Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-21
FROM WASHINGTON


Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazettel
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 81, 1SS2.-The
House this morning agreed to those sections
OF the conference report on the general de-
ficicncy bill providing for a commission to
audit the claims in the Garfield case. but
disagreed to that giving the Senators mile
age for their extra session last year.
In the Senate there was great squabble,
in which Messrs. Logan, Allison, Ingalls,,
Hoar and Cameron, Of Wisconsin, took part,
with reference to the conference report on
the river aud harbor bill, the majority Of
the Senate seeming to be in favor Of stand
ing by all the Senate amendments, one of
which is that providing for the reclamation
Of the flats of the Potomac off this city
In the Senate this morning Mr.. Butler, of
South Carolina, rose to personal expana-
ton in which he stated that he had seen in
the Congressional Record an attack upon
himself by 4 member of the House who had
falsitied the record in order to do So He
| said he had successfully withstood the assaults
Of the mastitls of the radical party and
could we'll afford to ignore the yelps ola cur
Of low degree. He said the name of the
| creature 10 whom he referred is Samuel H
Miller, OF Pennsylvania The Senator spoke
slowly and deliberately. and during his re-
marks the most perfect quietness prevailed,
so that every word was distinctly beard
| In the House to-day Mr.. Robinson rose
he made the point the other day that one
member on the republican side had voted
twice to make quorum, Mr.. Robson had
said that such Il charge was preposterous,
and that he, Robinson, was deaf and could
not have heard the two responses if they
had been made He said he confessed that
he was Il little hard of hearing, but denied
that he was deaf, and thought it remarka-
bic that when Mr. Whtthorne, the other
! day branded the member from New JERSEY
with the words liar, thief and perurer, that
member was the only one in all the House
who did not hear him.
The minority Of the House Judiciary Com
mittee agreed upon their report in the case
of the Pacific Railroads to-day. II is to the
effect that the lands donated by the Gov
eminent have been forfeited by the non-iul-
flllment of the terms upon which the grants
were made. 1t is rumored that majority
of the House is in favor Of this report, but
the Influence of the railroads is too potential
| to allow this report to be credited.
In the star route cases this morning Judge
Nyic decided that the testimony Of the
witness Walsh should he admitted, and
Walsh is now upon the stand His evidence
Is Very damaging TO the accused, and how
the grand jury could have found nothing in
it upon which to frame new indictments be-
comes more and more pulling.
| Not vii hist op1inu thn G., ri ,Io+ tl,o olo,, -,
the session is rapidly approaching and that
the time of the Senate is exceedingly pre-
ciouS, that body spent the whole of the
morning hour to-day in discussing whether
32NO or 5000 copies Of an educational re-
port should he printed, and finally decided
upon the latter number.
Reports here from Norfolk today are to
| the elect hat the convention of the straight
out republicans Of that district Yesterday
has stimulated the strai ghtout movement
greatly. Every county in the district was
represented and all the delegates concurred
III the opinion that with the exception OF
the oIliccluldcrs and the navy yard and In.
matte asylum employees, every republican
in The district, Of whom there are about sew
entcen thousand, would support the nomi-
nee, lIr. Dczendorf.
The prevailing impression among the
NlrSlnans here and Of those who have
| recently been here is that Mr.. Fulkerson s
attempt to set up al independent party in
the House with himself as the only mem
Der is the silicst thing Of the season, and
that leaving out Of view all State, sectional
and national considerations, and looking at
1t merely i'll its personal aspect, it is the
worst course for himself that: he could
possibly have adopted. even worse than that
nf n Il
Malone and his other followers has gone
bodily over to the republicans. In the
SmalIs' case Mr.. Fulllcrson voted with the
republicans TO make quorum up to the
time when the vote was taken on Smals
admission, and then lie refused to vote like
the democrats.
A democratic Senator when asked by the
GAZETTE'S correspondent this morning
about the chance Of Mr. Windsor's confirm
alton rs Postmaster ut Alexandria. replied
that rs the nomination was made BY Gen
Malone it would be confirmed, and that
though Mr.. McKenzie's record as long
standing republican might induce some
democrats to oppose the change, it would
have no effect upon the republican members
who, with the possible exception of two OF
three would vote for the confirmation That
Mr.. Windsor will be confirmed Us Postmas-
ter is just rs certain as the fact that he has
been nominated.
1t is understood here that the democrats
OF the Sth Va. Congressional district have
determined TO hold a convention and that
II will lin Alexandria on or about the 9th of
September and also that Mr. Barbour will
be renominated with little or no opposition.
The Malone convention is also to be held
in Alexandria, and it is said here that Mr..
Farr of Fairfax county will probably be its
I nominee.
>. ~ BIckcrs, L0vngston, Nelson co.; r. p. Jes
ter, Coonsvillc. Bedford CO., and Miss NJ l.. Lewis,
| Lynwood, Rockingham CO., V. were commissioned
postmasters 10 day.