Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-07-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
ffiorresronaence of the Ale1sndris Gazette
WASHINGTON, July ), 1894.

WASHINGTON, July >, 1894.
A deIeration of Baltimoreans waited
pnou Senator German at the Capitol to-
d.v and presented him with copy q
the resolutions passed at recent meet
ii.s Of The citizens OF that city IL favcr
OF an appropriation ior the proposed
Chesapeake and Delaware canal. Nj.
German informad them that ne would
10 all he could 10 further that object,
On / that 30 T T a. il lay with the Senate
commerce committee. he fell toieTabiy
sure OF favorable action.
Some time ago the House passed q
resolution providing for cooling Its
hamber By means OF electric fans:
When the body met this morning II did
so in the hum OF mill or the roar OF a
waterfall. the cause OF which was puz-
Il. until it was discovered that the noise
proceeded from little brass things on
some OF the mantle-pieces and other
projections on the walls. They certainly
made din, but as they made no wind,
they were stopped al once.
Lewis CT. Stevenson, the son OF Vice
President Stevenson, vino was recently
nominated and confirmed TO an assist
ant paymastershipin the navy, has de,
clined the Office in advance OF his exam
nation. Il is understood that Mr..
Stevenson yielded TO the persuasion OF
his fa.her-in-law to go into business.
Mr.. Stevenson was recently married.
Senator Hills vote against the tariH
bill has set his democratic colleagues so
much against him that some OF them
are talking to-day about excluding him
from their future party conferences and
caucuses.
Alessrs. ST. George Brooks and
Clarence Thomas, attorneys for some OF
the claimants under the French spolia-
ton bill. were at the Capitol to-day,
comforting with the Virginia congress
men about the best way by which pro-
vision could be made for obtaining an
appropriation for the payment OF such
awards in such cases as have been made
bv the Court OF Claims. They were in
formed that tbe.only possible way now,
is to have such an appropriation pro-
vided by the Senate il one OF the gen
eral appropriation bills now before that
body.
Notwithstanding the public efforts
the friends OF the bill for memorial
bridge across the Potomac at Arlington
have made. the chairman OF the House
commerce committee, TO which that bill
has been referred, received dispatch
this morning from the War Department,
to which all such bills are sent, asking
if the committee had ever heard OF q
bill for any such purpose.
The new tariff bill Is not entirely sat
isfactory TO the President, but as ne,
and nearly every other democrat, thinks
il is too late now 10 amend il. and he:
expressed himself TO that effect. the
prevailing belief is that it will become
a law substantially as it came from the
Senate, and that, too, after no long de-
Law. But little consideration will be
given the sugar directors, as it Is now
known that they would have killed the
bill in the Senate il it had been in theil
power to do so.
Congressman Meredith. accompanied
by Cadet John Twiggs Myers, recently
graduated al Annapolis, called upo-
the Presiden; to-day 20 see if the lat
ter. for whom there is 40 place in tn
navy, owing to the large number 0
graduates. could not be appointed I
naval pavmaster. The President talk
ed as If he thought he could be.
Representative Breckenridge. OF Ken
lucky, vas on the floor OF the Houst
| ,o-dav H. returned from heutuck,
on Monday last whittier he Went 4
make 3 few speeches il his district
Al the indications, he says. point Il
hi. denomination beyond shadow OF
doubt. He will leave for Kentucky
again on Saturday Of this week L
s2eak in Bourbon county.
The administration has determined
that the whole military power OF to-
government shall be used, if necessary
10 prevent strikers from interterin:
with and obstructing railroad transpor
tation. and that while being so used j
shall be under the entire control OF |
:. army officers a conference wa
held at the War Department this morn
ing between Secretary Lamont, Attor
ney General Olney and Major Genera
Schofeld. The authorities will adhere
TO their policy of concentrating thH
military strength of the government a
Chicago believing that once the trou
bles there are stopped, the sympathetic
strikers throughout the country vii
cease. This does not mean, of course
that the Washington authorities vii
not pay close attention to the striker:
il other parts of the country.
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