Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-24

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Mr.. Harter, of Ohio, introduced in
the House to-day bill providing that
after its passage the purchases of silver
bullion by the government shall cease
and that the minis shall be opened TO
the coinage of both metals upon the
same terms rs existed prior to 1873,
provided. however, that all silver and
gold coined hereafter, for the account
of owners, shall not have any legal
tender function, and instead of being
stamped zone dollar" five dollars y
etc, shall be stamped "ten dimes,
'fltv Dimes etc. Nothing i'll this act
is to be construed rs affecting the legal
tender function of the gold and silver
already coined or which may hereafter
be coined upon the account ofthe Uni
ted States.
The committee on postoiiices to-day
reported favorably to the Senate an
amendment to the postoffice appropria-
ton bill which proposes to pay to letter
carriers in cities where free delivery has
been established, the first year $500 per
annum; second year $500; third year
81 900, and fourth year and thereafter
81 200.
The Hawaiian resolution calling for
n statement of liabilities to be assumed
was considered to-day by the House
WAYS and means committee and refer
red to q subcommittee.
A long debate took place in the
House to-day on provision in the Dis
trict excise bill relating to the use of
liquor at club rooms, Mr. Wolcott and
others taking the ground that club
room is the home of the members OF
the club. and that to compel them to
take out a license for the liquor they
drink there would be as outrageous as
it would be to compel an individual
housekeeper to take out a license for
the liquor he and his family use.
The Attorney General has not yet
made his report on the bill to allow the
Washington Southern Railway to eX-
tend its line from Waterloo station
through the Arlington reservation,
which was referred TO him by the House
military committee.
Congressman Jones of the Freder-
icksbarg district says as he has heard
nothing from the Agricultural Depart
ment on the subject, he thinks the or
der about excluding from the public
cattle yards ut Baltimore cattle from
his district has been rescinded.
Mr.. ]. Ran. Tucker was at the Capt.
toll to-day, looking Us hale and hearty
as he did when he first entered the low
err branch of Congress as a member
thereof. He has numerous friends i'll
that body aud also in the Senate, from
all parts of the country, and now that
he is among the rejected as a Cabinet
officer, they say Virginia could go
farther and fare worse in searching for
Senator.
Baltimore democrats here to-day say
that five years ago Mr.. Findlay, whose
nomination for the position of arbitra-
tor of the CHILEAN claims has just been
rejected by the Senate, said 1.-THE only
good German was dead German" but
that, unfortunately for him, Mr.. Cor
man is not dead.
There are only six more working days
of the present Congress. 1t is the pre-
vailing opinion at the Capitol that moth
ing will be done with the silver, car
coupler or anticipation bills.
4 northern democratic member of the
House, slightly afflicted with mug
wumpism, and great admirer of Mr..
Cleveland, says from what he gathers
from various sources he believes that
few of those who held Office under Mr..
Cleveland's first administration will be
reappointed, and that Mr.. Cleveland
doesn't agree with them that the whole
democratic party has been struggling
for the last four years merely to have
them reinstated.
Representative Meredith of the Alex
andria district said to-day, I'VE will
have a democratic House and q demo-
cratic Senate, and ! believe we will
have democratic majority in the Cab
met
The chairman of the Senate COM
merce committee introduced in the SEN
ate to-day copy of the bill reported
favorably to the House, authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury TO fix and
limit the compensation of collectors and
surveyors of customs.
There are various plans for the ac-
commodation of the increased number
of Representative in the next Congress
in the hall of the House, but the one
that will probably be adopted is that
which proposes to remove the rail back
of the PEAR row of desks and make an
other row.
Gen. ]. G. Field, the Vice Presiden-
tial candidate of the popuiists at last
falls election, looking at the numerous
stands erected here from which the in
augural procession will be viewed, re-
marked THAT the wood in them would
make five thousand poor people warm"
Col. John Powell of Fairfax county,
Va, now here. who is ninety years old,
when told of the Generals remark said,
s.well, when man changes his politics
he is generally heard from
The crowd on the streets to-day
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