Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-03-16

trusts. If an agreement 90 this propo
sition should be reached, the trust
question will be held in allegiance until
after the presidential campaign, as
State legislatures would have to rstify
the proposition.
The Quay case, it was determined to-
day, SHALL be taken up in the Senate
two weeks from next Tuesday. but
when it will be voted on, nobody can
tell, az many Senators have announced
their inter ton of speaking, both
for and against the claimant. The case
has already produced no little friction
10 the Senatorial ranks and is likely to
cause more. Yesterday on the hoor OF
the Senate Messrs. Penrose and CALM
ger had quarrel about ii, and IN the
cloak room two more applied cpl
lhets to each other that In former times
would have led to serious trouble.
The House naval committee has
agreed to report in favor OF the con-
strucliop of two new battleships. three
,rmored cruisers and three protected
cru ssrs: also for paying the manufaC-
turers Of armor plate $545 ton for all
the plate that is now or that may sub
ssqusntly be required by the Navy De-
partment. A proposition to all w eich
of the navy yards at Brooklyn, Phila-
delphia and Norfolk to build one of the
new ships, was defeated, but the vote
on it was recoDsidered.
The proposed visit OF the House naval
committee to the Richmond shipyard
has been pos poned until Msy.
People from the Oh Virginia district,
here today, cay that while Colooel
Browning, the we'll known and popular
coal operator, will be a formidable Op-
ponent of General Walker for the re-
publican nomination 10 that district,
Mr.. Rhea, the incumbent democratic
representative, will have no opposition
for renomin alton. They say that Mr..
Rhea has been 50 handicapped by the
unnece ssary contest for bis seat, that he
hasn't had chance to show the House
what he Can DO, and that the people OF
his district are going to give him snch q
chance,
Among the nominations sent to the
Senate today by the President were the
following: john o. Stiger and W. W..
Ballard, of Virginia, to be first lieuten-
ants in the Porto Rcan Infantry.
Gen. Joe Wheeler arrived in this city
this morniug from Atlanta, Ga.
The House insulsr committee say they will
soon report their bill for the government Of
Porto Rico. 1t will recommend that the
island be attached to the Florida judicial dis.
trict and the IT, S District Court Is given the
additional jurisdiction which was conferred
on the provisional court created by General
Davis's order. As previously stated in the
Gszstte, half of the upper branch Of the lesis-
latute Of the island will be appointed by the
President and need not be natives OF the
country.
The general i'm ,ression at the Capitol on
the subj sct today is that the Porto Hico tsrih
bill is as good as dead, not only on constitu'
tionI grounds but because the duty on the
imports into Porto Eico from other than
American ports renders the duty to be col
lected by that bill utterly unnecessary, as at.
tested by the customs officers there.
A. c. Morrison, secretary OF the American
Baking Powder Association, which Is com.
nosed Of makers of alum baking powders, and
Prof. Ostend, a chemist Of New York, 3D.
dressed the House committee on commerce
tn morning. They said that rival sssocis-
ton bad attempted TO make it appear that
they we're selling an impure product.