Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-17
the case reversed, and that forty-one,
instead of six, of the forty-seven mil
lion, are illiterate.
FROM WASHINGTON.
+, correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. II, 1894.

+, correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette ]
WASHINGTON. Aug. II, 1894.
Its hardly possible that any more
bills relating 10 the District Of Column
bia will be considered by the District
committee of either house of Congress
this session. Mr.. Speaker Crisp has al
ready announced that the District com,
mittee Of the House will not be allowed
another day, and the calendar OF the
Senate District committee has great
many more bills on it now than can De
The democratic steering committee
held a meeting this morning after the
adjournment of the meeting OF the
finance committee and selected Mr..
White. of California, as the candidate
for the vacancy on the finance commit
tee. Mr.. White was named by the sll,
yer men on the committee, who said
they would not agree TO let any men go
there who had voted against silver N
the recent fight on the repeal bill the
man for that place must be, they said,
a well known silver man and not a
gold bug" When asked this morn
ing if there was any prospect OF ad-
iolruing over until Monday, Senator
Harris replied, with all the emphasis
possible aud few other words by way
Of establishment No; propose, II
possible. TO keep them here tomorrow,
and Sunday too, for that matter, and
day and night, from now until we do
something. and then keep them here as
far into eternity as possible.
Ia his speech III the Senate to-day
Mr.. Hill stated. what was unknown be-
fore. that a majority of the democratic
members of the Senate finance COM
mittee were opposed TO the income tax,
and that in reporting 1t they voted
against their own judgment. lie also
called attention TO the fact that at the
very time democratic conventions all
over the country were declaring for
free sugar. the Secretary ofthe Treasury
supposed to be speaking &C cathedra,
was writing a letter urging the re:en-
ton OF the tax on sugar.
The House committee on ways
and means held short session
today at which the Tarsney bill to put
gilyer-lead ores, where silver is TIE chief
component ofvalue, on the free list, was
brought up. The bill was defeated in
committee yesterday, inasmuch as a
majority of those present were rcpubli-
cans, all of whom opposed it. Today
the democrats were in majority, and
the bill was ordered to be favorably re-
ported by strict party vote. Mr..
Payne moved after the vote had been
AIKEN that a re solution be adopted ask
ing the President to return the bill 10
the House in order that it be remodel
ed. a point of order was made against
it and The committee adjourned.
Congressman Tucker Of Virginia,
who was renominated yesterday and
who returned to this city this morning,
not knowing that the House had ad-
iourned until Monday, says his cousin,
Mr.. Cooke, the populst candidate for
Congress in his district, will not hurt
him, as the democrats there who are
opposed to him, Tucker, would not
vote for him if there were no populist
in the field He also says he will de-
feat Mr.. Yost, the republican candidate,
and be elected by satisfactory major
iiy.
The finance committee this morning
adjourned shortly after meeting without
accomplishing anything. The repub-
icans who had taken over night to con-
slider the matter, decided that they
would permit nothing to be done until
the democrats had filled the vacancy
caused by the death Of Mr.. Vance.
Some of the Mt. Vernon Railroad
people were here to-day, trying to urge
The passage of the bill giving that road
the right Of way through Arlington, but
they met with little success.
Harry Thompson, the long distance
walker, arrived here this morning from
San Francisco, having made the trip in
32l days. He leaves Monday to com
plete the journey to New York.
Congressman Meredith is much graf
fled at the proceedings of the Alexan-
dria convention yesterday, and his col
leagues, Messrs. Swanson and Marshall,
say they were never better treated in
al their lives.
The current rumor at the Capitol to-
day in respect of the Presidents sud
den and totally unexpected departure
from this city yesterday, by no means
TALES with the bulletin issued by Sec
rotary Thurber to the press from the
White House on that day. 1t is now
supposed the President will return
early next week and sign the tariff bill /,
and that Congress will adjourn imme-
diately thereafter.
One of the populist leaders in Vir-
gihia here today says his party will
have congressional candidates in every
district of his State at the coming cleo
ton. A Virginia democrat at the Cap
ito, hearing of this remark, said it was
doubtless true, and that, if so, it would
weaken the democrats still more, as it
would afford the dissatisfied ones, who
wouldn't like to go over directly to the
republicans, an opportunity of doing so
indirectly.
The House Judiciary committee to-day con-
sdered the bill which passed the Senate yes
terday providing for the exclusion and de-
portation Of alien anarchists 1t was dis
cussed in general way and ordered to be
favorably reported by a practically unanimous
vote.
BRIDGES OF EURoPE.-The Fordon
bridge over the Vistula river in Ger
many, probably ranks sixth among the