Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WAauurcroN Nnu Ia 1894

lOOfTe6pOQQ6uC6 VI tuc 'nIN'~'I
WASHINGTON. Nov. IA, 1894.
e Senator Ransom says the story print
ed in a newspaper of this city this
morning, to the effect that the old legs
lature of his State will be convened Tor
the purpose of electiug two democratic
u. S. Senators before q new one can
meet and elect republican and popullst
fusion Senators, is absurd and not
worth the trouble of denying it. He
would scorn to be party to any such
trick if it were possible, but it is not, as
the Governor would not think of con-
yening legislature for such purpose,
but if he should, the legal body that
would meet would be the one
lust elected, and it certainly is not such
3 desirable one that any dem.
ocrat would hasten its approach.
The Senator also says he puts no rell-
ance in the report of the likelihood OF
the organization of the Senate by the
populist and silver Senators. He says
the Senate will not be reorganized I'M
Ill December 1895, and by that time,
il seems to him, the conservative repub,
lican and democratic Senators will be
wise enough to come to some arrange
ment by which the populists will not
be factors in the organization of that
body. But, said he, all this is matter
of the future, and upon it neither the
democratic Senators here nor any
where else have had any conference OF
consultation.
A Capitol clerk just returned from
Texas, TO which State he went to vote,
saws the main cause of the small demo
cratic vote there is located in the
White House. A distinguished U. s
Senator. now here, when told of this to
day, said, well there were other causes
in nv State, bnt that was the main
one, and but for that the others would
have been ineffective.
Attorney General Olney has decided
that salt imported from Germany is
dutiable under the present tariff act
1t is said here that the rumors about
the attempt of the President to force
Secretary Carlisle to resign are without
the slightest foundation, and that the
fact is that Mr.. Cleveland's relations
with the Secretary are closer than with
any other member Of the Cabinet
From present indications, if any Cabinet
officer shall resign, he will be Attorney
General Olney.
People from Leesburg, Virginia, here
to-day say the prohibition law will be
submitted to the voters there next
month, and that disinterested men there
say it will be adopted. They also say the
town is by no means too prosperous OF
attractive now, but will be even less SC
If strangers who 60 there be prohibited
from getting drink when they want
one. OF course, they say, the residents
will not suffer, as they will get theil
supplies in packages from this city OF
Alexandria.
The President to-day designated As
.istant Secretary Charles Sumner Ham
lin of the Treasury Department to ACT
for six months as Secretary ofthe Treas
ury, in the absence of Secretary Carlisle
from the department. Secretary Car
Isle today began the personal prepare
ton of his annual report to Congress
and during the writing of it, which viii
require a week or ten days, will deny
himself to all visitors.
Among the visitors here to, day is Mr.
CAST of Norfolk, ex.U. S. supervising
inspector of steamboats, at that city
and a pronounced republican. He say!
no less than eight thousand ballots were
thrown out in the Norfolk district a
the late election, and that Mr.. Boreland
the defeated republican candidate, wa:
fairly elected and will be seated. HI
does not say, however, that the reject
ed ballots were not defective, aud that
under the election law, they should no
| have been thrown out.
Judge Nicol of the Virginia Circus
Court, here to-day, says the election
law is an excellent law, and that it wa
to secure perfectly fair elections that hi
advocated it when he was member o
the legislature of his State. 1t effectu
ally does away with the use of money
for bribery at elections, prevents The
annoyance of voters on their way t
and at the polls, and affords every vote
an opportunity to cast just such bal
lot as may suit him.
1t is known here that certain Wal
street bankers we're informed weel
ago that new issue of bonds would b.
made, and they profted by that knowl
edge to no small amount.
A prominent real estate agent here
says the President is very rich man
richer than anybody supposes, and tina
all his investments have been exceed
ingly profitable. When Mr.. Cleveland
came here two years ago he was poo
man.
Senator Sherman says ''events have
transpired since adjournment that may
cause much pressure in the direction o.
silver legislation. The silver men il
this Congress are strongerju just now thar
they have been in the past and stronger
as 1 view it, than they will be in the
future. The desire to force the issue
and the further wish, possibly, to en-
barrass the President by compelling hin
to veto free coinage bill, may be s
potent factor in controlling legislation.
THE EIGHTH DIsTRIcT.-The follow
ing is the vote cast at the election OF
the 9th instant for Congressman in thi'