Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-16

deficiency bill was presented TO the
Senate to day. 1t shows disagree
ment on several of the Senate amend
ments, the most important OF which
were those limiting the price of armor
plate to $500 per ton and paying claim
ants under the Spanish American claims
commission. The Senate provisions
for the international exposition at
Brussels and requiring the Secretary
of the Treasury to certify to Congress
the balances due the several States un'
der the act of 1861 were stricken out.
The Navy Department has prepared
for issue volume 5 of the Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Navies
In the War of the Rebellion, carrying
the history of the operations OF the
navies we'll into the middle period OF
the late war. The publication is spar.
ingly but e1cellently illustrated with
pictures OF some of the most famous
ships of the old modern navy. 1t is to
be had only upon application to Con-
gress.
The nomination of M. n. McCord to
be governor of Arizona was taken up
in the executive session of the Senate
to-day and formed the subject of very
sharp debate. Senator Berry led the
opposition to confirmation, contending
that McCord's record was such as to
render his appointment to 80 response
BILE an Office entirely unjusti6able.
1t was resolved at the Cabinet meet
ing to-day that during the heated spell
tt Cabinet officers might excuse their
EMPLOYEES on Saturdays an hour earlier
than usual, closing the departments at
three o'clock.
Representative Dorr to-day intro
duced in the House bill to prohibit the
sale of convict made goods unless brand
ed as such.
Ex-Representative La Toilette, Of
Wisconsin, has been rendered the office
of Comptroller of the Treasury, but ii
is said he has declined.
Senator Daniel had talk with the
Secretary of War yesterday in which
the latter told him he thought the
Aqueduct Bridge at Georgetown would
be so widened as to permit the laying
of railroad track across it for the use
OF the Washington aud Falls church
eli ctric railroad. Other people here
say that if one railroad be allowed to
uss that bridge, all the others that
want the same privilege must be al
10 wedIit, and that therefore steam
cars would soon be running over it, and
it, like the Long Bridge, be dangerous
to peoDIe riding behind horses.
The following fourth-class postmas-
tiers were appointed to-day in Virginia /:
B,aleton, Ambrose Kane; CORTLAND,
M. R. Tyler; Hillsville, c. T. Childressi
Midland. Andrew Chambers; The
Plains, r. A. Cockrell.
The many friends of Colonel Mosby
here, among both political parties, can't
understand the treatment ne has re-
ceived from the administration. The
President not only told him but also
Senators Perkins and Proctor that he
intended to give him good place, but
all the good places are now gone, and
the Colonel is soon expected to go back
to San Francisco and resume his duties
as couusel for the Union Pacific Rail-
road. Senator Perkins told the GA
zErTEs correspondent to-day that he
could not account for the Presidents
failure to remember the Colonel, but,
said be, he turned me down too, by
appointing man from my State whom
| did not recommend. Senator Proc
tor said he too was disappointed, but
he supposed there was such rush for Of
f ,es, that the Colonel was crowded out.
Other friends of the Colonel are not 80
eau ious in expressing their feelings on
the subject, and say if Mr.. Mckinley
did not intend to appoint him to good
cfa e, he should not have led him and
them to believe that he would.
Colonel Lamb, chairman of the re-
publican executive committee OF Vir'
ginia, has called a meeting of that COM
mittee at Chamberlins. in this city, on
the 10Th inst, next Monday. AS the
other four members of that committee
met here last week, and, without au-
thority, called a meeting of the whole
State committee at Lynchburg on the
10 b pro1imo, 1t is not supposed that
they will heed the call of their chair
man, to whom they show no manner of
attention or regard, that is, with the ex-
ception of General Walker, but even he
voted with the other three to call the
meeting of the State committee.
As Mr.. Speaker Reed has no love for Mr..
Mckinley. whose manager, Mr. Hsnna
choused him out Of the Presidency, he doesn't
care whether his administration prove fail.
arc or not, and it is said to-day that he will
gtard out against the increased protection to
the sugar trust given by the Senate and that
having not only his party but the country
behind him in respect of that particular mat.
ter, he will hold out even if the con sequence
be the defeat Of the tariff bill.
The democrats in the Senate say they never
heard before that Messrs. Carlisle, Lindsay
and Watterson were humorists, but that they
are is now plain, as they proposed at Louis
Vile thst the six and half million demo.
Gratis who voted the democratic ticket last
November should now abandon their party
and follow the $4,000 who then deserted
them.
Congressman Hay of Virginia says the next
thing, after nominating ticket and endors-
ing the Chicago platform that will be done
at the Roanoke convention viii. be the I'M
provement of the organization of the party,
30 a. to bring it into closer relations with the
voters.
CHANGE OF AGENTs.-A letter from
Marshall to the Warrenton Virginian
says:
When the Manassas railroad was