Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette

committee, would raise the point of no
quorum on the passage of joint reso-
luton looking to an adjournment of
Congress unless the free silver-lead ore
bill reported from the committee few
DAYS ago was passed. Under the con-
stitution the House can adjourn only
from day to day without the presence
of o quorum. An adjournment for
longer period than one day can only De
had by mutual consent il quorum Is
not present. Mr.. Tarsney was not at
the Capitol to-day, and the correctness
of the rumor could not be ascertained.
A member of the Missouri delegation
was given as authority for the rumor,
which created no little CONSERVATION
among the ranks Of those who are still
in daily attendance at the House.
Speaker Crisp, when spoken with re-
garding the matter, was not disposed to
attach much Importance TO it, al
though he know nothing of Mr.. Tars
ney's intentions. He said that the free
silver-lead ore bill is on the calendar,
and that Mr.. Tarsney had not as yet
made motion to take it up.
Dispatches received here to-day are
to the effect that the democratic con-
vention of the Wheeling district in West
Virginia, which turned down Mr.. Pen
dleton yesterday, defeated a resolution
endorsing the Wilson bill, but adopted
one endorsing the German bill.
So many disturbing reports have
been made as to the effect of disputed
points in the new tariff law that Secre
tary Carlisle, it is said, will make pub
bic an official statement as to his I'M
derstanding Of its provisions.
The Mt. Vernon Railroad people
were again at the Capitol to day to
urge the passage by the Senate Of the
bill granting them the right of way
through Arlington, which has already
passed the House. Mr.. Vest had
agreed to withdraw his objection, eX-
cept for which the bill would have
passed last week, but the Senate was
so long in getting quorum that moth
ing was done before it went into eXecu-
tive session.
The Portsmouth (New hampshire
Navy Yard, in which work was prac-
tically suspended by order of Secretary
Herbert about six months ago, is to be
started running full blast soon after
September 1st The Alliance, ut Nor
folk, will be ordered to Portsmouth for
repairs. A special board of naval
officers will meet at the navy yard next
week to conduct examinations for fore
men, who will select the new workmen.
~ al ion
peared this morning was bulky docu-
ment of 1l2 pages. Eighty-fve ofthese
pages were given to the fourth part Of
Senator Quay's contribution TO the tar
i'll debate-on the 10Th OF June last
which consisted mostly OF voluminous
extracts from the census reports, tables
of the production of crude petroleum
and of the annual export of petroleum
for the last thirty years, aud other en-
livening statistics as to the manufactu
ring industries of Pennsylvania. Eight
pages of the Record contain speech OF
Representative Brosius, of Pennsylva-
MIA, dated as of August IS, 1891, on the
tariff question. 1t is noteworthy as
being largely composed of political
doygerel, lampooning the President
and his party in German, Hibernian,
Western and Down Eastern dialects
1t closes with dreful prophecy against
the democrats, ending thus:
"Novembers blasts will chill their souls from
Congressman 10 buns,
AMI they'll hustle for their cellars when the
BIZ storm comes.
Senator's Aldrich and Quay were at
work this morning endeavoring to
smooth the way for the passage of the
House bill through the Senate that cor
reefs the error made in the tariff bill
relative TO the reblte on alcohol used
in the arts and sciences. Such action,
owing to the absence OF a quorum, can
only be had By unanimous consent. 1t
is understood that if the bill does pass
the Senate it will go back to the House
in very different shape from that in
which it left it. The sugar men will
amend it by lacking on to it, as rider,
the McKinly bounty or the bounty for
the crop of 1894, and it is not improba
ole that other amendments looking to
the protection of some industries that
suffered by the reason of the tariff bill
will be made TO the BILL The House
will then be given the alternative
of agreeing to these amendments or
permitting the error regarding alcohol
to 60 uncorrected.
J. Scott Harrison, the ex-President's
brother, who was nominated by Mr..
Cleveland for surveyor of customs at
Kansas City, Mo-, but not confirmed by
the Senate, owing to the opposition of
the two democratic Senators from his
State, because he voted the republican
ticket at the preceding election, was at
the Capitol to-day, and had long talk
with Senator Vest. As no other name
has been sent in for the place, and as
MrVest has withdrawn his opposition,
it is understood that he may be re-
nominated.
Vice-President Stevenson and Sena-
tor Hill returned this morning from a
short visit to Mr.. Jefferson Levi at
Monticello. Senator Hill says the trip
was delightful one and that the hos
pitality of Mr.. Levi is not only bounte-
GUS but magnificent and that he enter
tains clega atty. Last night, he says,
large number Of the people of Cnal-
lottesville and vicinage rode out 10
Monticello to call on the visitors, both
of whom addressed them. He says he
slept in what is called the madison
ROOM" and didn't sleep well, possibly,
on account of the protection letter Mr..
Madison once wrote.
The japanese legation has received
no news of the engagement between the
japanese and Chinese forces, reported
from Shanghai in dispatches published
this morning, and discredit the report