Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexan iria Gazette,
WASHINGTON, Nav 26, 1894.

MI. Hill maze III pam lual ue VIII
avail himself Of all opportunities to de-
feat the tariff bill. But his efforts will
be vain. The sugar schedule of that
bill will. it is expected, be reached by
Tuesday or Wednesday, and when it
shall be completed, there will be plain
sailing, for it is generally believed that
the conference committee TO which it
will be referred will agree to the Senate
bill
Capt. Ike Hill, deputy sergeant-at-
arms Of the House, says if his platform
were a iopted the democratic party
would be solid and would sweep
the Country. Being asked what
his platform is, he replied, the re estab-
lishment of negro slavery, and the abb
clifton of the pension office and the
civil service commission.
1t is reported at the Capitol to-day
that the republican Senators were in
duced to vote for the confirmation of
TAYLOR, as recorder of deeds for the
District of Columbia, by Perry Carson,
the negro republican leader ofthis city,
and that Taylor is not such good
democrat as might be supposed.
Congressman Bourke Cochran, of
New York, to-day made a sweeping
denial Of Mr.. Makers statements
before tio1ire the committee. He claimed
that he had never made such state
ment as that attributed to him by Mr..
Walker or had said anything that
sounded in any way like it. He assert
ed that he had never told him that any
person high in democratic authority
had informed him (Mr Cockran) that
the sugar trust had made a subscrip-
ton to the campaign fund. He said
he could not have so informed Mr..
Walker for he did not know it and does
not know it now He added in con-
clusion that he is not the attorney
for the sugar trust and never had been.
In the Senate to-day a bill was intro
duced extending the track of the Wash
ington and Georgetown cable car line
to the north end of the Aqueduct
Bridge, aud for running the 14th
street cable straight down 14th street
to Pennsylvania avenue, and for re-
moving the loup from New York ave-
nue. to 18th street.
The U. S. Supreme Court to-day adj
iourned until the October term. Among
the decisions it rendered was one by
which the Northern Pacific Railroad
will be compelled to surrender to the
government ten million dollars worth
of mineral lands.
''We have a hard fight before US, but
we shall VIM was the reply made by
Representative Oates to his congress
sional friends this morning when in
Quiries were made respecting the pc
litical outlook in his State. The cleo
ton will occur the first Monday in Au-
gust, and the political fight will, it is
said, be the hottest that Alabama has
known for years.
Congressman Jones Of Virginia and
johnson OF Indiana had spat in the
House last night, in which the former
told the latter even to please him he
would never vote to pension a man
who had been tried for mutiny and SEN
fenced to be shot.
An unknown white man committed
suicide in the Capitol grounds last night.
The body was found about o'clock
tbi; morning by Senate engineer Will
kinson, who was on his way to the Cap
itol. The suicide used 3S calibre re-
volver and shot himself through the
heart. He was about % years Of age,
5 feet inches high, of light complex
ion and weighed about 40 pounds. He
was we'll dressed, but had no letters or
papers about him to give clue to his
identity.
Mr.. Buttz, who was the central fig
ure in the bribery phase of the subject
under investigation by the committee,
was at the Capitol early this morning
after copy of the printed testimony.
He says that he was not permitted to
read his evidence after the notes had
been transcribed, and since reading it
in the committees report he finds that
he has been misquoted in a number Of
cases and that the change in the Ian
guage puts very different construction
upon what he meant to say. The stem
ographer who is doing the work for
the committee is one of the best in
Washington, an expert of many years
practice in Congressional work, and
the committee says it has the utmost
confidence in the accuracy of his notes.
Among the discharged employees of
the government printing office are four
negroes from AleXandria-Green, Shell
ton, Dorsey and Kempt. 1t is under
stood that 800 more Of the employees
there will be discharged this evening.
AT meeting of the Virginia demo
cratic association OF this city, last night,
Congressman Jones and Marshall be-
came members, the date of visiting
Capt. Armes was changed from the
evening Ct the Doth to that of the 2Sth.
SO rs not to interfere with those who
may go to the unwilling OF the Rich
mond monument, and Senator-elect
Martin was invited to address the asso-
citation at any time he may appoint.
The House commerce committee has
ordered favorable report on the bill
authorizing pooling contracts between
railways when approved by the inter-
state commerce commission.
In the Senate this evening Mr.. Vest
made favorable report on the New
York and New Jersey bridge bill,
The trial Of the 17-inch armor plate
at Indian Head did not occur to-day,
the contractor withdrawing the piece
temporarily, pending consideration of
the ACCESSIBILITY of Harveyizing such
heavy armor.
1t is feared by his friends that Mr..
Wilson returned to Washington too
soon after his late serious illness. He
had not fully recovered his strength
when he left the South, and since his
arrival at the capital he has become
somewhat weakened. The congresson-
al convention in his district will meet