Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, March 25.

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WASHINGTON. March 25.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween Mr.. Dingley (rep. Me- and Mr.
Bailey (dem. Texas, that the two hours
preceding the vote on the tariff bill
next Wednesday be divided between
the two gentlemen named, when they
will close, for their respective sides, the
6ebate on the measure. The House Will
be asked this afternoon to concur in
this arrangement.
In the House to-day Mr.. Otey, OF
Virginia, introduced bill to promote
agriculture by encouraging the expor-
tation of agricultural products.
Congressman Rixey, of the Alexan-
dria district, is as much sought after by
Office seekers from his district as was
his predecessor, Mr.. Meredith. And
though he protests that it is impossible
for him to get places for them. their
numbers still increase.
A Culpeper county, Virginia, demo
cca1, here to day, we'll informed about
the political feeling of that portion of
his State, says he is induced to believe
t at it is in favor of the nomination of
Mr.. Ellyson, of Richmond, for Govern.
o., though he adds that yet awhile, at
least, very little interest is manifested
in politics there.
AS stated in this correspondence of
Yesterdays date, Colonel Lamb, chair
man of the Virginia republican COM
mittee. called at the White House on
the evening of that day. He gave the
President statement of the differences
t at exist among the republicans of his
State in respect of the distribution Of
the federal patronage to be accorded to
that State, and suggested that it would
be good policy to give the Offices to
men who had not been conspicuous in
the tsctional fight, mentioning MIR. Nc
Caull for collector of internal revenue
for the upper district of Virginia, aud
Mr.. R. j. Walker, twice defeated re-
publican candidate for Congress in the
7th district, for marshal of the western
district.
Twenty one one-armed ex Union SOL
ders called at the White House to-day
and told the President they had been
removed from the positions they held
during MS predecessors administration,
aud that they wanted to be reinstated.
The committee appointed at the late
monetary convention at Indianapolis
to urge upon the members OF Congress
prompt revision of the financial and
currency systems of the country, arrived
here to-day and were at the Capitol in
the discharge of their mission. They
are not hopeful of success, and say that
to be 90, it viii! be necessary TO reverse
the ideas OF the leaders of the republi-
can majority.
Such a CHATTER was made by the
schools and colleges against the high
duty imposed by the new tariff bill on
imported books and apparatus used for
educational purposes that those articles
have been put on the free list. The
fruit importers and packers have also
raised fuss over the high tariff to be
imposed upon fruit. Indeed the more
that is known of the bill that proposes
to rob the poor in order to repay the
rich who supplied the money that
bought Mr.. McKinley's election, the
more Objectionable it becomes, and the
more urgent the protests against its
passage.
FIVE preachers from Philadelphia
called upon the President this morning
and asked him for definite reply to
the plan they had presented to him at
Cleveland last fall for helping the farm
ers by giving al export bounty on their
products. Mr.. Mckinley said he knew
of the matter, and told his secretary to
call his attention to it before the 18th
p.oximo.
1t is rumored at the State Depart
nent that before a new minister TO
Spain is appointed he shall spend some
time in Cuba so as to become acquaint-
ed with the exact condition of atlails
there, and that as soon as suitable
man can be found willing to do SO be
will take General Lees place at Ha-
vana.
1t is said at the government printing
Office that of the eight men having the
hest record there, only one was included
among the two hundred recent promo
tons. Such is civil service reform.