Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Ae1andris Gazette
WASHINGTON, Feb. PC.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
IN the Senate yesterday Mr. Brice,
from the committee on interstate com
merce, reported without recommends
,ion the bill introduced early in the
oresent session authorizing the secre,
;arv Of the Treasury to pay the sum OF
500 COO to any inventor from any part
ofihe world who shall, prior to 1871
construct vessel that will demonstrate
The practicability of safely navigating
,bs air Mt speed of 80 miles an honr
and capable of carrying freight ala
The conferees of the agricultural IL
reached conclusion this afternoon,
the Senate yielding the appropriation
n, the extermir alton of the Gypsy
moth. BY the bill the Secretary OF Ag-
riculture can prevent the transporta-
ton from one State or territory or dis
trict into any other or foreign coun-
try of the condemned carcasses of cat
tie which hvae been inspected.
There will be no extra session OF
Congress. Conclusive evidence of this
is afforded by the fact that the Senate
committee on the diplomatic bill have
agreed to recede from the amendment
to that bill providing for a cable tele-
graph line to Honolulu, so as not 10
delay the passage of that bill.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Col. Cab Maddux. He says the roads
in upper Fauouier are still impossible
bv reason OF snow, that only two people
from that section went to court at War
renton Yesterday, and that all they are
doing is 10 feed cattle, drink applejack
and play setback poker. He is here
to attend the Jackson City races which,
he saws, will commence on the first
proximo. He also says ne doesn't
believe there will be any agreement be-
tween the two tracks about racing days,
and thinks that the Jackson City races
ri be run irrespective of the wishes OF
the proprietors Of the St. Asaph track.
The bill Congressman Tucker OF pir-
ginia introduced in the House yester-
Cav evening for making a national
park of the land on which General Lee
was compelled to surrender his army
was referred TO the committee on MIL
itarv affairs, the chairman of which
saws it will not be considered at this
session.
A Virginia politician here to-day,
who has heretofore acted with the dem
| ocratic party, says that in every legis-
latiye and senatorial district of his State
there will soon be an effective commit
tee of a new party, with only two
blanks in the platform thereof, free
silver coinage at sixteen to one, and
free vote and fair count, the latter
o catch the negro vote.
Lieut.. Rochaback, L. S. A., assigned
o duty at the Virginia Military
Academy at Lexington, but recently
ordered back to his regiment by
mistake, will be sent to Lexington
again as soon as the mistake can be
rectifed.
Tomorrow has been fixed by the
House for the consideration Of bills from
the public buildings and grounds com-
mittee. among which are those for the
purchase of the Windsor-Mahone lot in
this city and for a public building at
Viewpoints News, Virginia.
The commerce committee of the Senate,
though IL h as agreed to the Arlington bridge
bill. has not yet reported it. 1t has referred
it to Senators Frye and Washburn who, 1t /;
reported, are holding it up at the suggestion
| of its opponents, some real estate men Oh Uni;
citv. Representatives Wise and Meredith
askel Mr. Speaker Crisp yesterday to allow
the former to call the bill up in the House
but all they could get from him was that he
would think Of it.
The women of the National Council here
are busily engaged to-day behind closed door;
! in electing a president and other officers and
settling the most important question that ha:
| been brought before them-that of dividing
the cou ucil into an upper and lower house
Mary Lowe Dickinson, of New York city, wa:
elected president for the ensuing three years
and Rev. Anna II. Shaw. of Philadelphia,
vice president The council adopted sn
amendment to the constitution dividing the
council into an upper and lower house. A
resolution was also adopted giving the presi,
dent discretion as to the foImltion OF q
cabinet.
The Senate committee on finance this morn
| ing ordered favorable report to be made on
the resolution introduced by Mr.. Wolcott pro-
| viding for the appointment of delegates to an
| international monetary conference, should
such conference be called by any of the
European powers
During the executive session this morning
Tohn Hutchinson, Of Boston, the last of a
family of abolitionist singers, who came to
Washington to attend the funeral of Freder-
lex Douglass was invited to attend. He sang
solo,