Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON, March Z.

House elections committee No. 2 to-
day decided that no election had &C.
Cured in the Fifth Louisiana district,
now represented by Mr.. Boatner, dem
ocrat, the practical effect of which Is
to declare the seat vacant. The con-
clusion reached by the committee was
that there had been so much fraud,
violence and intimidation at the polls
as to invalidate the election. La other
words. that there had been no free ex-
D !. ssion of the popular will, as shown
b, the evidence. There will be tv
ports. the majority, signed by the re-
piblicans, and the minority, by the
d mocrats. 1t will probably be t" 9
W seks before the reports are presented
to the House, and possibly fortnight
tn ,reafter before the case Is taken up
in the House. Mr.. Boatner's seat was
contested by Alexis Benoit.
Secretary Hoke Smith has been con-
fined to his home for several days
suffering from the grip.
There is something of an official mys
tery connected with the reports OF an
attack on the United States consulate
at Valencia, Spain, where, according
to the records of the State Department,
no such consulate exists.
Senator Chandler has written letter
TO the chairmen OF the civil service re-
form and contingent expenses commit
tees of the Senate, in which he calls at
tention to the fact that 33S officers and
er,,,Iovec not intending the poliCe and
architects, at an annual salary OF $780,
600, in addition to other expenses
amounting to S165, 900, are paid by the
government to attend upon the ninety
Senators, and truly says that such ex'
pense should be permitted no longer.
In the House to-day Mr.. Swanson
tried to have the bill for the relief oil
W. B. Isaacs of Richmond taken up
1t has passed the Senate and been re-
ported favorably in the House, but
Messrs. Hepburo, Barrett and Dingley
republicans, objected, and so it had To
60 over, probably till next session.
Colonel Lamb, chairman of the re-
publican committee of Virginia, is here
10 day, consulting with the other prom
inent Virginia republicans now in the
city. Some of the latter say the Colonel
has not been as wise as he might have
been since his election to the two places
of chairman of the State committee and
the Virginia member Of the national
committee, that he will be disciplined,
and that if he doesn't take his medicine
quietly, he will be bounced at StauntoE
They also say that he is essaying Ma
homes part, without the ability to
play it.
B. B. Crockett was appointed pest.
master at Crabneck, York county, Va
to-day, vice W. H. Hornsby, removed.
In the House TO day Mr.. Tyler pre-
sented the petition of the Suffolk Herald
against according advertising sheets the
same mail facilities that are allowed
legitimate newspapers.
Congressman Curtis, republican, OF
New York, who will make lecture
tour in the South for the benefit of the
University OF Virginia, says he is sure
his lecture will be acceptable in the
North and South alike. as after it bad
received the approval Of democratic
ex-Confederates to whom he read it, he
submitted it to Senator Hawley, re.
publican and ex-Union officer, who ap-
proved it heartily.
The report of the House District COM
mittee on the gas bill was made to-day.
By it the old gas company here will be
required to supply its customers with
gas at 81 thousand feet.
Some of the race horse people here
say that racing on both the tracks in
Alexandria county will be resumed
about the first of April.
The House commerce committee yes.
day sent the bill for estimates of the
cost of the improvement of the channel
to Portsmouth and to the terminus Of
the Atlantic and Danville railroad,
back to the Secretary of War. 1t is be.
coming more and more apparent as the
days run by that, under Mr.. Speaker
Reeds instruction, the appropriations
will be reduced to the lowest possible
point.
A democratic Senator said to-day he
believed the national democratic con
veution would declare for free silver
and thereby attract the support of the
silverites. On gold platform, he said,
it is plain they would have no chance
at all, while it is possible that with the
support of the silverites they may sue
coed. He also said that though sound
money man himself, he would sooner
expect help from a western silverite
than from Northern republican.
Mr.. J. A. Sinclair, formerly of War
renton, Va, and one of Mosby's men,
has been elected Mayor of Louisiana,
Missouri.
Miss Jennie Carroll, the last and
youngest daughter of the late Daniel
Carroll of Duddington, died here yes
terdsy,Yin the 10th year of her age. She
was the aunt of Mrs. r. ]. Daingerfield
OF Alexandria.
Oliver P. Tucker, of Kentucky, de-
putty controller of the currency, has
resigned, and George NJ. Coffin, of
Charleston, S. c., has been promoted to
the vacancy.
Capt. James Purcell,of Prince William conn
ty. Virginia, who has recently returned from
a series of hunting dog trials in the South in
which his dogs won several priz-s, is here %
day. Ho says the democrats have good show
to win at the next election.
CoNaREssIoNAL.-The Senate was
not in session yesterday. The House
passed the legislative appropriation
bill, which had been under considera-