Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-05
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.

rest hereunder, OuG tne application
was denied. The ground upon which
he asked his release was that being con-
sui general OF Turkey, although IA
tive born citizen, he was subject under
the constitution of the Federal Courts
only. Having been moved by the
Turkish Minister from his consular
office. that no longer protected him.
The denial of the writ by Judge Brown
was affirmed.
The gunboat Annapolis, built at
Elizabethport, \. j., by Lewis Nixon,
will be officially tried over the Long
Island Sound course, on the 10th inst.
according to the present intention of
the Navy Department. This will be
the first trial of naval vessels involving
no premiums for excess speed.
The President to-day sent to the
Senate the following nominations A.
z. Buck, Of Georgia, TO be Minister to
Japan: James Boyle, of Ohio, consul at
Liverpool: f. 5. Day, of Connecticut,
consul at Bradford, England; +. Il. Nc
Creery, of Michigan, secretary OF the
legation at the City of Mexico; Linn
Hartranft, OF Pennsylvania, appraiser
OF merchandise in the district OF Phil
adelphia; Brigadier General Frank
Wheaton, to be Major General; Rev. G.
S.Walkley, of Ohio, to be post chaplain.
To be attorneys of the United States :
w. S. Reese, jr., of Alabama, for the
middle district of Alabama; F. p. Flint,
of California, for the southern district
of California E. A. Angler, Of Georgia,
for the northern district Of Georgia ;
Marion Erwin, of Georgia, for the
southern district of Georgia; Thomas
J. Alcott, of New Jersey, to be marshal
of the United States for the district of
New Jersey; II. N. Paul, of New
Hampshire, to be professor of mathe-
MATES in the navy; Captain II. l..
Howison to be commodore.
Another big crowd tried to see Pres
ident Mckinley to-day. The publish
ed announcement that the President
would go away tomorrow or next day
brought scores of anxious ones who
desired word with MIR. Mckinley
before he left town. At noon,
when those 'other than Senators
and Representatives" are supposed
to have their innings according to
the rules and regulations governing
calls at the White House, the reception
corridor outside the Presidents door
was crowded with men and women. 1t
was patient gathering. In Secretary
Porter's room were number OF Con-
gressmen who were not so patient.
They wondered what was the cause Of
the Presidents delay in receiving them.
Mr.. Mckinley was engaged at the time
with the members of the National
Forestry Commission and as the con-
ference was an extended one a number
of people became tired out and relieved
the congestion by going away.
A. wholesale merchant of this city,
in talking to-day about the advance
in the price ofevery article on which the
tariff has been raised by the Ding
lev bill said it is not only
unreasonable, but unconscionable, as
neither the cost of nor the freight on
any of them had advanced, and that it
only showed what opportunities an in
creased tariff give the protected man-
ufacturers for robbing the people.
Mr.. Bryan arrived here yesterday
evening and is stopping at the Metro
politan Hotel. He is in good health
and spirits, is as fresh and sprightly as
boy, and looks as if he could go
through another campaign with as lit.
tie harm to his mind and body as he
experienced from the last one. He
was in the room of the q. S. Supreme
Court to-day as counsel in case from his
State, and his presence attracted such a
crowd there as not only to fill that room
70 its utmost capacity, but all the cor
ridors leading to it with people, many
of them women, anxious to have look
AT the man who, Notwithstanding all
Mr. Hanna's twenty million, received six
and a-half million votes for President
last November.
Petitions were presented in the Sen
ate to-day from residents of Vienna,
Fairfax county, and Waterford, Lou
doun county, Va, in favor of the ratifica-
ion of the British arbitration treaty. A
resolution providing for the publication
of the water of the Potomac was re-
ported favorably. Mr.. Cullom intro
duced the anti-scalpers bill.
Among the strangers in the city to-
day is Judge Rhea of Washington
county, Va. The Judge has been
spoken of as candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for Attorney General
of his State, but he says he will posi-
lively not be, if for no other reason,
for the good and sufficient one that
Mr.. Tyler, from his section, is a candi.
date for the gubernatorial nomination,
and that he wouldn't think of mill
tating against him, as would be the
case if he should run for Attorney Gen.
eral The Judge says the democrats
of his district are stronger now than
ever before, and that those who went
of from them last fall are sick of their
temporary allies and have come back
to their old fold.
Mr.. @. 81. Harmon of Waynesboro,
Virginia, was at the Capitol to-day to
ask Senator Martin, from his State, to
try to have the tariff bill SO amended
as to provide for tariff on manganese.
A member of the finance committee
of the Senate told friend to-day, a
month would be the shortest possible
time in which the tariff bill could be re-
ported back to the Senate, but that
nobody could tell what the longest
time would be. He also said that no
matter how uncertain the time may be
for the report on that bill, there is no
uncertainty whatever about the fact
that whenever it shall be reported, the
retroactive clause will be stricken out.
Congressman Walker of Virginia was