Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette

Senate bill granting a pension OF Sloo
per month to the widow of Gen. John
NJ. Corse.
The subcommittee of the House
committee on banking and curren-
CIV having charge of the bill SUB,
jecting to taxation by States national
bank and United States treasury notes,
has agreed to reportit favorably.
A member of the Virginia legislature,
here to-day, says he thinks the bill for
a railroad from Washington to Rich
mond via Manassas, so as to tap all the
railroads now entering Alexandria, a
few miles west of that city, will pass
The House of Delegates, but will proba-
DIV be defeated in the Senate.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt's speech to the
Southern Club in New York last night,
in which he said that after the wal the
ablest men in the South came North; Of
the Others. those who could earn a liv-
ing went to work and have developed
the industries Of their respective States,
and those who could make q living in
no other way got into politics and now,
in Congress, misrepresent their people,
has created no little stir upon the DEM
ocratic congressman from the section
referred to, and they denounce him
right and left for making any such
speech, and the club referred to, for
a%pplauding it.
1t is currently rumored at the Capt.
tol to-day that the President is again
suffering from an affection of his upper
Jaw, and that his reported ducking trip
will be taken for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the desired seclusion during
which he will subject himself to an
other surgical operation.
MI. Bland said to-day "the people OF
this country will mob the House OF
Representatives if the members don't
do something and do it pretty quick.
They are SEM here to do business, and
they ought to do it. If this thing keeps
up. some crank is liable to come into
the gallery and throw a bomb down on
lis. I'm going to say, if get q chance
this morning, that the actions OF the
members of this House yesterday were
worse than those of a body of anarch-
lists, and that a man who would come
into the gallery and fire a bomb on the
the floor would be respectable to them
The people of the country demand this
legislation, and lift is denied them, a
mob ought to come here and drive them
out of the Capitol. The caucus order
ed that the seieniorage bill be kept be-
fore the House until it is disposed of,
and that will be DONE" The expenses
attended the efforts to arrest some Of
the absentees of the House has amount
ed to several hundred dollars without a
practical result in any case. Several
days ago four deputy sergeants-at-arms
were SEM to different parts of the
country in search of Representa-.
tives who were absent without
leave. One deputy went to Ohio
with instructions to arrest Represen-
tatives Johnson andWhite and to return
by way of Buffalo and serve summons
on Representative Lockwood. Another
started south on a hunt for hessrs.
Clarke, of Alabama, and Houk, often
nessee. The third was sent to North
and South Carolina, principally to find
Mr.. Settle, of the former State, and the
fourth %journeyed to New England fol
Mr.. Russell, of connecticut. Mr.. John
son, otOhio. produced physicians GER
tifcate that be was too i'll to return,
Mr.. White had gone to Florida but his
whereabouts there were unknown,
Mr.. Lockwood was found to be sick.
Messrs. Clark and Houk could not be
found at all, and Mr.. Settle reached
Washington before the deputy arrived
at Mobile. The expenses contracted
by the quartette of deputies were some
thing in excess of two hundred dollars,
besides the expenses for carriage hire
in Washington during the search about
town for members known to be in the
city but not in attendance upon the
sessions of the House.
The House committee on fsherie:
had a special meeting this morning ano
agreed to report ~favorably the bill
which has already passed the Senate
prohibiting fishing by traps and nets in
the waters of the District of Columbia
so as to provide a spawning ground fol
shad aud herring in the Potomac river
Though hundreds of people are directly
interested in this bill, not one of them
took the little trouble to appear before
the committee, and if it hadn't been
for a newspaper mar from Alexandria,
who called at the committee room dur.
ing the meeting and asked that the bill
be taken ur, it is doubtful if it would
have been acted on at this session.
Some of the democratic Senators best
informed ofthe purposes of their finance
committee are confident to-day that
when the tariff bill is reported, which,
they say, will be early next week, ii
will provide for a duty of fifty cents q
ton on coal.
From Leesburg it is learned to-day
that Col. White and Capt. Lynch are
prosecuting their examination of the
applies tons of Messrs. Harper and Nor
ris for postmaster at that town to see
which of them has the larger number
Of signatures, but may not be ready to
report for a day or two.
The committees of the Virginia and Mary
land legislatures that met here yesterday to
agree upon q plan for promoting the oyster
interests of their respective States, accom-
plished that object and will SO report to the
bodies by whom they were appointed. and
confidently expect that their report will be
adopted.
People from the Sth Virginia district here
to-day say it is reported there that the republic
cans of that district will nominate either
Postmaster Agnew Of Alexandria, or ex-col-
lector of internal revenue, Mr.. McCaull, now
residing in Culpeper, for their congressional
candidate next fall.
PLAIN TALK TO HIS LoRDsHIP.-A
venerable and pompous English Bishop