Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of tbs Alezandr;s dazei

the CUSTOMS QlIecIlnR tuat duultloua1
countervaiIing duties be assessed on
sugars imported from France. 1t is
learned that during the year ended
June 80. 1897. the amount of sugar i'm
ported from France was approximately
90, 900 900 pounds. Since the imposi-
ton of the countervailiog duty in Sep
TENDER last no sugar OF any kind has
been exported to the United States.
II is understood that the Treasury
Department has decided that frozen
herring caught by American fishermen
of the Newfoundland coast and brought
into American ports shall be admitted
free of duty.
AT the meeting OF the Cabinet to-day
the replies to be submitted by the
various secretaries to the Senate reso-
luton calling for information as to the
application of the civil service law to
the several departments of the govern
ment aud the recommendations, if any,
the secretaries have 10 make regarding
the administration of the law, were dis
cussed The head of each department
will submit 10 the Senate his Individual
reply TO the resolution, and it was only
the general tenor of the replies that
was under discussion. All Of the re-
plies have been prepared and it is ex-
pected that all of them will be sent to
the Senate tomorrow. The senatorial
situation in Ohio was alluded to and
the President expressed not only his
deep concern in the result but also his
belief that Mr.. Hama would succeed
himself.
All the members of the executive
committee of the republican party Of
Virginia, except Congressman Walker,
have arrived, and with Referee Bowden
are here to- day. The cases of the mar.
shall and attorney for the western dis.
trict Of their STATE were to have been
heard to-day by the Attorney General
but as Congressman Walker and J =,
who oppose the recommendation -
the committee for those positions, tele-
graphed that they would not be
until Tomorrow, Mr.. McKenna as
layed the hearing until their arrival.
Some of the applicants for the posit;""'
referred to are here also, MePrz.
Bowen, Bailey, Mccoy, Browning rNd
others, but as yet no one can tell Mho
will be appointed to either of The
places referred to. All the Vir: -;is
republicans boot at the idea that COL
lector Brady will be even censured by
the administration for removing the
democrats under him and appointing
republicans in their places. The nu-
merous applicants for the Leesburg
postofice are still here, occupying all
the Tree seats 10 the Hotel Johnson, and
each protesting to be certain of his own
appointment. but up to two p. m. this
evening, Referee Bowden had not mace
i recommendation. All Of them dis
credit Mr. Nichols assertion that the
President is for him.
General Gilbert S. Meem, formerly OF
| Virginia, is still postmaster at Seattle,
Washington, and will continue to be,
certainly for year, and possibly long.
er, as both the Senators from that State
are his personal friends. His brother,
General John Meem, formerly of
Lynchburg, was removed from his
place in the supervising architects Of
fee some months ago.
People who left Columbus yesterday
Say the defeat Of Mr.. Hanna is as Ger.
tain as anything can be that has not oc=
Cured, and that the fuss the republi-
cans are making about the threats the
anti.Hanna republicans in the legisla-
ture are receiving from their ecanuies
has already been discounted and will
| have &c eject. They say the anti Han
M republicans have gotten all they
were promised and are perfectly salts,
| fed, and that the vote against Hanna
will be larger than that cast against his
slate for the officers OF the legislature.
I, is conceded here that MIR. Hanna is
"a goner," and prominent Western re-
publican says it is we'll for the Pres.
dent that he should be, as the worst ap-
pointments the latter has made, especi-
lily those in the South, were due to
Dir. Hanna's influence, and have seri.
usly injured the republican party 10
t1a section.
Mr.. Markriter, a paper hanger here,
who was Injured by fall Yesterday,
died this morning.
Congress will reasonable tomorrow
after its Christmas recess, but the
probability is that it will not "get
down" to work before next week.
It is now said that with all his schem-
lug, Senator Ekins was circumvented
by one of his New England colleagues,
who, when the tariff bill was before the
Senate. secured an amendment admit.
ting "alack" or coal dust at fifteen cents
ton, and that the Canadians are crush
ing their lump coal to dust and ship
ping it to he gas works of New Eng.
land, where the gas is extracted, and
the coke resduum sold for fuel.
Work on the extension of the Wash
ington and Falls Church Railroad to-
ward Fairfax Court House has been
suspended on account of the cold
weather, bul the bed of the completed
part OF the road ia being ballasted and
station houses at all the stopping places
are being erected.
Count Won Goetzen, military attache of the
German embassy, was married at noon TO-
day to Mrs. May Stanley Lay at the residence
Of the bride. The ceremony, which made
another American countess, was first per-
formed by justice Of the peace in accord
ance with the official custom of Germany, and
later by Rev. DR.. Mcneil, Of the German
Lutheran Church Countess Won Goetzsn is
the widow of the late William Matthews Lay
of this city. She is native of Baltimore,
where she was first married. Her beauty has
always m4de her much admired, and it said
that no other woman in socie'y has received
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