Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.]


House of Representatives as to the
course of legislation in the near future.
This contemplates the disposal of ap'
propriation bills as fast as they are
ready for consideration. After these,
the bankruptcy bill will be given the
Fl st opportunity for hearing. This
measure will be reported before the
h liday recess, but it will not be taken
u by the House until after the recess.
It is understood that Speaker Reed is
fayorably disposed toward this bill. II
Is equally we'll understood tnat for the
esent there will be DO effort to take
~ financial legislation on the floor OF
tn, House. This is due mainly tolhe
! fact that strong impression prevails
among members OF the House that the
committee on banking and currency
/ will not be able to reconcile tie many
conflicting interests inside the commit
Tee. The ways and means committee
will do nothing at present III the Way
of flaming fnanclal legislation. Ii,
however, il becomes evident that the
mmittee on banking and currency If
at standstil, then the ways and means
committee will enter the 6eld OF hnao
cial LEGISLATION, and will frame bill
The bankruptcy bill is substantially
similar TO bill which passed the House
once before. 1t is on the lines OF the
old Torrey bill, providing both volun-
| tary and Involuntary bankruptcy. AT
the same time, the objections made to
the TORI, y bill that il was collection
apancv.n nave heeu overcome by
smoothing down of the harSa features.
The Senate committee on census to-
day authorized Senator Carter to
report tavorably the bill introduced at
the last session of Congress to provide
| for the twelfth census and for subse.
uuent ceususes, with an amendment
taking the chief clerk, disbprsing clerk
aud the chief s.atistician out CT the
| classified service as provid ed in the
original bill. The bill provides for the
Immediate appointment OF director OF
census at salary OF 1000; an assistant
director, Il chief clerk and live chief
statisticians.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Daniel pre-
sented numerously signed petition to
pepsion Miss Martha S. and Miss Sarah
d. Morgan of Virginia, daughters OF
the Revolution.
Messrs. Clements, Phillips and Holtz'
man, of Alexandria county, called upon
Congressman Rixey at the Capitol to
day in reference TO the bills to allow
the Washington and Falls Church rail
road to cross the Aqueduct bridge, for
a bridge at Arlington and for an agri-
cultural experimental station at Ar
lington, all of which Mr.. Rixey prom
ised to push as speedily as possible.
The Virginia contestees in the House
were somewhat surprised this morning
at receiving notices from the elections
committee to appear before il next
Tuesday, as they were informed yes
terday that theirs would be the last
cases called. 1t was discovered, how
ever, that the notices were the result
of mistake.
Bills for the purchase of certain pa.
pers of Thomas Jefferson, for monu.
ment to General Morgan of the Revo-
luton and for au agricultural station at
Arlington are before House committees
o! which Mr.. Hay is member, and be
i, doing al he can TO advance them as
rapidly as possible.
Congressman Walker of Virginia,
speaking of statement ia newspa-
per of this city to the effect that Chair
man Agnew of the executive commit
tee of the republican party OF his State
had extended an olive branch to him,
said Mr.. Agnew had called on him yes
erday evening, but, instead of al olive,
had extended an aloe, branch, as he pro-
posed that he should withdraw his and
his colleagues candidate for the mar.
shalshp OF the State. General Walker
says b. has heard that there have been
iaformal conferences of the executive
committee, of which he is mem Der, but
hat ne hiss not at ended any such
meeting, nor will he do so, but that he
will attend formal meeting of the
committee, if one be called.
The Haytian minister says Campbell,
whose claim for indemnity was present,
| ed in the Senate yesterday, was practl-
| callv enlisted in New York for service
in the Hsytian navy a. lime when an
| insurrec,ion prevailed on the island.
He made contract not with Haytisn,
but with Mr. Compton, an American
citizen, to go to Hayti to serve as an
engineer. When be reached the coun-
t v he refused to serve. Az effort was
made to otige him to carry out his
contract, but this failed and he drifted
back to New York. That was in 1887
or 1888, and it was not until nine years
later that anything was heard of a de-
mand for indemnity. Then Campbell
sued Compton in New York for breach
OF contract, and getting verdict filed
y claim for indemnify with the State
Department against the government of
Hayti for the sum OF 100000.
The Department of State is about to press
to the end the issue that has been raised be.
tween it and the government of Nicaragua
growing out of the refusal of Nicaragua to
receive United States Minister in the per-
son of Captain Merry, of California. The U.
s. legation at Managua ha; been closed
through the retirement of Minister Baker.
Senator Nelson introduced bill to-day
subjecting national banks TO tho usury laws
in the State in which they may be located.
Senator Gallingcr TO-DAY introduced Il bill
providing for the repeal of the law providing
for the preservation of the records of the
war of tie REBELLION
The committee on foreign atf4irs Of the
House of Representatives met to-day and de-
termined TO report at once the bill prohibit.
ing American citizens from conducting pc.
lsgic sealing in Behring Sea- and an under.
standing was reached that the bill would be