Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Aexsndris Gazette]
WASHINGTON. Aug. q, 1891.

make living trip to Europe after the
adjournment of Congress. 1t is his pur-
nose to enter the campaign in his dis
trict Immediately upon his return from
Europe. Mr.. Wilson was asked to-day
wnat action the President would take
regarding the tariff bill. He replied
that he had not seen Mr.. Cleveland for
some days, but, in his opinion, the bill
would probably become law without
the executive signature. Should Mr..
Wilson's surmise be correct, an adjourn
meut of Congress will not occur before
Tuesday OF next week.
Among the visitors here to-day are
ex Congressman John Randolph Tuck
er and Mr.. Micajah Wood, of Virginia.
The former says there is no use in de-
nying the TACT that there is new Fir-
GINA, and pity lis, It's true. The lat
t r SAYS there is a good deal OF demo
cratic dissatisfaction in his, the 9TH Nlr-
GINA congressional district, but that he
thinks it will all be disspated when
the President signs the new tariff bill.
General Miles has notified the War
Department by telegraph that another
caisson exploded, similar to that which
caused so much destruction to life and
property in Chicago, but involving no
loss of life, and only slight damage oc-
CURED, during an artillery drill at Fort
Sheridan yesterday. A thorough inves-
tigation has already been set in motion.
Private Secretary Thnrber expects
the President to return to the White
House on Thursday. He may reach
here Thursday morning, but to those
who know how averse the President is
to travelling on railroad trains at night,
it seems more likely that he will reach
the city shortly before II o'clock We'd
nesday night, on train that he has
frequently taken on the occasion OF
former returns to Washington. To
catch this train at Jersey City, if he is
coming down the Sound on the light
house tender Rodgers, he would have
10 leave Buzzard's Bay the same time
to-night. as the Rodgers takes about
twenty hours to make the voyage.
The President is anxious to get back
on Thursday as he has much business
to attend 10 before he lets Congress
adjourn, and he expects to have little
or no rest for the next week or ten
DAYS. He has no idea of staying in
Washington longer than that, during
this summer. Congress is scheduled
10 adjourn next week and the Presl-
dent will probably return at once to
Gray Gables and spend the month OF
September there. He will not allow any
but the most urgent public business to
interfere with his month of vacation,
and will insist that the privacy Of his
sea shore cottage be respected during
that time. Office seekers and people
with any sort of axes to grind will be
expected to keep away from Buzzard' s
Bay and save their energies for fall
campaigning at the White House, to
which the Presidents family will return
the second week of October. Such mat
t.rs pertaining to the official action OF
the President during his vacation as are
of public interest will be transmitted &c
aud given out from White House.
Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson
Senator David B. Hill and chief clerk
John S. McEwen, of the Senate, left
Washington over the Southern Railway
at ll:0l this morning for Charlottes
V lie, Va, where they will be the guest:
of Mr. Jefferson NJ. Levy, at Monti
C clio, the former home of Thomas JET
fe son, returning TO Washington to-
n rrow morning.
At Indian Head proving ground yes
terday there was test of an eight-lncE
proiectilc representing lot of 100 made
by the Taylor Steel Co., High Bridge
y. J. These shells are of the common
variety, intended to contain quantity
OF exp! osiye and TO pierce armor of only
about foug inches thickness. The shell
fred yesterday failed to pass the re-
quirements and another trial will be
made later in the week.
Now that Congress is on the eve o.
adjournment the pressure for office
from the Sth Virginia congressional dis
trict, great as it has been from the com
mencement Of the session, seems TO be
increasing, and, according to 9lr. Mere
dith himself, there were no less than
fifty people to see him to-day, all after
| office.
The House adjourned over to-mor-
row after an unimportant session OF
about an hour to-day. Unsuccessful
efforts were made to secure considera-
ton of several important measures,
chief among which was the Hill bill for
the exclusion and deportation of alien
anarchists. Mr.. Warner objected and
persisted in his objection, not
withstanding the appeals of Mr..
B ,atner and Mr.. McMillin, the lat
ter of whom in answer to question
stated that 500 anarchists were now on
their way to the United States whose
descriptions have been furnished to the
United States officials. He declared
that he was not to be panic-stricken into
conserving that such bill as it now is
should become law. Amendments
ought TO be considered in committee
and presented, ne said, before the
House was plunged into discussion of
the measure. Mr.. Warner is a mug
wump and an anti-snapper, and it is
said the real reason Of his opposition
TO the bill is the fact that Senator Hill
is its author.
The Congressional campaign in the
End Virginia district has already open
ed. Mr.. ]. n. Stubs spoke at Ian
caster C. II. yesterday in favor of the
re-eleetion of Representative Jones.
Argument on the application of Lit
Teton T. Dryden, OF Baltimore, to the
Supreme Court of the District of Co.
lumbia, for writ OF mandamus direct
ed against Secretary Carlisle, to compel
him TO restore the petitioner to the po-
sition he lately held as United States