Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Ale1andris Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 9.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 9.
Mr.. Ike Hill, deputy sergesnt-at-
arms of the House, has just returned
from his voting precinct in Ohio. He
saysthe cause ofthe large republican ma
iority in his State was that nearly the
}nll republican vote was cast til, r. while
half the democrats refused to 90 to the
polls. They did SO, he says, because
the republican Office holders there have
not been removed, though their terms
have expired, and because the demo-
Gratis have not fulfilled the promises
thew made there one year ago:
The executive committee OF the Ma
tional Brotherhood of Steamboat Pilots
held meeting here this morning at
the Metropolitan Hotel. Among those
in attendance upon the meeting were
Cant Davis. late commander OF one OF
the Norfolk line of steamers and Capt.
Geoghegan, his successor.
It is rumored at the Capitol to-day
that the democratic members OF the
House committee on ways and means
will. after the manner of the democrat
ic Senators on silver, essay compro'
mise on coal, and recommend that the
tariff on that article be not remov-
ed, but be reduced from 10 to 81 cents
| ton.
grandson of General sackson. He
was a classmate of General Fitz. Lee at
West Point, and we'll remembers, he
savs when the General, under arrest
for an infraction of some of the rules,
would Joke the corps as they marched
by. He SAYS it seems now to be the
thing to eborn ia the White House,
but that when his birth was approach
ing, his mother was removed from the
White House to the Hermitage, and
did not return until she had entirely
recovered.
Secretary Gresham and Minister Grip
Yesterday exchanged notifications OF
the Norwegian e1tradition treaty.
The case of the five escaped Siberian
prisoners picked up at sea by an Amer
lean vessel may raise question OF IN
ternstional law. The Russian Govern
ment regards these as escaped convicts.
The Commissioner of immigration at
San Francisco has refused to permit
them to land. Under the U. s, law ol-
binary convicts are debarred from
landing, but political convicts are not.
A Massachusetts, democrat here to-
day, an ex-Union soldier, who lost a
leg at Manassas, says the people in the
South have no idea of the intense and
groundless feeling that has been gener-
ated among the G. A. r. by the at mpt
to purge the pension rolls of the names
that ought not to be upon it. He says
the feeling is so violent and unreason-
able that though member of the Or
ganization, he has been compelled to
Stay away from its meetings, les lie
should become inv olved in personal
difficulty.
An attempt is being made gil along
the republican lines in this city TO IN
duce the belief that fear off low tariff
was the cause of the recent republican
groundswell i'll the North. Democratic
congressman here scout such an idea,
and say the more probable cause was
the failure of the President to convene
Congress as soon as he was inaugurated
so that low tariff bill could have been
passed, and its resultant benefits, fall
in the price of the necessaries Of life
been experienced before the late
election. Among those who are OF thl:
opinion is Mr. Sayers, chairman of the
House appropriations committee.
Secretary Carlisle to-day requested
the resignation of Horace w. Bying
ton, collector of internal revenue fol
the 4th (Sacramento) district OF Cali
fornia.
The Treasury Department issued al
order to-day that when a vacancy oc'
curs in the position of keeper OF q
light house, depot or buoy depot
Waterman and the like, it shall be fill
ed by transfer, and appointed by the
Secretary of the Treasury on nomina
ton made by the light house board, o.
q person already in the light house ser,
vice, who shall have become fitted
therefore by long and faithful Oh
especially meritorious service.