Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-13

can members would agree to report the
rule, the period for discussion could
probably be extended to five hours, aud
the committee members were advised
to agree with that concession Of time.
IL is now said that at a meeting OF the
committee on rules later in the day
report upon the orders will be author
lied, the republicans securing the
amount of time named for the discuss
ion of the matter. The present under
standing is that the matter will go over
until tomorrow, although the orders
may be reported this afternoon. a Sen
ator who was on the floor of the House
discussing the situation, said that the
passage of the ''pop gun" bills by the
House would be utterly futile. Notice
b ID been served, he said. upon the
House managers that not one of them
could pass the Senate; that even bill
to change the date of the taking effect of
the bill would not be considered. 1.-THE
Senate has enacted all the legislation
on the tariff that it proposes to pass
this Congress, was said to be the an
nouncement O. the Senator who was
speaking for his colleagues to tie n tcc;-c
conference.
LATER.-Mr. Cultivate having re-
turned the committee on rules report
ed an order to the House for vote on
the Senate amendments TO the tariff
bill after two hours debate, and thirty
minutes each on the bills placing sugar,
barbed wire, coal and iron ore on the
free list. Mr.. Reed made the point of
order against the order that it proposed
action on bill not before the House.
Mr.. Reed claimed that in the case OF a
disagreement bill goes to the House
asking conference.
The republicans in the Senate take a
philosophical view of the situation and
admit that the Jig" is up so far as any
hope may be entertained of defeating
the bill. 1t is understood that both the
Hill resolution and the Allen resolution
as amended by Mr.. Aldrich will be left
to moulder in the desk of the clerk.
1t was noticeable this morning that as
soon as the caucus action was known
in the Senate chamber that the repub-
licaus immediately rendered their con-
rratu,Iations 10 Mr.. Gorman-Mr. Aid
rich and Mr.. Allison being the first 10
reach him. 1t is the general impress
sion that the President will approve
the bill, even though it be ''perfdy and
dishonorn to do so.
General Ezeta and the three other
Salvadorian refugees on board the u.
S. S. Bennington will be arrested on n
United States government warrant on
the arrival Of that vessel at San Fran
cisco. Its issue does not signify the
surrender OF Ezeta to his accusers, but
transfers the case from the State De
partment TO the l. S. courts. The war
rant charges Ezela with robbery in for
chilly securing i so-called loan from a
Salvadorian banking institution and OF
the embezzlement Of public money.
The evidence in support of these charges
will be presented 70 the United States
court in California and if, in the opinion
of the court, Ezeta and his friends are
guilty., they will be delivered rs
prisoners to the Salvadorian author
tiles. 1t is expected that Ezeta's at
torneys will oppose the arrest Of Gen.
Ezeta and ask for a writ Of habeas cor
pus on the ground that he has been de-
tanned several months on the Benning-
tonsagainst his will, and in violation OF
law, there being no charges against him.
Among the Nirginians who have been
recently discharged from government
employment here is I. Humphry
Brooke, formerly prominent republi-
can.
U. S. bank failures have recommend
ed. The Wichita National Bank of
Wichita, Kansas, capital $250,000,
closed its doors to business to-day.
This bank is one of the largest in that
section of the country.
The defeat in the House of the
amendment to the sundry civil bill for
the purchase of the lot in which Gen
eral Malone is interested for q site for
a new government printing office, was
due more to the General than to any
one else. He unquestionably got it
through the Senate, but his constant
presence in the Hobbies of the House
aud his efforts to have it go through
that body also, and the general impress
sion that he was the sole owner of the
lot, excited an antagonistic feeling too
strong to be overcome.
1t is reported here from the 1st Vir-
ginia congressional district that though
Judge Sener will not make contest
for the republican congressional nomi-
nation in that district, he will not re-
ject it if it be offered MIN.
Nearly all the Coxeyites have now
| C. hn fau
will soon be gone. Mr.. Frank Hume
of Alexandria county, in addition to
supplying those who have started with
rations, is feeding those who are still
here. He says the regular officers of
Alexandria county would have had no
difficulty in removing them if they had
been ordered to do so, as the poor
creatures were the most unresisting
people he had ever seen. Mr.. Hume
also got permission for them to rest on
Observatory Hill after they had been
expelled from Virginia. The Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, Mr.. McAdoo,
refused to let them use that lot at first,
and il was not until Mr. Hume had
gone to the President and got from him
an order to that effect that they were
allowed to do so.
The company which has the contract
for removing the garbage from this city
say they are still sending it down the
river On scows and depositing it wher-
ever they can whether on the Virginia
or Maryland side. They were on the
Senate side of the Capitol to-day trying
to get q bill passed making an appro-
priation Tor burning it here.
The Chinese treaty which was rati-
fed by the Senate to-day by vote of