Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 81.
The appeal of the State authorities
of South Carolina from the decision OF
Judge Simonton in the case OF the dis
nensary law has been dock eted in the
q. S. Supreme Court and motion to
advance the case upon the docket will
probably be made in the court on Mon
day. The principal point at issue is
the effect of the Congressional! amend
ments to the federal act regulating To-
terstate traficin spirits. These amend
ments were Incorporated in the law at
Senator Tillman's instance after the
decision of the Supreme Court holding
the State law to be antagonistic to this
federal statue, but Judge Simonton held
II at the amendments did not remove
the friction, and that the enforcement
OF the dispensary law by taking posses.
sion of goods shipped into the State
from the outside, as in the case of the
Vandercook shipment, was violation
+ the right of interstate commerce.
was ard is distinctly stated that
the government of the United States
G .nnot consent to make the seal question
dependent upon the complex question
o reciprocity, revision of our tariff and
other matters, unless there should be a
suspension of the slaughter of the seals
while the negotiations and resulting
legislation were pendisg. 1t is said to-
dsy that it is not likely the President
will reverse the decision of this govern
ment upon q renewal of the proposal.
The Navy Department has received
from Captain Picking, of the recelv'
ing ship Wabash, charges against Chap
lain NJ. M. Goodwin, of that vessel.
The charges are that the chaplain has
been of irregular habits, and be has
been furnished copy OF the document
to make answer and show why he
SHOULD not be tried by court martial.
The advance guard of Congress is be-
ginning to appear ct the White House
and there was the usual crowd of call.
ers in waiting in the lobbies all the
morning. Indeed, there were so many
that the President was obliged to send
out early word that be could see no one
except upon matters of public business.
This let into his room several Senators
and Representatives, most OF whom had
some suggestion to make as to the mes
sage. The consul general of France,
M. Bruwaert, was among the callers.
He came to talk reciprocity, having
been called from New York to Wash
iugton to assist the embassy because OF
his large knowledge OF tariff questions.
The resignation of Mr.. Eckels as
Comptroller of the Currency will take
effect the last OF December and he will
assume the duties of president of the
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
on January /. Mr.. Eckels is boiler
aud would have been allowed to hold
his office even longer had he not been
offered more lucrative position.
Friends of Judge Hughes here who
had read ia the Gazette that he intends
10 resign, cay it is true, but that he may
not do so for several months yet.
An intelligent foreigner now sojourn-
log mere says that all governments are
more or less corrupt, but that while in
those OF Europe the old flies are allow
ed to continue to suck the blood OF the
robbed people, here they are driven OF
every four years to allow new and
more rapaoious swarm to take their
place.
Mr.. Hutchins, the owner of the late
Richmond State, says the publication OF
that paper was not suspended because
he people of Richmond had grown
llkewarm in support OF free silver, but
b cause the merchants there, as we'll as
ia other cities of the South, don't ap.
p.eciate the advantages of advertising
as those of Washington do. The circu.
lation of the paper, he says, was salts
factory, but newspapers live, and cities
grow, by advertising, and that is what
the State didn't have. He says the
other evening paper there, before the
State suspended, was practically given
away-being sold at quarter of cent
copy.
1t is said here that Rev. DR.. McKim
refused the deanship Of the Alexandra
Theological Seminary because he did
not like 10 leave the church here OF
which he is rector.
Mr.. ]. E. Clements of Alexandria
county says ex-senator Henderson is
going to divide his tract of three hun.
dred acres near Ballston in that coun-
ty into ten acre lots for villa sites;
also that the bills for widening the
Aqueduct bridge, for the Memorial
bridge and for an experimental agricul-
tural station at Arlington will be push
ed during the early part of the coming
session; but other friends of these bills
say it will be good luck if they get
through by the end of the session.
An oficesecker who came here from the
far West when Mr. Mckinley was inaugurated
and has been here ever since, during which
time he hiss spent $4,000, has disappeared
suddenly and mysterionsly, and his whore
abouts cannot DO found. he had strong in.
nuencs and was promised place by the
President, and when it was given to some
body else he complained TO Mr.. Mckinley,
who told him that people often had to change
their minds To which, it is said, ne replied
that they didn't have to change their word5
MORE OFFIcEs.-A dispatch from
Richmond says: The biennial session
of the Virginia legislature opens next
Wednesday, December l. The dele
gates are already arriving, and look
ing the ground over. A new subject
that ia coming uD for action and in the