Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-05
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Aoa1NdLOH, ~. VI, DEC. D.
La the Senate, to day, Nh. Withels intro
duced and had referred bill granting pension
to W. B. Whiting.
Mr.. Wlthers also moved that the House bill
reducing the tax on tobacco from "a to l5 c!s.,
to taken from the table and referred TO the
Committee on Finance with the request that q
report thereon be made Immediately, as the
interests Involved we're suffering from the pro
!raoted delay. The motion was adopted.
In the Senate MI. Merrill Introduced reso-
luton for seliog the property aud winding up
the affairs cf the Freedmea's Bank, and took
occasion to say that ia his opinion the original
managers of that bank should have been prose-
cuted criminally.
Ga bill to relisve the sureties Of default
ing public officer Mr. Morsil! also avai!ed him
self Of the opportunity for remsrk!ng that if
this thing Of relieving such b,udsmen was to be
continued it would b. az we'll 10 dispense alto
gether with bond5men on official bonds
ln the House. to day, Mr.. Tucker introduced
a bill relieving Morton 6. Fisher Of The custons
duties cn two steam plows; also one for allowing
toe West Point Commercial Company to do
business in foreign csuuries
Mr.. Garfield in the HOUSE reported from the
Committee on Rules resolution providing for
the appointment Of Committee to Investigate
the yellow fever AID favoring national qusr
antise, ADD spoke of the generosity and synpa
thy Of the North, evoked by the suffcrlDgs Of
the people in the South; Of the ope touch Of
pity that makes the whole world kio, and OF
the Importance Of the question which OVERRIDE
all toe mioor objeoi1ns that might be urged
against it by those who entertained extreme
States rights views.
Gen. Hooker, CT Miss, agreed with all Mr..
Garfield had said, aud paid beautiful tribute
to all who had afforded assistance to the South
duriug Der lato terrible sffl!eiop. He, too,
vas in favor CT a national quarantine. aud men.
tioned Mobile and Matches as noticeable cases
Of the immunity from yellow fever, resulting
from strict quarantine.
Mr.. Cox took the States light view, con-
tending that the government had 90 light to
interfere with the police regulations Of the
States, aud that tho only way for the South TO
be exempt from yellow fever would be for the
Southern States, and not the general govern.
uent, 10 Gloss their ports during the summer to
vessels comi9g from infested distrcis -appar-
caiy forgetting that if the ports Of the South
were closed, aod not those OF tho North, the in
fectcd ships that othtrHisa would go to the
former would go to the latter,
MIR. GaFfaa wanted 10 knox how the States
copld oJntrol Tie mouths CT rivers and navigable
s,reaus, ever which the general government
mad supreme jurisdiction?
Hir. Coz replied that till was already pre-
pared to obvisia that dihioulty, ADD .hs! i time
we're allowed it wuuid be presented
The report was ;h:5. adopted.
L is hardly probable the Senate will agree 10
any Reduction 10 the tag or tobacco, as the IL
AUc1ce Of the internal revenue bureau is too
s!,oug With that body to be easily overcome.
Notwithstanding the ACTON OF tho Southern
Commercial CONVENTION. at Now Orleans, in
tho Texas Psoifa Railroad, the
soutaera Senators and Representative are by
60 nca1s uuited oG that measure. There hss
been &c conference upon the subject, bat 1t is
knowo that Senator Johrs:oa is yet opposed to
the Texas Poetic, and that he is net alone in
his exposition.
All the Virginia members except McssrS.
W alker. Douglass aud P'iicmore-the latter
81 whom is still detained By the illness of his
both the Senator's are in attendance
upcH tho sGssious Of their respective bodies.
Ssus:o? Cocarc!l, Of Missouri, appeared in
bis scat to day fer The frat time this sssa!on.
Both Houses adjourned unh Moudsy.