Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-26
The Tressury Department has decid-

til alter fQur O'CLOCK on SHturuay ofon
ing, sixteen hours afterwards. VI
course there will be appeals from this
decision, and the best constitutional
lawyers here say the bill is not retro
active, and therefore could not be ope'
rative until some minutes after four
o'clock Saturday evening, when it was
signed by the President. Senator Vest
is one of the lawyers referred to.
A private letter received here TINS
morning from Warrenton, Virginia,
states that Attorney General Scott OF
that State, who is sick there OF typhoid
fever, is recovering, and that his friends
in different parts of the State are con-
ident of his denomination.
It is said at the Capitol that the re-
ported discovery of an error in the
tariff bill, in respect of currants, tele-
graphed from San Francisco, is incor-
rect, as that error was corrected by the
conference committee.
A Loudoun county democrat, here
10 .day, says that the democratic pri-
maries in Loudoun last Saturday result
ed in the election of delegates to the
State convention in favor of Tyler for
Governor and Scott for Attorney Gen.
eral, and for Ryan for the House of Del.
egetes, and Fairfax, for the State Sen
ate. In the Leesburg and Hamilton
districts, the only two in which fights
were made against the present members
of the county committee, new men
were elected.
Rumors are currect here to the effect
that Secretary Sherman's mental condl-
ton is such that he will soon be forced
to leave the State Department and that
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune, will be appointed to his
place. Mr.. Reid was recently MIR.
Shermsn's subordinate at London. He
was Mr.. Greeley's subordinate in the
New York Tribune Office. He ousted
Mr.. Greeley, and if he shall do the same
with Mr.. Sherman, be will be known
as the successor of people whose mipds
have become weak.
The Virgipians met with little con-
sideration at the hands of Mr.. Speaker
Reed, in his appointment of the COM
mittees. They were we'll provided for
| in the last Congress, but not SO we'll in
this one. Mr.. Swanson, when the SEES
sion commenced, did get place on the
ways and means committee, and Gener'
al Walker. on Saturday, got the chair
manship of an election commit
tee, but on none of the other
important committees is Virginia rep.
resented. Mr.. Yost is on the commit
tee of coinage weights and measures;
Mr.. Lamb on agriculture, Mr.. Hay on
military affairs, Mr.. Swanson on post
offices and post roads, Mr.. Jones on In
dian affairs, Mr.. Otey on railways and
canals, Mr.. Young on labor, Mr.. Yost
and Mr.. Rixey on claims, MIR. Jones on
private land claims, Mr.. Epes on re-
vision of the laws, Mr.. Otey and Mr.
Epes on immigration, Mr.. Lamb on ex
penditures in the Treasury Department
snd Mr.. Young on expenditures in the
Departmental Justice.
The British government has again
declined to interfere in the execution
of the sentence of Mrs. Florence May
brick convicted of poisoning her husband
on the ground that there is no reason
for change of judgment in the matter
The last effort to secure at least an
amelioration in the conditions of her
confinement was made by Ambassador
Hsy, who had some correspondence on
the subject with the foreign Office,
which he has transmitted to the State
Department. Lord Salisbury appears
to have called for a report in the case
from Secretary Ridley and the latter
stated that he was unable, in view OF
the conclusion which had been reached
by himself and by his predecessor as to
Mrs. Maybrick's guilt, to recommend
to her majesty that any exceptional
| treatment should be accorded to her.
Secretary Ridley also added that the
medical report in Mrs. MsyDrick' g
case was quite satisfactory, an evidence
that the government does not credit
any of the statements as to the insanity
of the prisoner.
The following fourth class Virginia
postmasters were appointed to-day {:
| Alley, Thomas Dublin; Flat Rock, NJ.
E. Fleener; Warm Springs, ]. D. Ham
ilton.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
issued 8 call on national banks for a
report on their conition at the close of
business Friday, July %.
The State Department has been in
formed that very gracious exception
has been made by the Queen Regent of
Spain in consenting to receive Mr.. Tay
lor, the retiring United States Minister,
and Mr.. Woodford, the new Minister,
at San Sebastian, where she does not
maintain a court in the usual sense of
the term. The ceremony necessarily
will be informal. This arrangement to
meet Mr.. Taylor's convenience was
brought about through the courtesies
and considerable Offices of the Duke of
Tetusn. 1t is without precedent.
Arrangements have been completed
for the trip of the President and his
party from Washington to Lake Cham.
plain. They will leave Washington at
noon Wednesday and arrive at the des-
tination, Bluff Point, Thursday morn
ing. The President and Mrs. McKin-
ley will be accompanied by Secretary
and Mrs. Alger, and Secretary and Mrs.
Porter. 1t is the Presidents intention
to remain at Lake Champlain until
August 23rd when he will 60 to the G.
A. R. encampment at Buffalo. From
Buffalo he will go to Ohio to attend
the reunion of his old regiment and also
to be present at the wedding of the
daughter of the late President Hayes,
September 2. Unless there should then
be an urgent demand for his presence in