Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette

FR0M WASHlNGIUN.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, April "a.
Senator Daniel being asked this
evening by the GAzETTE's correspond.
emit if he was still in favor of the unit
rule for the Virginia delegation at Chi.
cago, replied that he was, and that IN
his opinion the best way to secure mar
mony in the party was to let the ma.
iority rule, and that if the majority OF
the delegates at the State democratic
convention shall be for free silver, it
would be right and proper for them to
instruct their delegates to the national
convention to vote that way. Repre-
sentative Swanson of the same State. In
talking about the same thing soon after,
said he looked upon Senator Daniel as
the leader of the Virginia democracy,
and that if he recommended the adop-
ton of the unit rule he, Swanson,
would support it, as he believed in the
good old democratic rule of following
your leader.
Just before the Senate adjourned yes
day evening, at the request OF MI;
Daniel, the bill appropriating $l5O,ooo
for a public building at Portsmouth,
Virginia, a city, Mr.. Daniel said, of
81 900 inhabitants, deep water termi-
nus, with four railway lines, and the site
of great navy yard, was called up and
passed without objection.
Congressman Money was in his seat
in the House to-day, apparently none
the worse for his little affair OF yester'
day. He says he was insulted, that he
retorted probably little too violently,
that Mr.. Hall threw an instand at him
which hit, and that he threw one at
him which did not hit, and that so far
az he is concerned the matter is at an
end, unless Mr.. Hall shall desire it to
go further.
Among the visitors at the Capitol to-
day was Mr.. Maupin, member of the
Virginia legislature, and the author OF
the famous bill that bears his name
and that was intended TO break up the
old Virginia sport of horse racing, the
constitutionality of which is now being
considered by the Supreme Court Of
of Appeals of the State. He called
| upon both the Virginia Senators.
The President returned from bis
Leesburg fishing trip last night and
slept at the White House, not going to
his summer home. Nobody was with
the party he took with him from here
| except the Messrs. Harrison, with whom
he dined and who at his request, invited
| no other guests. They at first fisbed
for black bass, but having no
success at that, tried trout, OF
which they caught quite number, MIR.
Cleveland the most. The first fish
| caught by Secretary Morton was q
sucker, but no fish of that sort ap.
preached the Presidents hook.
Several Of the delegates to the State
republican convention at Staunton are
! now here, on their way home. They
| profess to be satisfied with what was
done, but it is evident that some Of
them are not. They say that three
fourtbs of the delegates at Staunton
were white men. That such was the
case is thought strange here, as three.
fourths of the republican party in
the State are negroes. They also
say that though the convention was
overwhelmingly in favor of Mckinley,
of the four delegates at large, it elected
two Reed men, and decided in favor OF
the Reed men in the Norfolk district,
| and wouldn't even admit ex-Congress-
man Bowden, the leader of the McKin-
leyites in that district.
The Senate committee on claims to-
day favorably reported an appropria-
ton OF more than a million dollars for
the payment of French spoliation
claims that have been adjudicated by
the Court of Claims.
Congressman Turner of Virginia sue.
ceeded to day in getting the House judi
ciary committee to report favorably a
bill allowing the State courts at Har-
risonburg, Virginia, to use the federal
| court room there until their new county
court house shall be completed.
Thomas Little, of Anacostia, was found
early this morning crawling along the cornice
of the rotunda of the Capitol, which is less
than two feet wide, and fifty feet above the
floor. He was induced to come down by the
way he got there and was then sent down
town to be examined as to his sanity.
Congressman Otey, of Virginia. appeared
before the House foreign affairs committee to-
day and mado convincing argument in favor
of the payment of the claims of the Floridians
for damages inflicted by tho U. S. A. upon
them when their State was Spanish territory