Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-28

WASHINGTON. D. c., May IS, 1886.
Senator Spooner, the member of the con-
farence committee to which the bill for
frae bridge across the Potomac has been re-
ferred who asked at the meeting of that
committee Yesterday for time to consider
that bill before he agreed to it as the other
five did. said to-day that while he was con-
yinced that the proper site of the bridge was
from the foot Of New York avenue to Ar
lippton, vet as that change was not In the
province of the conference committee, ne
had nothing else to do except to sign the
report. The bill will therefore be reported
favorably as amended by the House. II the
terms of the bill be not accepted within six
months by the Alexandria Canal Co., by the
same bill the bridge will be built at the
"Three Sisters" where no body wants 1t
except few people who own property in
GEORGETOWN, the value of which will DO in
creased by the destruction of the aqueduct
bridge. The President of the Alexandria
Canal Co., it is understood, says that COM
PAW will not accept the terms of the bill as
agreed upon by the conference committee,
and as the majority of the stock is held by
Alexandria, the State of Virginia, and the
Bennett heirs, who have always hitherto
voted together, the aqueduct Will not DO
destroyed yet awhile ct least.
r. W. Jones and w. B. NcNeal, who
were 80 badly hurt in the wreck at -Four
Mile Run, in February, 1885, were in the
accident on the Virginia Midland road near
Stony Point, and were slightly injured.
Some few of the strikers here have gone
to work on the employers terms, and large
numbers of them have been compelled 10
Quit the city and 60 elsewhere to seek en-
plovment. The strike here has been as dis
astrous to the strikers as any one that has
been ordered this spring; and then, too, 1t
was ordered without the slightest reason.
The Senate to-day was occupied with the
consideration of bills for forfeiting certain
lands granted to the Northern Pacific Rail-
road.
The demand for the flour made at the
mills of w. II. Tenney & Sons, at George.
town, has increased 80 much since those
mills have been boycotted that in order to
supply it the capacity of the mills has been
enlarged by the addition of new machinery;
and even yet there is never surplus bar
REL .
Tho consideration of the olcomargarine bill was
resumed in the House to-day. its opponents re-
sorting to flibustering tactics to retard and him
der its passagef Of which they arc sure wheneVer
u
Mr.. Holman to antagonize it with appropria-
ton bill to-day, but he found that the majority of
tho appropriations committee would not support
him in such movement, go he abandoned it. DIR.
Hatch, who has the bill in charge has given its
opponents to understand that no other bills shall
be considered until it shall have beon disposed Of
and they know that he has support enough to
enforce what he says. Mcssrs. Cabell, Tucker,
Wise Daniel and Brady, of the Virginia delcga-
ton, have already spoken against the bill, and
hr. Daniel will speak against it again to-day.
At the meeting Of the House Education Com.
mittee this morning Mr.. Miller, of Toxas. offered
as substitute for the Blair bill bill ap-
propriating the same amount of money as that
| bill, but putting tho money under tho sole con-
troll Of the respective States to which 1t shall be
given.
The House Appropriations Committee this
morning agreed to report adversely upon evory
increase made by tho Senate to the appropriations
in the District Of Columbia bill.
Tho Senate District of Columbia Committee at
their meeting today agreed to report favorably
upon tho bill to confne the confirmed inebriates OF
the District Of Columbis in the government in
BIO enforced the accommodations at st. Elizabeth
will have to be enlarged considerably. Tho COM
mittee also agreed to report in favor Of increasing
the tax on real estate agents from $25 to S5O.and
to abolish tho tax on their commissions
The House Committee on tho Pan Electric
intended to rebut that of Wilbur, which was to
the effect that the Bell patent was fraudulent. 1t
is understood that the committee will make three
reports, and also that the republican members OF
the Judiciary Committee of the Senate will
withhold their report in the case Of the
nomination of Mr.. Goode to be Solicitor
General until they shall have read tho
one of these reports that will be signed by MIR.
Ranney, the republican member of the committee
who is accused Of being Bells agent.
In the House yesterday Mr. Snyder from tho
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds re.
tion Of public building at Staunton Va.
The House Judiciary Committee has reported in
favor of removing the political disabilities of
Francis Sorrell and Eugene Mclean, Of Virginia.