Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
.nrro.pondence of tho AleIandris Gazette,
WASHINGTON Nav 10.

conjecture as to whether or not Mr..
Dupont will be seated. Senator Sher-
man, of Ohio, says: "Mr. Dupont will,
in nv judgment, be seated-assuming
that Governor Watson, when he cast
his vote as Senator, was the then gov
ernor of the State of Delaware" Mr..
Sherman said it was not probable that
Mr.. Dupont would come to the Senate
with credentials signed by the Cover
nor of his State, for it could hardly be
assumed that Governor Watson would
sign such credentials after the position
he occupied in the matter OF the election
Still, Mr.. Sherman, said there had been
c. sas in the Senate where contestants
had been seated pending the decision
of the Senate as to the absolute right
of such contestant to the seat. SEN
ator Gray is quoted as saying that
Mr.. DUPONT will not be seated.
The case promises to be holly contest
ed in the Senate at the first session,
the republicans standing in need
of the vote of the Senator from
Delaware who will succeed Mr..
Higgins. The democrats here agree
with Senator Gray and say
that they are sustained by compare
lively recent precedent in the very
same State.
The United States sold in foreign
markets during the fiscal year 1894
1869 ,204 ,937 worth of American pro-
duets. OF that enormous amount the
farmers of the United States furnished
the value OF S62S, 1863, 03S worth.
The cotton report for the month OF
May relates to progress Of cotton plant
ing, and contemplated acreages. The
amount of the proposed breadth planted
prior to the first of May was 7S.5 per
cent, against SIG last year, and S5.3
the year before, which is ten points
lower than the acreage usually planted
at that date.
As result of the action of the immi.
grafton authorities here, General Mana.
ger Carter OF the Detroit and Cleveland
Steam Navigation Company has di.
rected that all aliens in the employ of
that company be removed and none
but citizens be hereafter employed. AS
this line plies along the great lakes
which border on the United States and
Canada, a number of Canadians will be
affected by the order. 1t is stated as
probable that other navigation COM
panies will take similar action to avoid
conflict and trouble with the immigra-
ton authorities.
A democratic Senator whose interest
in foreign affairs has made him leader
on the floor, says that as soon as the
new Congress convenes steps will be
taken looking to the emphatic enuncia-
ton by Congress of the Monroe doc
trine. 1t is the intention of Senators,
however the House may act, to call for
the correspondence in the Nicaragua
affair, and an investigation may per-
haps be asked. Should the correspond
ence not be furnished, then the Serote
comm ttee will be asked to investigate
the whole subject, and will be given
power to send for persons and papers.
The President has filled the two va
cancies at the bottom of the naval pay
masters corps by the appointment f
Barron Dubois, son of Medical Inspector
F. L. Dubois of the navy, and G. It.
Brawley, son of Circuit Judge w. Ii.
Brawley, as assistant paymasters with
the rank of ensigns.
Gold in considerable quantities is be-
ing exchanged for silver certificates of
small denominations in the Northwest.
The demand for small money is taken
as an evidence of a revival of business
with the opening of spring. The Treas
ury continues, however, to lose gold at
both New York and San Francisco,
where United States and Treasury notes
are being presented for redemption.
Colonel William P. Craighill, of the
corps of engineers, was to-day appoint
ed brigadier-general to succeed General
Thomas Lincoln Casey, retired. Col.
Craighill's promotion has been antici-
pated for some weeks.
AT 4 o'clock the delegates to the
Southern Baptist Convention and the
American Baptist Educational Society
were received at the White House by
President Cleveland, and later were en-
Jertained at the Ebbitt House by the
Baptist ladies of the District of Co.
lumbia.
Admiral Meade's interview severely
criticising the administration, as widely
created considerable excite
ment and comment at the Navy De-
partment to-day. All the higher officials
of the department frankly said that the
admiral had rendered him
self liable to court martial under arti-
Gle 235 of the regulations, which ex-
pressly prohibits an officer to communi-
cate by interview or otherwise any COM
ments or criticism of any department
of the government.
The frequenters of the st. Asaph |
race track were thrown into purturb-
ed state here this morning by the an
nouncement that the New York Jockey
Club had revoked the license to that
track. None of the race horse owners
or bookmakers who expect to 60 on
other tracks subject to the rules of the
New York club, could afford to 90 to
that track, and as the programme for
to-day's racing had been prepared and
there was no time to make another,
there was no racing there to-day, and
the regular race train didn't 90 out.
A foreign hook was re-opened on the
track: however, and quite a crowd
went out to it on the regular trains.
It is said here to-day that racing will |
be resumed at the track next Monday,
rs an outlaw track, as the Western
Turf Congress will not admit to men,
oership any track that has been expell-
I'D from the New York Jockey Club.
All the employees of the internal rev.
,nue service, except the deputy agents,