Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Alexandria Gazette ]
WASHINGTON, April 81.

pended-$49.00O being paid TO tne
SCULPTOR and $1,000 in prizes for de-
SIGNS There are consequently no
funds left to provide for the reception
and proper accommodation of the fam
ily of General Hancock or other dis
guished guests, unless the surviving
members of the Second Army Corps
should take the matter in hand and
raise fnnd for this purpose. -
Virgil Conkling, attorney for bill"
TAYLOR, murderer of the Meeks family
of five persons in Lynn county, Mis-.
souri,, applied to-day to Justice Brewer,
of the United States Supreme Court, for
a writ of error to the Supreme Court OF
that State to send up the case to the
Supreme Court of the United States for
review, but the application was denied.
This action ofthe justice, however, does
not preclude Mr.. Conkling from making
the same application to any other JUS
tice or to the court as whole.
Victoria W. Henderlite was appoint
ed postmaster at Singer, Roanoke coun-
ty, Va, to-day, vice Pattie B. Yeatman
removed.
Late Saturday evening Senator Mar.
tin succeeded in having called up and
passed bill for paying Irwin Tucker
postmaster at Fortress Monroe, the
value of the postage stamps stolen from
his Office some time ago, amounting to
nearly five thousand dollars.
Rev. DR.. Curry, an ex-Congressman,
WAS at the Cppitol to-day in the inter-
est of the bill for the relief of Richmond
College, which has already passed the
Senate.
D. E. Award was appointed super.
intendent of the House document room
to-day, vice f. S. Mellen, resigned.
Both are Northern republicans.
An effort to take up and pass the bill
to repeal the statute exempting alcohol
used in the arts from tax was defeated
in the Senate last week, but at con.
ference held by several democratic and
republican Senators yesterday, it was
determined that another attempt to
tax it up should be made. If it shall
succeed, Mr.. Platt will move to amend
it by removing the differential tax on
sugar, and in many other respects.
1t is reported that Senator Daniel,
who is in Lynchburg, will soon write
an open letter in favor of the adoption
of the unit rule at the Virginia State
democratic convention.
The opinion is prevalent at the Cap
itol that the silver men will be in ma.
jority at Chicago, and that they will
declare for free silver and nominate q
free silver candidate unless the gold
bugs get among them and buy their
votes.
The President, as was expected, has
let the agricultural appropriation bill be-
come law without his signature, pre-
sumably because it thwarted Secretary
Morton's purpose to abolish the seed
distribution system. Four other bills
proval, among them the act granting a
also have become laws without his APP
pension of 500 a month to Joseph A.
Cooper, late Brigadier General, US. A.
The season at Benning's has been a
great failure. Even the liberal distri-
button of free tickets has been INSULT
Gent to attract paying attendance,
and though betting is practiced there
with impunity, the opportunities OF
cheating on both sides are so apparent
that few take part in it.
A republican member of the Connec'
ticut legislature at the Capitol to-day
saws Mckinley will get the votes Of
four of the delegates from his State on
the first ballot, and probably of all, il
the indications are that he will be nom.
mated.
White republicans from Virgins
here to-day say MIR. Agnew has been
appointed a member of their State re-
publican committee, vice MIR. Corbett
resigned; that Colonel Lamb was re-
tanned as chairman of the committee al
the request of the Mckinley managers
and that Mr.. Bowden will be the Vir-
gipia national committeeman.
Mr.. Milliken. chairman of the House
c,,mmittse on public buildings, says
there ;s no chance of the passage o.
any bill for a new government printing
office at this session of the House.
It is understood thai Mr.. Lal. Wash
ington of Westmoreland County Will DC
put in charge of the new monuGen'
recently erected at Wakefield, the
birthplace of General Washington.
The republicans of the Eighth Vir.
ginia congressional district, which com
prises the city and county of Alexan.
dria, will, it is said, send to st. Louis
two sets of delegates, one white and
one colored. The white delegation is
pledged to Mckinley; the colored men
60 nninstructed. National delegates
G. Winston Edwards and Magnus L.
Robinson, with alternate W. G. Payne
all of the Eighth Virgins district, have
arranged for conference of southern
colored contested and uncontested
delegates to meet in New York city on
May 14th, to arrange plan of action sc
that the colored contestants get full
Justice.
This was District day in the House
Among the bills under consideration
was one granting q charter to an electric
railroad to run from point in Mary
land, opposite Alexandria, to this city
via the government insane asylum and
the Navy Yard bridge.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on Saturday the sun
dry civil appropriation bill was com.