Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
TCouegponderce Of the AerAndris Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. II, 1891.

Gus Of last Tuesday, in that it will be
held at the request OF the House con-
ferrees or TIE tariff bill. Al this eau
Gus The representatives OF the House
will state fully the matters IL dispute;
the propositions and counter propose
tons that have been made in confer
enc. and what the actual situation was
AZ ID. hour OF adjournment last night.
THESE conclusions were reached at an
informal meeting Of the House people
Ibis morning. They met IN the private
room o. the Speaker and Tor an hour
raIked over the programme they snai!
follow. Que OF the number subsequent
* stated to nited Press reporter
tla, earbled and purposely misleading
stories OF the conferences were gwen
on. bv the senate representatives with
view to brfogging the public mind as
to the position of the two houses, and
that the time had Low come when the
House conferrees should take their
brethren Of the House into their cont,
drnce and acquaint them with what mad
been done and what II was purposed TO
do. The House conferrees at noon
went over TO the Senate 70 the com
merce committee room, where they
nave beeu meeting the Senate repre-
sentatives since the bill was sent TO
conference. There they will await the
appearance OF the Senate conierrees II
the latter desire TO present themselves
Il the House caucus be held on Mon
day. a. expected, the conferrees will.
after outlining the situation, ask what
instructions the House may nave 10 OF
fer. This will be in pursuance OF the
promise made by Speaker Crisp at last
TUESDAYS caucus. that when no agree
ment was possible the House conferrees
would themselves ask for caucus. AT
| O'Clock this afternoon Mr.. Charles
Crisp, the son of the Speaker began
circulating the call for the caucus. II
i addressed to Nr. Holman, the chair
man OF the caucus committee, and sim
DIV requests that he will call a caucus
Of the democratic members Of tire
House for 10 O'Clock Monday morning.
The call does not state the purpose OF
the caucus, but the object a. given
above, outlines the programme that
will be followed. The call is signed by
all the House conferrees and Speaker
Crisp. 1t contains upward Of fifty sig
natures and will be signed by all
the democrats of the House.
The Senate conferrees did not 60 near
the conference room this morning, al
though the House conferrees were at
the committee room as usual. and wait
i until after noon day. One OF the
Senate members, when asked about the
matter, said there was no use meeting
with the House members until after the
Senate had taken some action on Mr..
Hills resolution, and probably not
then. This Senator said that the House
conferrees appeared to prefer holding
their conferences with Senator'S not des-
saeted as conferrees by the Senate,
aud until that was stopped the entente
corliale could not be restored.
1t is said this morning that the House
conferrees on the tariff bill have fixed
up scheme for granting the Louisiana
senator's the bounty on this years crop
IF sugar. They have canvassed the
situation and have secured the support
or all the administration democrats in
the Senate. This, for the time being at
east, has weaned over Senators Gait
erv. Blanchard, Allen and Kyle, who it
said, hoping that the bounty will be
granted, will act with others to prevent
uidue haste in anything that may be
attempted to-day. The republicans
sill refuse to vote for the bounty, and
ii Is claimed that the republicans and
the administration democrats will
prevent the adoption Of bounty
| amendment to the bill.
There are ten members OF the House
from Virginia. Four at least OF the
present ones will not be reelected, be-
cause TWO have declined a renomina-
ton, Me-srs. Epes and Edmunds, and
two more, Messrs. Wise and Marshall,
tri~d TO be renomineted, but did net
succeed 1t il common talk among
Virginians here that had the right sort
Of democrats contested the other dis
;ricts, they, too, like Mr.. Elicit and
Judge Morrison, would have been
nominated, not because the present
members are inefficient or disliked, but
for the reason that discomfort and dis
satisfaction prevails to an unprecedent-
ed extent throughout the Virginia dem
mocracy, and they think they will
render their feeling apparent by max
iug change.
The House to-day without objection
concurred in the Senate's amendments
to the Mt. Vernon Railroad bill. All
that is now required to make it a law
is the Presidents approval. 1t is re
ported here that the railroad between
Alexandria and this city will be in OPP
Grafton in short time, and that, too,
via the Long Bridge. 1t is also init
mated that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is now interested in the road,
and that it's branch, the bed of which is
alrc adv constructed from Waterloo to
the south end Of the Aqucduct Bridge,
will be used as the track of the Mt.
Vernon road to Arlington. The sep
arate bill to give the Mt. Vernon road
the right of way through the Arlington
reservation, was called up in the Sen
ate to-day, and would have passed, but
for the objection Of Mr.. Hale, who said
it was such IAN important measure
that it should 60 on The calendar and
be considered in its regular order.
Fearing that the House would send for the
tariff bill AMI concur in tho Senate's amend
ments and thus pass the bill as it is as, bad as
it is, it is better than the Mckinley bill, the
opponents Of any tariff action attempted TO
have the bill locked up in the safe OF the
Senate to-day, but failed. 1t is expected that
the House on Monday will send for the bill
and pass it
As the Alexandria authorities burn up and
sink the barges that carry the garbage from
hcre aud dennsit II near that CITY The ~