Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
spscia, Correspondence OF tho Alsxs. aAzH1.rs]
WASHINGTON, D. O., May 2, lSsO.

The House military committee at their
meeting this morning consloereu Ine ~
Vernon Avenue bill. Mr.. Williams OF ONO,
onnosed the bill 10 speech in which ne
nronouuced it real estate scheme. Ibis
statement was denied by General Lac, WHO
was present. Mr.. Carey of Wyoming also
openly opposed the bill. All the democratic
members of the committee were IN favor OF
the bill, and ell the republican members
either opposed &c it or go little ID favor
of it that their support was inefficient. Ine
result was that i5 was referred TO suS-
committee with Instructions to report bill
for road from the south end of the 4que
duct Bridge TO the east gete of Arliu2tou.
General Wbeeer. of Alabama, and General
Splnola, of New York, both suggested that
the bill to be reported should endorse tns
idea of the further extension OF the road TO
Mount Vernon. Tie subcommittee to WHICH
the bill has been referred Is composed Of
Messrs. Williams, Kineey and Carey, reput-
licans, and Robinson and Lanhan, deIac-
crate, the three former, open opponents OF
the bill, and one of the latter, Mr.. L2nham,
by no means al ardent advocate of it.
Mr.. Cleveland is still here, but expects TO
leave this evening for New York. he was
at the Office of the marshal of the 5. st
preme Court in the Capitol to day, oat old
not cirque the case in which he is counsel,
because another case On the ca!endsr Con
sumed tbs whole 6ay. While here several
of the leading democrats in Congress called
upon him and told him the iniqnities nod
iniustices of the new tariff bill would be eX-
posed in the debate that would DO mate
upon that bill, and that the democrats in
the next congressional campaign would light
On the Mills bill and Oh his, Cle7elard'a.
tariff plank. He sggeed with them, ana
when some of them expressed Inc hope that
ae would sgain De ct the head OF the goe-
eminent, he replied that stranger things had
happened.
With the sposi st which the republicans
IN the House arc now rushing imporisnt
bills through that body, there is ssaeon
why there should not % an eaily aol lurL-
ment Of Congress. a pension bill involving
an annual expenditure of over $50 COO 600
was rushed through last Wednesday after Il
few hours dsbate, and yesterday they pass
ed the trust bill, and tC-iay the copyright
bill, in hardly time enough to have the pre-
visions of those bills explsined. Mr. Wi
sou, of West Virginia, had prepared &
spsech Oh the trust bill, but it was called
up aud passed SO rapidly that he had not
time to sens TO bile room for his netes, sud
tistics 10 sustain him.
tits openly asserted here, and thst, too,
by Nav Orleans republicans, that Mr.. Rus
sci Harrison, the Presidents son, s in the
! employ of the Louisiana Lottery Company.
Representative Davidson of Florida says
his private Information ffom his State ia to
the fact that the recent letters OF The Pres
ident aud the Attorney General relating to
that State have produced respondent acd
uncertain feeling throughout lis borders, are
calcu atsd 10 90 mach harm, and can by
no possibility do any good. He olso saSs
there are two or three republican residents Of
Pensacola. certainly as reputable as the
man who VAS appointed who were appsl-
cants for the office Of collector OF the port OF
that city, and that the fact that the ex-mar-
sbaI, against whom there we're charges who
Ia an ex-Cnnfeierate, and who lived thrae
hundred miles from there, was appointed,
is. he is informed, by no means satisfactory
to the republican element Of thst city.
Yesterday was sorry day for the Virgin
iaps on the race tracks here. at Ivy City
Mr.. James Maddox rode his own horse,
Neptune, which fell at thu last hurdle ard
therefore lost. Mognl, MIR. Dulany's horse
also lost. In the trotting race at BsnDing's
Judge Spiiman's horse Friday sleo lost
The VirgiDians present OF course backed the
horses from their own Siate and ere c8nsc-
qnenlly very sorry they went there.
Senator Vest introduced bill in the Ser
ate lay to amend the interstate COM
merce law by providing that all express
companies shall bs placed under the proVi5-
ions OF that law.
Among the resolutions introduced in the
Senate to- lay was one directing the Secre
tary of War to make tbs engineer Of the
District of Columhis report whether iron
pipes of large STA can BOT be substituted
for the abandoned squeGuct by @hich this
citv WAS to be supplie1 With waller.
Prominent New Workers., now here, ere
asking why it is that tbs comptroller and
second auditor Of the Treasury have made
20 Investigation. or ut least msde no report
of one. of the $500 600 shortage in netionel
bank at Auburn, NV York, some OF the
parties Interested in which hsEk hold pom
ineDt positions in the republican organiz
tions OF New York.
Letter From Mrs Jefferson Davis.