Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-27
uld be prevented, would be by the election

could be prevented. would be by the election
of democratic President and democratic
msjorities In both branches of Congress. as
1t carried with ii the requisite appropriation.
1t lie understood that a. the earliest oppor-
tunity, representative Laugston, the negro
congressman from the Petersburg, Virginia,
district, will make speech In thu House 10
which he will take the ground shat tue
existing laws on the statute books are
amply sufficient 10 secure feoe
ballot and fair count al over
the country. South as veil IS Nor'h, if
they were efficiently executed, emo VIII raise
the question whether the administration
should or should not be held re- possible Tor
suoh unfair elections 80 may hsva teeo
held du'ipg is incumbsnc:.
The oat bill about which there Ies 60
much talS at the Capt oil yes e.dAy aud con-
cerniug which seso ution Uas iptra9uceG
in the Fl uss, turns on to hcye neVsf b 30
lost St AL. L vas found bis morning Ia
the Gle KS office of the House and is chhrge
of the proper custodian.
The folio sios is the oniy change toat was
mede to-lav In the 4 clrse pss tfiarH 10
Virginia: Boxcm, aceomeck cnuo'3, X
W Hnulers appointed pos N istes Gioe A. w.
short, removed.
Col Edward Dsnela, Of Fsitfsx ceuniy,
Va, had EN- interview with OongfesamaG
Crisp CT Georgia today on the snhjaos ofibe
financial distresses 10 which the farmers ars
nov subjected by the failure o; Congress 10
legislste for their b.Deis. BE Gays ne is IN
favor of the Stanford bill to lend COVERT
ment money at low rate OF intsrssc on
auded property, end Is grsiified to know
hat Senator Stanford bss adopted bis,
Daniels. long entertained and expressed
Ideas on that sutj.ct. he says lands In his
neIghborhood are mortgaged FOR more than
they will now bring under the ban usr, so0
have deprecated 10 their ve!ue at laess enc
half during the las. two years, and that the
scarcity of money Ia depressing all iDdns-
tries and business ct Virginia.
Secretary Proctor's sleigh vas wrecked
this morninS. His wife and daughter were
usng 1t for shopping purposes. They we're
10 store Cd Penney lvania avenue when the
TWO horses attached to Ii took flight and
dashed off, and bad gone only short die
lance when the sleigh wss overturned and
the driver, coiored maa named JooDsoc,
as thrown out and badly injured. Ihe
horses were ceptured befJre dong further
damage. The accident was the foundation
for sensational rumor that tbo Secretary
and bis family hHd been thrown out Of G
sleigh and all badly injured.
The feeling today among the few democrats
present in the Senate, on the subject OF the Force
bill, was decidedly nearer akin to anxiety, ii not
fear, than hope One Of them, and knowing one
too, told the GAzETTE's correspondent that the
republicans would r.ainy pass it if they could,
and that the democrats you'd just as certainly
resort to every svaiIatle mems By which its pas
sage could possibly bo prevented, bnt that at pres.
emit he thought there was great danger that 1t
would be passed.
The sleigh owners and sleigh hirers have made
the most OF the present snow. List night until
late hour and all this morning Pennsylvania sv-
enue dirty and slusby as it hiss beon, wss crowd
ed with ,leighs and resonant with sleigh bells,
and this evening more were out than ever before
seen at one time on that thoroughfare.