Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gaxette.]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81.

The objection of rich Northern repub-
licaps to that provision of the new ter
if bill exacting high tax on all bag.
gage. the value of which is in excess OF
800, they bring home with them from
their trips abroad. has induced the
Treasury Department to see it some
thing cannot be done by which the
cause of it can be rem owed.
The contractors for removing the
garbage, dead animals and night-soil OF
the District of Columbia have, it is
stated at the Health Office here, this
morning. definitely determined to select
the farm of Mr.. 81. ] Kintz. formerly OF
Alexandria, near the head of Broad
Creek, as their dumping ground.
As the Department of Justice could
not. under the law, remove deputy
q. s. marshal in West Virginia, it tried
to freeze him out by refusing to pay
him for his services. He is game, how
ever, stands up for his rights, and came
here this morning with Senator Faux.
ner, of his State, to demand what is due
him and secure his future payments, or
know the reason why.
People from Annapolis, here to-day,
say that three negro cadets will be there
tomorrow for xamination-one from
illinois. one from Ohio and one from
North Carolina who was not heard Of
until last week. They will, it is said,
be fairly treated by the examiners, but
even if they pass, they would have
what to white boys would be a mlser-
able time, from the ostracism to which
they would naturally be subjected.
Congressman Rixey, of the AleXan-
dria district and Mr.. NJ. B. Harlow,
president of the Business Mems League
of Alexandria, had an agreeable inter
view with MIR. Roosevelt, Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy, to-day, in respect OF
the site for the governments proposed
armor plate plant, Ia which they ex-
planned the manifold advantages Alex
andria possessed for such plant. The
whole matter, they were informed, lay
With the Armor Plate Board, who are
now in Chicago, and as their time is at
their own disposal, there is no telling
when they will be here. Mr.. Harlow
will write to the chairman of the board
inviting him and his colleagues to visit
Alexandria and inspect site there,
which, he thinks is peculiarly adapted
for such plant, by reason of its rail-
road and water facilities, Jones's Point
and the adjoining land, which, if Sc
lected, mightinduce the Southern Rail
road to extend it's line the short dis
lance required to reach the coal fields
of West Virginia.
The first volumt of the report of the
famous Venezuela Boundary Commits.
sion, to create which Congress was de-
prived ofits Christmas recess more than
a year and a-half ago, and the whole
country thrown into state of dazed
alarm By declaration of war" aud a
plea of national bankruptcy at the same
time, has just been issued, but no where
in it can anything be found that show
that the commission that prepared it
did anything else than spend the $780,
600 appropriated for the support of its
members and clerks.
The crop report for the week ending
to-day, as prepared at the weather
bureau, is generally favorable 10 respect
of corn, cotton and tobacco. The labor
report for the same period, as prepared
at labor headquarters here, is just the
reverse,