Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
rOorrespondenoe Of the Ae1andris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.

EhUM W aD1l1tO 1O17.
rcorrespondanoe of the Ale1andria aasette.]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.
The Attorney General will not com.
nlete his opinion constituting section Y
of the new tariff act before some time
next week. Briefs have been filed by
Secretary Carlisle representing the
Boston and Maine Railroad Company,
Mr.. Payson representing the Central
and the Southern Pacific companies,
Mr.. Joseph Mimo, former Chief OF the
United States Bureau OF Statistics, MIR.
Smith, Chief of the Bureau OF American
Republics, and others. Communications
also have been received from several
trade organizations in the New EGG
land States pointing out the vast bust.
ness interests involved in the question.
Mr.. Smith of the Bureau OF American
Republics calls attention to our trade
relations with the Mexican, Central
and South American States and e1.
plains how they might be affected in
case certain constructions are placed
upon the sections under consideration.
Consul General Joseph G. Dudley,
stationed at Nueyo Laredo, in COM
munication to the Department OF State
saws that as result of the recent tall In
the price of silver, there has been a
marked raise in the silver price of all
commodities in Mexico, except labor.
Surgeon General Wyman has receiv-
ed the report of the officers of the Ma
rine Hospital service sent to Birming,
nam, Ala, at the request OF the local
authorities, to investigate the small
box epidemic which threatened to be
serious. The report pronounces the
disease TO be genuine smallpox, and
not q lesser type of the disease as has
been claimed. Thus far it has been
confined entirely to the negroes. An
isolated camp, known as Camp Evans,
has been established, and hospital
located on the mountain.side outside of
the city. AS cemetery also is located
on the mountain.side, much agitation
was caused among the colored people
lest their going to the hospital was q
preliminary to going to the cemetery.
Advices to the Agricultural Depart.
ment from private and indirectly from
official sources confirm the predictions
of a considerable deficiency in the
European wheat crop, while rye, which
is the chief bread grain OF eastern
Europe, is also short.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Collector Brady, member of the execu-
tive COMMITTEES of the republican party
of Virginia. He says the action of that
committee at its recent meeting in
Lynchburg was practically unanimous,
as only one and q fraction of vote
were cast against it and they by prox-
les. He says he did not hear whether
Mr.. Yost abides by the decision or not,
but he supposes he does, as he partici-
pated in the meeting, but that
General Walker does abide by it
was proved by the fact that it
was on his motion that fifty thousand
copies of the committees address were
ordered to be printed and distributed.
The Collector says he will not make his
son his chief deputy nor appoint him to
any other position, as there are too few
offices for any family to have more than
one. His chief deputyship, he says,
has been offered to Mr.. William
Malone, but be doesn't know whether
be will accept it or not.
Maj. o. E. Hine, a prominent Fairfax
county, Virginia, republican, who was
here this morning, speaking of the re.
cent action OF his State committee, said
the committee could have done nothing
else than it did, as Colonel Lamb was
fighting the whole party, and that if the
Colonel should carry out his threat to call
convention the result would be similar
to his call for meeting of the execu-
tive committee in this city-nobody
would respect it, In his county, he
said, and in all the others he had heard
from, the action of the committee was
endorsed by all the republicans.
The Presidents policy in respect of
the civil service law is likely 10 break
up most of the republican clubs in this
city. The Illinois club is reported to
have disbanded, a republican league
last night repudisted that policy and
there is talk of organizing another one
for the express purpose OF denouncing
that policy.
Mr.. Morgan Treat, an applicant for
the marshalship of the eastern district
of Virginia, and who is recommended
Tor that position BY the republican COM
mittee OF his State and by Mr.. Bowden,
the referee, is here to-day, on his way
home from the called meeting of the
committee referred to. He called at
the Office of the civil service commits
sion and at the Postofice Department
in the interest of republican applicants
for Office from his State, but with un-
satisfactory results.
1t is reported among Virginians here
that Commemorative Attorney Nc
Cabe, of Loudoun county, in their
State, intends to remove to one of the
newer States of the far Northwest.
Mr.. r. N. Harper has been appoint.
ed secretary of the pharmaceutical board
of the District of Columbia, salaried
Office.
The District commissioners have been
ssked to improve the southern abut-
ment of the Chain Bridge, that leads
into Alexandria county.
It is rumored here that though Sec
rotary Gage promised Mr.. Carlisle that
he would protect Mr.. Johnson, the su-
perintendent of the bureau of printing
and anOra vino that nronoIua uill NOT