Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the AIexandria' Gazette
WASHINGTON. Anril 16.

The baseball season opens in this
city to-day with a game between the
home club and the New York team.
The weather at noon is bright and
warm. The clubs paraded the city IN
carriages headed by brass band be,
fore going to the park. 1t is expected
that the attendance will be between
7 1000 aud 900. The Washington bat
terry will be Mercer and Mcclure ana
the New York battery will be Clarke
and Farrell or Zarfoss.
The House foreign affairs committee
to. dav ordered favorable report on a
Joint resolution appropriating $4,000
to meet the expenses of joint commits
sion with Great Britain for the deter
mutation of the true boundary line be.
tween the United States and Canada
from the St. Lawrence river to Lake OF
the Woods, Mimi.
The Court of Appeals of the District
of Columbia this morning allowed the
counsel of Elverton r. Chapman, the
New York broker convicted of refusing
to answer questions of the Senate COM
mittee about sugar speculation, to file
an application for a writ OF error to
take the case to the U. S. Supreme
Court. District attorney BirDey went
before Judge Cole this morning and
moved to take up the cases of Have
meyer and Searles, of the Sugar Trust,
Seymour and Mccartney brokers, ana
Edwards and Shriyer, the newspaper
correspondents, indicted for similar OF,
lenses. Counsel for defendents ask ed
q postponement until the Chapman case
had reached a final decision. Judge
Cole granted a postponement until
Tuesday next by which time action by
the Court of Appeals on the writ OF
error is expected.
Herman Stump, the commissioner
general of immigration, visited the War
Department to-day with view to de-
termining how far the army might be
depended on to suppress any riot
among the Italians in the detention pen
at Ellis Island, New York. Trouble is
anticipated and the revolt yesterday
has made authorities here apprehen-
siye of serious difficulty with which the
guards at the island may be unable to
cope.
We'll known Virginia republicans,
now here, and supporters ofCol. Lamb,
say the Allan-Waddill crowd have
"downed" them, and that the Colonel
himself has acknowledged his many
indiscretions and come down before the
memorable, as did the coon to Captain
Scott. But they also say, that by
forcipghim to do so, General Allen
has made no friends, and that he, too,
may be compelled to 60 to the rear.
Senator White of California, demo
Graf, says the proposed amendment to
the Constitution providing for the cleo
ton of U. S. Senators by the direct
vote of the people, will certainly receive
majority of the votes of that body, il
not the requisite two-thirds.
Mr.. ]. Ran Tucker of Virginia will
deliver an address before the Southern
Historical Society of this city next
week.
Every thing is now in readiness for
the opening of the race track at Ben.
nings, on this side of the Potomac, next
Saturday, where the betting will be
heavy, and where many of those who
denounced racing on the opposite side
of the river will be interested and ap.
plauding spectators.
Senator German denies the report
that he said Congress will not adjourn
until after both the national cOnven-
tions. He also says that while he will
not attend the Chicago convention,
for personal reasons, he has no reason
to suppose that Senator Brice, ex-Sec-
rotary Whitney, or any other promi-
nent democrat will not be there,
though he has read statements to that
effect in some of the newspapers.
Mr.. ]. r. Mierson of Tampa, Florida,
while on his way to New York, in at
tempting to jump on the train from the
Lunch room at Charlottesville last
night fell and broke his hip. He was
put on the next train, and arrived here
this morning in charge of DIR. O'Brien
of Alexandria, the surgeon of the
Southern Railway in that city, and sent
Oh his way to his destination in as good
condition as possible.
Republicans from the Sth Virginia
district here to-day say that while the
negro delegates from Alexandria and
Orange will not be admitted to the dis
trict convention, they will be to the
State convention, in which their vote
and that of the white delegates from
the same counties will be equally divid.
ed. They also say that Messrs. Agnew
of Alexandria and Wales Of Louisa will
be the district delegates to st. Louis.
The Senate finance committee, to
which the nomination of Capt. ,Fowle
for collector OF internal revenue for the
upper district of Virginia has been re-
ferred, has not considered it yet, and
will not until Senator Daniel, who has
been in Richmond for some days, shall
return. 1t is generally believed, how
ever, and by those in the position to
know, that the Captains nomination
will not be confirmed.
Some of the more sanguine friends OF
the bill for a memorial bridge across
the Potomac at Arlington, say that not
withstanding what Mr.. Hepburn, who
has that bill in charge, has stated to
the contrary, the large number of re-
quests the Speaker has received from
G. A. R. posts in all parts of the coun-
try, will induce him during the latter
hours Of the session to allow that bill
to be called up and passed.
The democrats of Ohio are classed among
the "gold bugs" but we'll known newspaper
man from that State at the Capitol to-day,
says Ohio will send silver delegation to the
Chicago convention, and that Senator Brice
will not be elected delegate to that con-