Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
[ Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON. February "a.

WASd1NGTON, FEBRUARY "a.
1t was decided by the House commit
lee on banking and currency this
morning that at their next meeting
they will consider the bill permitting
banks to issue circulation to the par
value of their bonds, also the bill re-
stricting the borrowing Of bank funds
by the officers without the full knowl-
edge of the directors, and one looking
to the establishment of an international
bank which was one of the recommen-
dations of the late Pan-American Cor
gress.
A favorable report was made to the
Senate to-day on bill permitting and
regulating the organization of corpora
tions for hoisa racing and breeding
purposes in the District of Columbia:
Prominent democrats here to-day
from Richmond say the impression
among the knowing members of the Vir-
ginia legislature is that the only changes
to be made in the present election
law of their State will be unimportant
ones, such for instance as providing
that all the ballots shall be uniform
They also say that if the Msupin bill,
to break up horse racing in Virginia,
which has passed the House OF
Delegates and been reported favorably
in the Senate, shall reach vote in that
body, it will surely pass.
Mr.. Lawrence Gardner, a prominent
democrat of this city, under the i'm
preston that the present depressed and
iukewarm condition of the national de-
mocracy may be improved by a reitera,
ton of Jeffersonian principles and poll
cies at the foot of Jefsrson's monu-
ment, is making arrangements for trip
to Monticello, on which the President
and others shall 60, and where Mr.. Rus
sell, of Massachusetts. shall deliver an
address, in which the ideas Of the OLD
time democracy may be set forth again.
Some of the correspondents OF North
ern newspapers in this city made the
accounts some of the newspapers here
printed of The recent assault by some
drunken negroes upon saloon keeper
at Jackson City, and its result, the occa-
sion of sending off letters, in which
Northern people were warned against
coming to Virginia and told that white
Virginians wanted none of their com
| pany. The Washington papers have
| done great harm to Virginia. They
want Northern settlers to buy homes
in the District OF Columbia.
1t is stated here that the A. T. AS,
who have organizations in Alexandria
and other parts of the Sth Virginia
Congressional district, have determin'
ed to oppose the nomination of Mr.. Pat.
Mccall by the republican convention OF
that district.
The ice in the Potomac between
here aud Alexandria has almost entire
" disappeared, and tomorrow both
the ferry boats will be running as usual.
In the House o.dsy Mr.. Meredith
presented the petition of F. NJ. Brab.
ham, formerly of Leesburg, but now OF
this city, for the payment of his claim
of$l ,SSS, for property destroyed BY the
federal soldiers during the war. Mr..
Meredith also called at the Office of the
supervising architect of the Tressury
In the interest of Mr.. Davis of West
End, Fairfax county, contractor for
supplying some of the iron work for the
new postoffice building here.
Most of the rich Northern pleasure
seekers who are passing through this
city on their way to more Southern
chimes now make arrangements for
stopping at the new Jefferson Hotel al
Richmond, which is said to equal any
other in the country. Five hundred OF
such visitors are said to be at the Hy.
geia Hosel at Old Point Comfort,
where Chamberlin's new hotel is ex-
pected to open about the middle Of
next month.
The Senate Committee on the District OF
Columbia to-day reported adversely on the
bill to complete the Washington aqueduct
Tunnel, provided for by the act of 1882 to in
crease the water supply this city