Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-27
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SENATE
The Seuato WaJ net ia session today.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE.
TIL, House agreed to have night sesSon 90
Monday to consider reports from the Committee
on Public Inod<.
The House DON concurred 10 the Senate
amendments to tho Til Ter advertising man lei
lings.
A memorial fer thu rc,'eal Of the ten per Ct.
tax on State ba1ks, was presented from North
Carolina.
Alter tho introduction OF number OF unlm.
portant bills resolutions, ", and personal
exclamation by Mr.. McGowan about missing
letter, which MIR. Wood had intimatcd hs, Mr.
G.. had taken, but which soft impeachment
Mr. MEG. denied.
The House resolved itself into committee CT
tho whole and took up the ludlan Approprla'
ton bill aud passed it.
NOTES.
Seven appropriation bills have so far passed
the House, but only one, the Fertilization Dll'
has become law. -Four moro besides the To-
dian Appropriation bill arc yet to DO acIGd upon
by the House, but with attention. TO business
there is no reason why an adloutnueat can t
be had by the l0;h Of June, aud many thlpk
such will be the case. There Is DO doubt that
tho Tariff bill will 20 over till December next
as the friends CT the measure sec no chance Tor
it's passage at the present session.
Tho I5dian Appropriation bill undcr considc-
ration in tho House, to day. approprlatcs ST.
77o 575 70, about $4,000 less than last year.
lion. j. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia who
has been absent from the House, in attendance
unop the Loudouu Court, has returned and was
ia his seat ia the House to day. lion. Eppa
Hinton is absent from the House, on \ Visit
to his houac. c,
DIR. Handy, former correspondent OF the
~, -nond Dispatch ia this city. who has been
hlcn. dropped" from his position IN the
I n:" oostofico, is IN this city.
h' H managing editor Of the Post,
:. lt. UuvnJ'' Is 20 give up that position and
IL Is reporter, =, tho Baltimore Gazette, next
week. *.o;cf,e annro.
On the amendment to tie Pv tIs Hopse
priation bill under consideration, 10 Il. far
yesterday, to increase the appropriation
"prosecuting depreciation" from 500, 900 to
$3.50 600, 81 members were absent, more than
tWothirds Of whom we're democrats. % the
amendment 10 increase the appropriation for
printing postal maps l II members we're absent,
thirteen only of whom were republicans.
John Jasper, colorcd, CT Richmond, who
has been making fool Of himself and great
many other people by his Sermon on tho sun
revolving instead of the Garth, and who has
been taken up as speculation by certain par
ties, aud is 10 be carried through the North
upon "lecturiDg" tour, is shortly to appear
10 this city.
It is an indisputable fact that most strenu-
Gus effort is to be nado by the republicans to
secure maj GRITTY in the next House. and for
that purpose their attention is 10 DO directed
South as we'll as North Wherever in the South
there is large colored vote or close district,
there extraordinary exertions will be made, and
in this way in Mississippi. Alabama, South Car,
DINA and some other States they hope to succeed
in making gains II becomes the democrats to
BIO up and doing ell over tho land.
The May-June number Of the North AM
mericsn Review, now printed in New York,
contains tbs following articles us the Repub-
lican Party in its Death Struggle? by Senator
T. O. Howe; THE sovereignty OF Ethics" by
Ralph Waldo Emerson; "Our Commerce with
France" by j. s. Moore; Discipline in Ameri.
can Colleges" by James McCosh, President Of
Princeton College; "Tho Army OF the United
States" by Con. James A Garfield; us Man
q DEPRIVED Crssture?' sdeba!e by Rev. T. W.
Chambers, u. D., and Rev. 0. B. rockingham;
1.-THE Irrepressiblo Conflict Undecided" by
Senator A. Cameron; "Chinese immigration"
by NJ. j. Doe; "The Phonograph and it's
Future" by Thos. A. Edison, the inventor Of the
instrument; Contemporary Literature.