Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-14
FROM WASHINGTON

Especial Correspondence Of the Ae1andra Gazette
WASHINGTON, d. G., July 14.-Amongthe
strangers at the Capitol to-day was State
Senator Heaton, from the Loudoun district
in Virginia. He had just returned from
Richmond where he attended the recent
meeting Of the Democratic Central Com
mittee of that State. He, like all the other
attendants at that meeting who have come
here, says the committee adopted the wisest'
course it was possible for them to pursue
under the existing circumstances. Major
Heaton has advised Mr.. Massey to get the
recognized endorsement of the "big four"
so as to satisfy those democrats who pro-
fessed to be willing to support Mr.. Newberry
for Congressman-at -large.
Both the Virginia Senators and the Navy
Department have agreed that instead of
Congress passing the bill now before it for
buying fifty acres of land Immediately
opposite the Portsmouth Navy Yard. it
would he better to send naval commission
there TO inspect the premises and report ex-
actly what ought to be done and how it
should be accomplished, before any money
is appropriated, and that course will prob
ably be adopted.
With regard to the amendments the Fir-
ginia Senators have proposed to the internal
revenue bill, those Senators have agreed to
let Mr.. Johnston's, providing for the aboli-
ton of the whole system ofinternal revenue,
be considered first. and that if it fail, Us il
probably will because all the republicans are
opposed to it. then to take up General Ma
homes which is to reduce the tax ON tobacco
to 10 cents pound.
Ex-Governor Young, Of Ohio, now mem
Der Of the House from Cincinnati and Vice
President Of the Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western Railway, attended meeting of the
company in New York yesterday. He says
there is not 4 word Of truth in the report
about the institution Of Il suit by his COM
pany against Mr.. Best, the recent purchaser
ofthc Washington and Ohio Railroad; that
his company as IL company could not have
bought out another company, but that the
same men are interested in both, and also
that Mr.. Best does not claim to have made
the purchase for himself He says the road
under its new owners is working smoothly,
and that its extension to Berryville will be
commenced at an early day
The election Of Il President Of the Chesa-
pcakc and Ohio Canal has been postponed
for Il month. As previously stated in this
correspondence, Mr. German will not con-
sent under any circumstances to accept a
Reelection. 1t may be asserted with much
confidence that the Presidency will fall to
resident OF Cumberland.
The engineering party that lately SUR
veycd Il route for Il railroad between Stras-
burg and the Fairfax stone, at the head
waters Of the Potomac, having completed
that work, are now here making up their
report for the company in whose employ
they are, and one of the leading members of
which is Senator Davis, Of West Virginia.
Their report will show that they have
found Il route much shorter and far more
practicable than any heretofore discovered,
and one OF easy grades and on-whieh there
are but.two tunnels, one of thousand and
one of two thousand feet. On all the pre-
vious lines that have been run there for the
purpose OF connecting the Alexandria roads
with the coal fields Of West Virginia there
have been miles of tunneling.
}. II. Dean was confirmed yesterday as
Postmaster at Winchester. 1t was objected
to him that he was Il professional gambler,
but majority oi The Senate thought that
no disqualification, especially as Mr.. Mas
y
made the nomination. always puts up ut
gambling establishment in Richmond, has
never been contradicted
Mr.. Neal, the chairman of the House Dis
trict Committee. says he thinks the House
will concur in the Scnate's amendment to
the river and larbor bill providing for the
reclamation of the Potomac flats.
In the House to-day Messrs Blackburn and
Springer, democrats, both attacked the PROPOSE
ton to pay the cXorbitamt bills Of the physicians
in the Garfield cast Mr.. Taylor, republican, de-
Tended it, and said that if Congress didn't pay the
bills Mrs. Garfield would have to pay them. This
WAS hootcd ut, As every body knows the bills
would not have been tenth as large if they had
been made out against an individual.
There Is still great uncertainty respecting the
day OH which this session of Congress shall ad-
ionrn. Mr.. Beck in 4 speech in the Senate to-day
intmatcd that September might find the Senators
still here. But another member of the appropra
tionS committee who have control of the subject
told the GAZErrE's correspondent to-day that he
thought the session would terminate about the
first of August In order to hurry up business,
the Senate agreed this morning to meet at eleven
O'clock on and after Monday next.