Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-26
FROM WASHINGTON.

Il NUN W 1O4l.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. &c, 1898.
The report of the House sub-commit-
tee appointed to investigate John l.
Davenport's methods of supervising
elections was submitted to the full COM
mittee to day. The committee finds
that all the charges made against
Davenport and his deputies are sub
stantiallv true, and that for years hun
dreds of thousands of dollars have been
spent annually in the interest of the re-
publican party in New York city;
These statements are now established
as facts by the sworn testimony OF 40
credible witnesses examined by the
committee.
a resolution was introduced in the
House Yesterday providing that no
brewer shall be held liable for the pay
ment of q tax upon beer furnished to
the employees of his brewery free OF
cost and consumed by them on the
premises.
There was no change noticeable i'll
SIr. Blaine's condition up to one
o'clock this afternoon. DIR. john
ston called shortly after one O'Clock.
lie said on leaving that Mr.. Biaine's
condition was unchanged. He is very
weak, but is in no immediate danger OF
d .ssoluton.
The House committee to whom the
nov, NcC;orrahan bill was referred has
agreed to report it favorably, and TO
ask the House to set next "Wednesday
for its consideration. Should that re-
quest be granted the bill will pass that
body. The Senate committee to whom
The bill has been referred will, 1t is re-
ported to-day, also report it tavorably.
The House committee on rules have
practically agreed to give the antl-sil-
verites day on which to consider the
bill to repeal the Sherman silver act
and allow the banks to increase their
circulation 10 the par value of the
bonds they have deposited in the Treas
ury. The committee will also give a
day for the consideration Of the resolu-
ZION for an Investigation OF the Amerl-
can side OF the Panama swindlc. incluc-
inc tho subsidies the Panama railroad
received. The Burrows resolution for
an investigation of the whisky trust
will. il is said. not be allowed Il day Tor
consideration. but will be referred to
its appropriate committee. 1t is re-
ported that ifthe resolution were adopt
ed several people who now occupy
high offices would roost much lower
hereafter.
Representative Meredith of the Alex
andria, Va, district, was suddenly,
though not Unexpectedly, called to his
home in Prince William county, in that
5 to-day, by n dispatch to the effect
thai his father, ninety odd years OF age,
was dying.
President Harrison may nominate a
successor to Mr. Lamar, late associate
Justice of the L. S. Supreme Court, but
if he shall. it will be the first time a
nomination for like position was ever
made so soon after the occurrence OF a
vacancy.
Notwithstanding Secretary Fosters
latest statement of the condition Of the
[. 5. Treasury, as printed in yester-
days GAZETTE, and with which Mr..
Springer expressed himself as satisfied,
Il critical examination of it shows that
instead ola surplus. there is deficit OF
S3G, 100000. and that, too, including
The Sl00000,OOO which should have
been held as gold reserve.
EX-Postmaster GeneralHorato King.
one of the best preserved though old
est men in this city, attributes his eX-
cellent health and long life to his
invariab'e practice of taking sniff of
powdered camphor at the first approach
ola cold either in his head or chest.
The President has approved the rcso-
luton making an appropriation of five
thousand dollars for clearing the Poto-
mac river Office.
Senator Chandler this morning intro
duced q resolution directing the COM
mittee on finance to undertake an in
vestigation for the purpose ofascertain-
ing whether there is so-called whisky
trust organized to control and monopo-
lie the business Of producing and sell
ing distilled liquors; whether the re-
bate system be used; whether adulter-
ants or drugs are used under the gulse
of rectifers license, aud if any proceed
ings have been commenced against said
company, aud to investigate generally
other matters connected with the trust
it may consider material, and to report
to the Senate by the first of December,
next.
The postoilice appropriation bill as
agreed upon provides for fast mail SER
vice between Springfield, Mass, and
New Orleans, La, via New York,
Washington and Atlanta. Heretofore
this appropriation has gone to the At
lantic coast line below Washington.
Senator Gallinger to-day presented
in the Senate an amendment to the ma
val appropriation bill which appropri-
ates $780, 900 towards the construction
of dry dock at the Portsmouth, \.
y. navy yard, under limit of $780,
600 as total cost for the dock,
Judge Sener of Fredericksburg, VINO repre-
sentcd his district in Congress during Gen.
er1l Grants administration. hss been selected
as the representative of Virginia at the re-
union of the famous '306' in Philsdelphia
next April.