Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-06-06
FROM WASHINGTON.

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Senate to-day Mr. Conger who yesterday
introduced the bill for changing the boun
diaries of the 18th Collection district of Vir-
ginia, moved that the vote by which that
bill, at the instance of General Malone, was
amended so as to include Hampton Roads
within that district and passed, be recon-
sidercd. He has been informed since the
passage Of the bill that the amendment
alluded to is opposed to the interests Of the
Norfolk district, and wishes to have the OBJ
jcctionablc amendment stricken out.
In the Senate to-day Mr. Johnston intro
duccd and had referred to the Committee on
Claims bills to pay Isaac Davenport $40, l4O,
Ct. +. Watson 5000, Il. NJ. Canoe $3,645,
and YIN. Grcanor 81 POO, Torrent Of property
III Richmond occupied by the Government
Immediately after the close of the war
The Senate Committee OH Foreign Affairs
at their meeting to-day considered the sub
ject of Consular Courts, and though they
formulated nothing, resolved with one ac-
cord to correct what is now acknowledged
to be Il crying evil inaSmuch rs such courts
not only make laws and try cases under
them, but execute their own sentences.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Davis, Of West
Virginia, Offered 4 resolution in favor of Il
reduction in the postage on letters to two
cents and i'll that on newspapers to one-halt
the present rate. He was induced to do 50
by two good reasons, one the fact that the
Postmaster General says the postoflice is
now sclEsustaning, and the other that the
postoifice receipts have invariably increased
after every reduction that has been made
! in postage.
1t is the intention of Mr.. Davis to offer an
amendment to the army appropriation bill,
by which General Sherman shall be excluded
from the operation Of the provision Of that
bill making retirement from the army com
pulsory at the age of e.. If he be not cX-
cludcd, the army, at the next Presidential
election, will be under the command Of that
eager tool of the radicals, General Sheridan,
who would not hesitate to Use it to keep
them in power irrespective Of any majority
there may be against them.
| In the contested election case Of Smith vs..
Shelley, the House Committee on Elections
being unable to give the seat to the republic
can contestant who died recently, agreed
! to-day To declare it vacant, being deter
mined that it shall not be filled bv demo-
crat if they can help it.
/ MIR. Blainc's intention was to appear be-
/ fore the House Foreign Affairs Committee
on Thursday to give further testimony in
/ tie matter Of the Peruvian Company, but
I now that Mr.. Prescott has arrived, he will
not appear before the committee until that
gentleman shall have been examined, so
that he can have Il chance to offset any dam
aging evidence that may be educed from
Mr. T.
In the House to-day Mr.. White, the Ken
lucky scalawag, was again squelchcd. He
has 4 chronic grievance against the Ways
and Means Committee, and to-day, as on
yesterday, implied that its action was inhu-
enccd by improper means. The Speaker
got angry. and tried in vain to silence him
by rapping with his gavel, as he would pop
up Is SOON rs the noise ceased, but Mr. kel-
ley accomplished the desired object ctlec-
tnalIE by rising and saying, ''look here, I'm
tired Of this The last time committee of
my constituents waited upon me to know
whether would run again | told them YES,
and further. to save themselves the like
trouble once every two years, that would
be Il candidate until died unless I should
be struck with paralysis or afflicted with
lunacy. My friend, Mr.. Cox, told Inc had
made the exception too broad as lunacy did
not prevent man from being member of
the House. | thought at the time he was
joking, but now | know that he was in
earnest and was llnqueStionably correct"
This brought down the House, and Mr.
White sank rs low in his seat as it was pos
siblc for him to get.
In the House to-day the claim of COL M
ID. Ball to scat us delegate from Alaska
was finally disposed of by an adverse report
from the Committee on Territories, to whom
it had been referred
In the House yesterday the bill granting
pension Of $1,000 Il year to =. Randolph
Miklcham, sole surviving grand child OF
Thomas Jefferson, was referred TO the com
mittee on invalid pensions.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Dczcndorf
presented Il paper of Il. :. Lacey praying
that $4,000 unpaid taxes on the Arlington
estate be appropriated as Il permanent in.
. tcrcst bearing fund for the support Of the
common schools in Alexandria county, Va
1t was referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.
!. well known republican Mahonite stated
publicly to-day that though Mr.. Fulkerson
OF course did not like the way the postofiiccs
i'll his district were being the distributed. he
had returned to the Malone fold from which
, he recently straycd away temporarily, and
was now working quietly and smoothly in
the traces of the Boss.
The press dispatch from Portland to the
effect that Oregon, at the election yesterday
went for the republicans is discredited by the
democrats here, who say it is impossible at
this time to tell how the election has gone
| Should the news be true, the republicans
will have control of the Senate in the next
Congress without the votes of Virginia read
ulster, whose Importance will consequently
be greatly curtailed.
While General Sherman processes to be
unconcerned about the bill retiring all of.
ficers mt the age of GO, the ladies his family
are open in their opposition to it, and at
their instance Senator Calleron, who mar.
, rcd the Generals niece, has undertaken to
defeat or amend the BILL This has nettled
Mr.. Logan who has made it his business to
inform Mr.. Cameron that he comedies him
the right to oppose the bill or any of its sec
tons, but that if there be any attempt
at bulldozing, he Logan, will see that the
General is not excluded from the provisions
of the bill.
The desk of Mr.. Mackey was decorated
with flowers to-day by parties who profess