Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
W.ct1INcToN 1une ID 1894

the sources Of their information 10 lne
Senatorial investigating committee Ill
| regard 10 statements about the :
trust and democratic Senators, ana 'he
| United States District Attorney Is eh-
cared in preparing the indictments.
He has notified Messrs. Shriver II ia,
wards TO appear before the rlminal
Court on Saturday TO answer 10 the III
dictments and to give bail or go toJa'l;
Among the strangers at u oapi.ol
70 dav was Mr.. Lindsay, eX-postmaster
et Portsmouth, a member of the repub-
loan state committee Of Virginia, which
mel here Yesterday. He says twenty
two of the members of that committee
we're present at the recent meeting and
fhat General Malone held the proxies
Of the others, and that though those
proxies gave him q majority he refused
t. use them and allowed the commit, e
TO adopt q resolution leaving the call
ing of conventions to nominate candl-
dates for Congress to the several Con-
gressional committees, and to such con-
ventions, the ACCESSIBILITY of making or
not making nominations. Among those
present were Messrs. Martin, Boiling,
Allen, Lindsay, Zirkle, Lee, Ashby and
McCahe. Mr.. Lindsay says the men
who supply the brains and money for
the party are opposed to any campaign
in Virginia this fall, but that in the
negro districts and perhaps in some OF
the others there are aspirants ior Con
crcssional nominations, and that 1T was
not deemed advisable 10 thwart them.
Should there be republican candidates.
he said, the republican voters would
not oppose them, but would not deem
it necessary 10 exert their utmost Ell
forts to elect them, in the face OF the
new election law, which would, OF
course. render any such efforts entirely
useless.
Commonwealth Attorney Johnson
of Alexandria county says he has in
formed the Jackson City race track
proprietors that he will prosecute any
BODY they may report to him as amen
able to the anti gambling laws AT Jack
son CITY. He also says it is his inten-
ton to break up gambling ut the south
end of the Long Bridge as soon as be
can get evidence that will secure con.
v%iction.
Mr.. Villas reported to The Senate to-
day from the committee on postoilices
and postroads, with q favorable recon-
mendation, Il bill making it unlawful
for any person to deposit with any eX-
press company or common carrier en-
| gagged in interstate commerce any OBJ
| scene literature or pictures. The pen
atty is one years imprisonment and
$ 1000 fine.
When opposition TO a proposition to
increase the duty on car wheels was
made in the Senate some time ago Mr..
| QUAY took out the remainder Of his
| speech, of which there are two hun
dred printed pages. The duty on cal
wheels was increased. When the ques-
ton of night sessions was proposed, he
dld the same, and that question went
over. When opposition was made to
an increase in the duty on pineapples
ne did the same, and the duty on thai
fruit was increased. The wool SEIZED
ule Of the tariff bill was up in the Sen.
ate to-day, and Mr.. Quay not only took
his speech out of his desk, but com
menced to deliver it. What the result
will be is rs yet unknown.
Ga the 10th proximo, when the Nir
einia democratic association of this city
will have a day at Marshall Hall, and
be addressed by Senator Daniel and
Representative Marshall, State Senator
Little of Fredericksburg will make the
charge to the knights at the tourna-
ment, and an Alexandria orator, not
vet selected, deliver the coronation
address. a baseball game will also be
played there between the r. x ID. r: L
club of this city and an Alexandria club
The steel plate investigation, so faras
it has proceeded, demonstrates the fact
that some of the governments new ar.
NOR clad ships may as well be covered
with sheet iron as with the plates that
were made at Mr.. Carnegie's works.
Mr.. Havemeyer, the head of the
sugar trust, was examined by the Sen
ate investigating committee to-day.
His testimony was to the effect that he.
like all other persons largely interested
in thetarin, had called on the members o.
the Senate finance committee and tried
by argument to help his interest, but
that he had found less favor among the
democratic than among the republican
members Of that committee, and that
it was very difficult for him to prove to
the former that an ad volorem was bet
ter than n specific tariff.
The President has been made unwell
by the prevailing hot weather.
Official correspondence with Nicara-
qua, made public to-day, shows that
Great Britain will pay little or no re-
spect to the Monroe doctrine, so far as
any of her affairs are concerned, and
that she will insist that the government
of the Mosquito coast belongs to peo-
pie of that coast.
Senator Harris says he has the names
of foriy-three Senators who will agreeto
remain with him in the Senate and pro-
long the session into the night, but that
he will not attempt to effect such n pur-
pose unless the republicans show that
they are iilibustering. Should there be
as much opposition to free wool as some
expect, it is said, the Northern wooden
manufacturer will be shown such
favors as have been granted to the own
ers of the cotton mills, in order 10
gain their support. After the wool
schedule shall have been completed,
the income tax will be the only hurdle
left. and that, it is said, will be over
zone by late session if necessary.
Coxey, Brown and Redstone were ut
the House to-day in conference with
the populist members of that body.
People from Ohio at the Capitol say
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