Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. %, 1894.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %, 1894.
Owing to the inability of the Senate
finance committee to concede to the de-
mands made by those urging higher
rates of duty and the transfer OF leading
articles from the free to the dutlable
list, it has been decided to hold q caucus
of democratic Senators Monday morn
ING. Senator Butler, ofSouth Carolina,
began to circulate the call for the cau-
Gus after the Senate convened, Il q
number of Senators, prominent for
their alleged opposition to the Wilson
bill. gathered in the Senator's commit
tee-room to discuss the situation. Those
reported to have been present are Sen
ators Hill, Gallery, German, Gibson,
Brice, Smith and Butler. From re-
marks dropped by Senators after the
conference to-day, it is apparent that a
duty on coal and sugar will be insisted
on. and that iron is not to be omitted
in the pressure to be brought to bear
upon the finance committee.
All the executive departments closed
TODAY in honor of Washington's birth
day, though Congress was in session,
four U. S. flags, one to each of the four
points of the compass, flying from the
top of the dome of the Capitol. The Dis
t ct National Guard paraded through
| the snow and slush, and Pennsylvania
avenue was crowded with government
| clerks and school children, all of whom
had holiday. Services were held by
| the Oldest Inhabitants Association and
| the Veteran Volunteer Fire Companies.
Gen. Joseph G.. Breckenridge, United
States Army, delivered an address to
the "Sons of the American Revolution, ="
who held their annual meeting, at
Welcker's. The Third Continental
Congress Of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution held a meeting at
which an address of welcome was de-
livered by the President General, Mrs.
Adlai e. Stevenson, wife of the Vice
President, to which Mrs. Jas. S. Peck,
wife of Coy. Peck and State Regent OF
Wisconsin, responded. Later in the
day a portrait OF the late Caroline Scott
Harrison, wife of the ex.President, was
unveiled.
Colonel Delaware Kemper, recently
appointed U. S. consul at Annoy, China,
wee Hoge, recalled, was at the Capitol
to-day, and was congratulated by many
friends. He will not start for his post
of duly until he shall receive instruc-
tions, which are not expected for sew
eral weeks. His appointment closed
up the consulates to Virainians, that at
Dundee, for which several of them were
applicants, having been given to q
northern man yesterday.
The committee of the Virginia legiS'
lature TO consult with a similar COM
mittee of the legislature of Maryland
on the subject of promoting the oyster
industry Of their respective States, have
arrived here and are quartered at the
Shoreham.
Mr.. j. \. Popham, ext. S. CONNER
cial agent at Panama, but now extern.
sively engaged in manganese and gold
mining near the lsthmus, arrived here
last night, having left Colon on the l4tn
instant. He came 10 New York on the
same ship that brought the crew of the
shipwrecked Kearsarge.
Al the appointment oiiCe VI tue
Treasury it is not known today wheth'
er or not Col. l.. w. Reid of Alexandra
will be appointed deputy register, vice
Smith, resigned but it is said there thai
the impression is that he will be, and
that every body there hopes he will be.
The executive committee of the
Knights ofPythias ofthe world,no here
to make arrangements for the meeting
OF the grand conclave of their order in
this city next August, were handsome.
y entertained by the knights here last
night.
4 subcommittee of the House com
mittee on banking and currency have
agreed to report favorably the bill to
subject to State taxation national bank
notes and United States Treasury notes.
Another meeting of the House com
mittee on fisheries will be held at ten
o'clock tomorrow morning, to take ac-
ton on the bill to provide a spawning
ground for shad and herring in the To-
tomac, by prohibiting fishing in the
waters of the District of Columbia by
seines and nets. Congressman Compton
of Maryland, and Jones of Virginia,
whose districts border on the Potomac,
will be present, and any body from AL
exandria who has any thing to say in
favor of the bill will be heard.