Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. June Is, 1894.

WASHINGTON. June Is, 1894.
Before going away last night the
President approved an act authorizing
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to
construct a bridge over the Delaware
river between Philadelphia and Cam
den. 1t provides that the structure
shall clear high water by 40 feet, the
channel span shall be 500 feet long, ana
that the draw span shall give an open
iny l25 feet wide. The bridge must be
completed in seven years.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Hunton IN
troduced a petition of the Goodman
Manufacturing Company OF Virginia,
AGAINST the interstate transportation OF
convict made goods.
Jacob S. Coxey and Carl Browne, his
r~eincarnated and leather-coated lieuten-
ant. made their appearance again at
the Capitol to-day, and this time actual
~ delivered the remarks which they
were not permitted to make from the
main steps of the Capitol on May LIST.
At nine O'Clock Coxey and Browne APP
reared before the Senate committee on
education and labor and for an hour
and a-half talked to the members ofthe
committee on the Coxey bills for good
roads and no interest or bonds. The
arguments were in the usual steroetyped
form. Coxcy was mild and gentle
manly in his language. but Browne did
not make so good an impression. An
other hearing will be given them.
Representative Turner OF Virginia
was at the Postoffice Department to-
dav with DR.. Chrisman trying to have
the name Of the Massunutta postotlice
changed to Coots's Mill, so that the sale
of the water of the Doctors spring,
Massanutta, may not be interfered with
by that of the owner of another
spring near that place.
Mr.. Gudger, administrator of the
late Senator Vance, in conjunction with
Charles Vance, son of the late Senator,
have secured from Judge Arm
field, North Carolina, an injunc-
ton prohibiting Mrs. Vance from
interfering any further with the late
Senator's remains. The widow has two
weeks to respond.
Mr.. Brown Allen, q member of the
republican State committee of Virginia
that recently met here, told a friend be-
fore he left that there was no use III
PLAYING against the full hand the demo
Gratis held with the new election law,
and that if there shall be any republi'
IAN congressional candidates in Nir-
ginia next fall they will have to paddle
their own canoe.
In the Senate to .day Mr.. Kyle, from
the committee on education and labor,
made a favorable report on the bill APP
propriating $500, 600 for the purpose OF
aiding and encouraging the holding OF
a cotton States exposition at Atlanta.
Ofthis sum $4,000 is to pay the ex-
pense of removing the main building
erected for the government exhibit nj
the Columbian exposition, or if it can
not be transported, for the erection Of a
new one. The $150,000 is to be used
in the transportation, care and return
of the government exhibit which is
directed to be made at the exposition.
Postmaster General Bissell said to-
day it was true that Judge Woods
name, with many OIL Q S, had been pre-
seuted as a candidate for the Albany
postmastership and had been submit
ted to Senator Hill, who had declined
to endorse it, but it was not correct
that the Postmaster General had de-
termined to lay Judge Woods name
before the President in spite Of Senator
HIPS refusal to approve OF it.
The House judiciary committee to-
day ordered favorably reported the
Senate bill providing an additional cir
cult Judge for the eighth judicial dis
trict. A favorable report was also
ordered on the bill amending the re
vised statutes regarding seizure of dis
tilleries so as to read: mo distillery
nor distilling apparatus seized for VIC
lation of law shall be released to the
claimant or to any intervening party
before judgment, except in case of 4 dis
tillery for which bond has been given
and on showing by sufficient affidavit
that there are hogs or other live stock
not less than fifty in number depend
ing for their feed on the products OF
said distillery, which would suffer in
Jury if the business OF such distillery
s stopped.
The prevailing impression respecting
the sugar schedule Of the tariff bill at
the Capitol to day is that when it shall
reach the House it will be changed by
striking out the one.tenth discriminat-
ing duty, and making the schedule go
into operation at the same time with
all the other provisions of the bill.
Col. Lige White of Loudoun county,
the famous Confederate scout of North
ern Virginia during the war between
the States, was at the Capitol to-day.
and had quite a long talk in the marble
room of the Senate with Senators Hun
ton, Daniel, Walsh, Ransom and other
eX.Confederates with whom he served.
The senatorial sugar investigation
committee has decided to summon
every member of the Senate before it
to ascertain whether he had any con-
nection with the sugar trust men,
whether he has speculated in sugar,
and whether he knows anything about
the effort of the trust to u a change
in the sugar schedule.
EX-Congressman John Goode of Virginia
was on the floor of the House tie day, and had
a long talk with Congressman Edmunds, of
his State, for whose successorship he is 4 can-
didate.
A bill paying f. H. Murrell of Lynchburg,
Virginia, $f,409 for rent of New Orleans
property during the war between the States.
was reported favorably in the Senate to-day.
A bill was favorably reported in the House
to-day appropriating one million dollars for
new government printing office on Arnory