Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-23
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| lima received mere lO-Gay are 10 tne Ell
feet that the farmers alliance in North
Carolina have determined to run
ticket oftheir own in everycongressional
district of that State next November,
that the question of their running
Presidential electoral ticket will be de-
termined by the action of the Minneap--
oils and the Chicago conventions. and
that they threaten to lun gute. nato-
ria! ticket if Mr.. Carr, the nominee OF
the recent democratic convention, shall
not lean more toward them than he
does now. Also that Mr.. Skinner, q
defeated candidate fer the democratic
nomination for Attorney General at the
recent democratic convention, has joined
them and been appointed q delegate to
their next national convention.
\ Canadian commission is expected
here in a short time to negotiate Tor the
removal OF the restrictions on Amcri-
can vessels going through the Wciland
canal. As the Canadian: government
had not fulfilled its promises in regard
to this matter the President thought ne
would send a message to Congress
about it. The Canadians being Inform
ed of this intention By OIr. Blaine have
tclegraphed him that a commission will
soon be here.
The President to-day withdrew the
nomination of Frederick Bancroft as U.
S. consul at Brunswick, Germany.
The resolution introduced in the SEN
ate to-day by Mr.. Vest to discharge
the finance committee from the consid-
Grafton of the free wool bill, was for
the purpose of bringing that bill before
the Senate. The House ways and
means committee has abandoned the bill
to remove the duty On refined sugar,
but will report bills to remove the du
ties OH iron, tin plate and some other
articles. When these bills shall reach
the Senate finance committee, they and
the wool bill will be reported adverse
", and that report will be prepared as
republican campaign document, with
the object of making it appear that if
the democrats succeed next November,
their chief object, after getting posses
sion of the Offices, will be 10 destroy the
industrial industries of the country
A democratic Senator from one ofthe
Gulf States, in talking to-day about the
apparent strength of Mr. Cleveland in
the South, said he could not understand
| it to save his life, and that it seemed to
him to be craze, in view of the fact
that if nominated the inevitable result
would be defeat and the passage Of the
Force bill Ifnot craze, said he, it
was the result of Wall street money,
and he knew from whom that came,
and that Wall street would be satisfied
with either Cleveland or Harrison, and
if both were nominated, would not have
to put up another cent mt the election,
ms either would be satisfactory. Some
northern democrats, in talking about
the same thing, said if Mr.. Cleveland be
nominated by the votes of the South,
they would not cry if the Force bill
were passed.
Secretary Blaine went to New York
this afternoon, nominally to see his
grandson, but really, every body else
says, to have a consultation with
Messrs Pratt, Clarkson and other prom
inent republicans, who tell him all he
has to do to be President is to press the
button, us they will do the rest The
Harrison men here are furious with him
and say he cannot accept the nomina-
ton with honor But his friends say lie
is not seeking the nomination; it is
seeking him, and they tell him that if
he must die, as the Harrison men say,
he had rs we'll die in the White House
as in his own house The general i'm
preston at the Capitol to-day is that
Mr.. Blaine will be nominated and that
he will accept.
An adverse report was made to-day
by the Senate postoflice committee on
the bill to prevent transmission through
the mails of publications containing
principally police court reports and de-
voted chiefly to printing criminal news
and lewd pictures.
A New Yorker here to-day, who is
in touch with all the leading democrats
of his State, in talking about a statement
in republican paper to the effect that
Senator Hill would get out of the way
for MI Cleveland, said neither Hill nor
Cleveland would get out Of the way for
the other, but that if either should be
withdrawn by his friends, it would be
the latter.
The President to-day appointed Adj
miral Stephen B. Luce, Prof c. Brown
Goodc, and Prof. James c. yelling, to
represent the u s. at the Columbian
Historical Exposition to be held in
Madrid in 1892 III commemoration of
the 40Gth anniversary of the discovery
of America.
Mr.. Mills, who when member OF
the House was by no means noted for
the nice clothes he wore, sometimes ap-
pcaring in well worn gray, took his seat
in the Senate to-day wearing span new
suit of blue. of the most stylish cut, and
apparently with velvet collar.
A bill intended to abolish post trader
ships in the army was favorably re-
ported to the Senate to-day from the
military affairs committee by Senator
Proctor.
Two distinguished ex-Senators of
ante-bellum times were in the Senate
chamber to-day. One ofthem was Mr.
Clingman of North Carolina, and the
other was Mr.. Jones OF Iowa, the same
for whom the Senate last week, and
the House to-day passed pension bill
for services in the war OF 1874 and the
Black Hawk war Mr. Jones chatted
for some time with Mr. Sherman and
Mr.. Palmer, and afterwards occupied
Mr.. Hills scat, where he busted himself
in writing Dir. Clingman's CONVERSE
ton was principally with Mr.. Stanford