Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-06
,entstiyes Of tl,is government in Cuba,

sentatiyes of this government in Cuba,
and because Spain would very proper
" refuse to allow any such commission
to set foot on Cuban soil.
People from Kentucky now here say
they don't think it probable that
the legislature of their State will elect
a U. s. Senator, as the session thereof
Il soon close. They also say the
President has so divided the democrat
ic party in their State that it will not
be reunited for years, if ever. Demo-
Gratis from Maryland talk the same way.
nIr. Speaker Ryan and Messrs. Pill
cher. Turner and Jackson, members OF
the Virginia legislature, which has just
adjourned, were at the Capitol to-day.
Chairman Mccall of the elections
committee OF the House to which the
Virginia contested cases were referred,
saws those cases will not be decided by
the committee next week, and probably
n ot in the succeeding week.
Race horse talk here is to the effect
at the Maupin bill is full of holes Dig
enough for a whole field to run through:
and was known to be so by those who
passed it, and that, therefore, the only
ress on that may prevent racing in Nir-
sinia under the old conditions, vii! be
the indisposition of the proprletors OF
the tracks to open them.
The President and his wife and
mother-in.law occupied box at the
opera last night, but their presence re-
ceived no apparent special recognition.
&c. Cline was appointed postmaster
at Greenmount, Rockingham county,
Va, to-day, yiceJ b. Swsnk, resigned;
Congressman Tyler to-day presented
to the House commerce committee the
resolution of the Chamber of Commerce,
of Norfolk, in opposition TO the bill for
the repeal of the compulsory pilotage
law.
The Senate yesterday evening pass
ed the bill TO pay the Potomac Steam
boat Company 1901, the amount that
company had TO pay the Baker Salvage
Company, of Norfolk. for raising the
steamer Excelsior, that was sunk by
the q. S. boat Fortune iu Hampton
Roads.
In the House to day Mr.. Otey of Vir-
sinia presented a petition from Ran
dolDh Macon College in favor of arbi-
tration as means of settling all inter-
national disputes.
Some OF the gold-money Virginia
democrats now here are afraid that the
silver question may cause trouble In
their coming State convention, but the
silverites say they will have such ma
jority in that convention that there can
be no trouble whatever.
People from North Carolina now
h, re say that Senator Butler from that
State. By giving an 81 500 position in
the Senate to democratic populist, IL
stead of to republican, as he had
promised to do, has severed the ties
that bound the populists and the re-
publicans in that State.
The District Commissioners having
refused to allow the electric company
of this city TO erect new pole at the
corner Of Pennsylvania avenue and 10Th
street, 10 place of the old Que there, the
company, before the police relief came
on this morning, made the change. 10
defiance of that refusal. When the
police saw the new pole they ordered
The men who were fixing the wires on
il to come down, but their order was
disobeyed, until the work was com
pleted, when the linemen descended
and were arrested. While at work at
the top OF the pole they were supplied
with meat and drink by friends from
near by windows.
Among the names now mentioned
ne,e in connection with the next guber-
material democratic nomination in Nir
GINA are those ofex-Gov. Lee, ex-Lieut
G V. Tyler, Lieut.. Gov. Kent, ex-At-
to -ney General Ayres. Chairman Ely
son and ex-senator Hunton.
TIE Venezuelan Commissioners met
to day, but did nothing, as the papers
they hsve to inspect have not yet been
sent from Venezuela. And yet Con-
gress was kept in service during the
Christmas holidays to provide for this
commission.
TIE House ways and means commit
tee to-day reported favorable a bill
that if passed will leave tax on alcohol
the same as it was before the passage
OF the Wilson bill.
There were several lively Tits be-
tween Senator Morgan and Mr.. Hunt
ington during the investigation of the
Southern Pacific Railroad by the Sen
ate committee to day.
Major Selden, proprietor af-stie Met
ropolitan Hotel, and ms MS wife started
Yesterday, eo2 trip to the City OF
Heexxico.