Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-01-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1894.


come tax in the House will hold con-
sultation this evening. As said in this
correspondence of yesterday, their. OPP
position to that tax is so great,
that in order to defeat it many
of them will vote against The
whole bill. But the bill, with that
tax in it, will pass the House, all the
same. When the bill shall reach the
Senate it will be referred TO the
finance committee, in which many
changes will be made in it. The bill
will then be passed by the Senate and
referred TO conference committee, IN
which il will remain long time, but
finally be passed, and as passed Will
provide for IL dnty OF fifty cents ton
ON coal aud Tor IN income laN-that Is,
If what Il prominent Senator says prove
true.
Ex-Congressman Libbey of Virginia
is here, trying to effect the passage OF
The ola bill for new postotlice build
ing at Fortress Monroe.
Congressman Sickles, who opposes so
vigorously a small tax on incomes;
draws no less than eleven thousand
dollars year from the government,
first for pension, then for pay as re-
tired officer of the army, and then for
salary and mileage as Congressman.
Mr.. Meredith intends offering an
amendment to the tariff bill increasing
the duty on sumac. Mr.. Meredith has
presented in the House a petition OF
citizens of Stafford county praying that
the tax on pickles be retained.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hunton in
troduced an old bill to pay to the heirs
of Major Tarleton Woodson, of Hazen's
brigade, Revolutionary army, for his
last wears service in that army, 5000
with five per cent. interest from l7S2
till paid.
The widow of the late Com
modore Muse. of the Confed-
crate navy, who recently died at
Rocky Mount, was the daughter OF
the late John f. CAN'T of Strawberry
Vale, Fairfax county, Virginia. She
attended school in Alexandria and at
the Convent in Georgetown.
Senators in positions to know about
the matter referred, TO say that Mr..
Peckham's nomination for Associate
Justice of the L. S. Supreme Court will
be reported upon adversely on Monday
next, and that as the Senate desires a
full bench as soon as possible, that re-
port will be adopted at once.
Mr.. St. Gaudens arrived in the city
this morning with view OF seeing Sec
retarv Carlisle and personally explain
ing his views as to the alleged impro-
priety of his design for the figure on
the reverse of the Chicago fairs medal,
which some prudes in the Senate, and,
strange to say, Mr.. Carlisle, object to
and desire to have draped. This, Mr..
ST. Gaudens declines to do, for the rea-
son that while nude figure, arts
tically posed as in his original design,
so as to convey no suggestion of i'm.
propriety except to the prurient, would
be accepted the world over as symbol
cal of the vigor of the great republic Of
the new world. To clothe that same
figure with breech clout would be
simply to indicate an aboriginal savage
and to destroy all the symbolical artistic
effect by a suggestion of meaningless;
realism.
Messrs. Cardwell and Blackstone, 8
committee of the Virginia legislature
who met here a committee from the
Maryland legislature, 10 decide upon
report they shall make to their re
spective bodies about the rights of their
States to the oyster grounds in POGO
moke Sound and the Potomac, have re
turned to Richmond. Their report will
not effect the oyster question.
Eighteen democratic members Of
Congress from New York will, it is
said vote against the tariff bill if j,
shall include an income tax, but 1t l;
expected that many more republican
members will vote for it, to make the
bill as Objectionable to their rich con
stituents is possible.
The House committee on the judiciary
today agreed to report a resolution
that the Secretary of the Treasury hal
no authority under existing law to issue
aud sell the bonds of the United States
except such as is conferred upon hin
bv the act entitled an act ito provide
for the resumption of specie payments,
and that the money derived from the
sale of bonds issued under that act
cannot be lawfully applied to any pur
poses except those specified therein.
The Haitian Government has given
notice to the Legation OF the United
States in Haiti of its intention to adopt
extreme measures against small-whalers
and other American vessels putting il
at closed ports of that Republic and
presumably carrying on contraband
trade.
Silias L. Lupton, of Virginia, of the
lst Auditors Office of the Treasury
Department, was to-day appointed AS
sistant Chief of Public Moneys division
vice Jerome Wise, of n. y, reduced.
Representative Tyler says that al
though the term of the republican post
master at Norfolk will expire on the
9th inst, he fears it vii be some time
before democratic successor Wi IL be
appointed.
Judge Wright ofTappahannock, Va.
here to-day says he doesn't think Dir
Jones, the present democratic Congress
man from that district, will have any
opposition for denomination next fall
Nr Mcmillan, member of the sub com
mittse having the matter in charge, say:
there will he 20 free leaf tobacco.
Senator CockreIi on the Civil Service
Law.
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