Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of tho Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1894.

agreed 10 unite III tHc Suppoio VI WV .Sn
tngonistic clements could be secured.
1t is reported that this schedule pro-
yides for an ad valorem duty on all
sugars, raw and refined, but so worded
that there can be no concealed protec-
ton for the refiners. The diflerentlal
is fixed at rate which has so far been
unnamed, but which is declared to give
the refner the equivalent of the ! now
in the Senate bill. The House confer
rees have made the contention all along
that there was in the Senate bill too
much protection granted to the trust
and that they would be willing to ac-
cede to some proposition that eliminat-
ed this element of doubt and con-
fined its protection to the abso-
lutte specific rate named in the bill.
1t is also said that Mr.. Jones informed
the President that iron ore must stay
where it is, and that the only conces-
sion that could be obtained on coal
was the reciprocal provision, which
did not meet with any opposition in the
Senate. 1t was almost six O'Clock last
evening when Mr.. German left the
room of the Senate committee on APP
preparations and started for the White
House. Mr. German, it is said, never
goes to the White House unless he is
sent for; and this was no exception to
the rule. He was expected, and was
promptly ushered into the presence OF
the President. 1t is supposed that MI.
German corroborated what Mr.. Jones
had told the President and gave him
al insight into the condition of affairs
in the Senate. Mr.. German, of course,
declined to have anything to say about
his visit. A prominent Senator, not q
member of the conference, but who is
cognizent of all that goes on i'll the con.
ference room, made the statement this
morning that there was absolutely no
truth in the reports that the Senate
conferrees were weakening or that they
would relent from the stand they have
assumed. The bill, so far as the maiu
features of the prolonged deadlock are
con cerned, would come from conference,
he said, practically as it went there.
If it came otherwise, the bill would be
killed in the Senate, and this Senator
frankly admitted that there was fear
on the part of the democratic managers
that when they once more get the bill
before the Senate for action on the con-
ference report, that some evil may be-
fall it unless they can get it in parli-
amentary position where it can success
fully resist the attacks of its enemies.
This mornings session of the confer
euce was devoted to q discussion OF
many of the items of the bill that have
hitherto been considered in the most
casual manner These are scattered
throughout the bill innumerable items
that have the protection OF the "com-
bine," and the assault that is being
made upon them is being vigorously
resisted by the Senate conferrees. 1t
begins to look as if an agreement can
be reached on the bill in its entirety. 1t
appears that the Louisiana Senators
have been ignored and the conferrees
are troubled as to bow they can pacate
them for the loss of the bounty on this
years crop, which the LouisianaSenators
insist was promised them by the caucus
I'd upon the insertion of which into
the bill depends their votes in its sup
port. 1t is believed that the tariff bill
has been agreed upon, and that the
House conferrees are only delaying the
public announcement of their agree
me It so as to strengthen the idea that
they have contcnded as long for the
House bill as was possible. 1t is
thought the bill will be reported in a
day or two, and that it will be practi
caily the Senate bill. The belief re-
ferred to is entertained on Wall street,
which responds to every throb Of the
heart of Congress. 1t is reported upon
authority that cannot we'll be doubted
that the conferrees have agreed upon
sugar schedule that changes the
wording of the text and gives the trust
practically what it now gets. An agree.
ment on all items is now looked for not
later than Tuesday of next week and
the final disposition of the bill is claimed
by some to be assured by Saturday Of
next week.
Representative Bland of Missouri in
troduced to-day in the House the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That the committe on
ways and means are hereby instructed
to report at as early date as possible a
bill for an income tax which will pro-
duce at least 500, 900 revenue an
nually and also bill placing ali grades
of sugar on the free list.
The bill appropriating 100000 for a
government exhibit at the Cotton
States Fair to be held at Atlanta next
year was reported favorably to the
Senate to-day.
Congressman Champ Clark of Mis-
souri, will speak at Lexington, Virginia,
next Monday, court day. Congressman
Tucker will not be able to be there.
The favorable reports made in the
Senate to-day on the bills to admit
Arizona and New Mexico to statehood
make it almost certain that botn those
bills will pass at this session Of Con
eress. They have already passed the
House. Th Gre Will then be torty-seven
States.
Surgeon General Wyman of the. Ma
rine Hospital Service has received a
dispatch stating that the report of a
death from Asiatic cholera at Oxville,
H., yesterday is untrue.
The funeral services of the late Joseph
Holt, who was Judge Advocate General
when Mrs. Surratt was murdered, were
held here this morning at the house in
which the deceased lived. Very few
people were present, and no representa-
tive of the army or of the government.
In his case, as in that of all the other
Southern men who took part against
their own section in the war between
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