Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1893.

them do so with the understanding
that the final vote will then be taken
without further opposition. If such
understanding be reached, it will doubt
less mean the passage of the bill by the
Senate, though the opposition to it is
stronger than is generally supposed.
The bill has already passed the House.
and, should it pass the Senate,i it will be
sent back to the House with q request
for committee of conference, in which
tits thought an agreement will be reach
ed upon the amendments made TO 1t III
the Senate.
Mr.. Enloe, who has the report of the
House investigating committee recon-
mending the removal of Commissioner
Raum for crookedness, in charge, told
the GAZETTE's correspondent this morn
inc that he had been assured that he
would be allowed an opportunity for
bringing it UP and having it acted
upon. If so he nor any body else has
a doubt Of lis passage as the proof
against the accused is positive and di-
rect.
Flags are flying at half-mast on al
public buildings here today for the
death of NJ. Hayes. President Harri-
son will not attend the funeral, but he
will probably send Il representative.
This afternoon he issued proclama-
ton on The death OF. NGIayes.
The House committee on territories
to-day favorably reported bill to adj
init Utah as State into the Union.
The State Department is in receipt
of a dispatch from the U. 5. consul at
Chihuahua. Mex, stating that the
America risoner, Charles r. Walters.
who was enced 10 he shot for the
ALLEGED murder Ola Mexican woman,
has been acquitted by The full bench OF
the Supreme Court and set ut liberty.
rs it was found that Walters was limo
cent Of her murder.
DR.. johnson visited Mr.. Blaine nj II
o'clock to-day and remained twenty
minutes. He found the patient sleep
ing and could not say with accuracy
what Mr.. Blaine's present condition
was, but thoughtit compared favorably
with that of yesterday unless nc might
not be quite so strong. IF there was a
change, added DR.. Johnson, it was in
that direction.
As no charges have been as yet
brought against Mr.. Stovall, who has
been nominated by the President for
postmaster ut South Boston, it is said
in the room of the Senate postoilice
committee to-day that his nomination
will be reported to the Senate favora-
bly, and that it will be confirmed.
1t is reported at the Capitol to-day
that Mr.. Cleveland is opposed to max
ing any fight at this session of Congress
for the repeal of the present silver bill
unless success be assured beforehand.
IF that be so there will hardly be q
fight, as both Mr. Teller in the Senate
and Mr.. Pierce in the House avow their
intention of resorting to filibustering,
and express the confident opinion that
it cannot be passed at this session.
The republican Senate caucus, called
for tonight at Senator Shermans house,
has been indefinitely postponed, for the
reason that the social features of such a
caucus would not be proper at time
marked by such an event as the
death of ex-President Hayes, and par
ticularly in Senator Sherman's house.
The only democratic Senators who
voted against the bill to refer the claim
of old Mr.. McGarrahan TO the Court Of
Claims were Mcssrs Caiirey and White
of Louisiana. Mills of Texas, Palmer Of
Illinois, and Walthall of Mississippi.
Mr. Hutton voted for the bill and Mr..
Daniel was paired the same way. When
the old claimant, for though his claim
is old, he is much older, heard that the
bill had been defeated, be burst into
tears and said: Il don't know where |
am to get my supper tonight. l have
lived for years upon borrowed money
and the hospitality of friends, and | am
getting old, very Old"
Congressman Mansur of Missouri,
who has recently been to Richmond,
expresses his surprise that the grave Of
ex-President Tyler, there, should be I'M
marked with monument. A bill pass
ed the Confederate Legislature of Vir-
ginia providing for monument, but
the present officers Of the State don't
regard the action of that legislature.
Passed Assistant Surgeon J. D. Gate
wood has been ordered from the Dol
phin, FEBRUARY 9th next, and granted
leave for two months.
The Senate committee on interstate
commerce to-day began the considera-
ton of the Cullom bill, intended to
meet judicial rulings in the application
of the interstate commerce law. BY
vote OF six to five, the committee de-
cided that it would not consider the
section permitting pooling until the re-
mainder of The bill was perfected.
The Senate interstate commerce COM
mittee has rejected the railroad pooling
provision in the Cullom bill.
The House District of Columbia COM
mittee to-day agreed TO report favora-
bly, upon the Saturday half holiday for
national banks in this city.
As Mr.. Burrows threatened to filibus-
ter on the bill allowing Virginia to set
tie her debt to the government on the
same terms her other creditors agreed
to accept. that bill was not called up in
the House yesterday. 1t was hoped
that the bill for the benefit of William
and Mary College would be brought up
and passed i'll The HOUSE to-day, but It's
friends there, like those of some other
Virginia bills, are not active enough.
The bronze statue of Thomas Jelfer-