Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Ae1andria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. S, 1894.

hand, that the whole situation Is likely
TO be broken up within very few hours
There was a conference this morning
before the conferrees on the tarlf
hill met. Mt which Senators German
Vest, Jones and Smith were present
and the result of that talk bids falr
if all reports be true, TO bring the pollt-
zeal condition OF affairs to speedy
crisis. 1t is said that the end cannot
be postponed longer than tomorrow
While the journal ofyesterday was De-
ing read in the Senate to-day the three
republican tariff conferrees entered
the chamber and during the next five
minutes Mr.. Aldrich and Mr.. German
were in close and earnest converse
ton. Senator Hill and MIR. Chandler
were also in consultation, as were sen
ators Cockrell and Hale. In fact,
there was a close commingllng OF the
Senators of the democratic and repub-
lican parties, and it was evident there
was something important in the ar
There is a renewal this morning OF the
talk to the effect that the Senate con
ferrees are to be discharged from the
further consideration Of the tariff OH!
This talk comes not only from repuhli,
cans. but from democrats who hold
prominent positions in their party, ana
it takes the shape Of a proposition 10
the effect that the Senate conierrecS
will come into the Senate and
ask of their own volition TO be
discharged. is claimed that if this
is done the republicans, AIDED
bv sufficient democratic votes, Will
comply with the request. After
remaining in conference with the
House conferrees for two hours TINS
morning, the Senate conferrees, having
offered to make a slight concession,
withdrew, leaving the former to ac-
cept or reject their proposition as they
might deem proper, and with the IN
Outstanding that if it were rejected, 4
motion would be made in the senate 70
discharge its conferrees from the FUR
th-r consideration of the bill. Senator
Smith at 2:l5 left the room OF Senator
Vest where he had been in conference
for a long time. He authorized the
abatement that he believed there would
be bill reported tomorrow. DE de-
clined to state anything about the de-
tails of the proposed compromise, but
intimated that there would be little de-
Walton from the main items of the
Senate bill. The republicans will prob
,hlv be notified that meeting OF the
full conference will be held tomorrow,
1t was stated at 2:45 by member OF
the conferrees on the part OF the sen
tie that bill would surely be reported
u morrow. Sugar remains as quoted
in these dispatches Of Friday last-4a
per cent. on raw and 20 per cent. on
the raw in the refined. aud ID Of a
cen. diferen,ial refined sugar. Inc
coal and iron ore schedules nave Dee1
charged -o-ee times today. ou: a. -.
/, was Exv6 = follows: Iron ore. Tree.
aos.!r;@ly. Cozl. % cents Z ION foI
sr= vaa-s ard after me expiration u
TIA; .=-o u years, Zee. The other
i.aus Il loe b;ll arg 5aid 70 be easily
s4,,led anG a.e row under discussion
Congressman Meredith was al the
Interior Department to-day, trying tt
SECURE Z place there Tor q daughter Of
the la,e General 4. 2. Hill, who ha:
,ne highest endorsements from some Of
tn mc=, distinguished men OF the
S3u,h.
The beverage bill now before Con.
yresz, which provides for pouring g
l2rye portion OF the sewage Of this city
mo me Potomac lust above Alexan
d-ia. has been reported favorably by
Inc District committees OF both branch,
e. OF Congress, but has as yet passed
neither house. 1t il not expected that
it will become law at this session, but
it is the unexpected that happens.
The steamer Arrowsmith brought up
from the lower Potomac this morning
about fifteen hundred packages OF
fruit and truck. The buyers immedi
ately started the report that tbs arri
val had glutted the market, the result
being fall in the price averaging fifty
cents per package.
The Senate this evening passed the
bill granting the Mt. Vernon Railroad
the use of the streets in this city from
the north end OF the Long Bridge to Z
street, near the 9th street depot. 1t
has still to be acted on by the House.
In the House to-day, Mr.. Bailey
of Texas, said the committee Of
which he was member felt highly
houored by the opposition of Mr.. eros
venor, of Ohio, to the report it had
made
A dispatch received here from the
home of Congressman George 3. Shaw
of Wisconsin who has been confined to
his bed for several days by malarial fe-
yer since his return from Washington,
is to the effect that his condition is not
improved, and that much anxiety is felt
by the physicians in charge.
The republicans on the floor of the
Senate, as well as those in the galleries,
looked as though things were coming TO
a s'pretty pass" to-day when two "rebel
brigadiers," though one was a major
general, took occasion to laud the Con-
federate troops from their respective
States, in the United States Senate, and
to consume the time Of that body in q
discussion as to their respective gal
lantry.
Littleton c. Dryden, shipping COM
missioner at the port of Baltimore, was
removed to-day and Albert c. Kirwan,
Of Baltimore, appointed to fill the va
cancy. Mr.. Dryden was ''holdover"
from the Harrison administration and
it is understood that he was removed
for cause.
ISGERsoLL AND sUIcIDEs.-A letter from
New York says: Several persons hereabouts
followed the advice of Colonel Robert g. In