Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1893.

COMMISSIONERS hum VIZ ~" SO'N
ment are on their way to Washington
from San Francisco to ask that
Hawaii ne annexed to the United States.
Mr.. Smith is now at the State Depart
ment waiting TO advise the Secretary
of State of the information he has re-
ceived. The State and Navy Depart
ments have been officially informed of
the revolution.
Some of the merchants on Louisiana
avenue and B street have made and are
making preparation for flood in those
streets that may be caused by ice
gorges which may dam the river and
raise the water so high that it will force
its way up into the city through the
sewers. There is not much danger,
however, if there be no rain.
1t is rumored here to-day that the re-
lations between the President-elect and
his Warwick, Mr.. Whitney, are some
what strained ut present, and that they
are so because of the formers hostile
attitude toward the Tammany democ-
racv.
The impression is strengthening at
the Capitol that Representative Blount
ofGeorgia. who was once chairman OF
the House postoilice committee may be
the next Postmaster General.
In the House Yesterday Mr.. Wise
presented the petition of William Cleve-
land of Fairfax county, Va, asking for
pay for carrying the mail between AL
exandria. Va, and the Theological
Seminary. near that city.
The Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon Railroad bill has been
referred by the District Commissioners
to the War Department for report as
to the effect, if any. a bridge across the
Potomac at Arlington would have upon
the navigation of the river. That re-
port is expected on Monday next, when
it will be acted upon by the commits
sioners and it and their report be made
to the House District committee.
IL was reported at the Capitol this
morning, on the authority of Il republic
can Senator, that the culogies on the
late Senator Barbour would be deliver
cd in the Senate this afternoon, but Sen
ator Hunton said the report was incoi-
rect aud that no time had yet been set
for the eulogies referred to.
The nomination of Mr.. Frank c. Part
ridge, of Vermont, at present Solicitor
of Claims, State Department, 10 be Min
lister TO Venezuela, has been confirmed.
The House to-day passed resolutions
for investigating the American part OF
the Panama scandal and the whisky
trust. If the investigations be properly
conducted the developments OF rascal
itv on the part of many Of the promi-
nent politicians Of this country Will be
equally rs scandalous as those that
now threaten the Very existence OF the
Frence republic
The order of the President closing
the executive departments on Monday,
the day of Mr.. Blaine's funeral, is not
construed to mean the closing of GUS
tom houses, sub-trcasuries and postof-
fees throughout the country.
A singular story regarding Mr.. Blaine
is being told. 1t is to this effect: Five
wears ago Mr.. Blaine having been told
OF many wonderful predictions by an
astrologer (as he called himself) con-
sentcd to have his fortune told. Mr..
Blaine, it need hardly be said was not
a believer in the prophetic powers OF
the alleged "astrologer," and was in
clined to laugh at those whose
gullibility enabled these imposters
to exist Many commonplace state
ments, the story goes, were given by
the asirologer but one impressed itself
upon the minds of those TO whom Mr..
Blaine aiterward related the incident
that was that Mr.. Blaine would die in
1893, and before the 2Sth of January.
Mr.. Blaine's death occurred on the
27th day of January, 1898.
\ bill was reported TO the Senate to.
day from the immigration committee
establishing additional regulations con-
corning immigration To the excluded
classes by the other bills are added all
persons who cannot read and write
their own language, persons blind or
crippled, and persons belonging to So
cietics which favor unlawful destruc-
ton of life and property.
Several Nirginians here who read in
| the GAZETTE the other day that Judge
Golf of West Virginia might probably
be nominated for the late Justice La
mars place, seem to think that that is
Just what will be done, and if so that,
as was also stated in the GAZETTE, the
contest between Judge Paul, the Ma
hone, and Judge Lewis, the anti-Nla-
hone candidate for COTS place will be
renewed
H. r. Gregory, mail route agent from
Washington to Charlotte, has received
the prize gold medal offered by the
Postmaster General to agents who made
the best general record during last
year
Some of the friends of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad here say if that
road be produced to this city, as pro-
posed, it will build a branch to Alex
audria as shipping port for its coal.
But they can't tell why that expense
should be incurred when it already has
q shipping port ut Norfolk, so much
nearer the sea. A member of the Sen
ate District committee told the GA
zETrE's correspondent to-day he did
not think the bill referred to would be-
come law ut this session Of Congress.
Senator Carey this morning gave no.
tice Of two amendments which he in
tended to offer to the House bill pro-
viding for the admission of New Mex
leo into the Union. Mr.. Carey's amend
ment strikes out all after the enacting
clause Of the New Mexico bill and sub
stitutes an omnibus bill admitting the
territories of New sfexico, Utah, Arizo-
ma and Oklahoma.
MARRIED HER own CHoIcE.-A romantic