Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE OF the Alezandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, January IS.

man recommends piaE WHICH SeS!e
tary Carlisle, it is understood, once
fsyored OF authorizing the coinage OF
al the silver bullion and declaring AID
coming the seigniorage: and that. IN the
form in which the matter is being con-
sidered By the administration, II Is
coupled with the proposition advocated
bg President Cleveland OF retiring the
greenbscks and allowing national
banks to issue notes up ihe par value
OF the bonds held by them. Some color
OF probability il gwen 10 these rumoTs
by the fact that Senator German, chair
man of the democratic steering com
nittee Of the Senate. has been sound
ing Senators within the las. few days
on the probability OF such scheme
passing the Senate.
The London Times OF January 24ta
contained q statement that England
had abandoned the Schoubursk line
as limit aud excluded only from arbl-
tration settled districts: that Is, British
districts: that any proposition on that
line made By Venezuela or ny the
United States in her behalf would be
favorably received; that the door
would then be open for counter-propo..
sitions: that it was no secret that LORD
Salisbury was anxious TO receive and
fayorably consider auy fair and frank
proposition looking TO settlement;
Hon. William L. Scruggs, ex United
States Minister TO Venezuela and now
the legal counsel OF the Eenezuelan
government in Washington. stated to-
dav that that is very misleading. The
| professed abandonment OF the Schom-
bursk line, coupled with the reserva.
ton OF settled districts is, in point OF
fact. no more nor less" he says, than
the reassertion of the Schomburgk line
as Limit, because every available point
within the Schomburgk line, aud Ger
tainly every strategic point within the
Schomburgk line has been settled,
either by mining camps, police stations,
ETC."
A delegation of nearly 300 ladies this
morning appeared before the Senate
| committee on woman suffrage, OF which
Mr.. Call, Of Florida, is chairman, and
some twenty of them, presidents OF as
many State organizations. argued ID
favor of universal suffrage aud The
adoption of an amendment 10 the con-
stitution extending the voting fran
chise to the gentler sex. Senator Pei
fer. who is member OF the committee,
also spoke briefly, expressing his sym
pathv with the movement.
In the House judiciary committee
room this morning Mr.. Blackwell, OF
Massachusetts. during hearing Cd
woman suffrage, remarked that there
had been no system of free schools in
the South until they were estab
lished there by the carpet-baggers. To
this there was chorus OF dissent from
the several Southern members OF the
co nmittee, and there was an exciting
spat between Mr.. Blackburn and Mr..
Washington, of Tennessee.
The subcommittee OF the House
co nmerce committee will tomorrow
consider the bill for memorial bridge
across the Potomac at Arlington, and
w.I, it is generally supposed. agree to
report it faYorably. Mr.. Blanchard
still insists upon his amendment provid
ing that the District of Columbia shall
paw half the cost, and of course have
something to do with the control of it.
and will make speech in favor there
of, but it is not believed that he will
succeed, as both the House and the War
Department want it to be national
bridge entirely.
The tariff bill will not be reported to
The Senate until after the vote has been
taken in the Senate on free coinage
substitute to the House bond bill. Sen
ator Teller said this morning the bill
would pass practically as it came from
the House.
Ex-Congressman J. Ran. Tucker and
bis son, Congressman Tucker, called al
the White House this morning and had
pleasant talk with the President, dur
ing which the latter said ne knew OF
no nan better qualified to write book
on the constitutional questions involved
in some of the matters now ofpubllc ln-
terest than the former.
Mr.. Gail, who is the only man the
labor party can get to introduce their
propositions in the Senate, in a speech
be made to-day in favor of appointing
special committee TO investigate the
action of the courts in sentencing Eu-
gene V. Debs to prison, denounced the
railroads and all corpor- tions, and call
ed Debs great man.
In the House to-day Mr.. Meredith
introduced bill for the relief of the
heirs of Edward 0. Watkins Of Virginia,
for damages sustained by the war.
The House elections committee will,
it is understood, report that Mr.. Miles
Crowley, democrat, the sitting member
from the Galveston, Texas, district, is
entitled to his seat.
The funeral of the late John Tyler of
Virginia will take place at II a. m. to-
morrow from No. 1917 B street s. e.
Argument was heard today by the
z. S. Supreme Court in the suit of the
United States against the estate of the
late Senator Stanford of California, as
stakeholder in the Central Pacific Rail
road Company, to establish his liability
for the debts of that corporation to the
government. The argument was open
ed by Assistant Attorney General
Dickinson, and closed by Solicitor Gen.
eral Conrad.
The House committee on military affairs
today reported favorably the bill providing
for the establishment of a national military
mark at yicksburg. Miss. Fifty thousand dol
lars is appropriated for beginning the work.
A race horse man here to-day says the bill
TO restrict racing to fifteen days in spring and
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