Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.


mated that at the end of the present
calendar year the receipts from reye.
lues would exceed the expenditures ny
22i millious OF dollars. Among these
reI,lbIicans is Mr.. Teller, who some
lime ago introduced bill increasing
The revenue tax on beer from 81 to =
ner barrel. Mr.. Teller has been aei-
;ating the proposition, believing 1t to c
a GOOD one. but ne is now inclined TO
let it drop, as ii is apparent to him the
Treasury Department Is determined
mat the revenues shall not be charged
with the responsibility for the scarcity
Of public money.
i meeting of survivors of the Mexi-
can wal was held at the residence of
Mr.. A. NJ. Kenaday, general secretary
OF the national association, last even
ing, to give expression to their regrets
on he loss OF their comrade, General
u. d. Manson, the worthy president of
that association, who died suddenly
from a stroke of paralysis while travel
ing in railroad train at Frankfort,
Ind, on the 18th inst.
Messrs. Belmont. Morgan and the
other New York financiers who have
been here for the past few days con
sulting with the President and Secreta-
~ Carlisle on placing the contemplated
bond issue, nave returned 10 New
York. Mr.. Morgan. it is said, offered
10 place all the $l00,000000 of bonds
abroad, but wanted rate of interest
that would approximate per cent. an-
nuallv. He also wanted the whole IS
sue, and is quoted as saying that he
would only take it on the basis speci-
iied-the whole issue or none. Secre-
tary Carlisle is willing, it is said, to is
sue per cent. boud running thirty
years, but wishes to put them on 3
per cent. basis.
The long pending dispute between
Brazil and the Argentine Republic has
been decided by President Cleveland.
The questions in dispute were original
" submitted to the arbitration of Pres
ident Harrison in 1899 and by him
were turned over to his successor.
Consul General Mason, at Frankfort,
has sent to the State Department re-
port 10 which he shows the effect of
the Russo-G German tariff war OF 1893 81
upon the imports Of wheat from Russia
into Germany, and the promptness
with which they recovered their nor
NAL proportions when the temporary
restriction was removed, and the stead
ily growing importance of the Argen
tire Republic as u source of supply for
the wheat markets of Europe.
Although the bill to revive the grade
of Lieutenant General has become a
law, it has been ascertained that before
General Schoield can be promoted 10
that grade he must be nominated and
confirmed by the Senate. The nomi
nation has beea sent to the Executive
Mansion and Will doubtless go to the
Senate to-day and be promptly con-
lirmed. Uatil this is done the promo
lions from the lower grades cannot be
made.
The President to-day sent 20 the Sen
ate the nomination Of Major General
John McAllister Schofeld, to be Lieu
tenant General.
General Hunton has introduced .he
following bill in the Senate
| y OIL granting pension 10 Jane
Christian Marye.
Be it enacted &C., That the Secretary
of the Interior be, and he is hereby
authorized and directed to place the
came of Jane Christian Marye, only
child and heir of w. S. Jett, late q
soldier OF the revolutionary war, on
be pension roll as dependent
dang to be paid pension at the
rate of thirty dollars per month; also
that the said Jane Christian Marye
-hall in consequence of the passage of
his act be entitled to have and receive
back pay and allowances, subject to the
provisions and limitations of the pension
laws
The cold wave is OF SO general aud
SO severe character that the Weather
Bureau has decided TO issue special
bulletin on the subject. In Washing
ton the cold is intense. AT 6 O'Clock
this murDilg the thermometer regis
tered l 2-10 degrees, the minimum.
At 1890 o'clock it had risen TO 4 de-
erees.
Senator Hunton's amendment to one
appropriation bill, to pay the claim OF
Emmert, Dunbar and Co., S14, 800, hav-
ing been defeated, he reintroduced it
to-day as an amendment to another bill
of the same sort.
The defeat of the appropriation for
special mail facilities between Spring
field and New Orleans, via the South
ern r. R., leaves three million dollars
to be disposed of as may suit the fancy
Of the Postmaster General.
Mr.. j. NJ. Young, the well-known
carriage maker of this city, and brother
of Mr.. w. A. Young Of Alexandria
county, died here to-day. Mr. S. B.
Corbett Of Alexandria county is very i'll.
Senator Hunton tried to-day to get
Mrs. Washington, descendant of the
Cowpens Washington. transferred from
the Interior, to the Treasury Depart
ment, but hasn't much hope that he
we'll succeed.
Corporal James Tanner yesterday is
sued general orders to the Union Vet
eran Legion of the United States in ia
vor of making national park of the
AppomattoX battle field.
The Howgate trial was resumed to-
day, but up to recess nothing new had
been developed.
The death of Mr.. Charles Thompson,
who had many friends and acquaint
ances in Alexandria, is regretted by
much larger number in this city.
Senator Butler, who has the pooling
bill in change. moved this morning that
when the diplomatic and postofice ap-
nrnnriatinn hills he disnncad az IT,