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

FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazottc.]
WASHINGTON, July 7.
The majority for the tariff bill in the
Senate is expected to be about u,
though it may vary one or two either
way, on account of absentees or pairs,
or the determination of some Senators
TO refrain from voting. 1t is of course
understood that all regular republicans
will either vote for or be paired for the
bill. all the democrats will vote
against the bill with the exception OF
Mr.. McEoery, of Louisiana, who in
tends to vote for it. Of the silver re-
pubiicans, Mantle, of Montana, and
Jones, of Nevada, will vote for it, and
Teller, OF Colorado, and Cannon, OF
Utah, will vote against the bill, while
Pettigrew will not vote. The populists
will divide, Harris, of Kansas, and Tur-
ner, of Washington, will vote against the
bill, and Stewart, of Nevada, for ii, while
Allen, of Nebraska, Butler. of North
Carolina, Heit!eld, of Idaho, and Kyle,
of South Dakota, will not vote.
The Cabinet to-day decided that the
President should send to Congress a
m assage recommending legislation pro-
vding for commission to adjust the
currency questions of the country. 1t
was resolved that this message should
be sent to Congress tomorrow provid-
ing that the tariff bill is by that time
passed by the Senate. 1t is the expec-
lation of the President that the subject
will receive the attention of Congress
during the present extra session
The message itself is written.
Its principal feature is quotation from
the Presidents inaugural address on
the financial subject. The tariff bill was
not considered at the meeting to-day
except 10 its bearing on the currency
commission proposition.
The following appointments of Vir-
.nia postmasters were made to-day :
Hoge's Store, ]. II. Hoge; Lebanon, J.
j. Henritz; Montgomery, W. K. Rush;
Newcastle, c. W. Elmore.
Senator Martini being asked to day
why he voted to put q tariff on white
pine, said he was opposed to any sort
Of a tariff on lumber, but that as the
republicans were going to impose tax
on that article, he thought Virginia
lumber should have its share, and that
The white pine of Canada came in di
rect competition with, and is used for
the same purposes as, the yellow pine
of Virginia.
Notice was received at the Treasury
o day of the failure of another bank,
The first national bank of Mason, Texas.
The two u S. ships that have gone
to Tangi.r were sent there by the gov
eminent to enforce the demands of
Americans residing there to take sun
der their protection" as many of the ma.
tives as they may desire.
Senator Chandler to-day introduced bill
providing for On amendment to the civil ser.
vice laws so as to authorize the rein .tatement
at any time within FIVE years of any person
dismissed from the civil service on account Of
race, color or previous condition of servitude.
6-nator Davis, chairman of the committee
On foreign relsti u.s. has called meeting Of
the committee for Friday for the purpose of
considering the Hawaiisn annexation treaty.
1t was at one time thought that the treaty
would not be considered with view of re-
porting it at this session, but it is now the
intention of the friends of annexation to re.
port the treaty.
A bill providing for the creation OF de-
psrtment of public health, the head of which
IS to be member of the Cabinet was intro
duced in the Senate to day by Senator NAL
DRY.
Senator Chandler, acting chairman of the
Senate postoffice committee, said to-day that
he had held up the nomination Of Mr.. Resde
for postmaster st Newporr's News at the re.
quest Of the Postmaster General, but that as
the lstter's objection had now been removed,
he would report it favorably, possibly to-day.
This is considered here to be Knockout blow
to the amb faction. There are three other
nominations for Presidential postoffices in
Virginia held up on charges.
A prominent republican Senator said to day,
talking about the great coal miners strike,
that he didn't think the increase in the tsritf
on cosl from forty to sixty-seven cents ton
would benefit the miners, and that the only
effect Of that increase would be to make coal
mining profitable to the owners of the mines.
which is not the case now.
The diamond four" did not turn up here
to-day, to the great disappointment of some
of the Virginia republicans who have taken
quqrters here and settled down to wait pa
tiently for lightning to strike them in the
way of federal Office. They say they can
afford to wait as long as their republican Goa
gressionsl representatives and the officials at
Iha departments can afford to have them dog
ging their footsteps.