Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-22


enactment. Finally, at $50 O'Clock
the House adjourned. There was
private agreement that MIR. Wise should
be recognized on Monday TO suspend the
rules and pass the bill.
A labor delegation from TINS city,
composed of Arthur Small, J. D. Burns,
William Johnson, James Gurobette
and B. n. Hoover, was at the House
today seeking the assistance of mem
bers in an effort they are making to
have Mr.. R. C. Glasscock, voter in
Alexandria county, appointed chief of
the bureau of printing and engraving
One of the best-informed .. 5. Sena.
tors as to proceedings of the body Of
which he is member, told the GA
ZErrE's correspondent to-day that
though the friends of the Norfolk al d
Western r. r. bill would doubtless
make every possible effort to have that
bill passed at this session, speaking from
long experience, he would say that the
chances of their success are by no meafS
favorable.
The House military committee being
unable to satisfy themselves as TO the
right the defunct Alexandria Cana!
Company had to the bed OF that canal
that Law within the Arlington estate,
have referred the bill granting the right
of way to the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
r. w. for branch through that estate,
which is now government reserya-
ton, TO the [. 5. Attorney General Tor
his opinion. M, -,
entomologist of the Agricultural De-
partment. though a republican, was an
applicant for the place Of Secretary OF
Agriculture, !but withdrew at the re-
quest of Mr.. Morton, upon the promise
that he would appoint him his first as
sistant.
The President took the special train
for New York awaiting him at the
Pennsylvania r. R. station at . O'Clock
this morning for the flag raising on the
steamship City of New York. Secre-
tarv Elkins and some others of the in
vjted guests went yesterday. The
special party invited to accompany him
was less numerous than was expected.
The marriage of Miss Florence Miller
and Mr.. Clifford Arrick, her fathers
secretary, will take place tonight at
the residence of the AttorneyGeneral.
The investigation into the condition
of the Treasury authorized to be under
taken by the ways and means commit
tee of the House has been allowed to
lapse into obscurity for the reason that
it was thought that agitation OF the
financial question could not fail by very
reason of its agitation to unsettle bust
ness affairs.
Mr.. Newman, tie envoy of the legiti-
mate ruler of Hawaii, has finally been
enabled to present lis papers to the
government and has communicated the
contents thereof to some OF the mem
bers of the Senate, whom he found to
be entirely unacquainted with the true
condition of affairs in the Sandwich Is
lands He is gratified at the apparent
effect a true knowledge of the matter
has had upon such Senators, and Is
hopeful that the effort to annex his coun-
try by snap action has been prevented.
The bill to prohibit fishing il the
waters Cf the District of Columbia has
passed the Senate and is now on the
calendar of the House, where, from
present appearances. it will remain.
To-day was observed here as gen
eral holiday at all the government and
District offices. Some Of the local mill
tia and the veteran fire company, drag
eing their old-time hand-engine, turned
out and marched through the slush Oh
PENNSYLVANIA avenue.
Tae second Continental Congress q
the National Society of Daughters OF
the American Revolution met here this
morning. in the Church Of Our Fathers,
and was called to order by Mrs. W. d.
Cabcll.
The first annual convention of the
American Bi-metallic League met al
the Capitol this morning, About fifty
delegates from the West were present,
among them General Weaver, the
candidate for President of the peoples
party, accompanied by Mrs. Mary
Lease. General Warner stated the
aim of the League to be the securing
of legislation for the free and unlimit,
ed coinage of silver. This question he
said was the most important one now
before the American people or before
the civilized world. 1t overshadowed
the tariff question, which in his opinion
was but a result of the restricted coin
age of silver, and it was really at the
bottom of the Irish question. 1t was
also at the bottom of the labor ques-
ton and was responsible for the con-
dition of the laboring man. Three
fourths of the value of gold came from
its monetary use. He urged the
League to fight not only against the re-
peal of the Sherman act, but to labor
until silver was put on parity with
g i'd The two political parties during
tGe campaign denied that the silver
q ,es,ion was an issue, but as soon as
the election Was over it was the only
sic sthat the President-elect had
given serious consideration to. AT
t.r III, appointment of committees
the meeting took 4 recess until the at
ternoon.
In the House this morning on motion
of Mr.. Jones, of the 1st Virginia dis
trict, bill was passed appropriating
$ll. l36 for cast iron wharf at Wake
field, on the Potomac As the bill has
alrea ly passed the Senate. all that it
needs now to become law is the Pres
ident's signature.
1t is again said that Mr.. G.. C. jerks,
of Pennsylvania, has been rendered the
Attorney GeneralShip by Mr.. Cleve-
land
The reading of Washington's farewell
address in the Senate to-day attracted
large crowd to the galleries thereof.
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