Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-21
Congress-.


In the Senate, yesterday 4 number Of me-
MORALS from colorcd people Of Delaware, ask
| ing political rights, were referred to the Judi
ciary Committee. A resolution allowing q
| drawback equal in amount to the import duty
paid on all lumber, hemp, MANILA copper,
! and upon those Of certain grades Of manulac-
| ture, used in the construction or repairing OF
| vessels Of certain tonnage was referred to the
! Committee on Commerce. a resolution in
curing of the Secretary of the Treasury as TO
the number of removals and appointments
made in that Department since January, 1867,
and the reasons therefor, was objected to, and
laid over An executive session was had, and
the Senate adjourned.
In the House Of Representatives, bill to
equaze the bounties Of soldiers, sailors and
marines who served in the late war, was intro
duced and recommitted to the Committee on
Military Affairs. Mr. Phelps introduced
bill to allow certain drawback on copper in
pigs, bars or ingots, exported from the u. S.
Mr.. Phelps also presented petition of maniac
turers Of morocco, Of Baltimore, praying such
revision of the revenue laws as would per-
NIT the free importation of sumac and goat
skins, and an increase of duty on manufactured
morocco equivalent to the average premium
on gold. The Civil Appropriation bill was
passed, after considerable debate. Mr.. Wash
burne, Of Illinois, addressed the House in favor
of his resolution for the appointment Of a COM
mission to fix tariff of rates of charges over
the Union Pacific Railroad and it's branches,
and pending the consideration of the measure,
the House adjourned until to-day.
CALLS UPON HAWxIIURsT.-Two corespon-
Jot,c :, JT,,Io,tt,r n,,or-ono Allan If tho
convention-call upon Hawxhurst to come out
with the facts about the reported bribery at
tempt. Mr.. A., in the midst OF his own trlbu
ations declares that he is ''palniuly annoyed"
by this rumor. The charge, he says, if estab-
concerned in the alleged plot, but cannot fail
to work very detrimentally to the interests Of
the Republican party Of the natiou.' Mr.. A.
expresses his surprise that Hawxhurst and the
members Of the committee who are implicated
have so long kept silence, and conveys a pleas
ant inuondo against the former in the following
neatly worded way:
''There is no excuse for this DELAY which char
ity can make and no one, l presume, will be so
uncharitable rs to presume that this silence is
maintained tor the purpose OF allowing these
1umors to obtain circul alton and credcnce, and
thus to injure the regulations of gent lemen
scarcely be called less tn an that of the accredit-
ed author Of the charge gainst them"
IF Hawxhurst will not speak ont, then Allan
calls on the committee to have meeting and
make an investigation and exposure of the mat
ter. He says: ...
'Somebody must get hurt, and the sooner the
guilty party receives the pang, the sooner will
the innocent and the anxious be rcli eyed. ="
Hunnicutts other correspondent says the
idea that bribery upon 4 large scale has been
attempted with john Hawxhurst has gained
considerable crcdencc, " and he adds:
1T is also said in private circles that Mr..
Hawxhurst has positively asserted that he was
offered the bride rs an inducemcnt for him to
throw the elcctora! vote for certain individual,
and that he gavo tho impression that he could
show it in black and whito''-if he did not use
the words-and also that he was inclined to go
to Washington and make an expose Of tho
whole mattcr."RicA. Whig. liz
There was a full Cabinet meeting yesterday,