr.. McCord
with appropriating timber on an In
dian reservation contrary to law.
The President to-day sent the follow.
ing nominations to the Senate John
Goodnow, of Minnesota. to be Consul
General at Shanghai; Horace w. Met.
calf. of Maine, Consul at Newcastle. on
TYNE; L. Edwin Dudley, of Msssachu-
sstts, to be Consul at Vancouver; VIM.
Jarvis, of New Hampshire, to be Consul
at Milan.
The following fourth claes Virginia
postmasters were appointed to-day
y. G.. Turner, Alumine R. M. Flippin,
Bagley's Mills; Noah Coffman, Comic.
Vile s. r. Gregory, Knoxville; G., A.
Mayes, Honeyville.
Secretary Long is unwilling that a
naval officer shall be permitted to send
letters to civilians threatening to use
his official position for personal adj
vantage and still escape punishment
For this reason he has disapproved the
acouital of Lieut.. Fidelio S. Carter, at
tached to the receiving ship Independ.
ence at the Mare Island navy yard.
One of Consul Lees reports to the
State Department describes the nations
that he is now issuing through our con.
suls in Cuba to American citizens in
distress. This ration costs Is cents and
and is made up of the following staples
Six ounces of jerked South American
beef, six ounces of rice, six of fish, six
Of sugar, one and half of black beans
one and half of white beans, or total
of thirty-three ounces of food, packed
in paper.
Judge Bradley to-day sustained the
motion of the defense in the case o.
John W. Mccartney, stock broker o.
this city, on trial for alleged contempt
of the Senate sugar trust investigating
committee, and ordered the jury to re
turn verdict of acquital. Mr.. Macart'
ney was the last of the alleged recusan;
witnesses to be tried, so that the record
stands, acquittsls six, convictions one
namely, broker Elverton f. Chapman,
of New York, who served twenty tis,
days in Jail.
Mr. Golssn, an Orange county, Vir-
GINA, democrat, at the Capitol to-day
says the democrats of his County a'e III
favor of Tyler for Governor. SIR
Johnson, Of Culpeper, once known as
Gold Johnson, who was also there, said
his county would send g solid Tyler
delegation to the convention, and Con-
gresham Hay, who has just returned
from visit to his home, says his dis
trict is also for Tyler.
The President has donned a tall
white hat, and the fact that the like OF
it cannot be found in the shops here,
keeps certain sort of people awake at
night.
1t is rumored here that Editor Still
son Hutchins of this city, who is now
voter in Fairfax county, Virginia,
and who acquired some reputation as
an orator during last years political
campaign, will be a candidate for the
democratic congressional nomination
in the Alexandria district next fall.
The livliest and most exciting scene
that has occurred in the Senate for a
long time took place there to-day dur
ing the debate on the wool schedule of
the new tariff bill. 1t was participated
in by Messrs. Allison, Foraker, Mason,
Teller, republicans and silverites, and
Mr.. Vest. 1t showed that the re-
publicans were divided and mad with
each other, and was decidedly unfnvor-
able to unity, though Mr.. Teller, who
is opposed to the bill, said he would
vote for it, to show how inadequate it
is. The republicans wanted to delay
the bill 30 as to hold another caucus
upon it. Mr.. Vest scored them we'll,
and Messrs. Allison and Foraker were
anything else than mild hammered to.
wards each other.
The treaty for the annexation of Hawaii is
generally supposed to have been sprung upon
the country in order to withdraw attention
from Cuba, but whether that be so or not,
nothing will come Of it st this session of Con.
gress, and probably nothing even at the next,
as it contains several radical defects, and, be-.
sides, rs Japan protests against it in the most
emphatic terms.
Tho republicans, in order to render their
proposed new tariff less Objectionable than it
is, have agreed to add some sort of an anti
trust amendment to it, and also one allowing
the President to make reciprocity trasties
with certain Central and South American
countries, but not with Canada, the trade of
which alone is worth more than that with all
the former combined.
Senator Daniel has been invited to s,,eah of
the memorial celebration at Mansssss on the
21st proximo, the anniversary Of the great
victory the Confederates gained there.
Senator Perkins, of California, TODAY re-.
introduced his bill for the appointment of q
commission for the investigation of labor.
agricultural and industrial problems It is to,
consist OF five members of the Senate, five
members OF the House and nine others rep
the various other industries.
Judge Advocate General Lemly of the NAVY
Department, has overruled the findings of the
court martial in the case Of Prof. Fanciulli.
leader Of the Marine Band, and has set aside
the verdict of dismissal recommended by the
court and substituted severe reprimand in
It's place Prof Fanciulli's offense was that on
Decoration Day he declined to play certain.
march ordered played by Lieutenant Draper
IF the Marine Corps.
The general deficiency bill reported to the
Senate to-day by the committee on appropria-
lions fixes the price oflsrmor piate on the three
vessels now building at 1896 per ton. Tho