Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-04
NO VlRGlNIAN NAMED
wADDTLL AND KNIGHT APPOINT
MENTs CERTAIN, HOWEVER.
The PRESIDENT YEXED WITH LONG.
tnry's Spanish IrrcsponsibiIfty
Utterance-Nyashing winters
Hotel Business Poor.


WASHINGTON, March s.-(special)-
Up to p. NJ. the usual limit Of tine for
sending in appointments. no Virgi MANS
name appeared on the list. II is certain.
however, that Judge Waddilrs appoint
ment as Judge Of the United States Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia. and
that of Wray Z. knight, to be postmaster
at Richmond will be sent in, probably
within the next day or two. AS announced
In the Dispatch. National-Committeema
Bowden, accompanied by Chairman Ag-
new, presented the endorsements OF Judge
Waddill TO the President on Tuesday, and
had an extended and pleasant interview,
during which Mr. Mckinley spoke i'm the
highest terms of Judge Waddill. The two
gentlemen left the White House fully as
sured of the appointment Of Judge Wad-
dill, and the fact that there is no oppo-
sition to him makes his prompt confirma-
ton certain.
Mr.. Knight came up last night on the
late train. not for the purpose of pushing
his claims for the postmastershp at
Richmond. but merely TO visit his brother,
Mr.. William Knight, who is a clerk in the
Southern railway office here. His appoint
ment is looked for at an early day.
United States Marshal s. Brown Allen.
of the Western Virginia District. is in the
city, on business with the Department OF
Justice. He, like other United States mar
shals, is awaiting the outcome OF the con-
tested appointments which are claimed
to be Illegal under the civil-service law.
Marshal Allen has a large number of
of the State, and should the civil-service
barriers be removed he will have a good
many places at his disposal.
Andrew II. Jackson has been appointed
janitor of the custom-house at Peters
burg.
ALGER PATRIOTIC.
Secretary Alger was asked to-day if he
had not run a great risk i'm contracting
for 100000 projectiles in advance of an
appropriation by Congress. He replied:
IF an American Congress will not APP
propriate money for such purpose in this
emergency, / will myself pay the obliga-
ton"
Everything was quiet at the east end Of
the Avenue to-day. Interviews with
Senators and Representatives failed to
elicit anything having the remotest con-
nection with the one pervading question
that agitates all minds.
IL is currently reported and generally
believed that President Mckinley is much
vexed at Secretary Longs utterances,
holding that Spain was eliminated from
all official completely in the destruction
of the Maine. He holds that members OF
his political family should be more guard
ed in their expressions, as anything
coming from them is received by the
general public as tingcd with the official
sanction Of the head of the government.
1t is known positively that the Pres-
dent hopes the arbitrament OF arms may
not be necessary in the settlement of the
question at issue, but he is in full accord
with the extensive preparations that are
being made tor war;
Interviews at the different hotels here
develop the fact that the winters bust
ness has not been at all a satisfactory
one, and all say they have never seen
money so scarce.
The incorporators of the Fredericks-
burg Battlefield Park Association are
here in force, and very active in their
work. They have every assurance that
should the measure fail at this session
II will certainly be passed this coming
winter, and active work will begin in the
early spring.
KLONDIKE-FEVER AGAIN.
The Klondike-fever has broken out with
renewed violence here, and several par
ties are getting ready to make start
in the next sixty days, allured by the
reports brought home by several Wash
ingtonians who have spent several years
in Alaska.
1t does not now look as If the bank
ruptcy bill, in it's present shape, can pos
sibly pass this Congress. 1t was sent
back to the Senate by the House. with
several Objectionable features eliminated.
II will now have to go to a conference |
committee, which has not yet been |
named
Ex-Congressman John w. Brewer, OF |
North Carolina, is in the city, stopping |
at the Metropolitan.
Tomorrow is private-bill day in the |
House. and it is quite possible that If the |
calendar is allowed the right of way |
the Richmond Locomotive and Machine |
Works claim may be reached.
REVENUE OFFICE CHANGES.
Mr.. S. NJ. Monroe, who has been Deputy |
Collector of Internal Revenue for the /
Western District of Virginia, has re- |
signed, TO take the place OF Gas-Clerk in |
Captain Begge. who was the |
cashier in Collector Agnew's office. has |
been called to the position made vacant |
by Mr.. Monroe's resignation.
Mr.. a. II. Agnew, a brother Of Collec-
tor Agnew's, who has recently been in
has been appointed stamp deputy
IN Collector Agnew's office, in Alexan-
dria.
The meeting of the Ways and Means
which was to have been held
to-day, has been deferred until Wednes-
day. when Congressman Young and dele
cations from Norfolk will be granted a
hearing in regard to the abolition of the
\ orfolk customs office and it's being
into that at Newport News.
FEDERAL PRISON AT RALEIGH.
The Department of Justice to-day closed
with the Superintendent
IF the North Carolina Penitentiary, at
Raleigh. for the maintenance of Federal
nrieoners from that State, and Alabama,
A rkansas. Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi,
louisiana, South Carolina, Georgia,
and Virginia, at a cost Of 25 cents each,
per day.
''The war feeling is running high in
North Carolina" said Sheriff
Williams. of Henderson county, to-day.
~ wer IS declared between Spain and
he limited States it will be an easy mat
-er 10 raise 100 900 troops in North Caro-
ina In thirty days.
an two counties west of Asheville," he
,dded "the initial steps have already
,een taken towards the immediate or
,anization of two regiments. The lead
ire in this movement are ex-Confederate
oldiers."
PERSONAL.
Mrs Wfoughby Reed. of Alexandra,
auehter of Mrs. Frank S. Robertson, or
hingdon Va. is In the city to-day visit
,gs Mrs. Connally F.. Trigg.