Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENTS Of the Alexandria Gazette.1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.


WASHINGTON. Aug. 6.
According to a statement prepared
BY Mr.. Eckels, of Illinois, the Comp
troller of the Treasury under the Nc
Kinley. as he was under the Cleveland
administration, the bank deposits IN
Massachusetts amounts to $12O.5O for
every man. woman and child in that
State, while those in Virginia amount to
SIP 81 for every person In that State.
Senator Stewart of Nevada, who is
still here. and who writes all the edi-
torial articles for the Silver Knight,
published in Alexandria, says Presi'
dent Mckinley has very little influence
with the present administration.
The deputy commissioner of internal
revenue said to-day that the report to
thu effect that an agent at one OF the
e.amp offices in Virginia could be re-
tanned by removing the deputy collec-
tor at that Office, Is not true, and that
the new rules in respect of changes in
the internal revenue service could not
he construed to warrant such thing.
The deputy could be removed, he said,
but his place would have to be filed by
the highest man on the eligible list.
The disappointed republican office
seekers here from Maryland and Vir-
pinis ars now engaged in a movement
which, they say, will bring the admin
istration to it's senses. 1t Is to have
the republican voters in those States
sign papers pledging themselves to re.
frain from voting at the coming iall
elections unless the President shall re-
woke his recent civil service order.
There are no congressman to elect
they say, at that time, and that whez
the President shall ask those already
elected the cause of the falling oil IN
the republican vote, they will tell him
and also tell him they will be defeated
in 1898 unless he shall modify the order
referred to.
John NJ. Langston, the negro ex' con
gresham from the Petersburg, Va. dis
trict, who lives here, says chat though
not member of the republican com
mittee OF Virginia, he will probably at
tend the coming meeting of that com
mittee at Lynchburg, and that at it ht
will favor the holding OF State con
vention, and that most of the leading
members of his race in that State agree
with him that such convention shoult
be held. He is now, he says, negotiat
ing for the purchase of FIVE hundred
| acres of land near Port Conway, il
King George county, Va, on which Il
establish negro industrial school.
The postmaster at small town II
Minnesota, who was removed yester
| day, was the last populist who held {
federal Office, and it is said here that h
was surprised at not having been re
moved before.
Col. J. s. Browning, of Pocahontas
Virginia, is here to-day. He says th'
miners in the the coal mines in which
ne is interested are still at work bu
are uneasy. Colonel Lamb, of Virginia
| who is also interested in those mines
was expected here yesterday.
Mr.. Andrew Lipscomb, of Alexan
dria county, has been retained by Carr
the captured outrager here, to defent
Kim at his trial.
A leading merchant of this cit,
speaking to-day of cartoon that re
Gently appeared in one of the paper
here, representing Mr.. Bryan standing
on railway track, trying to stop thu
advancing locomotive of prosperity
said he observed that the engine hat
no train behind it to indicate that eithe
freight or passengers were on the move
and that the most conspicuous thinl
about it was its whistle.
The following postmasters in Virgins
were appointed to-day: Alleghan.
Spring, W. L. Barnett; Linden, J. W
Pritchard; Pearisburg, ]. L. Muncy
Ruckersville, B. NJ. Shotwell; Soudan
J. A. Winebish.
The German government has agail
entered formal protest against the ap
plication to German sugar of the new
tariff act, by which such sugar woult
be taxed with higher duty than tina
| from other countries.
Major Alexander Morgan, disbursins
officer of the Bureau of Engraving ant
! Printing, has resigned.
The news of the death of Attorney Genera
Scott was received with general regret by al
the Virginians here. In respect of its efiec
upon the action of the Roanoke convention
they seem to think it will add strength t.
the candidacy Of Mr.. Alexander, who lives il
| the same section Of the State.