Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazettel
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80, 1893.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 80, 1893.
The working days of the remainder
of this session of Congress are reduced
to twenty-nine, and yet the report OF
the House investigation committee con-
yicting Mr. Raum, commissioner of
pensions. of fraud and corruption, has
not been acted upon. Mr.. Enloe, who
has the matter in charge, told the GA
zETrE's correspondent to-day, that the
committee would meet again this even
ing and try 10 do something by which
the report could be brought to q vote in
the House, so that the people of the
country might be able to see who
among their representatives in Congress
are in favor of acquitting q convicted
man.
Attorney General Scott Of Virginia
was at the Capitol to-day in the case OF
Virginia ex parte, before the U. ;: SUI
preme Court-the case to compel Judge
Paul Of U. S. District Court OF West
Virginia, to surrender deputy U. ;.
marshal, charged with murder, to
the State authorities for trial. The
court. however, did not meet until two
O'Clock. as its members were III attend
ance upon Mr.. Blaine's funeral.
The Washington, Alexandra and
Mi. Vernon Railroad bill, by which a
bridge will span the Potomac at Airing
ton. is still at the War Department, to
which it was referred by the District
Commissioners.
The subcommittee of the Senate Dis
trct committee, to whom the Norfolk
and Western Railroad bill has been re-
ferred, inspected the route by which
that road proposes to enter this city,
last Saturday in carriages, but have not
vet made their report to the whole
committee. The friends of the bill are
by no means as sanguine of its passage
now as they were when it went through
the House with no Virginia members
to oppose it, though the road taps all the
railroads leading to Alexandria from the
west a few miles outside that city and
cuts of that city from all trade west
and south of Riverton.
The bill creating court of appeals
for the District of Columbia has passed
one house of Congress and will, it is
confidently expected, pass the other
1t is Objectionable to the present judges
here. in that it abolishes what is called
their general term, at which they sit as
court of appeals on their own cases
except that no individual one can SIT
in case i'll which he himself has rem.
dered Il decision. The new court will
be composed of three new judges.
The Panama committee will have eX'
Secretary Thompson before them
When the swindIe was first exposed
Mr.. Thompson said a large share Of the
100000 sent here to create feeling
in favor of the canal was spent ii
dredges and cars, but it is said here
thas all bills on such accounts Were
paid in Paris.
President Harrison, in the Sandwich
Islands affair says he will wait until the
arrival of the commissioners, expected
on Friday. 50 that he may hear all they
have 10 say and that he then will send
message to Congress conveying all the
information he has in respect of the
matter to Congress, and leave that body
to do what it may think proper under
the circumstances. He does not think
that in a matter of such Importance de-
cided action should he taken by an
administration just on the eve of going
out OF office. The only thing he can
properly do, ne says, will be to recog'
nize the existing. as the de tacto gov
crnmcnt of the Islands, as he would dc
in the case of a successful revolution in
any other country. The feeling among
many unthinking members of botl
branches of Congress is in favor of an
nexation, but the wiser and more con.
sentative members are utterly opposed
TO any such action.
Mr.. Blaine left his wife the whole Of
his estate, supposed to be worth
100000
1t is expected that vote on the anti
option bill will be taken in the Senate
tomorrow and that it will be passed
II will then go back to the House
amended and will, it is thought, to-day
fail to become law. Among those
said to be in favor of it are Messrs. Ed.
munds, Epes and O'Ferrall of Virginia
Neither house of Congress met to-day
until o'clock p. M, in order that the
members might attend the funeral Of
Mr.. Blaine.
When the Supreme Court was called
to order at noon to-day but one justice
-Brewer-was present on the bench.
He announced that Il recess would be
taken until 3 o'clock.
Chairman Hatch, of the House com
mittee on agriculture, has requested the
rules committee for the assignment OF
three days for the consideration of the
oleomargarine bill, the bill to fix the
standard of grain, and the agricultural
appropriation bill. 1t is not at all pl OBJ
able that his request will be granted.
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