Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.

Five true bills were returned against
him. His total shortage is stated to
amount to over 1927 900 but he is 10 be
tried for only part of this amount most
easily susceptible of proof. Kieckhoier
was arrested for this offence last octo'
Der and released on bail pending en-
curry BY the grand jury. The lndlct-
ments cover little over 900. They
specify SIS, 800 embezzled July ?, 1898;
sic. S37 on October %, 1895, and S5,5S4
n October 26, 1895.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoflices in Virginia were made
to-day FuIks Run, Rockingham coun-
ty, w. Fulk, appointed postmaster,
vice w. H. Souder, resigned Dogue,
King George county, l.. w. Jetr, vice
T. n. Arnold, resigned.
The rumor that Postmaster General
Wilson will, upon his retirement from
Mr.. CIeveland's Cabinet, accept the pc,
sition of President of Washington and
Lee University, which is now vacant,
is denied here by Virginians who say
they know what they are talking
about. Mr.. Wilson is an alumnus of
this famous educational institution, and
it would be an agreeable position for
him.
The ANIMAL report TO the President
of the Fish Commissioner says forty
eight million shad eggs were collected
and from these ninety-three million
fry were planted in streams emptying
into the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of
Mexico. The increase in shad eggs
collected was thirty million over the
previous year, and if a bill now before
Congress is enacted into law auxiliary
stations will be established on most OF
the important rivers of the Atlantic
coast and result in an immense increase
in the output of this species.
Before the House ways and means
committee to-day A. ]. Wedderburn,
representing the State Grange of Vir-
GINA, appealed for an export bounty
on agricultural products.
The President sent to the Senate, in
response to the resolution offered by
Mr.. Call, the correspondence in the
case of Charles GOWN, an American
correspondent alleged to have beer
captured by the Spanish troops near
Jaruco and put to death.
In the House to-day Mr.. Otey intro
duced q bill to remove the charge
of desertion against J. w. NJ.
Kewen; a petition of the Roa-
noke Collegian against the Land
bill; petition of Dingee, Weenman &
Co. for the return of duty on barytes,
and bill to pay Mrs, Harriet Hutter,
relict of Maj. George Hutter, pension
of $50 per month.
President Abbot of the Washington
and Mount Vernon Railroad says there
is no foundation for the statement to
the effect that his road has been or is
to be taken charge of by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, or that the
latter company has or will have any
thing to do with its management. His
company, he says, has employed one
man, who is similarly employed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad, to do some OF
its office work, but it pays bin for
what he does as it pays its other en-
ployees, and there the matter ends.
He says the receipts of his road are in
creasing, those of last month being very
satisfactory. He also says that the
track of his road on Fairfax street.
Alexandria, does that city nor the peo-
pie on that street any good, and that if
the company be allowed to take it up,
they will agree to stop all their through
trains at Franklin street. and run their
King street cars regularly and connect
with the Washington steamboats, and
with the local depot of the Washington
steam cars.
Congressman Walker of Virginia was
hunting for Mr. Mccall, chairman Of the
House elections committee to-day, with
reference to the Yost- Tucker contested
election case, which he says he will try
to have called up this week. General
Walker says he is not candidate for
Governor of Virginia and that when he
said recently he was soldier and would
obey orders if his party demanded him
to accept the nomination, he spoke
iok;ngly, as he did not want the nomi-
nation and would do all he could to
prevent the convention from nominal
ing him.
Up to date it is said by those who
know that only two members of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's cabinet have been determined
upon, Messrs. Payne Of Wisconsin and
Bliss of New York, as none of the real
ly great men of the party want to sup
which he Is sure to seek.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hale sub
mitted and had printed as q document
memorandum prepared by the Depart
ment OF State on the method of "recog-
milton" of foreign governments and for.
eign States by the government of the
United States from 1889 to 1897, tend
ing to show the accuracy Of Secretary
Olney's contention that the recognition
of foreign governments was exclusively
an executive function, in which Con-
gress had no part The precedents
cited were numerous.
The Cameron Cuban resolution will
not come up in the Senate to-day. The
ACCESSIBILITY of calling it up at all will
be considered by the Senate foreign
relations committee tomorrow. A re.
publican member of that committee
said to-day it is highly probable it may
not be called up at all as it is very
doubtful if it can go through the Senate,
and certainly would fail in the House.
In the House to-day Mr.. Tucker OF
Virginia introduced a bill for the bene-
fit of c. r. Rouss, the Virginia million
aire merchant of New York city, who
has lost one thousand dollar u. S.
bond, that was dropped on the floor
and swept out of his store with other
paper trash. Mr.. Tucker doesn't think