Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-22
FROM WASHINGTON

FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorrespondsnce Of the Alexandria Gasette.]
WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
The President made the following
appointments to-day James Hill. q ne
gro, to be register of the land Office at
jackson, Miss; George E. Matthews,
receiver of public moneys at jackson,
Miss; Charles B. Moores, register OF the
land Office at Oregon City, Ore.
The President has committed to I'M
prisonment for life the death sentence
imposed upon c. L. Addington in west
ern Texas for murder. Addington was
to have been hanged on the oath.
The announcement Of the death, at
his home in Wilmington, N. c., OF Wal
ter E. Faison, formerly solicitor OF the
Department of State, has been received
mere.
The monetary commission, appoint
ed by the authority of the executive
committee of the Indianapolis sound
money convention after the failure OF
Congress to pass the bill for the crea'
tion of such commission, will meet IN
this city this afternoon. Mr.. b. b.
Hanna, of Indianapolis, chairman OF
the executive committee, and eight
others of the eleven members OF the
commission are mere to attend the
opening session. 1t is expected That
ex-senator George F. Edmunds will be
selected to preside over the delibera.
lions of the commission which Will
maae q through investigation OF our
! currency ana financial system and re-
port its conclusions. While the COM
mission had no warrant of law it's pro-
| moters hope that it will blaze the way
for the passage of q currency reform
measure by Congress at the regular ses-
sion in December.
The executive council of the Ameri.
can Federation of Labor met to-day at
the headquarters of the organization in
! this city to discuss the mining situa.
| ton. There were present Samuel
Gompers, the president of the
| American Federation of Labor; Sec
rotary Frank Morrison, P. J. Nc
Gpire of Philadelphia, James Duncan
of Baltimore, James O'Connell of Chi
cago, NJ, Garland Of Pittsburg, M. D..
Ratchford, president of the United
| Mine Workers Association; Cameron
Miller, Of the executive board OF the
United Mine Workers, and Frank j.
Weber, one of the Federation of Labor
organizers in the West Virginia mining
| district.
A telegram was received at the War
Department to-day from Lieut.. Whit
ney, at Willismsport, Pa, stating that
Lieut.. Hill, who cast himself from a
Pullman Car night before last, had
been placed in the hospital there. An
other telegram from Supt. Westfall, of
that division of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, stated that the officer, while Sc.
riously, is not dangerously injured.
| w. r. Wright was to-day appointed
| fourth.class postmaster at Independ-
ence, Va.
Ex-Governor and e1-Congressman
McCrearys of kentucky, who is now
here, says the democrats of his State
! are bound to regain possession OF it
again next November. Every county,
| be says, will elect its local officers, and
by doing so the full democratic vote
| will be brought out. The head of the
gold ticket, he says, may get about
twelve thousand votes, but the demo-
Gratis on full vote can afford to lose
that many, and still win. The party,
he says, is getting together there now
as it should do, and that the only way
by which party can expect to succeed
is by accepting the decision of its ma
tional conventions.
The newspaper CAB about the alleged
demand of this country upon Spain for
speedy close of the war in Cuba, and
of hostilities.with that country, is laugh
ed at here by those who know what is
going on in the State Department. They
say, however, that as such talk is
thoroughly understood at the foreign
Office in Madrid, it does no harm, and
is of no consequence.
The fact that the Northern republi
cans who have seized the government
of Hawaii have ratified Mr.. McKinley's
treaty for the annexation of that coun.
try to the United States is said here to
be- by no means indicative ofthe fact that
the q. S. Senate will do likewise, though
Senators Morgan and Quay are bent on
having it do so.
The decieion of the court prohibiting
the entrance OF the Washington and
Falls Church railroad into Georgetown
by extending its track across the Aque-
duct Bridge is highly Objectionable to
the people of that town, and they say
they will bring the matter before Con-
gress 90 soon as it shall assemble.
Mr.. McCaull, who was the republi-
can candidate for Congress In the Alex.
andris district last fall, was at the Post
Office Department this morning and had
plain talk with the Postmaster Gen.
eral, in which he demanded written
reply to his question as to whether he
is to be consulted in respect of appoint
ments in his district, as Messrs Walker
and Yost are in theirs, or whether all
such appointments are to be referred to
Mr.. Bowden, who was not a Congress.
sional candidate last fall and who lives
in Norfolk. he was informed that his
demand would receive proper consider
alton. 1t appears that in several recent
cases Mr.. McCaull's endorsements for
Offices in his district have been disre-
garded, and those of Mr.. Bowden, for (
the same places, been successful, and
the former says there is no sense, let
alone use, in his taking the trouble and
expense of coming here to recommend
republicans for Office in his district, if |