Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-02

StruCteQ the OLnClal reporter uoG W tdho
the remarks OF Mr.. Cox down. Mr..
Cox replied that he did not care whether
or not they were taken down and again
inquired if he could ask his question.
Mr.. Walker replied that Mr.. Eckles
would proceed on his bill as agreed to
bv the committee. Mr.. Cox left the
room.
The distillers of the United States gain
ed decided victory over the wholesale
dealers and retailers this morning when
the Senate committee on finance order
ed favorable report on the bill to al
low the bottling of distilled spirits in
bond.
The total number of unorganized
men available for military duty. in the
United States, exclusive of the terri
tories, is lO,O24, 5S4, according to the
reports received by the Adjutant-Gen.
eral of the army which have been laid
in detail before Congress. These re-
ports show that the militia force of the
country is 112, 735, of which by far the
great majority are attached to the in
fantry branch of the service. Virginia's
force is 3,137, which is greater than
that of any one of thirty six States.
In the House yesterday, Mr.. Tucker
called up bill to pension, at the rate CT
SIP a month, Mrs. Catharine G. Lee,
daughter of William Rosser, a soldier
of the Revolutionary war.
At yesterdays executive session of
the Senate the nominations of Rufus K.
Sanders to be postmaster at Saltvllle,
Smyth county, and Elizabeth G. Adams
to be postmaster at Radford, Mont
gomery county, Virginia, were con-
firmed. The nominations of postmas.
tiers at Manassas, Orange G. H. and
Cape Charles City, in the same State,
are still held up in the Senate postotlice
committee, though Senators Daniel and
Martin have written a joint letter to
that committee asking speedy action
on them.
People from Culpeper county, Vir
GINA, here to-day, say that MIR. Jeffries,
of that county, will be the next State
Senator from the district composed Of
the counties of Culpeper, Rsppahan-
mock, Orange and Madison.
1t was thought this morning that the
Nicaragua canal bill, which was sup
posed to be dead two weeks ago, still
had q chance togo through the Senate,
but nobody thinks it can pass the
House. In respect Of the arbitration
treaty, the impression is that it will be
debated for long time.
AS Mr.. Doyles' aflidavits against Mr..
Sharp have made it impossible for
either of them to be appointed postmas-
ter at Norfolk, Congressman Tyler, of
that district, has, on the recommends
| ton of some of the business men of that
| city. nominated Mr.. w. I. Anderson to
the Postmaster General for that place.
He is said to be a gold bolter, which
fact is against him, even with republic
cans.
Mr.. Tyler OF Fredericksburg, Va,
the defeated republican candidate for
Congress in that district, is here to day.
Though defeated by large majority,
he says be is flooded with applications
| for Office under the coming administra-
| ton.
Several of the gold boilers of this
city were at the Senate this morning,
urging democratic Senators to vote
| for the confirmation of Mr.. Henry +.
Davis, as attorney for this district. To
some who approached Senator Daniel
on the subject, that Senator re
piled that he could see little difference
between democrat and republican
if both voted against his party. 1t is
not probable that Mr.. Davis will be
| confirmed at an early day. Judging
from the wayl they talk, neither OF the
Virginia Senator'S is dead in love with
him. Neither of them has ever heard
of any delegation coming from Alexan-
dria to urge them to vote against the
| nomination.
People who were at the st. Asaph
race track to-day say the betting there
was restricted by the interruption of
telegraphic communication with some
of the foreign tracks, no news coming
from New Orleans, by reason of the
falling in of the Office of the Western
Union company at New Orleans, which
was on the fifth floor, and in which
| many operatives were employed, some
of whom were badly hurt. There.wa
| no racing at Iron Hill in consequence
of the inclement weather.
A republican Senator is authority for
the statement that the extra session Of
Congress will convene on the 18th
proximo, that the tariff bill will be re-
ported to the House two weeks later
and that it will have become law in
time for the session to adjourn on the
10th of May.
The following changes in the fourth-class
postotices of Virginia were made to day:
Democrat, Leo county, J. P. GLASS; appointed
postmaster, vice Mrs. NJ. E. Robinette, ro-
moved; Hatcher, Cumberland county. Elka-
nah Bateman, vice w. L. Snoddy, resigned;
Mountainview, Stafford county, j. NJ. Bryant,
vice A. NJ. Wilson, recigncd; Savannah, Ale
ghany county, J. T. Robinson, vice NJ. ?. Sur.
Der, resigned.
Tho President to-day granted tho applica-
ton for pardon in the case Of Moses Ross,
convicted of profanity in the District of Co.
lumbia and sentenced 10 servo ninety days in
tho workhouse.
The Venezuelan arbitration treaty will be
signed at o'clock this afternoon at the State
Department by Sir Julian Pauncofote, tho
Venezuelan minister.
At q meeting Of the Senate naval commit
tee to day the amor plate men insisted that
Secretary Herbert had not been liberal
enough by 40 per cont. in his estimate Of the
cost of labor in producing armor plate. Sccre-
tary Herbert insisted that his conclusions
wore not OILY accurate but just, both to the
companies and the government.