Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-17
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CORRESPONDENCE Of the Alexandra Gazctt
WASHINGTON. June II.

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in anythine else than good plight. They
E III say their favorite will be nominated
ut Chicago, but they do not say so IN a
tone that indicates the confidence that
inspired them last week. The impress
sion is that the staid and sober-sided
leaders of the party have already met,
deliberatcd, and come to the conclusion
that the exigences of the case do not
warrant experiments. and that q man
must be nominated who has at
least a reasonable chance of carrying
New York. The eX-Presidcnt has as
many admirers rs ever, but neither adj
miration nor favoritisln is a legitimate
factor in the problem to be decided.
Cold. naked facts arc what must be con
sidered. and they, the wiser men OF the
party say. demand the nomination of a
man against whom the democracy ofthc
Empire State has not declared, The
impression here to-day is that MIR.
Cleveland cannot possibly receive the
requisite number OF votes to secure his
nomination. One of the working
southern democratic Senators, who left
this evening for Chicago, said to tie
GAzETrE's correspondent that while he
was not a betting man, he would be dis
posed to accept Il bet on Cleveland's
nomination if odds were offered him.
There was 70 session OF the Senate
to-day, that body, as stated in yester-
DAYS GAZETTE. having adjourned over
on that day until Monday. In the
House the conference report on the
river and harbor bill was received from
the Senate. disagreed to, and returned
TO that body. The friends of the Sib-
lev bill made another attempt to pass
that bill. but again. rs on numerous
previous Fridays, were defeated,
Messrs. Burrows, Atkinson, Hooker
| and other northern republicans oppos-
inc them successfully. Mr.. Meredith in
troduced . bill to pay the claim of ii.
". Throckmorton Of Fairfax county,
1919, for supplies taken from him dur
inc the war by the federal army.
General Wheeler, when asked by the
GAzErrE's corrcspondcntto-day when
the House military committee would
act upon the Mt. Vernon Avenue bill
said that rs soon rs Il quorum of the
committee could be assembled he would
ask that a report upon the bill be made
at once.
Some of the North Carolina delegates
to the Chicago convention are here TO
day. They say their delegation is solid
ly nti-Clcveland.
Workmen are busily engaged to-day
in putting the Richmond and Danville
building, corner Of Pennsylvania avenue
and 18th street, in order for the general
office OF that company, to be re-estah-
lislcd here on Monday next.
The directors of the Washington and
Arlington Railroad Company. against
whom charges have been preferred III
the Senate. will present their rebuttine
| statement to the Senate on the 20tE
inst, on which day a statement pre-
pared by the stockholders in the com
pany, to about the same effect, will also
he presented.
Congressman Jones of the lst Nir-
gina district and the two delegates
from that district 10 the national demo,
cratic convention. Messrs. Smith ant
Fletcher, left here this evening for Chi
cago.
A member of the House being asked
to-day if he thought the bill TO permit
the Norfolk and Western Railroad tC
enter this city by a bridge at George.
town would be passed =? said moi al TIN:
session, and that as he understood tho
/ Long Bridge was TO be rebuilt upon an
enlarged and improved plan, he did moi
see why all the railroads coming from
the South should not cross it, as they
all will have a right to do, and thereby
facilitate the establishment of a union
depot here.
The House interstate commerce com
mittee to-day agreed to report a bill
compelling all the railroad companies
in the country TO use automatic car
couplers, the particular patent to bt
used to be the one which shall receive
the vote Of 70 per cent. of the roads.
The Department of State was thi;
morning advised by cable from the
United States legation at Caracas of the
resignation of the President of Venezu.
Ella. The situation remains quiet, little
or no excitement prevailing. The ex'
ecutivc authority of the State has beer
assumed by the Federal Council, unit
such time as Congress can be convened
for the purpose of electing a successor
to the Presidency. 1t is expected that
| the Congress will meet for that pur-
pose almost Immediately.
Commander +. K. Smith, I. S. n,
was retired on half pay to-day by order
of the President, and Rear Admiral
Benham ordered to the command of
the South Atlantic squadron.
The House committee on the Chicago
fair to-day agreed to report a bill Civ
ing that fair S5,000,00 0 in silver half
dollars. coined out of the uncurrent sub
sidiary silver coin now in the Treasury;
also to give the fair $103, 900 in addition
for medals and diplomas; also S4l7,5W
in addition TO pay the salaries of the
| officers of the fair.
Nearly all the hacks, tallyhoes and
coaches in the city were engaged to-day
in carrying the members ofthe National
Plumbers Association, now in session
here, to the wharf, where they took the
steamer River Queen for Mount Yer
non.