Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-06-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
special Correspondents of the Ae1s. GAZETTE
n n Tnno 1900

r .ras,al Correspondence of the Aexs. GAzErrs1
WASHING TON. D. O., June %. 1890.
An old Vireinian here to-day says be had
n 90 to the peyy department on business last
Saturday but has felt bad ever since, and
6oesn,t ibiok he will 60 there again. Inc
cause of his bad feeling, be says, was the
SIGHT of white men at work there With
IRONS aud q ,or brushes, while negroes
there were sitting ia chairs reading neWeps-
ners. When Informed that Similar sight
svas familiar s. all the other government DE-
nsrtmepts here, be said he believed BE would
90 back home and spend the few remaining
Gears of his life on that siGe OF the Potomac,
where his eyes, now growing dim, would
not be go offended.
The emphatic opposition of Mr.. Blaine to
the tariff bill as agreed upon by the Senate
finance committee has knocked the tariff
men all to pieces, nor do they know exactly
how to pet together again. 1t Ia positively
asserted on tha Senate side of the Capitol
that the Hale amendment to the tariff bill,
pscyiding for free trade with the sugar pre-
ducug countries south of the United States,
will be adopted. Its fate In the House,
however, is what as yet has not been pre-
dicted.
The prevailing impression among repue-
lican senator's and representatives on the
subject is that Mr.. @ lay will run the re-
publican convention of his State, and. what's
more, that it will be known In tbs conVen-
ton that the President is Cd his side.
A caucus OF the democratic members OF
the House has been ordered for tc-night,but
whether it sill be held or not is unknown.
All the democratic members of the body will
vote against the federal election bill witt
d. hxJo
The meeting of the southern republican
members Of the House that was TO have
been held last Saturday has not yet met,
and Mr.. Houk, who is considered the hesd
and front OF them, told the GAZETTE's cor
respondent to-day that no time had been set
for it, The otjact of those at whose iG-
stance 1t was called was to try to have the
election and the tariff bill amended, hut
their northern allies pay little or no atter-
ton to their wants. knowing full we'll that
none OF them will dare to vote against tbs
party on either of those measures.
The report of the House committee on
war claims on the Norfolk county ferry bill
recommends that S42,0 600 be paid the propri-
etors of that ferry, as that amount was CO.
lected by those who ran 1t for the govern
mant during the war.
1t Ia rumored among the New York DEM
ocrats here today that the democratic con-
| pressmen from New York who voted with
| tho republicans on the silver bill in the
| House will 90 disciplined by their constitr-
enis.
The Senate committee on territories has
| determined to report bill providing for
new religious test oath In Utah.
The report Of the House military commit
tee On the bill TO make roadway to the
| federal cemetery at Winchester, Virginia,
says 4S1 U..ion soldiers are Inferred there,
| and recon amends the purchase of plat OF
ground adjacent and that road be built
on the rncst direct line to it, and that Sc, 0OO
be appropriated for both those purposes.
Though The House committee on rn'es
has not rs yet definitely fixed upon the time
for taking up the federal election bill, the
general expection is that that bill will be
called up t, morrow and be kept on the
boards until completed, and that not many
days will be allowed for that purpose. 1t is
generally believed that every republican
member of the House, certainly every one
from Virginia. will vote for it.
Mr.. Conger. chairman of the House com.
mittee on coinage to which the silver Dill
has been referred, says his committee Will
meet on Thursday or Friday next to consid
er thas Dill ana tnaC tney VIII ihahe theih AZ
port next weak. He says the report they
will make will certainly be againet free coin-
age and will be no more favorable In the Sill
yerites than the Window bill.
Congressman Lestsr, of tho Danvile Virginia
district, who is q minister in the Primitive Bap-
fist church, presc ed at Manassas yesterday. On
his way back here this morning he met on tho
train Mr.. Vim. Robert Loo, of Orange, who told
him he and Miss Mamie Robertson, also of Orange,
were bonnd to Washington to be married, and
asked him il no wculd perform the marriaee care
mony. Ho very che arfully consented, and when
the /, ain arrived here tho three started at once
for the City Hail. where the license WAS procured,
and the two young pcop.e made ono in short
order.
The first estimate of the reputation OF the Dis
trict of Coumbis is 22S, 100 Tho population In
1850 was III GA.