Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-27
election last November demonstrated
the fact that the peoples idea of good
thing and that of Mr. Carnegle's do not
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON. Jan. q. 1893.

CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81, 1893.
Senator Higgins of Delaware said this
morning the President has determined
to nominate Justice Lamar's successor
and that he would select the nominee
from among the southern republicans,
and probably promote one of the pres
ent District, Circuit or Appellate judges:
This statement brings the name OF
Appellate Judge Golf of West Virginia
prominently into view. II he be Sc
iected the old fight between Judges
Paul and Lewis of Virginia for the place
now held by him will probably be re-
newed.
The whisky trust investigations, rs
stated in this correspondence yesterday
is to be conducted by the Judiciary com
mittec substantially as proposed by Mr.
Burrows.
The District Commissioners had not:
up TO two o'clock to-day, made their re-
port on the bill to allow the Washing
ton. Alexandria and Mount Vernon
Railroad Company to build bridge
across the Potomac al Arlington, to the
House District committee. An lntlu-
entail member Of the Senate District
committee told the GAZETTE's CORE
spondent he was decidedly in favor OF
the bill.
Mr.. Blaine died at II o'clock this
morning. All the Immediate members
OF the family and Miss Dodge were al
the bedside when the end came. lie
died without suffering. He died from
Bright's. and its usual accompaniment
heart disease. There was nothing dra'
matte nor sensational in Mr.. Blaine's
last moments. There were 10 last
words.n He simply gasped away.
At the meeting of the Senate District
of Columbia committee to-day the Nor
folk and Western Railroad bill was
again under consideration, but the only
thing done was an agreement by The
subcommittee to whom that bill hat
been referred to inspect personally, to
morrow, the route by which the roao
proposes to enter the city. The preva
! lent impression on the subject now !:
that the bill will not pass mt this ses
sion.
In reference to the proposed investi
CATION of the Panama Canal swindli
and ex-Secretary Thompson's connec
ton Herewith. democratic congress
man said TO the GAZETTE'S correspond
ent this morning that if the committee
would look at the report OF the lnterlol
Department in the case of the Memo
meme Indians, they would not be sur
prised at any charge against the ex-Sec
rotary, as in it he figures in a mannel
that pales the reputation of Baron Rel
mach.
The War Department clerks are al
agog over the appointment of Mr.. Coon
once Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, as secretary to the Quartermastel
General. there being, by law, no sucl
office. The appointment was made
with the deliberate intention of circum
venting the civil service law. And We
the President hardly q week ago eX
tended the operation of that law.
The House appropriation committee
has agreed upon the pension approprl
ton bill. 1t carries an appropriation
of SlG6. 100000, being an increase o
$50 CO., 600 over the appropriation TO
the current fiscal year. After July ]
n xt, no p nsion is to BE- paid 4
a nonresident who is not citizen o
the United States, except for actua
disabilities incurred in the service
After the passage of the act the boart
ofmanagers of the national home 70
disabled volunteer soldiers are to de
duct the excess above five dollar
monthly of the pensions of all inmate
of the home and cover it int
the treasury. provided the pension
rr has no wife. minor child o
parent dcpcnlont upoa m for supper. i
,nich case the excess OF pension IS Ia he givel
10 such dependents. The law of 1867 pro
vidi u for the payment Of rcn MS through
agencies is repealed and the payments are t
be made directly from the Treasury ant
| 100000 is appropriated for the necesSar.
clcrica! expenses. ETC., for this purpose. Per
sons desiring to do so are to be authorized t
| copy at their own expense the pension roll
mt any pension agency. Recommendation l.
also made Tor the appointment o! Il committee
of five members of the House to inquire int
the operation of all pension laws which gran
pensions to soldiers, sailors and Others ant
ascertain whether the rates under them are
excessive and generally whether there SHOULD
| be any modification in these laws.
The House committe on rules but for thi
early adjournment of the House to-day would
| have reported during the afternoon two reso
buttons, one providing for an investigation o
the Panama scandal and the Pacific Mai
Steam Ship Company and the other providing
for an investigation of the whisky trust. The
first resolution provides for the appointment
of a special committee which shall investigate
the charge that there was an American cor
ruption fund as part of the Panama scandal
now agitatipg France. 1t shall also invest
gate the Panama Railroad and ascertain
whether American commerce is i'll any way
iniuriously restrained. The Pacific Mai
Company is also to be investigated to ascer
tain If it has made contracts with the Trans
Continental Railroad Companies which put II
under their control; whether it receives 8
subsidy from them 10 send freight overland
notwithstanding it gets !; subsidy from the
United States in order to foster commerce by
ocean routes aud whether the United States
subsidy should be withdrawn.
THE GROOM HAD REvENGE.-After
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