Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-05-21
FHG,n E,dSHING TOW.
Special Correspondence Of the A7era. Gazette

SDPtiul correspondence ~ tte ilIt.C3' I''~e'''
WASHINGTON, D. c., May q. 1879.
The Senate was not 10 session to-day having
adjourned yesterday until Thursday. not how
ever, 80 some thiok, on account or Inc DAN
more races, though some OF tho members dio
attend those races. but to proven. the consloe-
ration Of measures that might De INTRODUCED;
The Senate does not wan: to 20 into general
legislation, and l.; doing all 1t can to staVe OF OIL
matter not already before it,
10 the House the whole morning hour was
consumed by dilatory motions on the part Ct
the radicals to prevent a vote on tho bill re-
Iating 10 the removal OF causes from State to
Federal Courts. They succeeded and the bill
had to 20 over. Dir. Hunton tried to have first
Tuesday and then to morrow set apart for
the consideration Of the District OF Columbia
matters, among them the free bridge across the
| Potomac at Georgetown. but objection Ws5 made
10 both. and go tho District is cut QUIZ IS !.
stands a. present Tho consideration o! the s!l-
yer bill was then resumed. it being the intention
of tho friends of hst bill if the amendment
adopted yesterday allowing tho government to
| ba benefited TO the extent OF the diherenco pa
| tween the market value of the bullion and the
! legal tender value of the coin could not bs re,
considered and rejected, to make 1t apply to gold
also so IS to secure tho BIZ m stsic standard.
Tho democrats are sadly demorazed to day,
not from anything that has just occurred, but
from the fact that The ippossibillty Of their
presenting q solid front 90 either tho money
question or tho appropriation bills has become
so apparent that it is decidedly observable. The
break 10 the line Oh the Appropriation bills, i!
is pog said, will be made At the first opportu
nifty, South Csrolioa, as 10 1860. being the
bell weather, her senator's and representatives
alike Joining tho movement with the certainty
Of being followed by sufficient number OF
democrats from other portions Of the South to
sccurc the passage Of both the Appropriation
bills without the political riders, thus showing
| that the extra session was unnecessary and
complete iases. One of the reasons ascrlbcd
for such course Is The supposllltous one that
! If the army should be dista1ded MIR. Zick
| Chandler ard the radicals of that ilk having
iuslgacd tho hostile ludans to massacre the
| frontier people would attribute that massacre to
| the democrats for Withholding the necessary sup.
plies and thcrebyrase such Juror otindguation
against them that they would be swept out Of
power ct tho first opportunity, and rad e4llsm
again be enabled to fill tho PLACES it has so
lately vacated. Several OF tho Georgia mem
| bers MIR. Stephens among the Eunber, are in
| favor Of furnishing the necessary supplies. and
| there IS no doubt that democratic spirits arc
sadly depe s5ed, FIR the Hiscst men among tho
party sec little TO hope for. They know that
defeat now prasages defeat 10 1880. but arc
utterly powerles5 to prevent what they almost
deem to BIO tho inevitable at present.
The legislative, judicial and executive appro
prialion bill that passed the Seuate, yesterday,
was referred by the House 10 its appropriation
committee TO day. That committee will doubt.
less report iavorably upon it to morrow. II will
then be sent to the President, who will veto it.
LIS p,l.ical riders will then DO sent 10 him
in separate ii which be will also veto,
and then the caucus will Try and devise some
schsme by which the party eau be kept
u1ited. If the back down alluded 10 above,
be made an early a6j ourunent may baezpected,
but Speaker Randall said last night Congress
would be 10 session until July.
The House Committee on Railroads and Ca
naIs has assigned tho bill for the i'm proVement
Of the Dismal Swamp Canal to sub committee
for report.
Rumors Of a charge 10 the Cabinet arc again
lif,. This time the member to 90 cut is Sec.
rotary McCreerg, who, it is understood, will
be appointed 10 the S:h U. s. judicial circuit,
the Judge of thst district, Dillon, having d..
! tcrnioed 10 accept professoIsblp 10 The Co.
In1nbia low school of New York. The reported
change, however, will not take plao5 til! Mex
| September. The Secretary SUCCESSOR has not
| yet been named.
Tho Ways and Means Committee OF tho
House say to day that The resolution they
adopted yesterday about tho order OF business
Yves rather moro sweeping 10 its character than
| was iLtllIei, for that they will consider at this
session such measures affecting tho revenue as
the bill. Tor the cancellation OF the bonds on tX-
ported manufactured tobacco. aud similar bills
and ij1t resolutions.
Tho negroes Of Little Boston, az Major
Williams was in the haiti IF celling Washing
ton, have IS little faith ia the honesty It tho
white people OF that city, or rather OF that olasI
oil them who have been or are 10 The way OF dis
bursing Iu5ic money, Us their race further
South have in that OF their particular radical
lrietll Of that section. $4,000 Is due them
for work done for contrsc ors under the fjrmer
Disric. Comm s,ioncrs. but fearing they will
never get it if disbu!sed in the usual way, they
have applied to the House Committee on tho
DiS,ric. to have it ppii to them directly und
without tho Intervention OF third party.
Some time ago negro msu named Feuton
Brown was arrested at Markham, Va. for
robtiag Mr.. MoucasLtr, of Montecm,ry Co.,
Nd, of somo haroeis Sheriff Clements, OF
Montgomery. went there aud took possession
Of him, but his prisoner escaped soon after.
The Sheriff offered a reward OF $25 fer his
capture, end d5y before yesterday he was re-
arrested, and passed through hero last night on
his way 10 Rockville, where he is now in all.
Gentlemen here 10 day from Lee sbuIg report
that much interest is manifested 10 that tow
about The result OF the election to be held tb ere
to- morrow. The two candidates for Mayer are
Capt. Head, the present Mayor, and Captain
Edward Powell, formerly Of Alexandra, with
the chances in favor OF the former.
The mud machine recently, at work cleaning
ous the decks at the foot of lib street, was dis
aoIed this morning by having the powerful
shaft, 10 the end of which .Lo SCOOP is Of.
tacbcd broken in The middle, showing the in.
meusc grain 10 which i: vas sutj.c!cd.
Samuel Young, another ono OF the parties
implicated in The recent deta,a,iors at tho Star
Office, was arrested this morning, hui was bailed
for subsequent exami nation.
The Metropolitan police to tho number Of
two hundred and thirty eight, officers and men.
foot and mounted, 10 their new Uniform of
whto hats and gloves and blue flannel suits,
preceded by thirty four pieces of the Marine