Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-25
cago who are on the charity list of that
city have not much opinion of the eye
sight of Governor O'Ferrall of this
State, who, two months ago, saw the
dawn of advancing prosperity.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.

The weekly postponement of the con-
sideration of this nomination is looked
upon as an indication of the desire of
the committee to leave this appoint
ment hung up until the end of the SEES
sion. The nomination of Charles B.
Howrey, of Mississippi, to be associate
Justice of the court of claims, and Chas.
F. Armidon to be district judge for thu
district of North Dakota, was ordered
to be favored reported with the pro-
viso that action shall not be taken by
the Senate until Senator Mitchell in
the one case, and Senator Hansbrough
in the other, can be heard from.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Masters and Pilots Association g
in session here to-day. The conyen-
ton is composed of one delegate from
each of the forty-seven lodges in the
country covering the territory between
Portland, Me-, Portland, Ore, Duluth,
Mimi, to New Orleans. The object of
of the order is to obtain legislation for
the benefit of the pilots on the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans, the Gulf of Mexico,
and the Great Lakes.
Senator Chandler to-day offered a
bill providing hat no person or per-
sons shall be indicted, tried or convict
ed in any court Of the United States
for the doing of any act or acts what
ever in aid of the republic of Cuba, or Of
The body of whatever name known now
engaged in military conflict in the Isl.
and of Cuba against the government Of
Spain, which would not be unlawful
according to the laws of war.
Senator Chandler to-day proposed al
amendment to the postal laws makine
| The rate of postage on letters after July
1st next one cent per half ounce.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalini of Hawaii
| sent q note to the President this morn
ing asking permission to pay "au in
formal personal call " upon him at 8
O'Clock to-day, explsining that it had
been her custom liz Honolulu to receive
such visits from Americans travelling
under circumstances similar to those
which brought her to this country.
The note was taken to the White
House by Joseph Helelulie, the ex-
queens major domo, and Mr.. Julius n.
Palmer, Of Boston, whose guest the eX-
queen has been in that city. The
| President sem back to Mrs. Dominis
by the same messengers a brief note
g~raciously according the desired inter
view at the hour named. This will be
second visit of the last of the Hawaiian
| royal line to the White House; Liliuo-
kalani having been received during Mr..
| Cleveland's first administration when
| she made a tour of this country eight
wears ago accompanied fly the Princess
| Kaiulaui. At that time Mrs. Cleveland
| rendered the reception, but -to-day's
visit is understood TO be solely n Of
courtesy to the President, the ex-queen
not having asked to see Mrs. Cleveland.
The Supreme Court will take the
usual February recess, beginning next
Monday, and ending Monday March l.
The consular and diplomatic bill re-
ported to the House to-day carries an
appropriation of 81, 651, sos, which is an
increase of $1,000 over the appropria-
ton for the current fiscal year.
Eosign Noah T. Coleman, who was
recently tried by court martial here for
ineficiency and disobedience or orders
and sentenced to a years suspension,
has had that sentence committed to a
years leave of absence.
The Attorney General to-day stated
to the Senate that an agreement has
been made with the reorganization
committee of the Union Pacific Railway
respecting the foreclosure of the govern
ment on the property of that company.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations discussed the general treaty OF
arbitration this morning for more than
an hour, but no conclusion was reached
on any point. The whole time seems
to have been devoted to a discussion OF
the relations Of the Nicaraguan canal
and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty to this
proposed new convention. Many sug-
gestions were offered, but none took
tangible form. In respect of the arbi,
tration treaty, some of the Senators this
morning say they think it will fail, as
three.fourths of the Senators, the re-
quired number, car hardly be found to
vote for it. The support it receives
from the preachers seems to have hurt
it, as though they profess to be so much
in favor of peace now, it was only a
short time ago that they wanted to
bring on a war with Turkey, in behalf
of the Armenians, that would have in
volved the whole civilized world in war.
The desk of Representative Benton
Mcmillan, of Tennessee, who has just
returned TO Washington with his bride,
was adorned to-day with a beautiful
bouquet that had been laid upon it by
some of his many admirers.
Representative Tyler, of the Norfolk
district, having been informed that
there was no other way by which
Fielding Lewis Marshall, of his district,
one of the cadets recently dropped at
West Point for deficiency in studies,
could get back there, reappointed him
to-day, so that he will start there again
next summer.
It was stated in this correspondence
of Saturday last that the bill to pay the
heirs of the late Henry Fitzhugh of
Virginia for property taken from him
by the federal army during the war be-
tween the States would have passed
the Senate but for the opposition of MIR.
Sherman. Mr.. Sherman also succeeded
later on that day in preventing the pas
sage of bills for the benefit of Mark
Davis of Petersburg, and to pay VIM.
Bushby SLIPS for supplies furnished
military prisoners in the Jail at Alex
andria during the war.
Congressman Otey of Virginia was
engaged to-day in an effort to have
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