Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-29

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He admitted thathc had discharged Hill
from Office and threatened to throw
him out Of the window, the first because
he was engaged in a conspiracy and
the second because ne was personally
incenged at him.
The Weather Bureaus special fore
cast orDecoration Day (Monday), say:
Washington and vicinity, fair with
moderate temperature.
Secretary Alger mas detailed lst
Lieut.. G. T. Langhorne of the End Cav
airy as military aide at Brussels. Lieut..
Langhorne is at present stationed at
Fort Mver, Va, nea this city, recover
ing from a broken leg.
The civil service commission an.
nounces that on June S an examination
will be held here and in other cities to
establish an eligible register for the
grade OF hospital steward in the marine
service. There are now several vacan-
cies, all of which will be filed with the
eligibles resulting from this examiDa
ton. The salary of the position ranges
from $3.50 to $720 per annum, with sub.
sistence, quarters, fuel and light. I'm
married men, Or zen with small iami-
lies, are preferred.
The President has nominated Thorn
as II Baker postmaster at Louisville.
A prominent republican from Ohio
who has the ear of the administration,
at the Capitol to-day, said the political
luarrels among the republicans of the
South were very embarrassing to the
President and his Cabinet in the way
of making appointments. He referred
to the situation in Virginia, and said
unless the disputes were settled among
the republicans there, the democrats
would hold the Offices for sometime.
He also said that there was q new
movement Oh foot on the part OF the
administration to settle these matters
for them, il they could not agree among
themselves. The Lamb and Wise wing
OF the party, he said, is taking up
new lines Of action to secure recogni-
ton by the President. When he sai6
this he smiled and remarked that pc
litical promises made by o mans
friends during a campaign amount to
but little. Mckinley ia President and
never expects to be q candidate again.
Don't you read between the lines what
| mean" said the Ohioan, az he walk
ed away.
Senator Daniel seems to think that
the tariff bill will keep Congress here
until August also that the republican
members of the Senate, notwithstand-
ing the way some Of them talk, will all
stand by their party when the vote on
that bill shall be taken. 1t was sup
posed that Mr.. Pritchard would stand
out against the tobacco schedule, but it
is understood that he says he will 90
with his party on that schedule, even
though it be against the interests CT his
own State.
Monday, Decoration Day, will be OBJ
served as q general holiday here. All
the monuments in the city that have
been erected to men who were in the
Union army have already been decor
ated.
Ralph Singleton, q negro politician
who lives here but votes in Alexandria,
was appointed to day to d laborer's
place in the Treasury Department, the
salary of which is $55 a month. He
says he is indebted for it solely to the
influence of Mr.. McCaull, and that no.
body else helped him.
Congressman Walker of Virginia was
at the Interior Department to-day 10
recommend Mr.. James l.. Browning Of
Pocahontas in his State for the position
of government director Of the Union
Pacific Railroad. He also called at the
geological bureau to ask that an agent
thereof be sent to Giles county in his
district to inquire into recent earth
quake manifestations there. He and
Mr.. Yost, the other republican Con-
gressmap from his State, were also at
the Postofice department, where Mr..
Yost secured o fourth class postmaster
and had q fourth class p~ostoflice estab-
lished. General Walker is trying to
obtain a place for the widow of the late
Judge Charles Latham of his State.
The President to. day signed the com.
mission OF Whitelaw Reid as special
ambassador to represent him at the APP
preaching jubilee celebration.
The following fourth class postmas-
ers in Virginia were appointed to-day:
Brooke, @. D. Green; North River, S.
McD. Shiellett; Stapleton Mills, G. w.
Marks.
Congressman Swanson OF Virginia,
Postmaster Neale of Danville, and U.
). District Attorney Montague of the
western district of Virginia, had an in
terview with Senator Daniel at the Cap
itol to-day.
Captain McCaull of Virginia escorted
Messrs. Ellinger of Culpeper county,
Strother Of the 9th district and Balch
of Prince William, to the White House
this morning to call upon the President
in relation to offices in their State.
The motion for Il new trial in the
case of Capt. S. B. Davis, of Alexandria,
vs.. Superintendent Callahan, of the
Washington and Norfolk line of steam
ers, has not yet been argued, III conse-
quence of the absence of some of the
counsel in the case. Fit be not grant
ed, or if it be, and the verdict in favor
of the plaintiffs shall stand, the case
will be appealed to q higher court.
AS the President has said he may
make his summer home In Alexandria
county fthe roads there are good, the
the county, as we'll as the private persons
living between this city and Ballston,
near which place his prospective res.
dence lies, are now busily engaged in
repairing the roads, so that Mr.. McKin-
ley and his guests will not be jolted in
riding over them.