Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
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u-.cro>- IHb > 1909

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The Senate District committee to-
day adopted Senator McNIillan's amend
ments to the Norfolk and Western Rail
road bill, the gist of which is that all
railroads that may want to use the
bridge shall be allowed the same tacill-
ties for both passengers and freight as
are granted to the Norfolk and Western,
and agreed unanimously to report the
bill as amended. Whether it will be
acceptable in its amended form to the
r,ilroad company is not yet known, but
even if passed by the Senate twill have
to 90 back to the House, where streu-
uous opposition, which it will surely
meet, will be almost necessarily fatal to
if. this late in the session. The ilrst
amendment makes the entire route
from the Virginia end of the proposed
bridge to the terminus of the line IN
Washington, a public highway, to be
used by any road desiring TO enter the
District either from the south or from
MARYLAND. 1t gives such roads equal
facilities with the Norfolk and Western
in respect to handling freight and es-
tablshing freight stations. The second
provides for a station which will be
probably built on Pennsylvania avenue
west of 26th street and ensures station
facilities for other roads-in other
words it affords terminal facilities for
which service the Norfolk and Western
is to receive proper compensation from
those roads desiring to occupy them.
Late Yesterday evening Mr.. Meredith
introduced in the House resolution to
prohibit the further use of the appro-
priation for removing ice from the Po-
tomac River made during the month OF
January. lie says he understands the
ice was broken and the channel opened
by the Norfolk boats, who will not re-
ceive a cent, while the District Commits
sioners have awarded 81 800 to some
Baltimore tug boats which came up IN
the Norfolk boats tracks. MIR. Hol-
man will assist Mr.. Meredith in having
this matter Investigated.
The eulogies upon the late Senator
Barbour will be delivered i'll the Senate
tomorrow evening, commencing at two
o'clock. Among the speakers will be
the two Senators from Virginia, Sena-
tors German, Henderson, Platt and
others.
1t is said at the Capitol to-day that
eX-Postnlnster General Dickinson IS
sertion Yesterday that an extra session
of the new Congress will be called II
The silver Bill be not repealed by the
present one, and mis- demand that a
vote on it be taken so that Mr.. Cleve-
land NAV know his friends from his
enemies. were simply threats and moth
ing more; and also that they will be ut
terly ineffective.
When the Washington, Alexandria
and Mt. Vernon Railroad bill was re-
ferred by the House District committee
TO the District commissioners, Mr.. Doug
lass opposed ii and also any bill for
bridge across the Potomac below the
Aoueduct Bridge. The two other
commissioners rather favored it. They
referred the bill to the War Depart
mcnt. and this morning Engineers Ca,
sew and Davis of that department re-
ported againsto 1.-THE bill on the totally
untenable ground that the proposed
bridge at Arlington would be an OBJ
struction to navigation. As soon as
this report was made publieI
Col. Anderson, the agent ofthe railroad
company. telegraphed to its president
and directors in Alexandria to come
here at once in order to devise some
means by which the necessarily lnlurl-
ous effect such a report would have
upon the bill in the congressional COM
m!ttees to which it has been referred,
could be obviated. He says there is
still hope for the bill, but many OF It's
other friends don't agree with him.
Private letters received here from New
York today state that J. S. B. Thompson,
! Superintendent of tile Richmond and Danville
Railroad. is now we'll enough to walk abeut
the streets and he expects to return to Rich
moud during the next ten days or two weeks.
The Hawaiian commissioners are not eX-
pertcd TO reach here until tomorrow after
noon. after the Cabinet meeting has adjourn
ed telegram from Berlin to the effect that
ifthe United States should annex Hawaii,
Germany might demand slight compenss-
ton elsewhere. was discussed with much in
tcrcst in official circles. But one conStruc-
ton could be placed upon it. and that was
that Germany would insist upon the United
States retiring from its joint control with
Germany and England, ofthe Samoan Islands;
Judges Keith and Smith Of Warrcnton and
State Senator Fairfax of Loudoun county, Va
passed through here yesterday and to-day on
their way to New York.
The opponents of the anti option bill in the
Hou Sc have organized their opposition, and
will filibuster against it to the utmost extent
of their power.
The North american Rerie,c for Feb
ruary has been received from its pub