Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-01-22
FROM WASHINGTON

Especial Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. d. c., January %, 1883.
The House Committee on Agriculture agreed
this morning 10 report iavorahly II bill
creating commission to examine into all
matters relating to the transportation OF
agricultural products, and TO report by The
first of next December
Among the petitions introduced in the
House to day was one by Mr.. Paul from The
members Of the faculty Of the University OF
Virginia for an appropriation for educatioil-
al purposes.
The proposition to make General Joseph
r. Johnston one of the Commissioners he
District of Columbia meets with general
favor, except among the friends of the
several applicants for that place aud the
ultra and irreconcilabe radicals who think
that nothing good can come out of the
South except it first processes radicalism
The idea was started at party at Senator
Don Camcron's last Friday night, and
seemed to meet with the iavoro all present.
and it was then determined to press it upon
the attention Of the President General
Johnston will not raise his hand to obtain
the place, but will accept it should it be
offered him, and if so the people of the
District may rest satisfied that thcving in
the District Government will come TO II
speedy end.
MIR. Paul will leave mere Wednesday for
Charlottesville to take dispositions in his own
contested election case. II is understood
that MIR. Paul says he has not yet been Of
fered the judgcship of the Western district
of his State.
Ex-Collcctor Feruald of the Danvllc, Va
internal revenue district has been committed
to the insane asylum near this city.
The consideration of the tariff bill was
then renewed. The status of the Senate on
this bill now seems to be that the republi-
cans will do nothing with the tariff until the
democrats agree to reduce the internal
revenue, and that the democrats will do
nothing with the internal revenue until the
republicans agree to reduce the tariff.
The Senate to-day passed the bill that
passed the House last Saturday to relieve
Col. Smith, superintendent of the Lexington
Va, Military Institute Of his political disa-
blites.
The House passed resolution appro-
priating an additional 100000 for complct-
ing the census reports.
The Senate to-day from II to l o'clock
was occupied with the consideration of a
resolution providing for evening sessions to
consider the tariff bill but came to no deter
mination thereon. During the debate Mr..
Morgan scored it into the republicans for
their action on the tariff bill, and said the
tariff commission was q fraud and conspir-
acy to benefit Il few monopolizing manufac-
turers at the expense Of the people of the
country.
The House to-day, after passing bills to
prevent gambling in the District Of Column
hla, to increase the police and abolish the
present detective force Of the District, the
license bill and the bill relating TO the extra
ditioM of iugitives from justice in the dis
trict, resumed the consideration Of the
Naval Appropriation BILL During the de-
bate on that bill last Saturday evening
1t was charged that the civil engineers ut
the navy yards were incompetent and
that one at the Norfolk yard, named Asser-
sen, four years ago drove the ox-cart in the
yard. Mr.. Dezendorf in reply, said that
Assersen was an educated and competent
engineer who might. by stress of circum-
stances, have been compelled TO drive an
ox-cart fer time.
Attorney General Blair, Auditor Brown
Allen, Mr.. Browning the Governors Secre-
tary and other prominent NIahoneites are
here today The Attorney General is here
as counsel for the State in case in which
white man and negro women of his State
came to this city to be married, and return
ing were tried aud convicted under the laws
ofthe State, and from this decision an ap
peal was made to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
The Senate Judiciary committee to-day
reported favorably bill to compel the
Western Union Telegraph Company to for
ward dispatches received from other tele-
graph companies.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Major Benedict J. Burgess, formerly en-
gagged in the fertilizing business in Alexan-
dria. The Major is now the principal of
the Savannah Military Academy, and is
here to induce the Government to grant
that school the use of the unoccupied mill
tary barracks in Savannah, Ga.