Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorrespondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.

Attorney General Scott, of Virginia. at
yesterday, says he was IN
there that Mr.. Carter Scott, son
of the deceased, would be appointed to
serve out the remainder OF his fathers
term.
1t is understood here that no more
Virginia appointments will be made
until after the meeting of the republl.
can committee of Virginia; that neither
the white republicans of the State nor
the administration want to stand q vote
of loss of confidence next fall, and Tor
that reason no republican State con-
yention will be held this year, and that
the few republicans who may vote for
such q convention need not expect any
of the administrations favors. They
also say that Gen. Walker was nearer
the governorship of his State when ne
was q democrat, than he ever will be as
a republican.
The special naval board appointed BY
Acting Secretary Roosevelt for the pur-
pose of preparing for the information OF
Congress estimates of the cost of estab-
fishing and operating q government
plant for the manufacture of armor,
met at the Navy Department to-day
but did nothing.
Mr.. Montague, q. S. attorney for the
western district of Virginia, when he
rendered his resignation: asked that its
acceptance might not be postponed
later than the 9TH of August. One
third of August has now elapsed, but he
has not vet been notified of its accept
ance. It is said at the Department Of
Justice that on the list of eficients
kept there, Of all the attorneys of
the entire country, he stands No. 4
Who his Q will be is not yet
known. The two republican congress
men from his State have recommended
one man, and the State republican com
mittee, or rather, a majority of it, has
recommended another.
The administration to-day having re-
ceived official information of the as
tassination of the premier of Spain,
telegraphed its profound sorrow and
sympathy to the Spanish government
and coincidence to the family OF the
deceased, who, it says, was lone OF the
most eminent of the statesmen of our
time"
Virginia postmasters appointed to
day as follows: Strasburg, Ashbury
Redfern, vice Josiah Stickley, 70
moved; Elkton, b. B. G. Gentry, vice
w. &. Jennings, removed; Lacey
Spring, T. W. Rhinehart, vice Bette
Harrison, removed.
Virginia republicans here to-day say
that Colonel Brady, collector of in
ternal revenue for the lower district Of
Virginia, will not, as has been reported,
make Mr.. William Malone his Chief
deputy, but will appoint his own son
to that position. He will, however,
appoint Mr.. Malone to another place.
People here smile at the attention
that is paid to the talk OF Secretary
Sherman as printed in the newspapers.
They know that he speaks with the
ga.rulousness of a mind enfeebled by
old age, and that he forgets to-day
what he said yesterday, and onse-
queutly that his words pass as the
wind aud have no significance. 1t is
the prevalent belief here that he will
not be even the nominal head of the
State Department after the Ohio cleo
ton.
Colonel Mcsby will, it is understood, leave
here for San Frsncisto next Sunday, to resume
his place as counsel for the Southern Pacific
Railroad. he doesn't complain of the way
in VIII oh he has been treated. but his numer
Gus friends here in both political parties say
they can't understand the treatment to which
he has zen subjected by the administration
He didn't ask for Office, but was Informed by
Ii , less authority than the President himself
that be would be recognized in a satisfactory
manner, and why, with that assurance, he
should have been ignored is what puzz es
them
Mr., Park Agnew, collector of internal rev.
enue for the upper district Of Virginia, is here
to-day, and Mr.. Bowden. the referee in Eir-
ginia patronage cases is expected here Thu
evening
Judge Lawrence of Ohio. an old time repub
lican, now here, says his party there has been
so-ely hurt by the tariff bill and by other
acts of the administration. and that he anti.
cipates q disastrous defeat at the fall election.
Nearly all the promises that wore made to
them, he says, are unfulflled, and that while
they like Dir. Mckinley, they don't like the
influences that apparently govern him
A resolution will be introduced in the Roan-
oke convention by Mr. B. n. Harper, secreta-
ry of the Virginia democ attic association OF
this city, to the effect that the democrats OF
tho State should express their preference for U.
9. Senator ut primary elections, and that oil
delegates to State conventions be elected on
the same day.