Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-23

of Congress called to his invention and
states that it will do away with battle
ships. He asserts that his machine
will 90 from one TO three hundred
miles per hour and carry more than
its weight. He wants $50, OOo,-
900 for it and thinks this an insufficient
sum, but says half a loaf is better than
no bread.
At the opening session of the annual
convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association to-day
over 100 delegates were in attendance.
Susan B. Anthony called the meeting
to order. The report of Rachel Avery
Foster, of Philadelphia, corresponding
secretary, gave many indications OF the
practical success of the movement anu
instanced particularly the case of Utah,
which was held to demonstrate the adj
visibility of securing he aid ofpolitlcal
parties through planks in their plat
forms. She declared that there were
now six Senators from three States on
the floor of Congress who stood there
with an ever present sense that an I'M.
portant part Of their constituents are OF
the female sex. Mrs. Foster paid her
respects to the so.called woman's Bible.
The morning session of the Free Sill
YER Conference was wholly given over
to acrimonious debate between the pop
ulists and silver men. The discussion
was provoked by he.declaration OF ex-
Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, who
has come out squarely as q candidate
for the Presidential nomination on the
silver ticket, and who in an impasslon-
ed speech had blamed the populists for
the defeat "of that sterling silver sdvo.
cate, Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky
Ex.Vice Presidential candidate Field, OF
the popullst party, vigorously combat
ted MIR. Hatch's statements this morn
ing and caused considerable excitement
and bad feeling by his pointed refer
ences to influences exerted in the Ken
lucky campaign by President Cleye-
land, Secretary Carlisle and others.
Amid frequent Interruptions and much
enthusiasm, Mr.. Hatch replied in bis
own defense and holly reiterated his
criticisms of the populists' action in
putting ticket il the field which had
barely drawn enough votes from the
democracy to elect single gold-stand-
ard republican. Senator Marion But
Ter, of North Carolina, repudated the
alleged facts set forth by MIR. Hatch.
He had been present in Kentucky be-
fore the campaign and declared that bis
party had not decided to enter the con-
test until after the democrats had put
up a straddling platform endorsing q
bond-issuing administration.
In the House yesterday evening MIR;
Walker of Virginia introduced e bill
authorizing the Board of Public Works
of Virginia to sell to the U. S. govern,
ment on the best terms that can be
agreed upon the property in Wythe
county, Virginia, now under lease to
that government as a fish culture sta
ton ne also introduced bill making
it misdemesnor, punishable by fine
aud Imprisonment for any person ito
place, discharge, or deposit, ny any
process or in any manner, ballast,
refuse, dirt, ashes, cinders, mud, sand,
dredgings, sludge, acid, or any other
matter of any kind other than that
flowing from streets, sewers, and pass
ing therefrom in a liquid state, in the
waters of any barbor or river of the
United States for the improvement OF
which money has been appropriated by
Congress, elsewhere than within the
limits defined and permitted by the
Secretary of War; neither shall it be
lawful for any person or persons to
move, destroy, or injure in any manner
whatever any sea wall, bulkhead, jetty
dixie, levee, wharf, pier, or other work
built by the United States, in whole or
in any part, for the preservation and
Improvement of any Of its navig bl :
waters, or to prevent floods, or rs
boundary marks, tide gauges, survey
ing stations, buoys, or other establish
ed marks"
Among the Virginians present at the
silver meeting here are Messrs. Robert
and Bradshaw Beverly, Porter, Mason,
General Field and few others. Some
of the Younger men present, while pro-
nounced in the advocacy of the white
metal, don't seem to be at ease, and say
they are democrats all the same.
Mr.. Tyler, who is dying here, is the
Oldest living but the second, son of Pres
ident Tyler by his first wife, who was
Miss Christian.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Vest, from
the committee on commerce, reported
favorably bill appropriating 100000
for making soundings, borings, designs
and estimates for memorial bridge
across the Potomac from Observatory
Hill, in this city, to Arlington Heights,
in Alexandria county. 1t was accom-
panied by strong recommendation
from the Secretary of War. Mr.. Mar
tin introduced bill to pay the es-
tate of Chas. N. Gregory of Alexandria
$500, with interest at five per cent, for
the purchase of real estate in that city
at a confscation sale; also one to re.
fund to Theodore iced the purchase
money at similar sale; also one for
the relief of the trustees of Mt. Olivet
Church, near Balls Cross Roads, in
Alexandria county, which church was
destroyed by federal soldiers; also one
for the survey of the western branch of
Elizabeth river; also one to pay ].
Henry Rives of Lypchburg $3.50 for ex-
penses incurred in the arrest of j. G.
Henry, deputy internal revenue COL
lector.
VIM. W. Upton, Second Comptroller
of the Treasury during the Hayes ad
ministration, died here to day.
Senator Davis. author of the resolutions on
the Monroe doctrine, which the President, &C.
cording to the statements attributed to Sena-
tor Smith by New York paper, has criticised