Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-02-05
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Special Correspondence Of the Alera. Gazette.
Whsu1NGroN. d. O.. Feb. 5. 1880.

Az atic.Drt was made 10 tho Senate 10 day |
10 secure gu Adjournment of that body until
Monday, in order that tho business Of the CON-
lpit:ecs might be attended to, but strong oppo. |
sition vas made to it, chiefly by the republicans,
anl, though it vas first carried by viva Voc,
vote, t. subsequent ayeand nay vote defeated it.
Ia The Seuao to day when The bill on tho cal
cndar from thcCOm nj too onMilitaryAffairs pro.
posing an appropriation for a monument 10 tho
Nato1al Cemetery at Chalmctc, six miles b.
low New Orleans was reached. Mr.. Teller,
who has sunk into merited insigniEcance
nst slip Of tho elections Investigating COM
mi,tcc, o!jtc.cd to its consideration, and said
that when it did come up he would
enquire upon which side the soldiers to whom
it vas TO be erected had fought. Mr. Randolph
supported the cool lerstioa and passage OF the
the BIZ, aud Mr.. Ctckerell wanted to know if
oonlo;ciy provided it vas q national one.
The Military Committee tftbc House agreed
this moraiug to rcport favorably bill to lend
the Cherokee Artillery of Rome, Co., b,ttery.
The liouso this morpiug passed tho Senate
at Dlnvilc, We. All this bill wants COW to be
come law is tic Presidents approval, which
It will receive.
Complaints have been made ag4irst II. Tav'
cnntr, postmaster at Hamilton, Loudoun
ccuuiy, Vs., and Sptcal Agent Shellcross will
PR c!cG TO Hamilton to morrow to investigate
them.
The statement that the Eltc iors Committee
Of the Senate had determined to report in favor
of ousing Kellogg and sealiog Spotford is en-.
lrcly incorrect; Each member has doubtless
made UP his mind as to how BIO will vote, but
thero has as yet been no expression of their COL
lectivc opinion on the subject.
1t is reported that the name of the Southern
senator connected with the recently started
scandal, with reference to some ladies in the
Treasury, is to DO published and harped upon
by his political opponents. Whom senators do.
scrmlDo not to be as harmless as doves, they
should be as visa as serpents.
Quite az CXotcmont was created by 90 alarm
Of lire sounded in the Capitol this morning. aud
o largo crowd soon collected 10 tic statuary
room. Tho shutc, down which letters arc sent
TO the floor below, was discovered 10 BIO smok-
ing. Some letters ", re burned. but the damage
was slight aCd the invisible flames were soon
rx,inpuishel
Anthony Comstock Was before tho House
Committee on Postcf1icas this morning and was
exanieed in lelerenco 10 tic transmission Of
obscene matter through the mails. Gen. Beau.
rcgardc will appear before this committee TO
aoyrew 10 testify 10 regard 10 tho lottery busi
hrgG.
Ia the House Committee on Railroads and
Canals yesterday morning the assertion Of ono
Of tho advocates for charter for tho Iotcroa
t!oua! Rlllcoal Co. oil Texas that his company
had the iron all ready aud pic means to COM
p!cta 10 road, which is rival of the San An
tonic aud Mexican Border road, was fatty con-
ira.locd by friend of tho latter road, who
statad That Tho first named road had some iron,
hui II was for tho purpose Of ropniring its pres
cut road bed, and that the company was utterly
| bankrupt. Oh course, after this, proceedings
closed tnr tho daP.
Mr.. B!ale, tiom Inc committee to whom Was
referred the bill to regulate tho manufacture
and safe Of articles Of human food md driuk,
hopes to be ablo 10 mako report at 40 early
Gaze. The Investigations condCc ed so far With
rcsrtc to thls matter ure rather appalling, and
yesterday moroiog letters wtro received by the
committee from st. Louis stating that it is q
veil ka0wn fac! that kits and barrels of mack.
ere! arc cpantd by dealers. tho fish taken out
and the lost vi lght supplied by tho addition of
salt.
The na1e Of tho posto[ioa at Boiling Land-
ing, buckingham county, Va. was changed
yesterday TO PaYnc'e, and s. l.. Burke con.
tlnued as postmaster also that OF Newtowu,
S;cHhcbsturt, Frederick county. Va, to Pan
TOP, and q. L. Mayors continued as postmaster.
Raleigh Cclstoo, late ohiet clerk 10 the office
OF the Treasurer Of Virginia, deposed by tho road
asters but who has received sn appointment as
clerk 10 tho Census Bureau, hes arrived here and
cLt:red upon the discharge Of the duties Of bis
new and mere luc;aIive ofico. Senator Withers,
who is at his homo in Wytheville, will not re.
turn for two or lhreo days. j. Godsborough
BT0uti, new 10 tho office of tho Architect of the
Treasury, employed only Oh the most delicate
work, and who Is IS years of age, led the party
rom this city, Alexandra, and tho ncighbor.
hood, who went to California in the year lS49.
Bernard pcyton, son of the lato Gen. Bernard
feyton. q Richmond, who is president of tho
Calllornia Guupowdcr Company, and G. f.
Goldman, chairman of the conservative commit
tee Of L1u1cun county, were on the floor Of the
S2rato yesterday.
a VirEinan now hero, we'll known resident
OF tho Valley. and ono who formerly held
proniLc5t offoo at Richmond, is authority for
tho statement that the readjusttrs OF his sc.
ton OF the State, almost to a man, will support
mo rational democratic ticket. His opinion 90
this sui lect ii tho moro reliable from tho fact
that he was au avoWcd readjuster up 10 the
time tho McCullec1 bill was prepared. and still
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