Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette,l
WASHINGTON. Dec. 9, 1893.

land. stating that news of the admins
tration IS policy had been received 81
Honolulu and had created much eX-
citement, was read with much interest
by officials, but it was too meagre to-
afford satisfaction. Monday next Is
the day when the important news Is
expected to arrive. The regular mail
steamer from Honolulu is due in San
Francisco on that day. According to
the Auckland dispatch, the steamer
Monowai, bringing information OF what
the President intended to do, arrived
in Honolulu November 23rd, while the
mail steamer due in San Francisco
Monday sailed thence Dec. 4th, leaving
eleven days to be covered in the press
dispatches. If those eleven days did
net develop something important
enough to have a prominent place in
the history of Hawaii, officials of the
government will be very much sur
pprised and not a few of them very
much disappointed. There is also
chance that something definite may be
heard before Monday through 1oko-
hama dispatches. The mail steamer
China, which is due in Yokohama to-
morrow-the 9th Instant, by Chinese
time-was scheduled 10 leave Homo
lulu November 2Sth.
1t is reported at the Capitol that not
only are the republicans of the House
in favor of Mr.. Hits resolution calling
for all the correspondence in the He
waiian affair, but that majority OF the
democrats favor it also, and that it will
be reported favorably by the foreign
affairs committee, to which it was re-
ferred, and will be adopted by the
House. The foreign affairs committee
of the last House pigeon-holed a reso-
luton calling for the correspondence
in the Gillian affair, lest its passage
might embarrass the then republican
administration. The committee then, as
it now is, was democratic. 1t had
more regard for Mr.. Harrison, than the
present one has for Mr.. Cleveland.
People from Richmond here to-day
say that the retirement of General
Hunton from the fight for the long
term in the Senate, was just what the
Martin men wanted, as they required
only four more votes to secure the cleo
ton of their man, and that retirement
gave them that number. 1t gave Lee
more, but it gave them all they need
ed. The defeat of Flournoy, for Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth, was, they
say, the result of his opposition to
O'Ferrall for Governor.
The Malone Windsor lot, one of the
lots that have been offered to the gov
eminent as site for the proposed new
public printing Office, is held by its
owners at S260,000.
The Virginia democratic association
of this city, at q called meeting last
night, resolved that it was inexpedient
to give Governor-elect O'Ferrall OF
their State banquet. The monthly
dues of the members of this association
are only twenty-five cents, but so many
Of them are delinquent that resolu-
ton was adopted to expel those who
shall be in arrears for eight months.
Representative of interests material
" affected by the tariff bill have brought
such pressure to bear on their Congress
men that some opposition may be ex-
p,cted, not only from republicans, but
from certain of the democratic majority
as well. Some of the democrats assert
openly that they will oppose the bill if
concessions are not made to them.
Mr.. Simpson, populist, Of Kansas, says
that free wool is discrimination against
the farmers of the West, and that if a
greater cut be not made in wooden man
ufactures, the populists would protest
Free salt, he says, is a blow at one OF
his home industries. Salt, he asserts,
he is a finished product, and is en-
titled to protection as other articles
similarly classified. The wine-growers
of New York State are asking the ways
and means committee to put them on
an equal footing with the California
manufacturers. Under the present law
an exemption is made of the tax on the
spirits which the Caliiornians use to
fortify their wines. The New Workers
ask that this discrimination be removed
and that the California producers either
pay the tax or that the exemption APP
ply to the eastern manufacturers also.
1t is apparently settled fact, so far
as the democratic members of the ways
andmeans committee are concerned, that
there will be no increase in the whisky
tax. The members OF the committee
believe that the trust would be the
greatest beneficiary Iof the tax, and,
moreover, it would be long period be-
fore the government would secure any
substantial results from the increase, if
one were made. The committee has
practically decided that the deficiency
in the revenues must be secured from q
tax on incomes, not on corporations,
but upon individuals as well. 1t is not
certain that they will so report, but
they are satisfied that q majority of the
House democrats will insist upon tax
and that it will ultimately pass.
Mr.. Callahan, one of the parties in
terested in the proposed new ferry line
between this city and Alexandria, says
bill for charter for such line was
introduced in the Virginia legislature
yesterday, that he expects it will be
passed without opposition, and that as
soon as possible after its passage ar
rangements for carrying it into effect
will be made.
Congressman Swanson of Virginia
called on the President to-day in behalf
of Judge Bergman Green of Danville
in his State, who is an applicant for the
place of Z. S. Judge for the Virginia Cir
cult. He was informed by the President
that JudgeLymington ofSouth Carolina
would be appointed.
Mr.. Lacey, of Alexandria county,
here to-day, says the Washington, AL
exandria and Fairfax and the Washing