Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of tho Alexandria Gazette.

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silver in the dollar at the following ra-
tics: Seventeen to one, 1880: eighteen
to one, 464 40; nineteen to one, 1920,
and at twenty to one, SIG.
Comptroller Eckels was informed OF
the failure this morning of the Union
National Bank, of Racine, Wis.
Joseph c. McAllister, of Pennsyl-
vania, has been appointed member OF
the Board of Pension Appeals in the
Interior Department.
Jasper y. Burks, of Missouri and
Samuel r. Pointevent of Louisiana
have been appointed special agents of
the general land Office.
Mr.. Fry to-day reintroduced in the
Senate the bill of the last Congress
proviliug for the refunding OF the Pacit-
ic Railroad bonds.
Yesterday was payday at the Capt.
tol. The employees formed in line, as
usual on the 18th of each month, but
they received no money. The reason
was that the President has not yet
signed the resolution which was rushed
through both houses, making the nee
essary appropriation.
John 4. Phillips of the 9th Virginia
District has been appointed to a place
as proof reader at the government
printing office at the instance of Repre-
sentative Edmonds.
The first batch of recess nomlna-
lions was sent to the Senate to-day.
There were sixty-six names on the
list which is confined to State and jul
dicial nominations. There are five
ministers, twelve consul generals, five
secretaries of legation, five justices,
seventeen district attorneys, nineteen
marshals, one solicitor, two assistant
attorney generals, and CHILEAN claims
minister.
The total number of ourth-class
postmasters appointed to-day was 6S,
of whom 80 will fill the places of re-
moved republicans. The changes in
Virginia were as follows Cashville,
Accomac county, H. r. Boggs appoint
ed postmaster, vice G. II. Mock, remov-
ed Floris, Fairfax county, Relle Ken
field, vice c. F. Albaugh, resilg:.::ee 1 /;
Loretto, Essex county,. Il. jones,
Fl. S. Route, removed; Mendoza,
Washington county, ]. NJ. Hamilton,
TTic3 J. X. Sproles, removed; Paris,
Fauquier county, Lewis Strother, vice
II. f. Strother, removed; and Piscata-
way. Essex county, r. H. Dunn, vice
Mrs. S. J. Mann, removed.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Daniel in
troduced bill authorizing w. H. Rail-
dali, d. c. Forney, ]. S. Lawrence,
Bcriah wilkins, C. G. Lee, j. L. Barbour
and their associates and assigns, as the
Washington and Arlington Railroad,
to construct railroad from 9th street
to Arlington, by bridge to be erected
at the "Three Sisters"
Senator Hunton has already gone to
Richmond to attend the democratic
convention of his State which meets
there tomorrow. Senator Daniel, and
Representatives Marshall, Wise, Mere
dith and Tyler, will 60 this afternoon,
via the G. & o. K. r. 1t is possible that
Representative Jones may also go,
though he did not intend 10 do so, as
he has heard that the convention may
refuse to commit itself on the silver
question, to which action he is utterly
opposed.
The receipts of the Treasury are now
not sufficient to meet the ordinary ex-
penses of the government, and to pay
such expenses the gold fund held as Sc
curity for the greenbacks has been in
croached upon largely and is now below
the legal requirement.
Representative Meredith was at the
Treasury Department to-day, to see il
it were possible to have Col. l.. w. Reid
of Alexandria appointed to his old place
there, but received little or no encour-
agement.
Among the patents issued last week
was one to John Milton of Alexandria
for locomotive boiler furnace.
Mr.. Frank Hume of Alexandria
county submitted to very painful, but
not dangerous, surgical operation to-
day. He was elected delegate to the
Richmond convention, but, being una
BILE to attend, has appointed his proxy,
Mr.. Charles Thompson, another dele
gate, from that county.
The officeseekers have abandoned
hope and have gone back to their
homes. sadder if not wiser men than
when they made their late second ad-
vance in force upon this city. Even
the Capitol was almost bare of them
to-day.
The executive committee of the anti
silver forces in the House, appointed at
the conference last night, held meet
ing this afternoon for consultation. A
poll of the House has been practically
completed by the canYassers in the
interest of the anti-silver faction,
which is said by one of the leaders to
show an impregnable majority of 81 in
favor of unconditional repeal of the
purchasing clause as provided in the
Wilson bill. Mr.. Harter estimates that
if the House successfully passes what
he calls the danger point of the vote on
free coinage at a ratio of 20 to
l, the majority for the Wilson bill,
which will present the naked ques-
ton of repeal or no repeal, will
be 100 more. Mr.. Bland says
there are representatives who may vote
against the coinage of silver at any spe-
cited ratio who will not vote to wholly
abolish the use of silver as money
metal, which would be the effect, he
says, of the passage of the Wilson bill.
"If there are any representatives from a
silver district who would thus vote"
said Mr.. Bland, "they had better make
terms with the administration, for they
cannot do it without their people,
Both the democratic Senators from In
diana will vote for repeal and all the