Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-02
FROM WASHINGTON

Special Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazcttel
WASHINGTON. ID. c., December 2, 1882
The second session Of the Forty-serenth
Congress will convene next Monday. The
Senate will meet at II o'clock, bnt the
House will meet at II. 1t will be the short
session and will expire on the 4th of next
March. Inthe House the FIRST business 10
be transacted will be the swearing in of the
SUCCESSORS of SIessrs. Shelley, Hawk, Steph.
ems, Lowe and Allen, whose seats have been
made vacant by death or resignation. The
Presidents annual message will be sent III
OH Monday. II has been printed already
and some of the press have been able to
obtain copies Of it, but it will not be given
to the press hero until it has been presented
| to Congress. Unpublished in the GAZETTE
it will occupy about twelve columns, and
will be by no means interesting reading.
Congressman and those who have business
hero dependent upon Congress are arriving
in large numbers, and the city seems to be
full of strange people to-day.
Judge Garrison, who ia here, says that
Mr.. Kelley and the Dispatch people in
Richmond told him that they had tried to
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had not been allowed to do SO, and that the
reason he did not make application to see
them WAS his dislike t" he met with a rebuff.
The scat now filled by Dir. Rollins. Of
New Hampshire, will be empty after the
4th of next March, because the Legislature
of his State has lot elected his successor
and will rot NEE! until June TO do so. That
vacancy will DC = loss of ono to the rcpub
licans, and shouii Colorado and Nebraska
send opposition Senators to Congress, Or
should Senators Hill and Van Wyck cut
loose from them, of which there is some
chance, the republicans will not be able TO
elect the officers OF the Senate even with
the votes Of Senators Malone and Riddle
berger
The hubbub that has been kicked up in
tho North about the Kellogg and Chalmers
affairs, it appears from people acquainted
with those cases, is altogether groundless.
Mr.. kelogg's name will be enrolled among
the members Of the House hy Clerk Nc
; Pherson, and he will take his seat. He has
no certificate, but neither has his opponent,
and as the returns published by the State
of Louisiana show that he received major.
ity ofthe votes cast, he has prtma fucic evil
dcnce ofrlght to his seat and will take it.
In the Chalmers case the certificate had by
law to be given to Manning, but Manning
does not base his right to the scat on uc-
Count IF votes cast for "Chambess,n but
on frauds committed by internal revenue
Official. Wi,n acted rs election officers, and
whiG!, Manning il sure will secure him his
seat.
The Garfield claims commission made
their report to-day. They scale the claims
down ST. that they will fall within the
amount appropriated by Congress. The bill
of DR.. Bliss, 10y the scaling, was reduced to
$1,000, and that of other claimants in like
ratio.
En- Speaker Randall IS among the latest
arrivals. His friends say that notwith-
standing the talk ofthe small rings he stands
the best chance for the next speakcrship
: NiEGe:nann continued his story before the
Jcan!Irilr Board to-day, and was SO over
com" hy Feelings revived by his own nara
tive, that Il" cc,;ld proceed no further and
: the Board bad to recess.
Admiral Wvman L. ;. n, who was
stricken with paralysis yesterday. died to-
day.
There will sc no duel in the Mccarthy
; RiddlcbergGr affair. Mr.. Riddlcbcrgcr, nc.
companiej By Governor Cameron and Mr.
Sims, the defeated Nuhoucite candidate fo,
Congress i'll the 9TH Va district, passed
through here last night on their way to
) New York, on. it is reported, stock specu.
lating business. While waiting for the New
York train Mr.. hiirlIehergcr, when asked
about his expected duel replied there was
nothing in it, that he was engaged In other
business. that he really had not even read
Dir. McCarthy's card, and that he certainly
was not going 10 fight duel.
Capt. Bassett, doorkeepcr OF the Senate,
will not yet tell which one Of the seats in
the Senate was Daniel Webstcr's but that
well KEPT secret will be developed in his
Fifty years in the L. s. Senate which. it
Is expected will be ready for the publisher
in 1888.
For two week, pas: there have been con.
terences here is Various prominent republi-
: can members OF Congress with The object of
arriving aL some agreement by which the
party could suspend It's factoual fights du.
ring the session ANA come to some arrange.
menI by which the recommendations to be
contained IN ne message Of republican
President could be approved and adopted
by republican Congress. II is understood
that these conferences have been satisfacto-
~ and that such result has been in par,
due to the fact that the President expressed
himself as willing to meet the halfbreeds
more than halfway
Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, who has
just been reelected, hastaken the scat made
vacant by the death ex-senator Ben Hill, and
Senator Jackson will take Senator Morsan's
old seat. On the republican side Mr.. Riddle
berger has spoken for the seat now occupied
by Dir. Kellogg, the fourth from the main
aisle on the outer row. This change is for
the 4Sth Congress, as there were no yacap-
cies to fill on the republican side thissession
The following postmasters were commits
stoned yesterday: r. Fl. Whitworth, West
ernport, Allegheny CO., Md; M. s. Pichard,
Goodwill, Worcester CO., Md; Ii. H. Ayor,
Oak Park, Madison co., Va; r. J. Neale,
Ashton. Mason CO., W Va; T. I.azzell.
Randall, Monongalia CO., w. Va.
The drill of the Alexandria Light Inf;an-
try mere Yesterday afternoon was very
much admired. and is spoken Of in very
complimentary terms here to-day.
Inc ru'nor is becoming moro and more preva-
lent that one of the reuters possibly the one
his pals The published statement of Mr. Dorsey
doesn't seem to help him any