Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-01-24
FROM WASHINGTON

Special Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. ID. e.. January "A. 1885,
The tariff bill engrosseL the attention of the
Senate to-day and the Naval bill that ofthe
House. In the former Mr.. Miller, Of New
York, repeated trite arguments in favor Of
protective tariff on iron, and on the latter
Mr. Robson tried to assist his friend John
Roach.
A delegation of philadclphians was before
the House Appropriations Committee to day
for the purpose of inducing that committee
to report a bill in favor Of making good the
asserted losses of the Centennial Commits
sion, amounting to about IL million and Il
half dollars.
And still the rumor grows that the rcla-
tons between the President and General
Malone are not as intimate rs heretofore
What tends to strengthen il are the follow
ing: The Generals present anxiety to sec
the list of nominations, when he exhibited
no such anxiety formerly, knowing then
what nominations would be made his re-
fusal to make application for any more an.
pointmcnts, and his vote against the repub-
licans for putting lumber on thefrcc list.
The grandcst reception OF the season will
he given here next Monday by ext. s.
Minister to Mexico, Mr. John w. Foster to
the commissioners who negotiated tho rcci-
procity treaty between this country and
Mexico, now before the Senate.
Railroad people from New York here TO-
day say it is now probable that the Wash
ington and Western Railroad will soon be
in the hands of men who will not only be
willing but able to push ii through ut least
to the coal fields
The impression IS increasing that The next
Congress will meet upon the adjournment
of the present one. 1t is said today that
the whiskey men are bound to fight for the
bill to extend the bonded term, and that
that fight and the tariff bill will consume so
much time that the regular appropriation
bills cannot be passed before the day of adj
journment unless the democrats arc willing
to see transparent jobs go through without
objection.
Mr.. William l.. Royal and Attorney Cen
eral Blair, of Virginia, were in the L. S.
Supreme Court to-day, ready to argue the
miscegenation case which comes UP on an
appeal from the Hanover court in that State.
The Richmond and Danviilc Railroad
syndicate mas raised the six hundred
thousand dollars due on their purchase of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads stock in
the Virginia Midland Railroad, and will
soon resume possession of the controlling
interest in that road, though, it is understood
that Mr.. Garrett asserts that the directors of
the road recently elected shall hold their
places for one year.
Tomorrow. is the day set apart ia the
Senate for memorial services to the late
Senator Ben. Hill Mr.. Yes. will deliver a
speech, and, it is reported, MI Lamar also
Commissioner Loring, of the Agricultural
Bureau, has accepted an invitotion to de-
liver the address at the next commencement
at Blacksburg College, Virginia
The manuscript copy of the Confederate
constitution is now in this city. 1t is in the
possession Of the widow of a Confederate
officer. Some wealthy gentlemen are talk
ing about subscribing the sum necessary to
buy it and present it to the Government.
The estate in the Potomac river which
Mr.. r. B. Lloyd, of Alexandria, some years
ago pre-empted, just east of the Washing
ton end of the Long Bridge. and which has