Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-01-19

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formality and dignity Of the body
MIR Morrill,, chairman of the Senate III
nance Committee, told the GAz ETrE's cor
respondent 10 day that that committee, TO
which The bill to refund the money collect
ed under the direct land tax bill was refer
red, had not as yet considered the letter
they had received on the subject from the
Treasury Department.
Mr.. Randall says that if the House Ways
and Means Committee shall indicate no in
ten,ion Of doing anything with the various
hi Is thst nave been referred to it for re-
duc.ion in the internal revenue tax, his com
mittee. the Appropriations, will report fav.
orably Mr.. Cowles's bill now before it, ana
that he thinks It will pnss. Tariff reform
democrats in the House,to the contrsry,s say
that Mr.. Cowles's bill wi / never go through,
If it shall antap onize the wishes of the dem
ocratic members of the Ways and Means
Committee, They also say that the bill re-
fe.red to is Mr.. Cowles's hobby and that ne
sent large numbers Of copies of his speech in
favor of it to other democratic members OF
thu House for for distribution among their
constituents, but that they refused to use
them.
The Senate com nttee on Territories will
rot consider the omnibus bill that passed
the House yesterday for the adm sslon oil
| certain Territories as States into the Union.
It. is in favor fthe Senate bill to admit south
Dakota at once, and the other Territories by
separa.e bills, and il that cannot he done,
will Law the whole business over until the
next Congress.
The true inwardness of the facts connec-
ed with the recent interview of the Malone
"statesmen" of Virginia with Gen. Harrison
is gradually coming to view by leakage from
conversations with those supposed secretive
individuals. 1t is said that some of the
more prudent OF the party counseled ex.Col-
Iector Craig, Mahone's Cicero, not to refer,
| in his spe CD, to Mahone's opponents in
abusive terms, but, like Sary Camp, TO
"draw it mild" but that he, either discard
ing the advice, or his ruling passion over
riding the dictates of caution, launched out
into tempsstuous TRACE against everybody
aud everything not stamped with Malone
Idle. and in adverting to them said that
their stock in trade consisted only Of an IAN
sathemen against his sainted political chief
At this stage of his oratory Gen. Harrison
ilnshed up, and Indignantly hurled nr
s"anathemen at Mr. Craig by declaring in Ian
scuage more forcible than otherwise that he
would not permit true republicans of Vir
GINA who bad supported him to be malign
ed in his presence This Interruption caused
q cessation of speech making and brought
the interview to sudden close. 1t is also
said that Mr.. Craig's speech was severely
criticised by others of the party who thought
he had set his plough too deep.
Mr.. Blaine and Vice President elect Nor
ton are sojourning at the Same hotel here
and are on the most intimate terms. The
former is in the best possible epirits, and &C
cepts as many of the numberlese social inv
tations he receives as it is possible for bin
to do 1t is generally conceded that hi;
calling and election TO the cabinet are SURE
even Mr. Quay now saying he can't SEE
how it can he otherwise than that Mr.
Blaine shall receive the premiership. In al
the cabinet talk here INDUCED in by promi
nent republicans the name of Gen. Mahons
is never mentioned.
The House committee on Foreign Affairs ha;
agreed unanimously to report favorably Senator
Edmunds resolu ion warning foreign govern
ments against lending any assistanceto the wcrf
of completing the Panama canal.
The House to day took mp the fertilization bill
The reminder of he day will be devoted 10 eulo
gies upon the late W. Robertson of Louisiana
to III the vacancy caused by whose death his son
s. NJ Robertson, was elected.
The Committee on Territories to-day heard
Gov West, Of Utah. argue against the admission
of that Territory into the Union rs n Stale Tn,
ground he took was that tho people Gf tho Terri
tory were church ridden, and that if their elder
told them to s.crfce their child ren, they woudo'
| hesitate To do So