Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-11-21

ported that $4,000 will be required 10 1901 |
The whole BILL
The House Ways and Means Committee
was to have held q meeting yesterday, but
only four members, not quorum, were pres
cnt, and they adjourned to meet when
quorum could he assembled They whiled
away an hour or two in discussing the causes
of the recent political cyclone. The non
attendance of the members shows that those
who we're not reelected have lost all inter-
est in the proceedings of the committee.
Mr.. Kelley, Chairman of this commit
tee, was at the Capitol again to-day
10 hold meeting of that committee if
a quorum were present, but there being
no appearance of aQuorum, he said he was
going home, that time was worth as much
10 him as to the members Of the committee
who would not attend, and that the proper
ed meeting would not take place until the
5th Of December. The idea of holding
meeting Of the Appropriations Committee
before the opening ofthe session has also
been abandoned, and as much of the time
of the next session will be consumed in the
discussion Of tariff and internal revenue
matters it will not be surprising if some
of the regular appropriation bills will be
left over, and thus make an extra session
necessary in order to provide for the cxpcn-
ses Of the Government
Letters received here from Virginia state
that General Malone is rot ut all pleased
with the lukewarm support rendered him
by the Lcwses in his recent fight, and that
probably he may select another than Mr..
Sheffcy Lewis for the place Of Y. S. Attorney
for the Western District of Virginia; also
that Mr.. Yos;'5 sur?ort was not protlercd
soon enough, and that when his term Of
ir>fit NJ tan no
pirc, which will be in short time, one who
was more alert to obey the Generals COM
mands will ill his place. Walker, of Shcn
in connection with the former place. The
nano O.! Mr. Ios,s probable successor is
not got mentioned. Other letters from the
same State talk about . proposed rcorgani-
za,ion Of the republican party there so as TO
prepare it fU? the next Presidential cam.
paign. but in reality for tho next national
republican convention, in which, these
letters say, Mr.. Arthur will not receive the
vote Of the Virginia delegation.
Tho pictures on exhibition at the Garfield
Memorial Fair to be held at the Capitol
will OF themselves alone make that fair Il
great attraction. The whole walls of the
rotnn'la will he covered with them. Among
those already hung is lift-size one Of Queen
Victoria, lent by the British Embassy, and
IN excellent likeness Of her twenty yearsago
The President is highly indignant at the
public letter the prosecution in the star
route case has written him, asking him 10
lax" steps that will induce the presence OF
ex-senator Spencer ut the next trial of. that
case bat for all that says he will instruct The
proper officers to do every thing possible TO
secure the presence Of the absconding wit
ness
News ri The State Department to-day is
10 the effect that the old boundary trouble
between Brazil and the Argentine Republic,
which il w$ supposed had been settled by
the arbitration of this country, has been re-
viewed and that war between the two coun-
tries would probably be the result.
Engineer Melville in his account OF the
search for belongs party TO the Jeanette
Board to-day described the finding Of the
frozen bodies, those of belong. Dr. Amber
and The Chinese cook being together, the
pistol of belong lying under the corpse OF
the Doctor who had probably taken il
when The former died. These three
had climbed TO the top OF the banks
Of tho Lima, the others having died and
been found on the shore below. In
this connection it may be stated that the
log Of belong up 10 about the time he left
his slip has been copied at the Navy De
partmens.and that !he last entry is the Cap
tains regret that so FIR from having ac-
comp!is;lctl the object Of the expedition, he
had not gone as far as some othercxplorcrs
and the question as 10 whether it would not
he better for him to so down with his ship.
so far from abating, the rumors about Mr.
Riddlcbcrg's avoidance of Il similar alliance
as that made between Malone and the
radicals, are on the increase. According
to them Mr.. RildIcbcrger is y Young man
with possible future, and that as he sees
that the democracy. his old party is in the
to sacrifice himself in order to be second
best in vain attempt to create q new party.
Senator puGh, of Ala, has returned for
the session. IIo says the democratic party
is destined to have control Of the Govern
mcnt, and that they will know what to do
with it. With regard to the solid delega-
ton from his State, he says if Lowe who
broke that solidity at the last session, had
lived, he would have been beaten by larg-
er majority than Shelby, who took his place
as the opposition candidate, because the lat
ter is straightout republican and got the
white republican vote, which the former
would not have received.
Senator Fl. G.. Davis Of West Virginia is
among the latest Congressional arrivals.
He is not candidate for re election, but
would not decline re election if rendered
him. The three most prominent candidates
for the position are ex-senator Hereford
Governor Matthews, and representative Ken
ma, with chances in favor Of the latter.
, Letters received here this morning from Ne
brasEa anh Colorado say that tho two u S. Sena-
tors to be clc;tcd from those States will certainly
be anti Administration II not anti-republican.
The cost of preparing the Capitol for the Gar.
field Fair is tea thousand dollars, and some doubt
II the profits will amount 80 more than that sum-
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! The returns received at tho Office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth show that
| in this district Barbour received 1926