Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the AlcXandria Gazette.I
WASHINGTON, July ~.

w ASHlNOlONs DhA
Senator Colquitt of Georgia was one
of the numerous victims OF the heat VINO
were overcome yesterday. Ih!s morn
ING he was reported to he slightly better,
bnf he is still too weak TO arise from his
bed.
Ifthere is any change in the situation
in the House to-day i'll regard to tne
sundrv civil appropriation bill and the
Chicago fair appropriation, there was no
sion of it when the House met: nor up
to to- two o'clock. Every body looked
weary and oppressed with the intense
heat bnt there was no indication OF a
disposition to yield on either side. Inns ms
is the third day of the iillbus'er, anu anu
there are some members VINO preuiG.
tLat it NAV equal fnot exceed III iensln
the celebrated Oates iilibustcr against
the direct tax bill, which lasted ior TWO
weeks and day. Gu,
1t is currently reported at the Capi'oi
to-day that President Harrison We
toed the bill to refer the McGarrah;'il
claim TO the court of land claims, at the
request of Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, the SON
in law of Mr.. d. o. Mills, one ofthe New
Idria Company, which company Is, and
has been. the possessor OF McGarrahan' S
nroperty for the last thirty years.
The friends Of the Washington and
Arlington roilroad said to-day that late
as it is in the session, the bill TO amend
the charter of that road so rs TO allow
the road TO cross the Potomac by a
ferry boat at Analoslan Island would
become law before the adjournment
ofCongress.
Ii is said AT the Postotlice Depart
ment to-day that the recommendation
in the case of the postmaster ut Staun-
ton will probably be sent from there to
the White House tomorrow and that
Major Yost will probably be endorsed
by the department. Later i'll the day
Mr.. Yost's nomination was sent to the
Senate.
Private kilograms received here TO-
day from Georgia are 10 the effect that
Mr.. Livington, the present democratic
farmers alliance Congressman from the
Atlanta district, will not be renominated
by the democratic convention OF that
district. but that the nominee will prob
ably be Mr.. Hillyer. an able and I'M
fiinching democrat.
Intelligence from North Carolina
here to-day is 10 the effect that there Is
more talk than strength in the third
party movement there, and that the
white men of that State, having re-
allied the fact that the only effect
the movement referred to could have
would be to help the republicans, and
the Force bill the latter will pass II
they have the power, have wisely de-
terlnined to vote the same ticket they
have always been voting.
In his speech in the Senate to-day
Mr.. Stewart, republican as he is, eX-
pressed his surprise that certain Sena-
tors should pretend that the effect oil
high tariff is to lower prices.
People from Tennessee here to-day
saw that General Weaver, who com
manded portion of the federal troops
in their State during the war, issued an
order on orc occasion compelling GER
tain people of q town he was occupying
to give him ten thousand dollars ioE
the alleged support of contrabands, OF
else be sent further south and have al!
their property confiscated.
J. NJ. I.angston, the negro cx-congrcssmar
from Virginia, was mt the Capitol to-day. He
says he will be the republican nominee iol
Congress in the Petersburg district, that tht
lcnnbl:cn leaders in the State will all bt
united and work in accord for the reelection
of Mr. Harrison, and that the third party Is
already strong in Virginia ard is being
strengthened daily, almost entirely By re-
cruits from the democrats. lie says the re-
puhlicans will carry Virginia next fall