Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondents Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, April "a.

Oeruhlu, dU HuilOh, oAos P+ooJ
within year the price of this metal
will fall to about 81 cents per pound,
so that but three commercial metals
will be cheaper than aluminium; name
", iron, lead and zinc. Last year the
output was 1910 pounds daily, of
which 1, 1913 pounds were produced in
the United States. This year the
plants will be increased to bring the
daily product up to AZ, 400 pounds.
The Senate committee on civil ser
vice, of which Senator Pritchard, Of
North Carolina, is chairman, began its
investigation of the civil service reform
humbug to day. William Blashland,
an ex.union soldier, testified to having
been dismissed from the Office of the
u. s. Treasurer in order to make a
place for the son of Register Tillman, a
boy IL years old, who had not, he said,
been required to pass civil service
examination, He said there were other
appointments under Register Tillman
of whom an examination had not been
required. He also supplied list of
recent reductions and dismissals from
the Treasurer's Office, many of those
affected being ex-soldiers and soldiers
widows. Secretary of Agriculture Will
son was also before the committee. He
expressed the opinion that chiefs OF
divisions in the executive departments
and others charged with executive re-
sponsibility should not be included in
the classified service as provided in
Mr.. Cleveland's order A letter was re-
ceived from Secretary Gage in which
he said there should be exceptions and
he iustanced deputy revenue collectors,
who, he said should be appointed by
the revenue collectors.
There was an enormous crowd at the
White House to-day. The President
leaves for New York on Monday to at
tend the Grant ceremonies and this
was the last opportunity the members
of Congress and Office seekers had to
have word with him before his de-
parture. The members of the civil
service commission, however, had an
appointment with Mr.. Mckinley and
for amost an hour the crowd waited
impatiently in the ante-room while the
President was closeted with the COM
mission. There was considerable mys-
terry surrounding the visit and all sorts
of rumors about it's purpose. 1t was
the general impression that some mod
ifcations of Mr.. Cleveland's order for
the extension Of the civil service regu
lations were under advisement, but the
members of the commission declined to
| make any statement whatever regard
ing the subject of the conference
| Among the callers was Andrew D
White, the new ambassador to Ger
many.
Ex-senator Warner Miller, of New
York, is in the city urging definite
stand by the administration on the sub
ect of the Nicaragua canal. Mr.. Mil
Ter saw both Secretary Sherman aud
the President to-day, but found thai
the pressure of other business had left
the administration no time to consider
the canal question.
The following Virginia fourth elias;
postmasters were appointed to-day
Dumfries. ]. r. King; Foxden, W. II
Fox; Sweet Hall, w. S. Undertake.
In letter to personal friend re-
ceived here to-day from Colonel Mosby,
written yesterday, before he met with
his accident at Charlottesville, the
Colonel says: cit is all poppycock that
you have seen in the newspapers about
my having been struck with stage fright
at the Commonwealth Club. The truth
| is I was led into an ambuscade. The
Lee camp had invited me and was
told that they would be sure to call on
me to give them "a talk" / de.
clined as I have a horror of making
q personal exhibition of myself. l was
invited then to 60 to the club as mum.
Der of gentlemen wanted to meet me,
I was assured that there was to be no
demonstration, simply quiet smoke
and chat. 1 went and saw, but did not.
like Cesar, conquer. was in trap;
a big crowd was in the smoking room
ready and expecting speech. l just
told them that I wouldn't 60 into that
room; that I was neither lion nor a
hippopotamus to be put on exhibition.
Joe Bryan, as substitute for me, gave
an account of the disarmament of my
command at Salem. When he con-
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ing room to the ante-room, took me up
bodily and carried me into the smoking
room. l broke loose and escaped. When
man is said to be struck with stage
fright he is supposed to make an effort
to speak and fails. had no intention
of speaking and made no effort to
speak"
DIR. Arthur Snowden of Alexandria
has received from the Secretary of the
Treasury a commission as Sanitary
Inspector in the Marine Hospital Ser
vice for the two ports of Washington
and Alexandria, and will inspect all
vessels arriving at either from foreign
countries before landing. There were
twenty-odd such arrivals last year. A
yellow buoy will be placed in the Po
tomac, off Duke street, Alexandria, at
which all such vessels will anchor
and will be inspected before proceed
ing higher up the river.
Mr.. Bowden and some of the other
members of the republican executive
committee of Virginia are still here,
and 30 are some of the Office seekers
from that State, but the latter are i'll at
ease, for the good reason that no other
offices than fourth class postoffices are
now being given to Virginia, nor will
be for some time yet, and then, too,
there are 80 many applicants for each
that Mr.. Bowden, the referee in all