Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, ID. c., July Z.
1t is quite likely that Attorney General
Knox will make trip to France late
this summer Assistant to the Attorney
General. Chas. w. Russell, will leave
shortly to confer with French officials
relative to the best means of making alb
solutely clear the title of the Panama
Company to transfer its property to the
United States. When Mr. Russell shall
have completed the preliminaries, Mr..
Knox Is to Join him 10 personally look
into the work and make sure of its in
lallibility. Senator Spooner, of Wis
cons;n. will probably accompany the
Attorney General on this voyage and AS
list him in the work.
II is intimated by friends of }. w.
Ycrkes, commissioner of internal reve-
nue.. that he will not serve out his term.
The republicans of Kentucky are urging
him to make the race for governor next
year. and although Mr.. Yerkes is 10th
TO comply with this wish, the pressure is
growing stronger daily. If he should
a .ree to make the fight he will resign his
government position TO relieve the adj
ministration of embarrassment. Mr.
Yerkes left today for his home in Dan
vile, KY, to join his family for short
vacation, but the political situation will
be discussed with some of the leaders
during his stay insthe State.
Louis Butler, an aged colored barber
of this city, who cut the hair of King
Edward when, as Prince of Wales, he
visited Washington 1860, returned from
London today a grievously disappointed
man. He went to attend the coronation
and to presentto the King the royal locks
that were shorn in his modest little bar
Der shop AZ years ago. Hehad promised
the Prince at that time that he would
return the hair to him when he should
be crowned. He will scarcely be able to
make another trip to London.
The, President promulgated the follow
ing order affecting persons employed
under the military government in Cuba.
persons who were in the employ of the
United States in the military govern
ment in Cuba and who are not eligible
for retention in the classified service
under the existing rules, but have been
especially commended for appoint
ment by the chiefs of their respec-
tive departments, with the approval of
the Secretary of WBr, because of the
efficient services rendered under
conditions of personal danger from yell
low fever and other tropical diseases
aud whose names are embraced in the
list heretofore furnished to the civil SER
vice commission by the War Depart
mcnt may be retained and appointed to
positions of a grade corresponding to
that which they now hold in the CLASH
lied service with the consent and APP
prevail of the commission" This order
effects l27 persons, out of 600 formerly
employed in Cuba.
Secretary Moody today selected the
Brooklyn navy yard as the place in
which the one battleship provided for by
Congress to be built at a government
HWY Ndih II W Dt NOilSNiuNhNu.
The President has promulgated the
following order affecting the unclassified
laborers in the public service: ON the
excise of the power vested in the Presi-
dent by the constitution and of authority
given him by the 1854 section of the
revised statutes, it is hereby ordered that
the appointments ofall unclassified labor
crs in and under the several executive de-
partments and officials shall be made in
accordance with regulations to be APP
proved and promulgated by the heads of
the several departments and offices and
the civil service commission"
Amos Ahad, an Armenian, giving his
residence as l19 Washington street, New
York, called at the temporary White
House this morning to solicit the Presi-
Tents aid in shaking up the New York
police department. The attaches told
aim to call on Sanitary Officer Frank,
without disclosing the fact that DIR.
Frank is charged with examining into
The sanity of Objectionable white House
callers Frank discharged him, how
ever. 1t seems thai about three years
ago Ahad was set upon by footpads in
New York and robbed of $15S and has
been trying ever since to locate the cul-
prlts. Unsuccessful in his efforishe had
thought it about time for the President
10 take a hand.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is not
Inclined to accept As grayely important
he charges recently made by New
York customs employee. This man, who
vas a laborer under Collector Wakeman,
lIeges that he was allowed to do GER
ain line of work, ordinarily assigned to
hose in tie classified service; namely, the