Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-22
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FAVORS RETROCESSION.

FAVORS RETROCESSION.
A meeting of the committee on lepis
lation of the board of development q
Alexandria county was held on Satur
day afternoon at the office of Mr.. A. M
Lothrop, 10 Washington, with the fol
lowing gentlemen present: A. M. 10th
rop, president; James E. Clements. sec
retary; J. Taoor Johnson, George g
Boteler, w. w. Douglas, r. A. Phillips
DR.. d. N. Rust, r. w. Darby, A, b
Graham and M. E. Church. Mr.. Franz
Hume, delegate in the Legislature from
Alexandria county, was present by invi
talion. The draft OF companion bill
to the Alexandria county bond bill
whereby the county will be authorize,
to issue bonds in the sum of $3.50. 600
to be expended for road Improvement
was presented to the committee. Tn,
contemplated memorial bridge scros
the Potomac and the matter of the re
PROCESSION of Alexandria county bacl
to the national government were dis
cussed. 1t was stated that Senator Nc
MILAN, chairman Of the Senate commit
tee on the District of Columbia init
mated that unle the State of Virginia
would give up q certain portion of Alex
andria county upon which the Virgin,
/ abutment OF the memorial bridge wa
TO be placed, the probability was tina
the appropriation for said bridge wouC
not be made.
Messrs. r. A. Philips, Supervisor, d
N. Rust, George G.. BOteler, A. M
LOthrOp, and others of the committee
spoke strongly in favor OF retrocessior
of the entire county.
MIR. Hume agreed to ascertain the
sense OF the members of the Virgins
legislature 10 the. matter OF retrocedine
part Of Alexandria county for the
abutment for the memorial bridge, al
required by Senator McMillan's propo
sition, or all Of the county, as it was in
the original establishment of the ma.
tional capital. He considered that il
the county bonded itself in the sum oil
$500 900 the United States government
could hardly &c expected to accept the
retrocession Of the county.
The following resolutions offered by
George G. Boteler were passed and
will be brought before a meeting OF the
whole board to be held this afternoon
in the Washington Board OF Trade
rooms:
Resolved, That the meeting is 10
favor oil giving jurisdiction to the
United States OF the land in Alexand
ria county, north and south of the Ar
Iington reservation, between the Po-
tOmac river and the line designated by
Gen. John NJ. Wilson, chief of the en-
gineer department, United States army,
or the entire county OF Alexandra,
should the Congress OF the United
States, through the Supreme Court, find
that the original retrOcessiOn act, by
the United States to Virginia, be de-
clared unconstitutional, null and void,
and that a copy of this resolution be
sent to the Hon. Frank Hume, repre-
sentative from Alexandria county, Hop
). r. Donohoe, State senator, and to
the Senators and Representatives in
Congress from Virginia.
Resolved. That the board of directors
of this association, with such other
members OF the association as the Presi-
dent may be pleased to add thereto, be
constituted committee to Immediately
wait upon the Senators and Representa-
tlves from Virginia to persuade them to
do everything In their power to bring
the question of the retrOcesson of all
or a portion of Alexandria county to
the national government to a speedy
conclusion, and to report to the board
of development OF Alexandria county
as soon az practicable.
A dispatch from Washington says
the District commissioners and Dele
gate Frank Hume, of the Virginia
Assembly, had an Informal confer
ence with Senator Mcmillan, chairman
of the District committee, on Saturday,
in regard to the retrocesson to the Dis
trict of part OF Alexandria county,
which was formerly part of the Dis
trict, but which was retroceded to Vir-
gins by an act of Congress. Senator
Mcmillan stated that he had had sew
ersl conferences with the County
Association on the sub
ject, and that everything seemed to be
favorably toward the At
tsinment OF the desired end. A resolu-
ton was introduced by Mr.. Mcmillan
several years ago. calling on the Attor.
uey. General for information as to the
legal status of the land given up by the
There has never been reply
TO the resolution and it is probable tina
a similar one will be introduced in Con-
yress at an early date.