Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, 1894.

SiIJStU VI GIClGSp az Vic SoD1lO GO-daN
Both sides are confident of success.
Senator Hunton will vote for confrma-
ton. At one o'clock Senator Daniel
told the GAZETTE's correspondent he
had hot decided how to vote and would
not do so until ne had heard all that
was to be said in executive session.
The Navy Department has no adj
vices from Rio Janeiro confirming the
stories that Admiral Benham had or
dered the cruisers Newark and Detroit
out OF the harbor on account of the
spread of malignant yellow fever to the
American merchant vessels at the Gam
boa docks.
The annual convention of the Woman
Saliiage Association began here this
morning with a large attendance OF
delegates from various parts of the
country. The session was devoted to
the presentation of reports and the an
nual address of the president, Miss SUI
san B. Anthony, who stated, among 9TH
er things, hat 4 petition signed by a
million names would be presented to
the New York constitutional conven.
ton in May next for the elimination OF
the word ''male" from the suffrage
laws of the State, and congratulated
the association upon the addition Of the
Colorado star to that of Wyoming in
the flag of the organization.
Congressman Meredith, being asked
this morning if anything further had
been done in the Leesburg postotice
case, said no, and that he had deter
mined TO let the friends OF the two ap-
p~licants, Messrs. Harper and Norris,
each select a judge, and those two td
select q third one, and that the three
shall examine all the papers in the case
and decide who has the majority of the
signers.
In the Senate to-day the bill to allow
the Washington, Alexandria and Mt.
Vernon electric railroad to build q
bridge across the Potomac at Arlington
was reported upon adversely, and the
reference Of the bill for a memorial
bridge at Arlington and for a bridge
across the Eastern Branch, was changed
TO another committee.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices of Virginia were made
today: Abbeville, Mecklenburg county.
II. B. Russell appointed postmaster,
vice J. X. Mills resigned Hagan, Lee
county, HI. Monteiro, vice Jno. Blank
enship resigned.
The case of the government against
Popham, for a violation of the Internal
revenue laws, was again under consid-
Grafton at the Treasury Department this
morning, and though the U. S. attorney
for the eastern district of Virginia. to
whom the matter was referred, decided
that il should be prosecuted, it is almost
certain it will be compromised.
As the tariff bill now stands in the
room of the finance committee of the
Senate, an income tax will be laid, and
a revenue duty be put upon coal and
sugar, that on the latter merely tc
equalize the bounty that will be re,
moved, so that the consumers will moi
have to pay any more for sugar than
they do now.
A transparent, but nevertheless q
provoking, error occurred in q parf
graph in this correspondence yesterday,
in reference to Senator Daniel, in which,
by the omission of the word not, the
whole significance of the sentence in
which it occurred vas reversed. II
should have read that if there were
only n man in the Senate whose vote
could not be affected by any such infiu-
ence, Senator Daniel would be that one.
Congressman Turner of Virginia call.
ed on the President this morning in
the interest of Mrs. Long, the postmas-
ter at Charlottesville, Virginia, whose
reappointment he has recommended.
Her late husband was on General Lees
staff, and she is endorsed by both the
Virginia Senators and by all the Uni
versity professors, but is opposed by
the town democratic committee. The
President was very gracious, and said
he would give the case proper consider
alton. Mr.. Turner has obtained a place
in the Interior Department for Mr..
Twyman of Madison county, and this
morning succeeded in having a lady
from Clarke county appointed to a
place in the government printing Office.
The Virginia section of the river and har-
Dor bill has been completed by the House
committee having that bill in charge. APP
preparations have been made for all the
streams provided for in the last bill, but by
no means as large.
Among the visitors at the Capitol to-day
was Mr.. C~ullingworth, the newly appointed
postmaster at Richmond. He was in the best
of humor, and said that when he makes his
next plum pudding he will send a slice to all
his friends.