Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-19
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1893

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lucky, and Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery.
No vote was reached.
Senator Carlisle does not deny that
he has accepted the offer OF the Treas
ury portfolio under Mr. Cleveland, but
ne does deny that ne has sent letter
to the Governor of his State resigning
his seat in the Senate, and says he will
not do so for some time yet, as he de
sires to give his assistance TO some meas
ures now before the Senate before he
leaves that body.
The determination of the President
elect to attend Mr.. Hayes funeral,
though not invited, was the subject ola
good deal of adverse comment among
the democrats at the Capitol to-day.
Some southern men. however, who al
WAYS like to be on the stronger side,
approved it on the ground that Mr..
HAYES was kind to the South. To this
matter one replied well, if he hadn'
been, his ingratitude would have been
monumental, as the South made him
President by submitting to be swindled
out of the President she had elected
Mr.. Tilden."
The Executive Mansion and all the
government buildings here are draped
in mourning and flags are flying at half
mast in honor OF eX-President Hayes.
The mourning will be maintained for 80
days. in accordance with the order OF
the President.
Senator Hunton of Virginia, who
was a member of the famous electoral
commission, said last night: Mr..
Hayes was not elected President by the
people, but 10y the electoral commits
sion. The action Of the commission,
however. made his title good and after
that decision was rendered it was his
duty to take the office. He made a
speech the night after the election
practically admitting Mr.. Tildcn's sue
cess. Had he stuck 10 that and discour-
aged the maneuvres ofhis party friends
that led up 10 the complication that
made the Electoral Commission neces-
sary. he would have demonstrated the
greatest qualities, but the partisan pres
sure on him WAS too strong. Personal
iy entertained the highest esteem for
Mr.. Hayes. I always found MIN court
eous and obliging. and believed him
10 be a sincere man.
Messrs. Conrad, Little and Brown.
The committee of the Virginia electoral
college appointed to urge President
elect Cleveland to make Mr.. J. r. Tuck
CT. OF their State. his Attorney General,
have performed their mission and
passed Jhro0Eh here last night OH their
way home. Mr. Conrad said ne was
asreeably disappointed at the manner
in which they were received, as he had
been led to believe that AIr. Cleveland
was cold and listless. On the contrary
he found him, if not warm, polite and
| courteous, listening patiently and with
apparent interest to all they had to say
asking them questions evincing famili-
arity with Virginia affairs, and inviting
them to stay longer when they had con
cluded what they had to say. Another
well-known Nirginian here to whom
the above was repeated, said that nc
matter what might be the result of the
mission, he was glad the President-elect
bad met Mr.. Conrad and talked with
him, as no one could do so without be-
ing impressed with the fact that he is
way beyond the average man.
As this is General Lees birthday, q
legal holiday in Virginia, many of the
bank and bankers clerks in Alexan-
dria spent the day here.
Private letters received here from
General Rosecranz, written by himself,
state that the flowers are blooming in
California where he is staying, and that
he has improved so much that he is
thinking OF coming back here and re-
slming his official duties.
4 delegation representing the
National Good Roads League APP
peared before the House committee
on agriculture to-day and advocated an
expenditure of $l3, 900 by the Secretary
of Agriculture to ascertain the best
method OF constructing roads and for q
road exhibit at the Chicago fair.
A bill introduced in the Senate by
Mr. Cameron to-day provides that the
President may, in time of peace, per-
nit any enlisted man to purchase his
discharge from the navy.
Nearly all the cabinet ministers are
asking for increased appropriations for
their respective departments. Secreta-
~ Elkins made an appeal to-day for
more money for Notifications, though
he could not tell against whom he is to
tortify, except the pillaged people of
his own country.
Secretaries Foster, of the Treasury,
Noble, Rusk, and Postmaster General
Wanamaker, representing the Presi-
dent, left Washington for Fremont, O.,
this morning to attend the funeral of
ex-President Hayes.
Among the nominations the Presi-
dent to-day sent to the Senate were
the following Elijah W. Halford, of
Indiana, to be paymaster with the rank
of major; Sydney Is. Wilson, of the
District of Columbia, pension agent at
Washington, d. G.
The President to-day approved the
Joint resolution authorizing the Secre-
tarv of the Treasury to cover back into
the Treasury SIS, 500 of the appropria-
ton to the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indians. This implies the payment of
nearly three million dollars for lands
taken by the United States from the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, a
large part of which will go to claim
agents.
a vote may or may not be taken in
the Senate to-day on the anticipation
bill. Senator White ofLouisiana thinks
there will be surprises when it shall be
taken, and says he is by no means sure
it will pass.
Mr.. Pettigrew in the Senate, and Mr..
Ketcham in the House, to-day intro