Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-02-24
FHOM WASHINGTON,
Speciel Correspondence Of the Aleza. Gazette


The House Committee on Ways and Means
held meeioe Ibis morning and took under
consideration Tic Funding bill as amended by
the Senate. Tho bill IVES read By sections and
tho SEVERAL Amendments we're discussed ard
acted upon. The uls,lity of tho Senate amend
ments Wr3agreed to. The exceptions were, FIRST
10 regard to Tie award Ct bonds of tho new
per cent. loan to subscribers; tho committee
adopted en- amendment TO the first section
which provides 10 effac. that tho bonds shall be
distributed in the order of application without
aHy ceiling Of subscriptions. Amendments
we're also adopted to section four of the bill TO
authorize the Secretary Of tho Treasury to use
ifom time 10 time not exceeding fifty million
dollars at any ono time OF the standard gold
end silver coin 10 the Treasury 10 the redcmp-
ton Of The 5 and 6 per cent. bones of the u.
s., also to authorize tho Secretary of the
Treasury at any tlno TO apply tho surplus
money in the Tree sury not otberRis, appropri.
ated, or so much thereof az he may consider
proper, to the purchase or redemption of asy
y. s. bonds or OF the Treasury notes authorized
by this act. An amendment wau also adopted
to section Eve, which extends tho time from
July Is. 10 September lst when the banks
must deposit tho new bonds Exclusively to
secure their circulation. The committee will
meet again TO morrow to ttke final fc!ion and
II s'Iucs their Chairman in regard to the report
TO be madeto tho House.
Tho sugar question Ses Lot torsi ;cred by
the committee TO day.
The House Committee on Pacific railrods to
day adopted resolution decliniag any action ct
present ia regard 10 those roads.
Mr.. JorgeuseD, who has recently returned
from 9 visit 10 Mentor, informed tho Gazctte's
correspondent this morning that the President
elecs would haVo advised the holding CT State
republican convention in Virgi1is oE the 10Th
prtX!mo, ii bo had kroBn such convention
YVES to have been held 10 roorganiz, tho party
! sud not to rominato Candidates for the State
| Offices; that the Ptcslden. e(ci was utterly
Opposed to the party's taiGtine itself with any
species Of reputation. but, and here comes 10
| the strange part. that if tho party shall deter.
| mine to support either tsc ioo of tho demo-
cratic party, Ii shall do SO Is O whole, acting as
Q utl:. Mr.. Jorgeuson vas asked by the cor.
| re: pendent what no understood ty Mr.. Garfield
saying that the parry must avoid all taint OF re.
pudistiau, ard yet that if it determined TO vote
| with tho raru ilat0rs it must DO so as 8 whole,
but lie could give no definite or satisfactory
| answer. lis did say. however, that the repub
| leafs ct tic North believed that Mshoue was
| coming over to them bodily, end that if hs did
! tie repub leans Of Virginia would have 90 REQ
| sou Tor refusing to give him their support.
| Senator Carpenter, Of Wisconsin,, who has
been Ill Ter sometime past, Glad at 10 o clock
! this irorning. His body WAS cmbaImed at orc,,
! and Will 10 LII in tho reception vault 10 tho
| Gcrgrt sa!olai Cemetery on Sunday next, un
Shiun day zoe luaeral services will DO he'd OF
| his ietc Icsldeuoo Ia this city. The Senatorial
committee 10 SCOTT his remains 10 his home, 10
NlilRsukge, will be announced Tomorrow or
EexE day. bat vi not start with them until af-
| ter the 4 h OF March. The eucges will be- on.
| nourc?A during the executive session Of the
Senate after the same date. His death was
! a7nHua;"d IL tie Senate tLl3 morning as soon
81 tho Juiosl WAS read, by lis colleague, Mr.
Angus Cam:rOn, who offered resolutions SINH.
! lar TO th0se usually presented on the death Of g
| member OF the bcdY, which being adopted, the
Senate adjourned until to morrow, and tho Il "
over TO Seohte lowered 10 half mast and his
disk dIapad n mourning az marks Of further
rssps c: 10 lis memory. Mr.. Carpenter had no
superior il tho SopGir, either as an iatclh c.ual
ulGn CT IS Z lawyer, and ihcfo gro many men
amonc thcsa who voted with him whom his
country, # not his party, could have lost with
| less regret. Mr.. Carpepter WAS born 10 Yer
| mont in 1924, entered West Point, but did not
| graduate there. studied law with Rufus Choate,
| removed 10 Wisconsin 10 lS4S and Was first
elected to the Senate in 1869 TO succeed Mr..
| Doolittlc, aud sgaiI in 1879 10 place Of Mr.
Howe.
Tx. Governor Ileury D. Cock. of the District
CT Colombia, Who. like tho lato MIR. Carp. inter-,
has been 10 bad health for months past, also
d:ld this morrDg at his residence in George
towu.
| Messrs. Bsalo snd Goodc Of the House. wero
| 10 tho Senate this aUrCing. urRiog upon tho
| III EnboEs OF The Con marco Committee Of that
| BODY 70 prevent any dimilution Of the appro-
i rr!a!itnl to Virginia ia tho River aud HArbor
| b,. IL is feared that an attempt will be mado
| to strike out the appropriation for NeabSco.
The republicans bciag determined to oppose
partisan effec:, Mr.. Cox called it up 10 the
House to day ard is prosting its passage. The
| republicans have commenced to liIlbuster, and
| hy refusing 10 vote, show an apparent but not
| actual absence of quorum a call of the
House is now ia progress. and Mr. Cox is 10
hopes Of securing the passage ct tho bill before
| tito coso OF tho day session.
| The hopes OF the sengulne democrats about
the Pennsylvania Senatorsblp have been bias
| ted, but they sti hold cut 10 their hopes about
! ratslDlpg possession OF tho Senate. because two
| Tu ,sdayS have to espSe b6iote Senators can bo
elected in Maine aud Wisconsin, nod it is now
conGdently SERTED that Mr.. Blaine will not re-
! sign until the 4th of March, and IS confidently
| believed that Sonator Carpenter will never be
we'll cough to resume his seat
SensloT-elect Mahone and his wife and daugh-
| tar have arrived hero and hsvo rooms at the
| Arlington. 1t is now ST. that the instructions
| doOrkeeper Bssselt received about taking seat
| from The demOcrstic and placing it on the re-
| publican side Of the Senate for the General did
| not come from Mr. Gorham. as reported, but
| from Senator Don Cameron, and that it is doubt
| full Whistler they were authorized by General
Malone.
The bill that raised the Senate Tuesday in.
creasing tho appropriation for the monument to
| be erected at the birth plsco of Washington. in
WestmorelsEd couaty Virginia, from So, 000 to
! S3O:OC0 had ten votes against 1.-TWO democrats
| (Cockrill snd usrrs) and eight republicans; but
the opposition Of four OF the lstter-Conkling,
Ingalls,, Esmlin and Teller-was not go much 10
The bill itself Us TO Secretary Evsrts, who favor.
cd it