Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, May S.

Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette. !
Washington, May s.
Senator Daniel has returned from
New York and was in attendance upon
the industrial commission today. John
I. McDonough, secretary Of the State
Of New York, described the fight wsged
against convict labor competition in the
State for the last year. The number OF
long term convicts has grown smaller
in late years, he said, as the courts in
the State have become less corrupt.
Not so very long ago many unscrupu
lous judges were in direct league with
the contractors who made enormous
profits off the labor of the convicts.
Oce Judge bad told him that lawyer
representing prison contractor had Of
tered to pay him 500 for every long
term convict he sentenced. The more
long term men they had the greater
the number of their expert shoemakers
and the larger their profits.
A delegation of about twenty of the
Confederate Veterans Association Of
this city will here this evening for
Charleston, to attend the Confederate
reunion there. They will escort Misses
Hume and Wright, the sponsor and
vice sponsor of the association.
Secretary Alger is as prone to dis
putes as Job was to boils. He has re-
urned from Michigan, where his Sena-
,orial boom was started, only to find
himself involved in one with Senator
Mcmillan, who, he says, promised him
not to be in his way, but who denies
that he ever made any such promise.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
investigated the charges brought by
Mr.. Gompers of the Federation of La
DOR against Mr.. Johnson, chief of the
bureau of printing and engraving, and
reports to the President that the
charges are not sustained.
The President left here this evening
for the Hot Springs OF Virginia. His
familiars say he is not we'll man and
that he needs a rest, not from mental
work, but from the worry to which he
s constantly subjected by the various
sort of Office seekers. including those
who want commissions in the volunteer
army he is authorized to call out,
though be doesn't want to do so.
Virginians here today say if all the
numerous delegates appointed by small
meetings in a few of the towns and
counties of their State to the anti-Mar-
in Assem- blage to be held inRichmond on
Wednesday, attend, large number will
be present, but from what they can
hear not half the counties will be rep.
cesented, and they, not by men who rep
resent the popular feeling in the coun-
ties. They also say they hear that all
available means have been used to in
duce people to attend the meeting, but
in many cases without effect.
George W. Reed was today appoint.
ed postmaster at Spurlock, Floyd coun.
ty, Virginia, vice Jane Wade, resigned.
The findings of the court of inquiry iu the
beef case, as edited at the White House.
meet with general condemnation here tits
said the chief object of the investigation was
70 benefit the meat contractors in their for
eign market by verdict to the effect that
their products are good and will be go as long
as kept in cold storage, which object has been
achieved.
Or. Owsley of Chicago whose fancy in
iuced him to seek q home in Virginia, but
who likes to spend his winters in this city,
mas Just bought fine estate and handsome
residence, sixteen miles from Charlottesville
for which he paid $4,000.