Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-12-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of tho Alexandria Gazette.

The passage of that bill at the present SEES
sion of Congress will be impossible, for the
reason that though the democrats are in ia
vor of giving pension to the survivors of
the Mexican war, they can not support the
Senate amendment to the bill, which prac-
tically pensions any man whose name was
on the rolls of the federal army during the
civil war. The republicans in the Senate
knew this amendment would kill the
bill, and for that reason adopted it. The
republican caucus, as cheap means
by which to make party capital, re-
solved last night to attempt to secure
the passage of the bill as amended The
democrats will try to have the objectiona-
BILE amendment stricken out, or to compro-
mise upon a bill less objectionable, but
both efforts will be resisted by the repub-
licans, because most of the survivors of the
Mexican war live in the South, and, there
fore, as Messrs. Hewitt and Buckner say,
the passage of the bill at this, or at any ear
ly future session is by no means probable.
The prevalent belief to-day respecting
the new treaties is that none of them will
be made effective at this session of Congress
for the reason that the democrats will OPP
pose them because they want to give the
new administration a clear field, and not to
Interfere Will ouu OCSou'0 wv
treaties are in favor of the manufacturers
and not the farmers. The resolution for
debating the Spanish treaty in open session
of the Senate, will, it is reported, be advo-
Gated by the friends of the administration.
1t is learned that the new Nicaraguan trea-
ty, providing for an inter oceanic canal,
gives great popular offense in France, for
The reason that should the proposed canal
be built it will depreciate the value of the
stock of the Panama canal. which was
popular loan in that country, and that prob
ABLY France may on that account protes;
against the confirmation Of the treaty.
A democratic member of the Senate when
asked by the GAZETTE's correspondent this
morning if Mr.. Riddleberger had any back
ing in his opposition to the confirmation Of
the nomination of Mr.. McCulloch tor the
position of Secretary of the Treasury, said
he had not heard that matter discussed, but
that he did not suppose he had !; that Rid
dleberger didn't seem to have any influence
in other matters, aud that be thought be WAS
making fool of himself, which any member,
under the rules, had right to do. He said
he thought Riddlebergers vote would be
the only one against the confirmation, but
that it was none of their, the democrats !,
fight, and he had really paid very little at
tention to it.
The Springer committee resumed lis ses
sions this morning. They had before them
as witness Barker, the Treasury clerk,
who testified under oath to the same charges
he had previously made to the committee.
which are that the accounts Of officers In
the Department OF Justice were fraudulent,
and that though Comptroller Lawrence Of
the Treasury knew them to be so, because
he, Barker, had told him, he yet ordered
them to be- paid.
Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, upon be
ing shown the report of an interview with
Mr.. Bayard in newspaper this morning
in which the Delaware Senator said the
Southern policy of the Cleveland admins
tration would be in the line of that adj.
vocated by such men as Hampton, of South
Carolina, and Colquit and Gordon, of Geor
gia, quietly remarked that there were other
men in the South whose views and opinions,
he thought, were as deserving OF as much
of President Cleveland's consideration as
those of the gentlemen named.
At the national conference Of health
boards this morning delegates made reports
of the sanitary condition of their
respective cities Mr.. Brooks said New
York and Brook Ign were prepared to prevent
the introduction Of cholera. Some of the
delegates took strong ground against the
use of we'll and cistern waters in cities. DR..
Germer of Erie, did not believe in disin-
fectants, saying you might just as well
have prayer meeting against grasshoppers
DR.. J. G. Campbell, of Richmond, Va, said
that the death rate among the colored popu-
lation was SO large as to excite the pity and
commiseration of q whole community. He
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but to poverty. The negroes, be said, con-
sderng the circumstances in which they
became freemen, had done rema knbly we'll
and be was satisfied that in future the NOR
tally among them would be less. DR..
Reeves representing the West Virginia
State board, advocated the appointment of
women as house to house inspectors, as
they were very appreciatve and would find
great many defects that men overlooked.
Dr. Carson reported that be had gone to the
scene of the late reported scourge in Eir-
GINA and Kentucky, that that disease was
epidemce dysentery caused by malaria; that
the fatal cases occurred because those who
were attacked did not believe in doctors;
that the death rate was low, and that the
people there were agrieved at The exagger-
ated reports.
The full text of the Spanish treaty togeth-
',r with the Presidents message oftransmit-
al is published in the Congressional Record
issued to-day.
Among the strangers in the city to-day
are Mr.. Hurt, president pro tenn. of the
Virginia Senate, and Mr.. ]. Bell Bigger,
who brought and delivered to Mr.. Ed
munds, president pro tenn. of the U. s. Sen
ate, the official returns Of the electoral vote
of Virginia.
On the desk of every democratic mem
Der of the House from Michigan was placed
this morning life-size rooster. The one
on the desk of Mr.. Eidrige had a card at
tached to it with this inscription This
cock never picks fight, but he's terror
when he goes in"
The democratic members of the House
from Virginia will hold conference to
night to determine what course they shall
adopt with reference to the Massey Wise
contested election case.
The pension bill, providing for an appro-
priation of sixty million, was reported in the