Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. !


In the Senate to-day Mr.. Daniel pre-
scented petition of the chamber OF
commerce of Richmond, for an amend
ment 20 the pilot laws putting coast
wise sailing vessels on the same footing
with those propelled by steam also
petition of chamber of commerce OF 10
anoke for the passage of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad bill also petI-
ton chamber of commerce of Richmond
and board of trade of Portsmouth Tor
the repeal of the Sherman silver act !;
also petition Of i. F. King, Jas. Town
send and other citizens Of Virginia, Tor
an investigation Of the evils of alien
colonization. He also presented new
bill for the Washington, Alexandria and
Mt. Vernon Electric Railroad, drawn
up so as to avoid the objections the
War Department made to the old bill.
Mr.. Wise presented in the House the
same bill yesterday.
According to u report sent to the
Senate to-day by the Secretary of War
the united force of all the States aggre-
gate 110,O4S In the list Virginia APP
pears as the 18th State, her force num-
boring 2,S44.
Secretary Tracy has accepted the
ship Monterey. Her builders, the
Union Iron Works, of San Francisco,
lose $4,000, from the contract price
S1.67S.950, because she failed to de-
velop the maximum horse power OF
300. Her horse power in the trial was
shown to be ONLY 5077.
Judge Ashton ofKing George county,
whose name has been suggested for L.
s. District Attorney for The eastern dis
trict of Virginia, will MOI only no. be a
candidate, but is earnestly supporting
Col. r. j. Washington of Westmore-
land.
The democrats of King George, Col.
S.Wellford Corbin's home county, have,
in mass meeting assembled, unanimous
" endorsed Mr.. Corbin to President
Cleveland for the Assistant Secretary
ship of Agriculture. Mr. Corbin went
to Manassas this morning to arrange for
the Farmers Institute to be held there
February 22nd and 23rd. Mr. Corbin
is better endorsed than any public man
in Virginia. Besides the Virginia dele
CATION in Congress and the Electoral
College, he is endorsed by bankers,
LAWYERS, preachers, college professors
farmers, the Board Of Agriculture ofthe
State, and by many outside ofthe State
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
bill came up in the Senate to-day, but
went over until tomorrow, as Mr.
Faulkner stated that Mr.. German. who
would have something TO say in respect
of it, was necessarily absent.
The vote on the silver bill in the Sen
ate yesterday was not surprising to Tho
knowing ones, who say to-day that ii
will be equally as decisive in the Senate
of the next Congress, and that therefore
it will be utterly unnecessary to call al
extra session OF that Congress simply Il
repeal the Sherman act.
The black eye the anti-option bill go
in the House yesterday tended to rais'
the price of farm products, but thai
good effect was more than offset by the
Senates defeat of the bill to repeal thu
act which compels the government t.
buy four and a half million ounces o
silver every month in the year, ant
thereby tend TO drive gold out Of the
country. or else to induce holders here
10 hoard it for premium, and the con
sequent panic.
i bill for the admission free of duty
of works of art produced by American
artists residing abroad, to-day afforded
the rare spectacle in the House way:
and means committee of republican
members lined up in favor offree trade,
and of The democratic members, Will
two exceptions, Messrs. Cochran o
New York, and Stevens of Massachu
sets. on the side of protective tariff.
The Senate to-day favorably reported
a bill permitting the st. Louis and Chi
cago Electric Railroad Company TO i'm.
port free of duty machinery necessary
Tor the construction of that road. o.
course this was achieved by the aid o.
republican votes in the committee. Sc
it seems that even republicans realize
the benefits of free trade.
The Hawaiian annexation commits
sioners and DR.. Mott Smith, the Ha-
waiian Minister. had another interview
this morning with Secretary Foster al
the State Department. Nothing was
said about the time time when the COM
missioners shall be received by the Pres
ident, and thus be formally recognized,
and the determination of this date will
depend upon the nature of the advices
from Honolulu which are expected to
reach San Francisco tomorrow on the
Oceanic steamship Australia. There
was no change in the situation OF
Hawaiian affairs as far as the Cabinet
is concerned that was made manifest at
the meeting to-day. Commissioners
Marden and Wilder says that one
source of objection to the old treaty had
practically passed away. That was the
necessity OF appropriating large sum
Of money for the payment of annultles
TO the members of royal families and
chiefs, who would be deposed from
office in case of annexation, as at pres
ent. there are no chiefs living, and the
lately deposed Queen and her niece,
the Princess Kioulani, whom she has
named as her successor, arc the only
survivors of the royal family.
The minority report of committee on
census on the bill for a permanent cen
sus bureau says the census office has
been enlarged more to create offices
and salaries than for legitimate pur-
poses, consequently its work has be-
come IA tumble Of figures and irrelevant
inquiries filling volumes which make
their appearance so late that they are
only useful for waste paper, and that
the cost of maintaining permanent
census bureau would exceed S60O,00o a