Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
rOorrespor sence Of the Alexandris Gasette.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.

commission for the reform of
the currency, Secretary Gage said: II
have read the report with great interest
and much profit. 1t points out the
sources of our present financial weak
ness. and the remedies. The reform
measures recommended are we'll adapt
ed to cure the ills from which We suffer
and which threaten our future. l hope
it will bear fruit in legislative action"
Mr.. Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, to-
day took charge of his Office as Comp
troller of the Currency, and Mr.. N. B.
Scott, of West Virginia, assumed his
new duties of Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue.
Practically all of the cases on the
United States Supreme Court docket
involving title to private land grants
in the territory of Arizona were to-day
reassigned to be heard on the first Mon
day in March.
Assistant Secretary Day returned to
Washington this morning from Ohio.
His attention being called to the pub
lished story that movement is afoot to
substitute his name for that of Senator
Hanna as candidate for the Senate,
he said "There is notbiug-absolutely
nothing-in the statement. believe
that Mr.. Hanna will be elected as he
should be-" This last statement was
made after Judge Day had been inform.
ed of the election of Mason as Speaker
of the Ohio House of Representatives
The news OF the event of the morning
at Columbus was taken to the White
House by the Associated Press and was
regarded by Secretary Porter as of such
interest that he carried the bulletin
Immediately to the President. The
latter had been very busy receiving a
number of Senators and Representatives
but he expressed the greatest interest
in the news, and discussed the probable
effect of the mornings action upon Mr..
Hanna's candidacy with some of his
visitors.
Among those admitted to practice in
the Supreme Court of the United States
to-day was Hon. VIM. r. Morrison
who has been for so many years chair
man of the interstate commerce CON-
mission, and will now resume prac-
tice of the law, his term of Office hay
ing expired.
In the U. S. Court to day the appeal
of George D. Grossly from the decision
of the Circuit Court for the northern
district of California, denying him a
writ of habeas corpus was dismissed.
Grossly was one of the railroad rioters
in California in the summer of 1895 and
was charged with being responsible for
the death of a railroad engineer caused
by the derailing of train and upon trial
in the State Court he was found guilty
and sentenced. 1t was sought to bring
the case into the United States courts on
the ground tina. the derailed train was
mail train but the court held that
there was no statute under which the
case could have been tried in the
United States courts and held that the
application for hAbeas corpus was
properly denied by the circuit court.
Referee Bowden is here to-day, but
no other Virginia republicans except
the numerous applicants for the Lees
burg postoffice and their friends, who
occupied all the seats in the small Office
room of the Hotel Johnson. Who will
be appointed nobody can now tell. AT
that hotel the impression is that the
Office will go either to Bolyn or Nc.
Cabe, with chances in favor OF the
former, who is endorsed by both the
present and the ex chairman of the re.
publican committee Of Loudoun county,
but some say that Mr.. Newton, who is
son of the late Colonel Albert New
ton of Alexandria, is the favorite of Mr.
Bowden, and that if McCabe can't get
it, he will throw his influence also to
Newton. Mr.. BowdeD, himself, says
things have not yet developed suffi-
GENTLY to enable him to say who will
be appointed, but that Mr.. Nickols,
originally from Ohio, anothe applicant,
tells him the President himself has rec=
commended him, and if that be so, of
course the question is as good as set
tied.
General W. II. Payne of Virginia,
who has been in i'll health for three or
four months, but who has attended to
the duties Of his Office here as counsel
for the Southern Railroad, will sail for
Havana this week, for the benefit that
he may derive from the climate of that
island. He will be accompanied by
his daughter, aud while in Havana will
visit his old friend, Consul General
Fitzhugh Lee.
One of the most dangerous counter.
feits ever discovered has made its APP
pearance. 1t Is one hundred dollar
silver certificate with the head of Presi-
dent Monroe.
People from New England here to day say
that at least five hundred thousand lsborers,
men, women aud children, will be affected by
the reduction in wsges that went into effect
.hore to-day. They also say that the reports
OF prosperity in their section printed in re-
nublicsn sud bclters' sud bankers organs are
without any truthful foundation.
Charles Ball OF Loudoun county, through
the influence of Congressman Rixey, has
been appointed to place in the fire depart.
ment of this city
Miss Belote OF Norfolk, who was hurt by
runaway oc'dsnt hero yesterday evening,
died this morning.
That the Cub,n sympsthizers don't act as
vehemently as they talk, is proved by the
fact that though the government came to
their aid with a profer OF ship to carry
their contributions to Cuba. very few of them
have given suything to be sent there. The
fact is that the intelligent people OF this coun.
try know too much about the true condition
of affairs in Cubs to believe Whist the jingoes
and their organs say in respect of those a.
fairs.
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