Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette.J
WASHINGTON, June %.

CORRESPONDENCE VI iuC
WASHINGTON, June %.
The President to-day sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of Mr.. John W;
Foster of Indiana to be Secretary OF
State. vice James G. Blaine, resigned.
The nomination was confirmed imme-
diatelv and without reference to the
committee on foreign relations.
1t is reported that A. r. McChesney,
formerly of New York, but now of
South Dakota, will be appointed Comp
troller of the Currency.
Mr.. Beverly Turner of Fauquier
county, Virginia, one of the delegates
from the Sth Congressional district OF
his State to the third party national
convention to be held in Omaha, passed
through here to-day on his way to that
city. Unlike the delegates to the other
national conventions, those to Omaha
have their travelling expenses paid out
of the treasury of the party to which
they belong,
Congressman O'Ferrall of the 7th
Virginia district has declined an lnvl-
tation to meet Mr.. Alexander, who is
contesting with him for the democratic
Congressional nomination in his dis
trict. on the stump, for the reason that
he thinks his time can be spent to more
purpose in attendance upon the sessions
of the House.
Representative Wise of Virginia call
ed upon Senator Hunton to-day and re-
ouestcd him to urge the passage of the
House bill to pay A. S. Lee of Rich
mond rent for his warehouse, occupied
after the war by the Q. S. government
as an ordnance store house.
Secretary Foster of the Treasury and
the President are now engaged in select
inc the five members ofthe information
al silver commission. That commission,
it is said. will meet either in Dresden or
Paris, and not before September.
Senator Vance will hardly ever re-
sumo his seat in the Senate. His facial
paralysis has so advanced that his artic-
ulation is now very indistinct. lie will
be taken back to his home in North
Carolina tomorrow.
In the House to-day Mr.. Meredith in
troduced bill to give Mrs. Tabb Boil
ING Lee. widow of the late Gen. w. III.
f. Lee, representative from the Sth Vir-
cinia district, $1,000 in lieu ofwhatever
sum NAV have been due the General at
the time of his death. This sum was
provided for in the general deficiency
bill. but was struck out on point of Or
der by Mr. Butler, of Iowa, democrat.
In the Senate Gen. Hunton introduced
the same bill, and also one of the same
character, and for the same amount, for
the benefit of the heirs of the late Sena-
tor Barbour.
a southern democratic Senator, who
took a prominent part in the unsuccess-
ful work at Chicago, told the GAZETTE's
correspondent to-day that Senator Cor
man does not deserve any blame for
what happened there; that there was no
hope of defeating Mr.. Cleveland after
the Indiana break, and that Mr.. Cor
man found that out before any body
else.
Senator Morgan is authority for the
remarkable statement that both the
House and the Senate will pass q free
silver coinage bill before the close of
the present session of Congress, and
that President Harrison will not veto it.
Among the strangers in the city to-
day is Mr.. Carr, democratic candidate
for Governor of North Carolina, and
Mr.. Cardwell, Speaker of the Virginia
House of Delegates.
Twenty-Five democratic Senators
met in conference this morning before
the Senate assembled to consider an
order of business for the remainder Of
the session. There was a general in
terchange of views Respecting the
state of business and the hope was ex-
pressed by the majority of the Sen
ators present that Congress might be
able to adjourn by July 20. Then in
conformity with along established Gus
tom. q caucus committe was appointed
to confer with the republican Senatorial
caucus committee respecting the
measures which are to be brought for
during the remainder of the session and
to endeavor to have included in the
list q fair proportion of measures ac-
ceptable to the minority. The subject
of feee silver coinage was not mention
ed. Mr. Catchings, a member of the
House committee on rules, says he
thinks the session will close about the
end of July.
Mr.. Clarkson is still here, and to his
intimate friends complains bitterly of
the treatment he has received at the
hands of the President. The latter has
no hesitancy liz saying that his campaign
will be managed by clean hands and in
an entirely deterrent manner than that
of 1888, and that he has assurances
from the democrats that theirs will be
conducted in the same way. Such talk
is of course anything else than crafty
ing to Mr.. Clarkson.
The House census committee to-day
agreed to report in favor of an addi-
tional appropriation for Mr.. Porter's
census.
Senator Hill has returned to Washington
and occupied his seat in the Senate to-day.
WILL ISSUE RECEIVERS CERTIFI-
cATEs.-Messrs. Foster and Huidekop-
er, receivers of the Richmond and Dan
vile Railroad Company, together with
their counsel held another conference