Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-11
gR0ld WARRINGTON.
rCorrespondsnce Of tho Alexandra Gazette. !
WASHINGTON, March II.
days.

A constant stream of men and wo-
men poured in and out OF the old Cen.
sus building on f street yesterday and
today. They were applicants for posi-
lions under the new census bureau but
very few got beyond the outer room
where a negro scted as a committee OF
one on reception. Gov. Merriam, the
director, left today for his homei in Min
nesota where he will remain for two
weeks settling up his affairs, after which
he will return aud relieve Assistant
Director Wines for the same length
Of 'ime for the same purpose.
S-veral thonsend applications for po-
suiou, have already been filed, but
tner- Will be NC clerical appointments
for months 90 come. Appo;Gtees, unless
they have pulls, will he called upon 10
pass an examination fully rs rigid as
chat of the civil service and those who
get places and prove themselves in
Competent will be discharged unless
trey have suCl pulls.
Judge Riley OF Accomac says that
Mr.. Lurty, prominent Virginia re-
publican, had an interview with the
President last week, in which he told
him the republican executive commit
tee of his State had not only democrat
| lied the repu blican party 10 that State,
| but had even gone so far as to iDjuri-
ouslv affect the republican majority in
! Congress, as that majority mad recently
| refused even to consider the case OF q
republican from Virginia who was con-
testing for seat in the U. 5. House 81
Representatives
Now that Spain has had such bad
| luck with her colonies, she has wisely
determined to dispose of them ana be
thanbfu full she is well rid of bad lot,
She has agreed to sell the CarolInes to
Germany, and this government will
not interfere.
Senator Joues's friends say his con-
dinon is exceedingly precarious and
are fearful that he will never be q
! we'll man again. Senator Vests friends
also aro depressed at the condition Of
mis- health.
It's now pretty well settled that the
army influence and that OF the G. 4. r
combined will prevent General Wheeler
from being commissioned as even 8
| brig&dier in the volunteer army, as he
then would rank men who remained
true to the colors," which would be
more than flesh and blood could
stand" That's the way some North
ern people here talk, and it is probable
that such reasons will initiate greatly
against General Fitzhugh Lee.
Postmaster Reed of Newports News
who is here, and who is pronounced
republican, says Congressman Wise o
his district is still prosecuting lis con
test for the seat to which Mr.. Young
mas been elected, but that his contest
will be ineffective. as ne YVES not only
defeated, but was defeated by republl
Can votes. -,
Congressman Swanson and his wife
left for Florida yesterday, to spend
month among the oranges, Congress
man Jones of the same State, whose
wife has been sick for some time, vii
leave today for their home in the frs
Virginia district.
The President todsy appointed Stu
art w. Griffith as q lieutenant in the
| naval battalion OF the District OF Co
lumbi&.
The examination of witness, Rob
ert Howard of Massachusetts, by the
industrial commission today, had to be
suspended because the stenographers
could not understand his ''lingo."
A friend of Mr. E. B. White of Leesbure
here today says that gentleman having netied
several hundred thousand dollars by the
Letter wheat corner last year, Is turning his
Thoughts 10 politics aud that his friends in
tend to push hin. for the next democratic
| Congressional nomination in his, the Eighth
Virginia, dis rict. II that no So, there will he
| two rich candid 4tcs for that nomination, as
the friends of CAPTAIN " Hard of Fairfax
county say he vii. surely be in the race.
! AT the War Department today it Is SAFE
! hat for the three iieutcnantsnces apportion
ed TO Virgins under The now army bill, there
are nov already ON file AT least thousand
applications