Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. II.

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given full credit, will be the beginning
of the end of the great legislative strug-
gle over the bill for the repeal of the
silyer-purchase act, which has been
now going on in Congress for nearly ten
weeks and in the Senate branch OF it
for nearly seven weeks. Mr.. Cockrell,
DEM. of Missouri, resumed his speech
to-day, and it would not be surprising
if the whole of to-day's session up to
the usual hour of adjournment would
BE- required for its conclusion. Then
there are several other equally long
winded Senators who are yet to be
heard from, including the two Nevada
Senators-Jones and Stewart-and Mr..
Teller of Colorado, who began speech
last week and will probably desire to
continue it to-day. Any attempt to fix
an hour when these four speeches will
come to an end would be rash and flu
tile. The prevailing opinion on the
subject at the Capitol today is that the
bill for the unconditional repeal of the
silver act will be defeated, not by the
votes of its enemies, but by the refusal
of some of its protested friends to re-
main in the Senate chamber and main
tain a quorum. A compromise is hard
lv possible, as the administration is ut
terly opposed to any thing of the sort
and gives out that decisive defeat is
preferable. IF the bill be defeated, of
course similar fate awaits the federal
election and the tariff bills, and as there
will be no use in proionging the session,
an early adjournment may be expected.
Indeed resolution for adjournment
was introduced in the House to-day.
Representative 0uthwait, to whom
the adjournment resolution offered in
the House to-day was referred, says it
will not be considered until the fate OF
the silver bill in the Senate shall be de-
cided. If that bill be passed, he says,
he thinks the resolution will be favora-
bly, reported at once.
There is at least one member of the
House Ways and Means Committee
who is in favor of an income tax, MIR.
Whiting of Michigan. He says it is the
fairest plan for distributing the burden
of taxation. He is opposed to a gradu-
ated tax, but says the rate should be
five per cent. on all incomes over two
thousand dollars, and that such tax
is no more inquisitorial than the tariff
tax
Representative Tucker of Virginia
having secured the passage of his bill
b. the House, will go home this even
Ing and, he says, enter at once upon
work in the campaign now in progress
in his State Representative Marshall
says he also will 90 home this evening:
but not 10 do any more compaign work,
as he has already done more than his
share.
A committee appointed by the bust
ness men of Norfolk, composed of
Messrs. Walter Sharp, Oscar Edwards
and I. II. Wilcox, to request the Nir-
ginia Senators to vote for the silver re-
peal bill, arrived here this morning.
They were subsequently joined by SINH
lar committees from Richmond and
Petersburg.
Lovick Pierce of Columbus, Ca, was
to-day appointed chief clerk of the Of
flee of education, vice John w. Hoi-
combe, transferred to be appointment
clerk. Pierce is the oldest son of Bish-
op Geo. F. Pierce of the NJ. E. Church.
The President has appointed George
G. Crager of New York city special
agent to make allotments of lands in
severalty to the Sioux Indians.
People from Culpeper county here
to-day say that Capt. Garnett, the in-
dependent democratic candidate for
the legislature in that county, has de-
veloped unexpected strength, and that
many believe he will be elected. Many
democrats there, they say, are dissatiS-
fed at the way things are going on in
their own party, State and national.
Representative O'Ferrall left here
yesterday evening to resume his work
in canvassing for the Governorsbip OF
Virginia. He called at the White House
before his departure.
Representative Swanson of Virginia,
who addressed o democratic meeting
at Leesburg last Monday, says the au-
dience was neither large nor enthusi-
astic, but he !was told that few populists
could he found in Loudoun, and that
he full democratic vote would proba-
bly, be cast for the democratic ticket.
Congressman Edmunds of Virginia,
who has Just returned from his home in
Halifax county, says the populists are
well organized there; and are making
house to house canvass. He says he
was asked every where he went wheth-
er he was Cleveland or John Daniel
democrat, and that as he had to make
some reply, he always answered that
he was Jeflersonian democrat.
Representative Meredith called at
the Internal Revenue Bureau to-day in
reference to the seizure of the distillery
of Messrs. Popham & Burgess, in Vir-
ginia. He says no moonshine business
was attempted, and that the only rea-
son, 50 for as he learns, for the seizure,
was delay in stamping some packages
exposed to public view in a warehouse.
Alexandria county democrats here to-day,
talking about the difference in their party
in respect of its nominee for the Legislature.
say they don't know what, if anything will
be done in their part Of the district toward
settling it.
YELLOW FEVER Ar BRUNSWICK
Thirty-fve new cases of yellow lever
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