Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-15

The Secretary said the bulletins issued
by his department were worth Infinite
" more than all the seeds that could
be distributed.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations this morning discussed the Mon
roe doctrine, but took no action on the
subcommittee report in favor OF
the reafirmation of the doctrine,
the question being laid over until Fri
day, when q special meeting will be
held. Representative Mccormick, &C
companied by Mr. Neal and Admiral
Irwin, were before the committee in
the interest of the bill providing for the
construction of the Hawaiian cable and
appropriating $4,000 annually for
twenty years to that object.
The President to-day nominated
Chief Engineer George ". Melville.
9. S. Navy, to be engineer in chief and
chief of the Bureau of steam engineer
ing with rank of commodore,
In the Sepate yesterday Mr.. Daniel
introduced bill for the relief of the
heirs of the late Mrs. Mary Anne Ran
dolph Gusts Lee, of Fairfax county.
The House Distric: committee had
The bill for improving the sewerage Of
this city under consideration to-day.
The bill provides for tunnel under
the Eastern Branch and for dumping
the entire sewage of Washington into
the Potomac at the government maya
zine, short distance above Aie1an-
dria, 80 that whenever the wind is from
the northeast all of it that does not sink
will be blown over to Alexandria and
lodge agsinst the wharves and in the
docks Of that city. Mr.. Meredith of
the Alexandra district, who is MEM
Der of the committee, told his col
leagues that the people of Alexandra
had set fire to the Washington garbage
barges that were anchored off their city
and would resort to effectual means to
prevent any such outrage as that pro-
posed by the bill.
In the House yesterday evening Mr..
Hemingway, republican, from In
diana, having said the next President
would place man at the head of the
Interior Department who does not come
from the South and whose sympathies
would not be against the Union sol
der, Mr.. Walker of Virginia, republi-
can, who commanded the Stonewall
brigade in the Confederate army, said
there was no sentiment in his State
against paying pensions to federal SOL
diers, and that there is loyalty to the
Union in the South which cannot be
appreciated or understood by those who
have not mingled with the people
thereof.
The Southern Lyceum Bureau has
practically completed arrangements
with Senator Daniel of Virginia for
series of lectures in the South this win
ter. The subject of the lectures will be
American Traditions. The Senator's
receipts therefrom will be about ten
thousand dollars.
The following changes in the fourth
class postofices of Virginia were made
to-day: Limeton, Warren county Elias
Herr appointed postmaster, vice b. L.
Herr, resigned; Mount Williams, Fred
erick county, c. A. Cammer, vice HIM.
Hodgson, resigned; Opequon, Frederick
county, n. NJ. Hodgson, vice j. B.
STREET, resigned.
Race horse people here, speaking of
the report that the District authorities
will not permit betting at the Ben
ning's track, say that the legal fight
over that mattEr with the millionaire
members of the New York Jockey
Club will be very different from that
with the comparatively poor owners OF
the Virginia tracks,