Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gszette.]
WASHINGTON. March 81.

WASHINGTON, March 81.
A deputy marshal of the United
States was on board the steamer Three
Friends on her recent alleged tilibuster-
ing expedition. To-day the log book
he kept on the voyage was received by
the Attorney General. 1t is said to
furnish evidence of the completely OF
the steamer in Glibustering operations,
but it is not as conclusive as 1t was
hoped it would be.
The State Department declares that
Consul General Lee has not been
granted leave of absence to take eff
feet April 18th, as published, or any
other date. Gen. Lee has not asked
for leave and no action looking to his
relief at Havana or to the acceptance OF
hi resignation has been taken.
The President this afternoon signed
the Mississippi flood joint resolution
making an appropriation Of $3.50, O0O for
the improvement ofth Mississippi river
from the head OF the Passes Of the Gulf
to the mouth of the Ohio river and 10
supply deficiencies in the appropriation
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1897.
Several people from the North have
been to Warwick, Mr.. Hume's place,
near Alexandria, recently, to inspect Its
advantages as site tor preparatory
school for boys seeking admission into
the governments military and naval
academies but SO far none OF them has
exhibited evidence of the pecuniary
ability to establish such school on q
substantial basis.
Senator Martin escorted Mrs. w. Il.
Mayo, wife of the Mayor of Norfolk,
aud daughter iof the third Commodore
Decatur, of the Q. S. N, to the White
House House this morning and intro.
duced her to the President. She de-
sires that her son be appointed assist
ant paymaster in the navy, and doesn't
see why he shouldn't be, as his grand
father was republican and resident
of Boston.
In respect of such republican post
masters as may be nominated for Vlr-
GINA, the democratic Senators from that
S ate will make no opposition to their
combinations if they be reputable and
their democratic predecessors, against
whom no charges have been made,
have served four years.
congressman Walker and Yost OF
Virginia called upon Secretary Gage of
the Treasury this morning in the inter-
est of Mr.. Garrison of Virginia, an ap.
plicant for the position Of deputy comp
iroller of the Treasury, and said by his
friends to be we'll qualified by expert
eoce for the place.
The bill recently introduced in the
House by Mr.. Rixey of the Alexandria
district to allow the Herndon and
Aldie Railroad company to build a
railroad bridge across the Potomac
river at the Great Falls of the Potomac
has not yet been considered, because
the committee to which it will be re-
ferred has not yet been appointed. 1t
is reported that the incorporators of the
road, should the bill be passed, propose
to sell their charter to some railroad
company that will build the bridge.
The injurious effects of the recent de
cision of the .. S. supreme court in the
railroad traffic case are so wide spread
that the impression now is that Senator
Foraker's bill allowing railroad pooling
will be passed.
The Senate went into executive ses.
sion early to-day on the arbitration
treaty, which has been so emasculated
by amendments proposed by its pro-
fessed friends, such as Mr.. Hca chat if
it shall be ratified in its present shape,
which is doubtful, the probability is that
it will be rejected by England as a
measure of no practical utility.
1t is reported at the Capitol to-day that Mr..
Palmer was appointed Public Printer at the
request of ex President Harrison, who said he
would ask nothing else of the administration.
The President to-day nominated Thomas
W. Cridlcr, of West Virginia, to be Third
Assistant Secretary Of State.