Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-19
Elihu Debusk Erald, V. v. Miller /;
A. NJ. McClintic Sampson.

DAYS O of debate would be sufficient.
He says he is willing that a vote should
be taken when the discussion is ex-
hausted and that he sees no reason why
a vote should not be reached this week.
Friends of the resolution say that ifthe
tariff bill is taken up it is probable the
discussion will be continued on the Gu
ban resolution, as the rules Of the SEN
ate allow a wide range of debate. An
effort is being made to reach an under
standing so that there may be no con-
flict over the Cuban question and the
tariff. Whether the resolution will be
passed at once or referred to the COM
mittee on foreign relations is doubtful.
Horatio King, Postmaster General
in the Buchanan administration, is
seriously i'll at his home in this city.
Mr.. King came from Maine and was
appointed First Assistant Postmaster
General In 1854, serving under Post
masters General Campbell and Holt.
and President Buchanan, less than a
month before he went Out of office, APP
pointed him Postmaster General. He
served from February IL, 1861, until
March 5, following, when Montgomery
Blair succeeded him.
In the Senate yesterday evening the
old bill was passed to pay the Potomac
Steamboat Company 5000, that being
the amount paid by that company for
services rendered to the steamer Elk
celsior belonging to it. when she was
sunk by the q. S. steam tug Fortune in
Hampton Roads; also the bill to pay
the legatees of Mark Davis OF Peters
burg, Va, S21,S2S, taken from his
agent in New Orleans during the war
between the States.
Whether they will hold to it or not,
there is no doubt of the fact that it is
the present intention of several mem
bers of the Senate to demand al inves-
tigation of the charge that some of
their colleagues profted largely by In
vesting in sugar stocks while the sugar
schedule was before the republican
finance committee OF the Senate, and
before the rates on sugar had become
public.
Ex-Congressmen Hooper and Gaines,
Colonel Walker, Mr.. Treat and several
other Virginia republicans are here to-
day and MI. Bowden is expected, and
it is said they may hold another con-
ference before the close of the week
about the distribution of the federal
patronage in their State. Up to date,
with the exception of a collectorship of
internal revenue to fill a vacancy, they
have received nothing but some post.
Offices, and that they are by no means
satisfied goes without saying.
Congress Lamb of Richmond says
there will certainly be a free mail de
livery in Manchester after the 1st OF
July, and that he has been promised
that the northern mail for Richmond
shall be assorted on the train from this
to that city after that date, so that it
can be given to the carriers there for dis
tribution Immediately on the arrival Of
the trains.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Mr.. Moses Green of Warrenton. He
says the feeling of the democrats in
his neighborhood seems to be in favor
of Major Tyler for Governor. Elk. May
or Clagett of L~eesburg, who was here
yesterday evening on his way to the
Episcopal Council of his State, says a
similar feeling prevails in Loudoun
county. Mr.. Browning from Kappa.
hammock says the same feeling exists
there also. The latter also says that as
it requires 81 votes to nominate q can
didate for the Culpeper Senatorial dis
trict, and as MIR. Jeffries already has 81,
his nomination is conceded even by
those by whom it has been opposed.
Neither one of the Virginia Senators
will be able to 90 with the Senatorial
party to Monticello next Friday, as it
will be necessary for both of them to
be in Richmond o .morrow to attend
the meeting of the State democratic
executive committee to be held there
that night to fix the time and place for
the State convention.
Speaker Reed has called q meeting
of the committee on rules for to-mor-
row morning for the purpose of franz
ing a rule under which the House will
consider the resolution passed by the
Senate to appropriate $4,000 for the
relief of American citizens in Cuba.
The republican leaders have decided
that the House should adopt the SEN
ate resolution and ignore the question
of recognition of belligerency. Mr..
Bailey, the democratic leader, is deter
mined to present a minority report
from the rules committee, which, he
says, will permit him to offer Senator
Morgan's resolution as an amendment
to the one making the appropriation.
1t is expected, however, that the Speak
or will declare the minority report
out of order. Such a ruling will
result in q flibuster by the demo.
Gratis If they carry out their present
purpose. In anticipation of this the
republicans have telegraphed to all
members of the party who are out OF
the city to return tomorrow so that the
party will have a quorum to do business
without the assistance of the democrats
and populists.
The President to-day sent to the Sem
ate the following nominations: Joseph
II. Gaines of West Virginia, to be at
torney Of the district Of West Virginia;
Myron II. McCord to be Governor Of
Arizona; Arthur P. Greeley of New
Hampshire, to be assistant commission
or of patents.
The Senate committee On interna-
tional expositions has decided to report
favorably the resolution providing for
the appropriation of S350,00 for the
representation of this government at
the Paris exposition OF 1900.
The Senate naval affairs committee