Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, March 10.

The Secretary of State has been noti-
fed by Consul General Lee at Havana
of the release of Theodore l.. Wives, an
American citizen who has been held in
a Cuban prison since last November.
The release of Wives leaves Is natural
lied Americans still in Cuban prisons.
The President to-day nominated
Charles U. Gordon to be postmaster at
Chicago. The question whether or not
the resignation of Postmaster Hesing,
of Chicago, should be accepted under
Circumstances which are very cautiously
referred to in official quarters. was dis
cussed in cabinet meeting to day and
was finally decided in the affirmative.
1t was then that the nomination Of
Charles U. Gordon was sent to the Sen
ate, vice Hesing resigned, instead of
removed" Rumors have been in cir
culation several days as to Mr.. Hes
ing's accounts, but no official statement
can be had.
Clyde Shropshire, formerly Vice Con-
sui General of the United States at
Paris, some account of whose misdoings
is printed this morning, was removed
from office last year and Ed. P. Mac
Lean, Deputy Consul General, was
promoted to his place. Shropshire was
appointed July 8, 1898. The fact of
his defalcations was first brought to the
attention of the State Department in
July of last year. AS Vice Consul
General, Shropshire acted as an agent of
American estates of various sorts and it
is supposed that considerable money
and estates thus coming into his pos
session have been misapplied. The
last report on the matter was received
from Consul General Morss about four
weeks ago and then the amount of Of
fetal fees appropriated by Shropshire
was ascertained to be only about four
or five thousand dollars. For this
amount the Consul General is response
BILE and Shropshire's brother is prepar-
ed to make the shortage good. The
private sufferers by Shropshire's con-
duct will have to take their own remedy.
He has disappeared from Paris and his
present location is unknown.
In the matter of granting clearance
papers to vessels loaded with arms and
munitions of war, Attorney General
McKenna does not state any definite
conclusions on which the Treasury De
partment can act. He leaves that
question to the discretion of the Secre
tary of the Treasury. He cites the
fact that the release of the Dauntless
by the United States court at Jackson.
Vile was on the condition that the
&c h. to1
bond to secure the government against
any violation of the neutrality or nav
igation laws. That bond has not been
furnished and the Treasury officials
will hold this as reason for not grant
ing clearance papers to the Dauntless
until the policy of the government has
been definitely settled.
The Cabinet meeting adjourned once
more without deciding upon any def
mite plan of action in regard to the
Dauntless case, which has come to be
regarded as test case in respect to the
policy of the administration. Attorney
General KcKenna following the we'll
known rule of the Department Of
Justice and of the Supreme Court, has
declined to give a definite opinion upon
any thing short of an actual state Of
facts. Supposed cases are not made
the basis of opinions. The United
States officials at Jacksonville, Fla, have
been directed to supply more definite
information as TO the legal status of the
vessel in the United States courts there.
Bishop Ireland is here, mixing with
republican politics again. He can't
keep out of them to save his life. He
is now using such influence as he has
with the republicans-and he ought to
have great deal, in view of the con-
spicuous part he has taken in their be.
half-to promote the application of Mr..
Storer for foreign Office.
People from Kentucky here to-day
say there is nothing in the report that
the democrats in the legislature of their
State will vote with few disaflected
republicans for Gov. Bradley against
the regular republican nominee for u.
). Senator.
Among the new applications for Office
filed to-day is that of J. A. Gibson of
Timber Ridge, Virginia, to be collector
of internal revenue for the upper dis
trict of his State.
Among the new applicants for the Of
fee of Register of the Treasury is G. J.
Nourse, of Cazanova, Virginia.
Among the bills introduced in the
Senate yesterday was one by MIR. Cor
man to pension Mrs. Betty Taylor
cambridge, of Winchester, Va, widow
OF William w. S. Bliss, late colonel U.
). army, and only surviving child of
former President Zachary Taylor, at
the rate of 800 monthly. Mrs. Dan
bridge now receives q special pension of
$50 monthly, which she says is not suf-
fcient to support her, as she is seventy.
two years old and in feeble health.
Nearly all the Virginia republican
ofliceseekers here recently have gone
home, taking with them the belief that
none Of them will get anything as long
as they keep up their differences.
It is pretty we'll settled now, as Sem
ator Kyle is getting his share of the
republican pie, that the republicans
will have majority in the Senate and
will pass both the arbitration treaty
and the tariff bill.
II WAS developed in the room of the
House ways and means committee
yesterday that the democrats of
the House are not as one on the subject
of the tariff, and that while the Nc
Millin or Bryan men are in favor of free
free raw material, the Bailey or anti
Rrvanit ara in favor of 70 an e,,o,,