Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-03
FROM WASHINGTON

Z Especial correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. c., March 5, 1883
At noon in the Senate to-day Mr.. Davis,
President pro tempore of that body, after q
little speech, in which be repeated that he
! had been elected without solicitation. and
saying that during his presidency he had
seen the spirit of sectionalism sensihlv
abated, in accordance with previous notice
resigned his office and vacated the chair
Mr. Anthony then offered resolution that
Mr. Edmunds be elected President pro
| temporc of the body. Mr.. Pendleton. with
out any caucus action, nominated Mr.. Bay
ard. The Clerk, Mr.. Shoher, put the ques-
ton, and ii was carried without yea and
may vote. Mr.. Edmunds, then taking the
chair, thanked the Senate for the trust re-
posed III anti the honor conferred upon him
and having taken the oath of Office, the
regular proceedings, which had been inter.
rupted Tor the purpose, were continued.
Mrs. Hume, who has Just been removed
from The pos'oillcc at Abingdon, Virginia.
in order TO G i've her place TO one of General
Mahcne's followers. is the widow of a gallant
Confederate soldier
| IN the House to-day the Cook Cults con :
tested election case from Iowa was settled
! qy giving the seat to Mr. Cook, the contest
| amt who is democrat and in whose favor
the elections committee, BIASED as it was,
had TO make q favorable report. The case
OF Lee VS.. Richardson, from South Carolina,
giving the seat to the sitting member. was
called up but laid over. The report Of the
conference committee on the tariff bill was
then called up. The report is very long
one containing nearly one hundred and fifty
pages. and as the voices Of all the reading
clerks had been previously exhausted, a call
was made upon the members of the House
to help them out, and it was first responded
to by Mr.. Speer, of Georgia. The reading
ofthe bill was demanded by Mr.. Springer as
| means TO kill it, but as, contrary to expec-
lation, it passed the Senate last night,
though only by one majority, the impression
now Is that though some republicans, among
'hem the speaker oppose it, enough demo-
Gratis VIII supnot 1t to secure lis passage.
The Judiciary committee of the Senate
has agreed to report iitvoraby upon the
nomination Of Mr.. Paul for L. S. Judge the
! western district of Virginia, and the Senate
will confirm him. The republican presi-
dent appoints anda republican Senate con.
Trims as l. :. judge a man who supports the
Riddleberger bill the sole purpose of which
| Is to rob the creditors of Virginia.
In the Senate last night Mr.. Johnson in
! troduceG an amendment 10 the river and
| harbor bill appropriating 81 800 for the pur-
| chase CT plant for the use ofthe Enoineer's
Department in improving James river. Mr.
| Malone also introduced an amendment To
the same bill. The bill was reported in the
Senate to-day from the commerce u.mitlee
with the statement however. that the com
mittee had not had time TO consider it. Mr..
| ingalls, objected TO its present consideration
and moved it lie oyer until tomorrow
which motion being carried, as Congress
has to adjourn then the bill, unless a recon
sideration be effected, has been killed.
The democrats having done MI they
could TO secure such civil service and tariff
reform as was possible in view of the re-
publican majority in the present Congress,
the next leading issne will! be railroad re-
form, on which they have always taken the
size OF the people against The monopoiSts
The Naval Committee Of the House. not
wlhstanding the previous assertions of some
OF lts members to the contrary, agreed 10.
day to Increase the rank OF Engineer Mel
vile
The deficiency bill is under consideration
in the Senate to-day and will he passed
Among lis provisions is one appropriatinp
$4,000 for the purchase of Arlington, and
one appropriating 500 to pay Major s, P.
Bayly for contesting the seat of Mr.. ], s
Barbour in the [. S. House Of Representa-.
tives
Nothing has as yet been heard here of
my answer to the request the Richmond
anu Danvlle syndicate made to Mr. Gar.
rett Tor The resignation of the Baltimore and
ONO Railroads directors in the Virginia
Midland Railway, and the impression seems
to be that nothing will be heard of it until
the called meeting of The stockholders of
the latter road
II Is reported here that operations on a
greatly enlarged scale WILDE commenced a,
The works of the Potomac MANUFACTURING
Company in Alexandria next week.
Mr. Ednlonds, good and true democrat from
Iowa. and not Mr.. Wilson, n democrat Of Mabon.
prociivities, has been appointed Commssion.
er Of the District of Columbia in place Of Major
Morgan. " J"'