Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, May 81.

lOl ulCO lEO okAp 0SRt
Sultan, Hamaud bin Mahomed bin Said,
on April 9TH last issued a proclamation
abolishing the legal status of slavery ID
the Island of Zanzibar and Cemba.
The Senate committee on territories
to-day considered the nomination Of
Myron h. McCord to be governor OF
Arizona. Charges have been filed
against him by parties in the territory.
Mr.. McCord was here ready to meet
them, but the accusers were not pre-
cent. It was determined to hold a
meeting Saturday.
Interest in the trial of Mr.. Have
meyer was greatly intensified this
morning by the pending motion of the
defense to instruct the jury to bring in
a verdict of not guilty. 1t was under.
stood, of course, thati if the court should
order an acquittal the case would come
to an abrupt close and that the indict-
ments against Searles, secretary of the
refining company, and Messrs. Ed
wards and Shriver, the newspaper
men, probably would be quashed.
There was again the same crowd Of
distinguished persons present. Several
ladies were also in attendance. AS
soon as the court convened this morn
ing District Attorney Davis entered
upon his reply to the motion of the de-
Tense to order an acquittal, which Mr..
Havemeyer's counsel argued yesterday.
he said if the subject matter of the
Senate's Investigation was not within
its constitutional power and its in
herent right Of self-protection, then,
indeed, were the people helpless when
they hoped to purify their legislatures.
Mr.. Johnson, for the defense, closed
in support of the motion. He
was very severe in his structures
on the district attorney for his inuen-
does. He was proceeding to speak
of the report Of the committee cxoner
ating the Senators when District At
torney Davis interrupted. "If my
honorable brethren will permit me-"
said he, 81 would like to say that, like
the flowers that bloom in the spring,
what the committee did or did not re-
port has nothing to do with the case"
Judge Bradley then adjourned the
court till one o'clock to give him OPP.
portunity to take defendants counsel's
motion under advisement. There was
almost breathless suspense in the court
room when the court reconvened at l
o'clock. The room buzzed with specu-
lation as to what the decision would
be. Just before the Judge entered o
bright little girl ran over to Mr.. Have.
meyer and said she wanted to shake
his hand. The millionaire sugar king
took her in his arms and kissed her
He then put her down and she ran
back to her mother. ST don't know
who the child is" said MIR. Havemeyer
to his attorney, Mr.. Parsons, shut l
think it is good omen" The court
sustained the motion of the defence.
The Jury, in accordance with instruc-
tions of the court, returned q verdict of
not guilty. Mr.. Davis, the district at
torney, said that the verdict in this case
could not affect the case of John E.
Searles, secretary of the sugar re-
fning company, whose trial will
be proceeded with tomorrow. Mr..
Davis said that Mr.. Searles
had directly refused to answer questions
and that his case was in no way paral-
lol with that of Mr.. Havemeyer. When
asked by an Associated Press reporter
after the trial whether the verdict was
satisfactory to him, Mr.. Havemeyer
said "Certainly, it is Satisfactory to
me and to every decent mar in the
community"
The civil service commission will
hold an examination in all the large
cities of the country on June &c to es-
tablish d register of eligibles for the
position of Inspector of woolens in the
quartermaster's department. There is
at present q vacancy in the position of
inspector at Philadelphia, the salary of
which is 81, 800 per annum. The com
mission will also hold an examination
in all large cities throughout the coun-
try, whore there are applicants, on
June 26 to establish q register of eli
gibles for the position of engineer and
electrician. There is at this time 81
vacancy in the position of engineer and
electrician at the Rosebud agency
boarding school at Rosebud, South
Dakota, the salary of which is S l 1000
per annum.
The State Department has received
information that by the will of the late
Alfred Nobel of Sweden, the income of
his estate which will amount to $780,
600 annually, will be distributed every
year in equal parts to each of the five
persons of all nations who during that
year have made the most important
discovery in physics. chemistry and
medicine, who has produced the best
novel and who has done most in the
cause of international peace.
The President to day sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the Senate: Col.
James F. Wade, Col. John K. Miner
and Col. VIM. NJ. Graham to be brigadier
generals.
The tobacco men who came here to
protest against the tobacco schedule Of
the tariff bill are still in the city doing
what they can with the Senators from
their respective States to induce them
to amend that schedule. They say if
Senators Deboe of Kentucky and Pritch-
ard of North Carolina, both republic
cans, but both from tobacco States,
stand by their States, the schedule will
not be adopted.
An Alexandria republican, here to-
day, says that not only the white, but
the negro members of his party there
are dissatisfied and disconnected with
the condition of its affairs. Their city
committee, he says, has been disorgan.
lied, but that the majority of the State
aDonntftoo n0rcfofc in ranncx.. =. H.