Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Ala1andria Gasette.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Ae1andria Gazette. J
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.
Reports received from the weather
bureau in Florida indicate that the
freeze of January End and Ord, 1898,
while doing doing considerable damage
did not approach in severity or destruc.
tiveness the freezes il the winter OF
1894 and 1895. The weather bureau
director at Jacksonville reports IS fol.
lows: Available information indicates
greater portion of vegetables north and
south central portions killed, where
not protected. Pineapples damaged to
considerable extent. Citrus trees not
seriously affected through fruit belt e1
cepting tender sprouts"
Senator Davis, chairman of the Sen
ate committee on foreign relations,
gave notice in the Senate to-day that
be would call up the Senate annexa-
ton treaty in executive session on Mon.
day next and ask the Senate to consid-
er it each day thereafter until the
treaty should be disposed of.
The police officers at the White
House were to day obliged to arrest a
crank. He was middle aged German
named Jacob Clements, who said be
lived in New York. For the past three
days he has haunted the White House
endeavoring to obtain access to the
President. Yesterday be addressed a
letter to the President and to day he
called and announced God had sent
him that he bore the mark on his
brow and that he must see the Presl-
dent. When he was denied, he be-
came boisterous and officers were
obliged to arrest MIN and send him to
the nearest police station to be examin-
ed as to his sanity.
Complying with the resolution re-
gardipg changes in the civil service Law
addressed to the heads of all the de.
partments, Secretary Wilson, of the
Department of Agriculture, to-day sent
the following letter to the Senate: 1.-The
chief trouble l find in the Department
OF Agriculture exists in the bureau OF
aoimal industry between inspectors, as.
sistant inspectors, stock examiners, and
taggers, covered into the service with
out examination; and that the only
marked ineffciency find in the work
of any class of employees in the depart.
ment is among the above mentioned
employees of the bureau of animal indus
try and in certain of the State statisti.
cal agents who were also covered into
the service without examination. These
matters can be remedied by the Presi-
dent, by exenlpting certain positions
from the classified service, or BY The
head of the department. through de-
partmental ezssninauons.
The l.Ssmb wing of the Virginia re-
I pubIicaps are crushed again, the en-
dorsements of the Agnew wing in re-
spect of the fe :eral patronage In THEN
State having been effective. Mr.. Brown
Allen will be appointed marshal fol
| the western district and it ia probable
tina, Mr.. Gleaves, who is endorsed BY
Judge Waddill, will be made attorney
for the western district of that State
Congressman Walker and Yost went
to the White House to-day to protes,
against these appointments, but theiI
protests, it is generally thought, vii
| be in vain. Mr.. Nickols will be ap
pointed postmaster at Laesburg. Chair
u1an Agnew, at the Presidents request
endorsed his application yesterday
evening, and Referee Bowden thi;
morning.
Among the rumors afoat to-day
among the Virginians here is one &c
the effect though the two republican
Congressman from their State have
their war paint on. the republican exc
cutive committee OF Virginia and Capt
Pat McCaull have buried the Ratchet
and are now on the most amicable
terms.
Mr.. John Wise, now of New York
was an applicant for the Office of I. s
Attorney for the southern district Of
New York. another man was nomi.
mated for that Office to-day.
Congressman O:ey of Virginia called
on the President again to-day and
urged him to pardon a man from his
d strict; he also called on the Secretary
of War with request for the loan oil
four hundred tents for the use of the
assembly Of the Methodist schools Of
Virginia, to take place at Lynchburg
next June.
In the House to-day Mr.. Ri1ey intro
duced bills for the relief of Andrews
Chapel, Stafford county, Va; Mrs.
Mary Cawood, OF Fairfax county, and
Capt. J. V. Davis, of Alexandria.
MIR. Grosvenor has returned from
Columbus, Ohio. He says: "If Hanna
should be defeated it will be by a
ombination of democrats and boiling
republicans which will give the demo.
Gratis the Senator for the long or short
term. They will not furnish the votes
without getting part of the spoils. But
still maintain that Hanna will be re.
elected"
The President to-day sent the fol.
loving nominations to the Senate
Francis G. Lowell, to be district judge
for the district of Massachusetts; Henry
L. Burnett, to be attorney for the
southern district of New York. VIM.
Henkel, to be marshal for the southern
district of New York; Aulick Palmer,
for the District of Columbia; VIM. E.
Sterne, for the district of Kansas;
George Louis Siebricht, for the western
district of Texas; Frederick G. Leonard,
for the western district of Pennsyl.
vanis. Owen l.. W. Smith, OF North
Carolina, to be minister to Liberia;
James G.. Stowe, of Missouri, TO be con-
sui general at CapetoWp: Herbert S.,