Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.l
WASHINGTON A mil 10

dent. the Postmaster General and
others. He is lawyer and belongs to
the New York republican organization
and is friend of both Senator Platt
and Representative Hooker. He was
Mckinley delegate to the st. Louis
convention.
The fiual' agreement among demo-
Gratis, silver republicans and populists
in the Senate looking to a permanent
coalition was reached at meeting of
representatives of those parties held in
Senator Germans committee room at
the Capitol to-day. The agreement
had its origin in the effort to reorganizo
the Senate committees, but it is des.
tined apparently to reach far beyond
this situation and, in fact, to the future
proceedings of the Senate on all mat
tiers if not to the extent of shaping par
ty policies throughout the country.
There were present at the meeting
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. German. Cock
rell, Walthall, Jones of Arkansas and
Murphy. Silver republicans-Senators
Cannon and Mantle. Populists-Sena-
tors Allen and Pettigrew. With refer
ence to the matter of the Senate reor-
ganization it was decided that the COM
bination should hold out for the assign
ment of all the places on committees
heretofore held by democrats, while it
was agreed that the republicans should
have the places hitherto filled by re-
publicans. This will give the republi
cans all the committee chairmanships
vacated by the retirement of Senators
Cameron, Sherman, Dubois, Squire,
Mitchell of Oregon, and Brown, but it
will give the combination about 70 va
cancies, while it allows the republicans
only about 80. The combination de.
cided against making any concessions,
even that providing for allowing the
republicans to fill one Of the three va
cancies on the committee on appropria
tions. The silver republicans say that
their principal incentive in entering the
coalition is to protect the finance com
mittee which they feared might become
an anti-silver organization in case the
republicans were allowed to have their
own way in committee organization. If
the republicans accept the terms which
the combination will attempt TO dictate
the republicans will name man to
succeed Senator Sherman, while the
silver combination will name Senator
Voorhees, successor. This will insure
the continued preponderence Of silver
men on the committee, while it will not
interfere with the republican pro-
CRANE on the tariff.
Attorney General McKenna to-day
sent to the House recommendation
that Joint resolution making emer
gency appropriations for the United
States courts be adopted at once. He
asked for 100000 for jurors fees, $40,
900 for the support Of prisoners, $4,000
for bailifls and S75, 900 for miscellaneous
expenses. Without these funds, the
Attorney General says, the terms Of
courts for the coming month will be
grea " embarrassed.
According to the special geological
survey report, just submitted to the In
terror Department, Virginia, in the out
put Of slate, stands fourth among the
States of the Union, the value of hers
during the past year being $107 1856,
which is exceeded only by that Of
Pennsylvania, Vermont and Maine.
Notwithstanding the fact given out
at the various departments that no ep-
pointments will be made until the tariff
hill shall be passed, the republican Office
seekers from Virginia are here in force
Among them are Mr.. Benjamin Upton,
of Tappahannock. who wants to be col
lsctor of the port at his town, which
place he held once before, ex-Congress-
man Gaines, of the Petersburg district,
who it was first reported was an appli
cant for the Q. s. attorneyship of his
district, but who to-day ig said to want
to be a postoffice inspector, which he
will hardly get, as to do SO requires the
successful passing of competitive ex-
animation, and ex. Congressman Bowen
son, who now, it is said, has the best
chance for the marshalship of his dis
trct. The attorneyship of that district,
will, it is reported, fall either to Mr..
Rivercomb or Mr.. Franklin.
Among the republicans in the lobby
of the Metropolitan Hotel to-day was
Mr.. McCaull of Culpeper county, who
was an applicant torthe internal revenue
collectorship OF the upper district OF
Virginia, TO which Mr.. Agnew of Alex.
andria was appointed. Being asked if
he thought Mr.. Agnew would make
many changes in the list of his subor-
dinates, he replied that he did not know
what Mr.. Agnew would do, but he
knew very we'll what he would have
done if he had been appointed. Every
one of the subordinates in district has
to be qualified when the collector takes
charge of his Office, and he would have
selected them from the reputable and
efficient republicans in the district, and
thus raised the question of his right to
do so between himself and the civil SER
vice commission, and if the administra-
ton would not have sustained him, his
resignation would have been in its
hands.
Postmaster General Gary, to relieve
the department of great deal of TN
necessary trouble, has determined that
there will be no changes in the 4th
class posLmasters whose salaries are less
than one hundred dollars, unless re-
quested by large number of the peo-
pie who are served with mail at their
Offices.
Mr.. E. ]. Underwood, formerly, of
Alexandria, son of the late Judge Un-
derwood, who was found almost frozen
and exhausted in the mud near Ana
lostan Island yesterday morning and
taken to the Emergency Hospital, has
revived and been sent to his home,
Elk State Senator Moon of Albe-