Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Dec. 81.

FRUM VI hNIllSE HUN.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazctte.l
WASHINGTON. Dec. 81.
The initials of the name OF Governor
Mckinney OF Virginia are 2. w, but as
appended to an official advertisement
in daily newspaper in this city they
are II. NJ. And such is fame.
EX-Statc Senator Gee, OF Virginia,
has, it is reported, resigned his place as
U. s. land agent, and gone to Idaho to
live.
Mr.. Speaker Crisp will go to New
York this evening, and while there
VIII cali upon President-elect Cleveland
and have some talk with him about the
proposition now before Congress for the
repeal of the Sherman bill, under which
tae government is compelled TO pur-
c lase four million five hundred ounces
silver bullion every month, III the
q ioption OF which Mr. Cleveland is
v.ly much interested. There is no
truth in the rumor that Mir. Crisp has
any doubt concerning his reelection TO
the Speakership, as of that he is as
sured
The Treasury Department is doing
all II can TO maintain its required sup
ply of gold. Immense drafts upon it 10
meet foreign demands were made last
week. SO far this week it has called
in a million and q half from New Or
leans and million from Philadelphia.
Should there be q panic and a general
demand for the payment ofgold securi-
ties be made, the Treasury would be un-
able 10 meet IT,
Monte Carlo. the south end of TIE
Long Bridge, mas done and is doing
lively business This holiday season. The
Alexandria trains leave here crowded,
but after they pass Che place referred to
most of the seats in them arc vacant.
50 much fuss has been raised by Mr..
Harrison's recent appointment Of two
rauk republicans TO Office in this city,
on the eve of his retirement, that he Is
now talking about appointing demo
crat to the place made vacant by the
promotion OF Que of the appontees re-
ierred to.
AT noon to-day Mr.. Blaine was
reported as having passed a comtorta-
bic night, aud as considerably im-
proved in his condition.
The U. :. steamship Atlanta has
been detailed to carry a. 5. Durham,
the negro L. S. minister 10 Hayti, who
came here TO work for MI. Harrison,
back to Port au Prince.
The following placard, printed in
large letters on pink-colored paste
board. is tackled Oil the front and back
doors OF the White House to-day ITO
remove this placard without permission
is unlawful. Scarlet fever within.
There is no change in the condition OF
little Martena Harrison, the Presidents
granddaughter, who has the disease re-
ferred to-
1t is not at all likely that any final
and absolute determination with refer
euce to the extra session will be reach
ed for some time or ut least until the
Cabinet slate is made up. As is well
known, Speaker Crisp is inclined to
favor an extra session soon after the
4th OF March for purposes of organiza-
lion, while President-elect Cleveland
favors an extra session in the autumn,
but is not altogether averse to an earl
lei special session if there were assur-
auces that its life would be short and
its field OF activity restricted.
M. II. L. Biscoe, whose name is sec
ond on the list of the committee APP
pointed TO make arrangements and take
charge OF the ceremonies attendant
upon the inauguration of President
elect Cleveland, is the president OF the
Virginia democratic association OF this
city. lie is from Richmond county,
Virginia, and is i true-blue, square-toed
democrat, who believes that political
plrty to be successful must be managed
b politicians.
There are several bills before Con-
gress OF es! 'ial int est to Virginia,
among them some for roads to national
smeteries, for the completion OF the
Mary Washington monument at Fred
ericksburg, for monument to General
Morgan at Washington, for the relief Of
William and Mary College, for the pur-
chase of the Jefferson manuscripts, for
Il postoilice building at Old Point, many
for war claims, the old bills for 1912 and
for the erection of the public buildings
in this city and some others, but it is
hardly possible that any of them will
be passed at this session.
It is stated here that there is 8 literary ring
in the State Department which holds control
of all the valuable historical documents pnr-
chased by the United States at public expense
aud refuses access to them except to Is few New
England writer's. and that recently promi-
nent Western writer made numerous efforts TO
obtain copies OF some of these documents hut
vas repulsed Congressman Cabot Lodge Ct
Massachusetts, the putative author of the
Force bill is, according to the statement, one
OF the favored few who have access 10 the
documents referred to.
THE CHOSEN SEvEN.-The people in