Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March 8.

StOD. lie Salu luaU uO Iopoit VI opS
kind had been received and that the
public had all the information that had
been received. Up to noon no word
had come 10 the department from the
court of inquiry at Key West. To tow
the large derricks from Boston and New
York to Havana is never q speedy and
seldom q safe undertaking. The der
nick Chief, at Norfolk, is now storm
bound Just inside of the Chesapeake
capes, although it was fully expected
that by this time she would ne far be.
low Ratteras. This makes it improb-
sble thai the derrick can reach Havana
harbor and get to work much before
| ohe middle OF next week. As for the
big derrick Monarch, which is required
to raise the turrets and extremely
heavy weights from the hull, the date
for her sailing has not been set, al.
| though the department has inquired
| Of the contractors on that point.
| A substantial evidence of sympathy for
the survivors of the Maine and the
| families of the victims cane TO the Navy
Department to-day in the shape OF a
check of $500 from President Dole, OF
Hawaii. The Navy Department has
authorized a delay of ten days in the
| execution OF the contract for dredging
/ at the Norfolk navy yard, in order that
the contractor might employ his plant to
| clear away the silt that has accumulated
in front Of the launching ways at New
| pert News upon which the two big bat
ileships Kearsarge and Kentucky now
lie. The contractor will get at this work
| March 14'h and must finish by the 24ih.
These two battleships, the largest ever
built for the Uuited States navy, are TO
be completed and turned over to the
government within ten months, II
finished under the terms OF contract.
| They are now under construction by
the Newport News Shipbuilding Com
pany and are to be launched on the
24Jh Instant.
The Senate committee on commerce
to-day listened to arguments on behalf
of the national business league and the
national board of trade in the Interest OF
the establishment of a new department
of the government, to be called the De-
partment OF Commerce and Industries,
to be presided over by 8 Cabinet officer.
The Senate committee on military al
fairs to day decided to recommend the
passage of a resolution authorizing the
abandonment of the government expe.
/ dition for the relief Of the miners in the
Klondike region, which was authorized
during an emotional spasm last Decem-
Der. 1t provides for tne sale of both
the reindeer and the supplies purchased
for the expedition.
Senator Mason to-day introduced a
resolution 10 the Senate appropriating
SO 900 for the widow of the negro post
master recently killed by a mob at
Lake City, S. c.
Ia the Senate 10 day Mr.. Kenney
gave NOTICE of an amendment to the
sundry civil bill appropriating 800, 900
for improvement of the Inland water
way from Chincoteague bay, Va, to
Delaware bay, Del.
The Treasury Department has pre-
pared q statement showing the amount
of domestic merchandise of the United
States which, during last year, passed
through Canada 10 bond from one point
in the United States to another. Vir'
GINA sent fourteen tons.
Representative Gillette, Of Massachu.
sets, appeared before the House com.
mittee on labor to-day, to explain bis
employers liability bill. He said the
bill had too broad u scope, regulating
as it does the liabilities of employers,
except farmers, in all the States and
Territories. He suggested it might be
particularly applicable to the District of
Columbia.
Judge Paul and Marshal Allen OF the
western district Of Virginia are here to-
day to see about getting the money re-
| CURED for running the U. S. court for
| tuat district. Mr.. Allen says his Sc
curity is only $4,000, but the govern.
ment has so much confidence in him,
Notwithstanding Mr.. Yost's charges,
that it will probably entrust him with
the disbursement OF $40, 1000. Mr.. Allen
| also says Mr.. Yost is serving his last
term in Congress, that even his own
party in his own ward in Stanton is
against him by an overwhelming ma
jority, and that an ADLER republican,
possibly Revercomb or Franklin, will
he the next republican congressional
candidate in his district.
The House ways aud means commit
tee has not yet considered the bill to
consolidate certain customs districts,
among them some in Virginia, includ-
ing that of Alexandria with the Wash
iugton district, nor is it known when it
will, but should it do so, no matter
what report it may make, it is not at
ali likely that any such bill will pass.
There are too many districts involved
to warrant any such idea.
The House elections committee did
not meet yesterday to receive the re-
port of the sub committee to which was
ri ferred the Wise-Young contested
election case, nor did it to day. Indeed
the republican majority of the House
seems to have lost all interest in any
of the contested election cases, and it is
only natural that the democrats should
want them delayed as long as possible.
Letters from both the Secretary Of
Agriculture and the Secretary of War
have been received by the House MILL
tary committee, to whom has been re.
ferred the bill making IN experimental
agricultural station out of a part of the
Arlington reservation, recommending
the passage OF that bill.
The State Department has ascertain
ed, at the instance of the japanese LIE.
CATION, that the following Japanese
were on board the Maine at the time