Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-21
FROM RASHLWGI ON
Special Correspondence Of tie AZcva. Gazette

WASHINGTON. D. O., Dec. 81, 1880.
The vote Oh The bill to remove tie stamp tax
% back pspsr 10 tho House yesterday IS
supposed to irdicato tia! ell the high tariff
noropolsts of the North viii support Dill 10
remove the internal revenue tax en- all articles
ezc9p. tobacco and whiskey-ihc t#o produced
10 the South. 10 order that, ty reducing The
rsvsbuo to that extent, there sill 6es plausible
reason fer continuing tho high tariff Oh ouch
articles as are rrod5c,d 10 the North.
Tsere WAS q q1orpm 10 the Senate 10 dey,
tut uooe 10 the House. There will be one 10
neither house to morrow, AID the few members
that may assemble 10 each will Immediately sd
joutn ua!il the 5:h prox.
That there is some bourboDiara 10 tie Senate
nobody acquainted With chs proceedings otthat
body will desy, bat it is DOT corfnod to the
democratic eide, though the iCstarce tc bs re-
fsrred TO nov i, ca that side. 1t is the opDo.
si.icn Of MIR. Thurman 10 proposition 10 csn-
eel and remove from the books of the Treasury
tho accounts OF o,rtaia mon.es lent TO tee
States. This moray never will ba called for,
and its retention on the books oElg increases
and renders more complex tho work Of the d.
partHent.
Thsre seems now to be 10 doub! THAI the
runor aboat tho cffer 10 MIR. Bls!na Of tho
position of SecretsIy ct State in the new csbi-
nat WAC correos, and that Nj. Blaine still holds
tho offer ucdsr advisemebt.
Ia III. Sana.s 10 dag Mr.. Wbytc made .
pees and appropriate li.ils epacoh uDon prop.
sisios for q constitutional amandment With
r,fersne. to the REORGANIZATION Of the Supr.ne
Court.
10 ths House to day the portal: Of cI-
Speaker TruubuI, of Connecticut, who Sas
s?so Colonial ecd State Governor of CopreCti-
cut, WIS presented by Mr.. HaHlay, eud was
added 10 the collection CT PORTRAITS Of sx Speak
era that cow hang upon the walls Of the Houss
lobby.
Commissioner Morgan Gays he has ASSURANCES
from oc1sraeaaes that tie million and Gasr-
ter Of dollars asked for by the House District
Committee 10 eonSsbos tac 1oik Of reclaim
log sha fats of the Potomac will DO appropriate
ed before tie cicss OF the praaens ceHiou OF
Cooreea.
MIR. Dcwoey, clerk ofthe Pensions Conmittes
of khs House ever sncs that boody become
democratic, and an efficient officer, vas removed
thu aoraias 10 o,dsr that bis plso, might be
si7as to The son Of tie chairman of tho ccn
uittse, MIR. Coffoth. of Pennsylvania.
Tha prevailing noH storm ia said By mem
bors of Congress. who have bsen coming here
for tie lasa twenty years, to exceed anything
svsr expsliauo.d 10 this ely before Bot bali
the asual nanbsr Of Gtrsst oir5 are ruuolog.
because it rt quires twioe tho usual numb:r CT
horses TO draw thon.
The sprointHent Of Genersl Howard to Yves!
Point hiss prodsasd great dissatisfaction to army
officers and nearly everybody else iotcrcsted 10
tee welfare of that restitution, as it ia euDpcsod,
and naturally, thai General Howard will avail
hmasE Of bis present pJa!!lon to regain the
affections Of ths e,lorod DeoDle, which ne loat
By hia nanagensns of tho freedmen g Bank
AID Howard University. a bill will, thsrefore,
bo introdeeed into Congress q. 40 eery date to
restore abe eounaad of West Point to ofhcsrs
iu thu E:ginssr Corps as it WAS before tho var.
ShouId this bill pa1s, it will ouat Howard, who
is not in thai corps.
S.aator Voorhees, vail dsli7er bis lecture on
Jefferson 10 Richmond to morrow night.
He will BIO satertained 90 that cc,Sioa b7 tho
Wssmo.elapd Club. |. will bs remembered
that to Mr. VOORHEES, the South is chiefly ind
deb.ed for ths kat to which ths reprefsiys
xaexSurss against it nere brought, and that,
loo, vhaa the republicans had Q two thirds
majority in Congress. Senstors Johnston and
Voorhees, will leaVo to morrow on the fest train
for Richmond.
An item Of interest to paper men is the fact
thai in tho proposals for paper for government
usss this year raam is m ado TO o3nslst OF 500
instead Of $50 sheets. The ohsnge is msde 10
order to facilitate computation.
A personal habit OF Mr.. Ooadaz, aud ooo that
affords good deal ofamusemsnswhe ben observed
for the f;s. tiHe, is that of removing bis false
teeth Rhe0 he oommoncss o speech, having
thom corcsaled in lis handkerchief duliug tho
IL, a,,oIr ~ hnal
der bis desk aud replacing them at its conc!u
e;o