Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-07-14
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
From Washington.
SENATE.

| WASHINGTON, II. u, July IA, loio.-ln'
| Senate met at uoon, and during the mornlnt
hour took up the conference report on the sill
yer BILL
MIR. Jones addressed the Senate at length il
opposition to the conference report.
The report was adopted.
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
The Senate then resolved itself into Cour
of Impeachment for the trial of Belknap.
A telegram was read from the witness Evans
to the effect that owing to swollen streams,
&c, it would be impossible for him to reach
Washington before Tuesday next.
The Court then adjourned.
The Senate passed the bill amending the act
authorizing the admission of articles tor exhl
btiou at the Centennial Exposition, so as to
allow of sales under conditions less onerous than
at present.
A bill for the completion OF the Washing
ton Monument Was Introduced and referred,
The conference report 90 the River and liar
| Dor bill was then taken up
When the appropriation for Occoquan bay,
&C. 10 Virginia, came up.
Mr.. Withers advocated these appropriations
and urged that all the appropriations for rivers
| and barhors 10 Virginia be considered together,
| as the whole OF them but little exceeded slO,-
| 600, aud on several of the works there were ur-
expended balances from last year. Asthe Sen
ate seemed to have abandoned the principle OF
the conference report be felt at liberty to ask
that the amendment striking out these appro-
priatioos should be rejected.
| The amendment was rejected.
Wheo the appr ,priatiou tor AceotiDk came
up, MIR. Withcrs urged it as an improvement
10 sight of the Capital, and one which CON-
mended itself to the people.
Mr.. Spencer opposed the appropriation. Ii
all these little harbours were to be improved
the government would have more than it
could do.
The amendment was rejected and the discus
sion was continued.
HOUSE OF REPRES ENTATIVES.
The thermometer. upon the opening of the
session indicated So. but soon the mercury be-
gan to COUP.
The journal having been read and approved,
bill for the relief Of Eliza A. Glover, vetoed
by the President because of a clerical error, was
introduced, but objection being made, went
over.
A Joint resolution 10 relation to the wreck Of
the steam monitor Tecumseh, directing that the
wreck shall not be broken up uuless the bodies
entouIbed therein be cared for, or unless the
amount paid for the wreck by the purchaser, be
returned and the bodies Of the officers and
soldiers drowned therein be properly cared for,
was passed.
A report from the Election Committee upon
the contested case of Abbott vs. Frost, from
Massachusetts, was taken up, the report favor
ing the irg Of Frost, republican, who, it
is alleged was returned by fraudulent votes
given by workmeu at the CharIestown navy
yard, aud the seating Of Mr.. Abbott, democrat
After debate the majority report seating Mr..
Abbott was adopted by party vote, though
the testimony was overwhelming 10 favor OF
Abbott.
A bill to remove the political disabilities Of
George Watson Carr, introduced by Mr.. Har-
rls, was passed.
THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
The first meeting OF the NationaI Democratic
Committee will be held 90 the first Wednes.
day 10 August, by which time the canvass will
be fully opened.
RETIRE. HMENTS.
The periodical exodus of members of the
House has been at last definitely a:certaiDed
to be the cloak room of the Senate, where ice
cold tea and lemonade are furnished gratis.
The House having declined to provide these
luxuries for members, the Sepate's free bar
finds double patronage, and the Senate bowls
have to be rcp"nshed far oftener to satiatc the
thirst Of the House.
Foreign News.