Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandris Gazette


WASHINGTON, May 16. 1891.
A communication was presented in
the Senate to-day recommending the
site of the old Armory Hall, now used
by the Z. S. Fish Commission, as site
for the new government printing office.
The tariff bill still drags its tedious
way along, and q democratic Senator
to-day said it looked to him as if Con-
gress would be in continuous session
until the 4th of next March, as his par,
ty could not afford to adjourn until
some tariff bill had been passed. Ii Is
positively stated to day that the demo-
cratic members of the finance com
mittee of the Senate agreed last night,
in respect of the cotton schedule, that
they would 90 back TO that OF the Wil-
s,n hill. 1t is also said that the repuo-
lean Senators are divided on the sugar
schedule, and that many OF them agree
with the majority of the House that
sugar ought TO be on the free list.
The Georgians who came here to get
an appropriation for the proposed cot
ton exposition at Atlanta, express them
selves 10 day as confident of success.
The Commissioners of the District of
Columbia, to whom was referred the
bill compelling the cable and electric
street railroads in this city to put tend-
ers on their cars, have returned that bill
to the Senate with their emphatic ell
dorsement.
Senator Hunton told the GAZErTE's
correspondent to-day that every word
of the attempted bribery story, with
which his name is connected, printed IN
the NV York SHn and Philadelphia
Record this morning. is true, but that
there is nothing new in it; it Is month
old. and thai as soon as he heard of 1t
he laid the facts before the democratic
members OF the finance committee
whom be told TO do with them
as they might choose, and that
he also communicated them to half
a dozen other democratic Senators
who are not members OF that COM
mittee. He smilingly remarked that
at first he did feel u little morti-
fled to know that some people be-
lieved he could be biibed.
Secretary Smith has promised that he
will do all ne can to have General
Raleigh Colston OF Virginia, who was
major-general in the Confederate ser
vice, retained in the little Office which
Secretary Lamont has notified him to
vacate at the end OF the current month,
the duties OF which the General is per-
fectly able to discharge, though he is
paralyzed from mis- waist down.
Secretary Morton to day denied that
there is leak in the statislicians Office
of the Agricultural Department where
by advanced information in regard to
the monthly crop reports was sent to
parties specializing in wheat.
VIM. Hayden Edwards, I. 5. Consul
General at Berlin, appointed by Mr..
Harrison and retained by MIR. Cleve-
land, died to-day.
The House committee on commerce
to-day ordered favorable report to lie
made on the Gill providing for the con-
struction of a bridge across the Della
ware river at Philadelphia.
The Senate committee on Territories
to-day ordered favorably reported the
bill which has already passed the House
providing for the admission OF Utah into
the Union as State.
Representative w. P. c. Breckenridge
this afternoon gave bond of 800 to
tue clerk of the Supreme Court of the
District Of Columbia, his brother Brig.
General joseph c. Breckenridge, In
spsctor General L. S. a., giving his
surety for the purpose OF securing an
appeal in the case Of Pollard VS.. Brock
inridge in the District Court of Appeals
On the hearing of the motion for a new
trial before Judge Bradley on the 2Sth
of last month new trial was refused,
and the defendant, Col Breckenridge,
was given 80 days in which to file bill
of exception in order to make an ap-
peal. This bill ofexception can be fled
at any time before the 2Sth of this
month and on Judge Bradley's APPROX
al of it the case will go to the Appellate
Court.