Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-25

ike to have it amended before Its pas
sage. The abuse the opponents OF the
bill have received from some OF lis sup
porters has done it no good.
The determination of the republican
Senatorial caucus yesterday TO omit
Arizona from the new Territories TO be
admitted as States into the Union IS
condemned here even by republicans. 1t
is conceded that it was solely the result
of partisanism, as Arizona is the only
one that would surely be a democratic
State, and the action is compared with
that of the democrats who admitted
the four new republican States.
DR.. Johnson. who visited Mr.. Blaine
at l $50 o'clock, reported no material
change in the patients condition since
last night. Mr.. Blaine rested well dur
ing the night and morning. He suffers
10 pain whatever and appears to be
comfortable While he has gained no
strength, he is no weaker than on yes
terday.
The steamer Norfolk of the Washing
ton and Norfolk line tried TO resume
her trips this morning, but as after an
hours work she had only succeeded IN
breaking her way through the ice as far
rs the wharf of the Lady of the Lake,
she abandoned the attempt and went
back to her berth. The ice was IRON ten
10 twelve inches thick, clear offs snow.
Watermen here say no boat or boats can
omen the river. and that that job can
only be done by nature. Passengers
who arrived here to-day by the Rich
mond train say they came up with peo-
Die who had walked across the river
from Liverpool Point this morning, and
that the ice there and as far below as
they heard from, was foot thick and
perfectly solid.
Both the Virginia Senators and near
IL all the members of the House from
that State have gone TO Richmond TO
attend the grand democratic banquet
to be given there tonight Messrs. Ed
munds and Lester were the only two
Virginia representatives III their seats
this morning. Mr.. Meredith has gone
home to see his father who is very i'll.
The Senate to day passed a substitute
for the House bill to create Court oil
Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Bv il the salary of the chief justice OF
the court will be $1,000, and that OF
each of the associate justices $4,000.
Representative Tucker, of Virginia,
SAYS he has polled the Senate, and he is
satisfied the resolution which has pass
ed the House TO amend demonstration
so as to elect Z. S. Senators by the
direct vote Of the people, will pass that
body also.
The reason. the northern congress
men assign for being so much iu favor
of the passage OF a national bankruptcy
bill is BY no means complimentary tC
the merchants of the South. 1t is said
that some of the latter avail themsclve,
of the opportunities afforded by State
laws on the subject to defraud them
If that bill shall not pass the House to
DAY, it will hardly do so at this session
as some southern members will object
and objection after to-day will be fatal
At the annual meeting of the regent;
o. the Smithsonian Institute to-day
prize of $4,000 was offered for 6
treatise embodying any new and i'm
portant discovery i'll regard to the ma
ture and properties of air.
In the House to-day Mr. Tillman intro
duccd resolution intended to prevent th'
continued monopoly of the i IL Telephon,
after the expiration of its pr, sent patent.