Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
or.csponaence Of the Ale1sndria Gsserte.]
W.cu1NcToN lon. "a.

MIA, UcllNeIcu III enC 1AO'S
and withheld for revision" appears ID
the official Record issued to-day. IL IS
preceded by caption and poetic con-
tribution as follows: Money has been
defined as the wheels of commerce; we
have taken away one-half OF the Wneels
and are engaged in guessing why COM
merce moves so slowly"
.We have read in the lore OF long ago
That symbol of our life below
Is a boat with palsied men to row
And blind man at the rudder."
The alliterative passage in the speech
which excited so much comment at the
time of its delivery appears in the re-
yis-d version as follows: "Mr. Chair
,nan-If have read the Constitution of
the United States correctly, it defines
the position and duties of the chief ex
ecutive and the powers and duties Of
the membership of this House and |
tell you if ever rebuke was needed to
one who has trampled down the pre-
negatives of the people, it is needed to-
cav to that man who has used his infu.
ence, or attempted to use it, to create
himself the sole governing power OF
this nation. applause on the demo
cratic side.) 1t has come to time when
TO be the government of this people re-
ouires something more than combina-
ton of brains, belly and brass. (Re-
newed applause.) The members of this
House have duties 10 perform, rights to
be respected, and are answerable to
their own consciences, to their own
people. and not to the President, and
in the disth ,ree of those duties are not
to be awed into violation of duty by
an exercise of executive powers outside
his constitutional prerogatiyes."
The American Consul General at
Berlin reports to the State Department
that the depression of prices for grain
and other agricultural products con.
tinues 10 agi ate the representatives of
the agricultural and land owning class
es everywhere in Europe, as it does at
home.
The Civil Service Commission Of
6cials say that during the first half Of
this year no applications for the clerk
copyist or the messenger and watch
man examination will be accepted from
Virginia, but that applications from
legal residents of that State will be &C
cepted for all departmental special,
railway mail and Indian service ex-
aminations.
A large delegation from Annapolis
was at the Postoffice Department to-
day to see if it were possible to have a
democrat appointed postmaster at their
town in place of the republican, whose
full term expired last June.
Chairman Soyers, of the House ap-
preparations committee, said to day
that he is opposed to the bill providing
for an expenditure of fourteen and a
halt million dollars for new naval ships
during the existing treasury straits.
Mr.. Hunton introduced bill in the
Senate to-day approprating one and a
half million of dollars for the erection
o. municipal building in this city.
Messrs. Hume and Clements, of the
county, and Reid, of the city of Alex
andria, were at the House to-day, urg-
| ing the members of the House COM
merce committee to attend q meeting
of that committee tomorrow, having
been assured that if a quorum be pres
ent a favorable report will be made
upon the bill for bridge across the
Potomac at Arlington. The bill ap-
propriates 100000 for the commence
nent of the bridge, but its friends will
accept even less sum.
The republican members of the House
foreign affairs committee tried to-day %
have that committee take some lingo
action in the Hawaiian matter. but the
democratic members shut them of.
Senator Hunton ard Representative
Meredith were at the Treasury De-
partment today, trying to have Mr..
Howard Rector of Loudoun county ap-
pointed Chinese inspection agent, but
were unsuccessful.
Mr.. Donovan of Ohio, in reporting
:avorably to the House to-day the res
olution making the President ineligible
to succeed himself, said: The evils
which this amendment seeks to RENE
dy are so well described by Mr.. Cleve-
land in his letter accepting the demo-
cratic Presidential nomination in 1854,
that the committee quote his language.
when an election to Office shall
be the selection by the voters OF
one of their number to assume for a
time public trust instead of his dedl-
cation to the profession of politics;
when the holders of the ballot, quick
ened by a sense of duty, shall avenge
truth betrayed and pledges broken,
and when the suffrage shall be alto.
gether free and interrupted, the full
realization of q government by the peo-
ple will be at hand. And of the means
to this end, not one would, in my
Judgment, be more effective than an
amendment to the Constitution dis
qualifying the President from re-elec-
ton. When we consider the patron
age of this great Office, the allurement
of power. the temptation to retain pub
lie place once gained, and, more than
all, the availability o party finds In an
incumbent whom a horde of Office
holders. with zeal born of benefits re-
ceived. and fostered by the hope of ia
vors yet to come, stand ready TO aid,
with money and trained political ser.
vice, we recognize in the eligibility OF
the President for reelection most
serious danger to that CALM, deliberate,
and intelligent action which must char
acterize government by the people"
The democrats go for Mr.. Cleveland
whenever they get a chance.
Mr.. John Popham, jr., ex-U. S. COM
mercial agent in Panama, has returned
from visit to that country, where he
is engaged in the mining business, and
is now in this city. He, like Mr.. Ash
by, ex-consul at Colon, says Col. Dick
Whitarsnith was nerfactlv right in