Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-04
that State, however, having better
sense, have defeated the resolution by a
unanimous vote.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

ern Railroad bill are very Respondent
to-day. and they have good cause to be,
as strong opposition will surely be made
to it in its present shape in the Senate
when it comes before that body, if it
ever shall, and such opposition must
neces, arily be fatal to it at this late
stage of the session.
People from Leesburg here this morn-
ing say that Mr.. n. r. Heaton, brother
of the late State Senator Heaton of
Loudoun county. Va, died at Round
Hill last night OF typhoid fever.
By agreement with the Speaker, Rep
resentative Meredith has set Saturday,
the 18th inst, at $3.50 p. m, as the day
and hour for the delivery of eulogies
upon the late Senator Barbour in the
House.
The eulogies upon the late Represent
alive w. IL. L. Lee OF the Alexandra
district have been printed, but not
bound. Asisoon as they shall be, Mr..
Meredith will distribute all his share OF
the copies. :
Messrs. Hume, Lacey and Hine, of
the Washington, Alexandria and FAIR
fax Railroad, were at the Capitol TO-
day in the interest of that road, and say
they got a promise that its bill would
be called up in the Senate this evening.
The prevailing impression on the sub
iect today is that the anti-option bill
will be ilibustcrcd to death in the
House. and that the same fate will be-
fall the anti-silver bill in that body,
while the latter bill will also be killed
il the Senate.
A disIatch was received here to-day
from the Pine Ridge Indian Agency to
the effect that three white men were
murdered and one mortally wounded at
the beef contractors camp there. The
murderers are supposed to be Indians.
The investigation OF the whisky trust
was begun to-day, but the only facts
developed were that such Il trust exists,
that rebates are made to purchasers
who deal with it exclusively, and that
it raised the price Of whisky % cents
gallon, though there was no increase
in the cost OF making it.
There is still some democratic oppo-
sition 10 the confirmation of Judge
Jackson as associate justice of the l. ;.
Supreme Court, but the prevailing i'm
pre- sion at the Capitol to-day is that he
will be confirmed.
Representative Lodge presented res
olutions in the House to-day from the
councillors of the Massachusetts, Medi-
cal Society, declaring that it is advis-
able that Il central national board OF
health be established with all necessary
control over legislation that it is high
ly important that a system of national
quarantine be created; and requesting
Congress to create national sanitary au-
thority which shall be Independent OF
the army, navy or the marine hospital
service.
The omnibus lighthouse bill as it
passed the Senate to-day provides t 69s
a LIGHT station on or near the shoal : OH
Point No Point, Chesapeake Bay. Mo''
at the cost of So, 600.
The first interview betwec.n oecre-
tary Foster and the ""n I: &c CON, ,i
missioners Wa heid inns morning
There woro present Secretary Foster
and Solicitor Partridge, representing
the United States; and Messrs. Thurs.
ton. Wilder, Castle. Marsden and Car
ter, the Hawaiian commissioners; MIR
Kinney Of Salt Lake City, who is pres
ent with them rs unofficial advisor, ano
DR.. Mott Smith, the Hawaiian minis
ter. the latter of whom made the intro
auctions. Mir. Thurston on behalf O
his associates presented the credential:
from President Dole, of the provisional
government, and supplemented then
with brief statement ofthe events OF
the island which were the cause of theil
visit. Secretary Foster responded in 6
few words of welcome, stating that the
L asou for the errand was well known tc
The people of the United States. After
The exchange of more social greetings
in the course of which the Secretary
@ ipI ess ID his regret that he was un,
:.nle To receive the commissioners at
his own house, which had been closed
in expectation of his departure for
Europe next week, the interview closed
with an engagement TO meet again at J
o'clock this Afternoon at the same place,
PIE Hawaiian commissioners returned
at once to their hotel, where they dis
cussed the question of making state
mont to the people of the United States
upon the subject of their mission to this
country. Mr. Thurston was asked
whether the reception by Secretary
Foster had been satisfactory, and he re-
piled that it had been quite so. OF the
details. however, he could not speak,
as he had been requested by Secretary
Foster, pending negotiations, to make
no statement regarding the progress
thereof. Mr.. Castle said this beginning,
he believed, augued d satisfactory COM
pletion of their mission. At their inter-
view this afternoon it is expected that
an hour will be fixed for the presenta-
ton of the commissioners to President
Harrison.
Capt. a. d. Payne, one of the three
captains of the famous Black Horse
Cavalry, passed through here yester-
day evening in special car on his way
from hospital in Baltimore, back to
his home in Warrenton, Virginia. he
is i'll with chronic disease of the
stomach, and has not improved under
the hospital treatment.
The Senate to-day passed q bill by
which it is made unlawful to insert in
the bill of lading of any vessel any
clause relieving it from liability for
damage arising from negligence or fail
ure in proper loading or delivery of
merchandise, or to release the vessel on
account of not being seaworthy.
Mr.. James Fisher, once secretary OF