Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-05-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

Especial Correspondence of the Alex'a Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. G., May 9.-Mr. Aleck:
Stephens while entering the front of the
basement ofthe House to-day, met with an
exceedingly painful but, it is hoped not a
serious accident. His crutch slipped on
one side of him while his body servant failed
to support him on the other, and having no
use of his legs, he fell and was hurt so pain
fully that he was compelled to cry out, and
his voice is so piping now that his cry
sounded like woman's shrek. He was
picked up instantly BY those who witnessed
the accident, hastily put back into his car
riage and rapidly driven off to his rooms at
the National Hotel for surgical attention.
When taken up he was as pale as corpse and
trembled like man with the palsy, but the
extent OF his injury was not known. n, =
The House today resumed the considera-
ton of the bill for charging the Agricultural
Bureau to the dignity and Importance of an
executive department.. Among those who
favored it was Mr. Reagan, of Texas
who made by far the best speech de-
livered on it, and who showed by 1t that
Mr.. Jefferson Davis when President of the
Southern Confederacy was wise enough to
select sensible men for his advisers. Mr..
Reagan was listened to attentively during
the whole of the time he occupied.
| The House Banking and Currency Com
mittee agreed to-day to report in favor of
the bill for retiring from the money circula-
ton of the country all the silver certificates.
DIR. Cabell, Of the University of Virginia.
President of the National Board of Health,
was before the Senate special committee on
the reclamation of the Potomac flats to-day.
His views are in favor of the proposed work
and Of the plan suggested by the late Major
Twining.
The House Committee on Elections ut
their meeting this morning adopted reso-
luton that under the Law Of 1878 the maxi
mum amount to be allowed TO any contestee
and contestant in the cases that have been
before them shall be $1,000. They also in
structed their clerk to notify the parties to
these cases that they must send in their
claims at once. The committee also agreed
to report in favor Of Davidson, democrat,
the sitting member from Florida, but did so
only because the contestant had no case
Mt all.
1t is understood that Mr.. Kasson, who is
a wiser man than the President, and there
fore thinks that the southern half of the
country should have some national recogni-
ton, has advised the President that it would
be we'll to have the South represented on
the tariff commission and that his advice
will be taken, but that the men TO be select
ed will be high tariff men.
Letters here received from various quarters of
| Virginia. and prominent democrats fundcrs rs well
As readjusters from that State now here all agree
that while principle is well enough in Il contest
with principle i'll these degenerate days it has
poor chance against well arranged and skillful
policy, and that therefore it will not only be wise
but he incumbent upon the democrats to run Mr.
Massey for Congressman atlarge. They also seem
to think that the recent course of the readjustcr
Senator and representatives in Congress has driven
nearly all oftheir democratic followers away from
them and that it would be wise to put Mr. Massey
On the stump to set this disafiection as soon as
| possible.
| Senator Cameron gained victory over his half
| breed colleague, Senator Mitchell today. There
were two stalwart nominations for internal rev.
enue collectors in Pennsylvania MIR Mitchell
opposed their confirmation, but the Senate Fin.
! ance Committee. to when they were referred,
agreed to-day to report upon them favorably-
Emily F. Thornburg was commissioned today
| as Postmaster ut Clintwood, Dickson co., Va