Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81.

Mr.. Pat McCaull says ne will not
contest the seat of Representative E.
E. Meredith in the iifty-fourth Con-
eress. While believing he was fairly
elected by the people, Mr.. McCauil
saws the returns are in Mr.. Meredith, 9
favor, and by the operation of the wal
ton law Mr.. Meredith holds the certlh-
cate, and, so far as he is concerned, can
serve out his term. He will never bu-
initiate himself and the republicans in
his district by going behind the returns,
and knocking at the door OF Congress
for admission, simply because the
House will be overwhelmingly repub-
l;can. He says he prefers to await the
verdict of the people in 1896, when the
odious Walton law will be wiped from
the statute books of the old Common
wealth" Mr.. Mcdonald, the defeated
republican candidate in the Fredericks
burg district, also says that he will not
contest the seat to which Mr.. Jones,
the democratic candidate, holds the
certificate. 1t has heretofore been
stated in this correspondence that Mr..
Walker has determined not to contest
the seat to which Capt. Smith Turner
was elected. So the contested seats
from Virginia are reduced to six.
No such severe infection Of tempes.
tuous weather has been known here
for many years as that of last night.
The heavy snow fall of yesterday after.
noon was followed by cold rain and
then by biting winds and keen frost,
and consequently the streets and side
walks are laid of in ridges of CORFU
gated ice, which render sleighing i'm
possible and locomotion by other
means extremely difficult. Slight fur
ries of snow prevailed during the morn
ing, but not enough TO smooth over the
rock-ribbed surface of the streets. Of
81 Western Union wires extending from
Washington to New York, only two
were in fair working order at 10 a. m.
The board of directors of the Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat Company
met here to. day, and talked about the
new day steamer they are building at
Newport's News, and which will be
completed by the first of June.
The President told Mr.. Speaker
Crisp the other day that the newspaper
talk about mis- exploits as marksman
amounted to nothing, and that he could
fish, but couldn't shoot, but that it was
worthless to deny publicly his alleged
skill with the gun.
Among the visitors here today is
Mr.. Kirk of the Virginia Jockey Club.
Mr.. Kirk says that though the suspen-
sion of racing by his club was very UNI
fortunate and, indeed, unreasonable, as
the New York Club had no right to
direct the management of a club down
in Virginia, still racing will not be re-
sumed by his club until the first of
March, and not then unless the weather
be favorable.
The Treasury Department is informed
that 100000 in gold was withdrawn at
New York to-day up to u m. for ex-
port on Saturday. This reduces the
gold reserve to SSS, 500 000-
Prominent democrats now here say
the proposition to issue low rate bonds
with which to redeem the government
paper money will never pass demo
cratic Congress, that wants more, in
stead of less paper currency, and that
is opposed to taxing the people to pay
interest on bonds.
The third annual convention of the
American Jewish Society closed here
to-day. when papers were read entitled
A Trial by the Ipquisition in Mexico,
Addresses of the Jews of the United
States to George Washington and his
Replies Thereto, The Statue of Jetter
son in the Capitol, Some Notes on the
Jews in Texas, Five Chapters OF New
York Jewish History, The Jews tf
Richmond, and several others.
Secretary Lamont has not yet re-
piled to the request OF the Washington
and Falls Church Railroad Company
to allow the clay now being taken from
the site of tho union depot near the north
end of the Aqueduct Bridge in George
town to be dumped at the south end OF
that bridge SO as to widen the approach
ii ereto.
II is understood to day that it has
been practically settled by the republic
can majority in the next House that
Mr.. Jenkins, the republican elected to
Congress in the West Superior district
of Wisconsin, whose seat will be con-
tested upon the ground that he is not a
naturalized citizen of the country, will
be allowed to take the seat for the rea-
son that his services in the "war of the
rebellion" override provision of the
Constitution.
The Secretary of the Interior has
concluded to extend the 'outing sys-
tenn" in the Indian schools. This sys-
tenn has been tried at the Carlisle, Pa,
Indian school, and has proven of bene-
fit to the Indians. A certain proper
ton of the scholars, both boys and girls,
are employed by farmers in the neigh.
borhood. The Indians receive q COM
pensation in wages but much greater
benefit by being brought into close con-
tact with the home life of the whites,
and being taught how to work, the
girls in the house and the boys in the
fields and barns. The farmers have
found the Indians willing and efficient,
and the demand for them is now
greater than the school can meet. 1t
is now proposed to inaugurate this sys-
TEN at all government Indian schools,
both reservation and non-reservation,
where there are scholars old enough to
profit By it.
Secretary Herbert has ordered all The
officers of the navy and marine corps,
who are in the city, to assemble at the
Navy Department in full dress at half
past eleven o'clock next Tuesday and
then march to the White House and
pay their respects to the President.