Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-16
From WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Ae1andris Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is, 1894.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. 1884.
Private Secretary Thurber made the
following statement to-day The fres.
ident left this morning for few days
absence under the advice of his physi-
clan. in the hope OF shaking OF an at
tack of malaria, from which he mas been
suffering for several days. esterGay
the attack eliminated IN fever, out
which was under control this morning;
DIR. O'Reilly, his physician, expressed
no doubt that 4 few days OF salt AIR VIII
recuperate the President sufficiently 10
renew his official duties, and ne VIII re,
turn to Washington by the middle OF
next week. He has gone 10 Gray Ga
bles and is accompanied by DR.. . Reil-
*" The President has never fully re-
covered from the attack OF malaria
which caused him 10 make the two trips
in the light house tender Violet down
Chesapeake Bay and outside Capes
Henry and Charles Anxiety over the
tariff situation is supposed TO have ag-
cravated the indisposition, and when
the matter was ended by the action oil
the House in passing the tariff bill, the
relaxation came and made q change OF
air necessary.
1t will be necessary for the President
to be back in Washington by Tuesday
next. The resolution continuing ap-
preparations expires on the preceding
dav. but the sundry civil bill has not
been signed and all appropriations car
ried BY it for last year will cease on
Monday unless the President returns
and gives the bill for the current year
his approval. The river and haroor
bill also await the action of the Prcsl-
dent and there is much speculation as
to whether he will approve it or not.
Many OF the appropriations carried by
it will cease if it is not approved by
Tuesday.
Commander Geo. F. F. Wide, the
new Naval Secretary of the Light House
Board. Treasury Department., assumed
active charge Of his Office this morning,
relieving Captain Robley D. Evans, who
will assume command of the cruiser
New York at New York city on the
Goth instant.
The republican steering committee
held a meeting this morning and decid-
ed that it was unwise TO have any
fur. her tariff legislation this session Of
Congress. They took the ground that
sufficient had been done in this direc-
ton and that it was time for Congress
10 stop and wait until the country had
tested what has already been accom-
plished. The belief was expressed that
the custom of the Senate should prevail
and the four independent tariff bills
sent to committee. 1t might be, said
one of them, that Secretary Carlisle s
fear that there would be deficit would
prove unfounded by the time the next
session Of Congress convened. At all
events it was agreed nothing should be
done now and republicans will unite,
with few exceptions, in voting to
send all these bills to committee,
Inasmuch as the House has thrown
the responsibility OF putting sugar on
the free list, the republicans will throw
back 10 them the responsibility Of re.
pealing the tariff bill just passed. They
will offer an amendment placing the
Mckinley bounty on these four bills
and also an amendment providing fol
The repeal of the tariff bill just passed
TIE republicans claim that these two
amendments can be carried. The House
of course will not agree to either Of
these amendments, and if the Senate
succeeds in getting the pop-gun bills
out of committee for action they will be
killed by being so amended as TO make
it impossible for them TO become laws
| It is not at all certain that the existing
vacancy on the finance committee can
be filled son an hours notice." as Mr..
Harris asserted yesterday. The quo
rum in the Senate has faded away I'M
til it is questionable even now
whether yea and nay vote could be
had. Republicans, if they felt justified
in so doing to prevent further tariff
| agitation, would contest the filling o.
the vacancy. The outlook for vote
on the motion to refer these bills &c
committee to day is good, and it is be
lieved the motion will prevail by safe
majority.
The chief postoffice inspector thi;
m ,rning received telegram from He
le "a, Montana, announcing the arrest
of Charles H. Tyler, postmaster al
H Alton, South Dakota, for money order
{ auds.
Congressman Jones, of the first Nir'
ginia district, who has been renomi
n lted, said this morning his majority
in 1892 was 1000, and would be 5000
next November.
A bill to appropriate enough money
to burn the garbage of this city has
been introduced in both branches OF
Congress, but has not been reported
upon in either. The garbage company'S
people say that unless it shall pass they
will be compelled to continue to send it
down the river in scows, and run the
risk of having those scows blown up by
the health officer at Alexandria.
The four members of the Royal
Hawaiian Commission who came here
to secure redress for ex-Queen Liliuok-
lani, or to prevent the recognition of
the new republic, left for Honolulu via
San Francisco last night. Whatever
the exact nature Of their mysterious
mission to Washington may have been,
it seems certain that it was q complete
failure. Announcements made by in
dvidual ENJOYS that they had obtained
an appointment for hearing at the
State Department turned out TO be un-
true. Only one of them went to the
State Department, and he introduced
himself to Secretary Gresham and was
simply given the hearing in the public
reception room which would be accord
ed to any private citizen or foreign
visitor calling ON nersnnal hnsiness