Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is, 1894.

w ASd1NG1ONs 1AuSo. iOs 4OoA'
The republican steering committee OF
the Senate held brief meeting this
morning at which the conclusions
reached at yesterdays republican eau
Gus were discussed. 1t was agreed in
conformity with those conclusions that
no opposition should be made to-day t. 10
the appointment of Mr.. White, OF Call
forpia, to the vacancy on the finance
committee; that the Murphy resolu-
ton. amended as to its phraseology
postponipg further tariff legislation Tor
4 his session should be supported, and that
the GRAY resolution providing for a
revenue duty on sugar be amended by
providing for the paymento OF a bounty
to the growers.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill. as sent to the President, and which
becomes law to-day without his ap.
provaI, has among its items appropria-
lions of 100000 for Norfolk harbor,
and $4,000 for that OF Washington:
The near approach of the time with
in which the tariff bill must become a
law. if not vetoed by the President,
caused internal revenue receipts to go
up with rush to-day, owing to the
enormous Withdrawals of whisky
from bond to escape the additional tax
provided by the Senate bill. Receipts
today were s., 263, 755, against about
5000 600 Yesterday, and it is expected
that they will be even larger Monday:
1t is said that there is large demand
for whisky by the retail dealers, vino
are anxious 10 escape the payment OF
the advanced price caused by the ad-
ditional tax, and for this reason the
dislillers will not be obliged to store so
much Of the material as they expected.
Senator Black burn sibileted few
words in Senator Hills ear in the SEN
ate Yesterday that surprised the latter
and induced him to turn his back and
walk away. The words, it is reported,
were any thing else than terms OF en-
dearment. 1t is said this morning that
the steering committee of the demo
cratic side of the Senate, though Mr..
Blackburn, promised the democratic
managers OF the House that if they
would pass the German bill, a bill re-
moving the tax on refined sugar
should pass the Senate. The same
committee also determined that Mr..
Hill should not be admitted to the
democratic caucus. The sugar bill that
passed the House provided for the re-
moval of the duty on raw, as well as on
refined sugar. Yesterday when Mr..
Hill opposed and succeeded in defeat
ing the passage of that bill, Mr.. Black
burn attributed his inability to fulfill
the promise referred to, to him, and as
ne, Blackburn, had made it, he was very
wrothy with him, and, privately, gave
expression to mis- feelings.
Senator Daniel, accompanied by his
wife and one of his children, passed
through here yesterday on his way to
Philadelphia. He expects to return in
day or two.
Every body in and about the Capitol
and none more than the Senator's and
Representatives,, is tired, and wants to
get away from here as soon as possible
and all that prevents an immediate aG-
iournment is the delay of the President
iu signing the tariff bill. The Senate
to-day showed its desire to adjourn by
the decisive majority it gave against
any further tariff legisl;t Ga at this SIS
sion of Congress.
The Secretary of the Interior has approved
he dismissal of S4 clerks in the Census
Bureau partly on account of the completion
of the work upon which they were engaged
and also because of the condition of the fund;
under the control Of the Supe rintecdent
Census