Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

voted for the bill, were present. The
work proceeded behind closed doors.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations, which was called to meet at IL
O'Clock to-day to take up the Hawaiian
question, failed to secure quorum and
adjourned until the afternoon.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
before him the cases of about 100 vete-
rams dismissed from the pension office
during the last administration and who
seek reinstatement.
The main topic of discussion before
the Cabinet at the regular meeting to-,
day was the message on the subject of
currency commission, which has
been withheld for few days in defer
ence to the wishes of many prominent
republicans. After considering all of
the objections that had been made
against the presentation of the message
at the present session of Congress, the
President and his Cabinet were still of
opinion that in order to redeem the
party promises the subject OF currency
reform should be treated in message
recommending the creation of spe.
cial non-partisan commission, and un-
less there is another change in the
plans of the President ne will send the
message to Congress next Monday.
President Mckinley will spend most
of his summer vacation on the shores
of Lake Champlain. He will. leave
Washington on August first and 60 d.
rect to Lake Champlain. Burlington,
Vt, will be his nearest town. His par
ty will consist of the members of the
presidential family, of Vice President
aud Mrs. Hobart, Secretary Alger and
family, Secretary and Mrs. Porter and
probably of several other members of
official society. The President will
make quite prolonged stay, lasting
several weeks, at least. He has no
plans perfected beyond this but has
said he would take western trip pro.
vided Congress adjourned in time.
Among the changes made in the pen
sion bureau yesterday were the follow.
ing from Virginia: r. W. Blanchard,
clerk at 81 800, to be principal exam
liner at $1,000; E. NJ. Young, clerk at
81 400, to be assistant chief of division
at 81, 800 and Miss Lottie P. Yancey,
copyist at 5000, to be clerk at 81, 900.
Alter the presentation to the Senate
of the large list of diplomatic and con-
sular nominations which has been pre-
pared and will go to the Capitol to-
morrow or Monday, the President will
decline positively to make another ap-
pointment to places Of this character
until after the adjournment oil Congress.
The House adjourned yesterday even
ing until Monday and though the SEN
ate will meet tomorrow to witness the
funeral ceremonies of the late Senator
Harris, it will adjourn Immediately
thereafter, so that no congressional
legislation will be enacted until Mon
day.
1t is reported mere that though the
democrats of Alexandria city and county
favor the nomination of Tyler for Gov
ernor, parties in the former are trying
to secure the election of Ellyson dele
gates in the latter at the primaries to be
held therein on the 18th.
A prominent wholesale grocery mer-
chant here told the GAzETTE's CORES
pondent to-day that in all his experience
and in that OF other wholesale mer-
chants of this city, business was never
more depressed than it is now, and that
so far as he could gee there is no reason
why it should improve.
Senator Martin has gone to his home
in Scottsville, and Senator Daniel is at
mis- home in Lynchburg, but both are
expected back on Monday.
Though nothing is supposed to leak
out of the room in which the conference
committee on the tariff bill is holding
its sessions, the owner of home gyp.
sum mine, who came here to have tax
imposed upon that article, has gone
home, satisfied that the tariff of dollar
ton imposed upon it by the Senate
will be retained.
Congressman Lamb of the Richmond
district, who has been Tyler man from
the first, as most of the other congress
men from Virginia are now, says the
result of the primaries is proving what
he supposed it would be, and that the
nomination of Taylor is assured beyond
peradventure. The fact that Mr.. Mann
Page, the populist, has declined a
nomination for the lieutenant governor
ship, will, it is said here, help MIR. Ty-
Ter. The friends of Major Scott here
say his chances for denomination for
Attorney General are improving every
day.
The recent removal of the picture of
ex-President Jefferson Davis from the
walls of the War Department, which
department he created, where it was
hung along with the other Secretaries
of War, was the occasion of 80 much
adverse comment that it is said now
that its removal was only for the pur-
pose of repair, and that it will be put
back at all early day.
Edward Turner, colored man, be-
came deraigned to-day and wrecked the
chandeliers in st. Dominic's Church,
causing much excitement.
After the Senate adjourned the Vice Presi-
dent appointed the following named Senators
to attend the remains of the late Senator
Harris to Memphis Messrs. Bate, Walthsll,
Berry. Turpie, Allen, Deboe, Pettus, Chiffon
and Wetmore. The funeral services in the
Senate to morrow over the remains of Senator
Harris will be conducted by Rev. hugh
J hnston, pastor of the metropolitan Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in this city, who is
acting chaplain of the Senate during the ab.
sence of .haplain Milburn. Rev. Mr.. John
ston, at the request of the family, will be as
sisted by Rev. Mr.. Duffey, of the Mt. Vernon
Southern Methodist Church. The ceremo.
mics will not be elaborate, but will PROBABLY
consist simply in the reading OF the Metho.
dist Episcopal burial service
The postofice at Radford, Va, has been
relegated to the fourth class and Wade Tsy