Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the ALEXANDRA Gazettel
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 8, 1884.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 8, 1884.
The Presidents veto Of the Fitz-John
Porter bill was surprise to the friends OF
General Porter, but did not create much
excitement at the Capitol.
The Notifications bill, the last of the an
nual appropriation bills, reached the Senate
Yesterday afternoon, and was Immediately
referred to the sub Committee on Approprla-
tons. A meeting of the conference com.
mittee upon the legislative bill was held
last night, and meetings of the conference
committees upon the deficiency and the
consular and diplomatic bills were held to-
day. The naval bill will probably fail. 1t
is probable that the work Of the Senate Will
be practically ended tomorrow night, al
though the formal adjournment may be de-
layed to give the enrolling clerks an OPP
portunity to finish their work upon the ap-
nropriation bill, and final adjournment
take place on Saturday.
Chicagoward, congressman, correspon-
dents, politicians and all who have Tree
tickets" or can "borrow, beg or steal
enough to carry them, are bent. Outside
of the Capitol and even in the building there
is an absence of the usual life, and on the
Avenue familiar faces are missed and the
crowds in the corridors of the hotels nave
sensibly diminished. The Fourth will not
be observed by Congress, which is hurrylng
M business to adjourn on Saturday next
Attorney General Brewster was examined
to-day by the Springer Committee relative
to the trial of the star route cases. On tax
ing the stand he said he preferred to take
the oath by uplifted hand and swore: u DO
swear by Almighty God that W hat l say be-
fore this committee shall be the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth, and
I shall answer for the same at the Judgment
Day." He testified that he had received
S., 900 for his services as counsel.
Special trains left this city and Baltimore
simultaneously this morning conveying
newspaper correspondents to the national
democratic convention at Chicago. At the
Relay House the trains were consolidated
About forty representatives of the press
from this and contiguous cities left here
The train will reach Chicago tomorrow
forenoon.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations
made but few changes in the Notifications
bill. The most important change is in the
section relating to the armament OF see
coast Notifications in which the appropria
ton of $32O,OOO made by the House is In
creased to $500, 000 and in which a provi.
sion is inserted that part of this sum shall
be applied to the expenses Of experiments
in the use of dynamite and other high ex
plosive projectiles.
The Court of Inquiry on the Navy De
partment frauds, examined medical direc
tor, l.. J. Williams, to-day, with reference tt
the system of making purchases at the New
York laboratory. Ex-Surgeon Genera
Wales will be before the court on Saturday
The gross receipts of the Postotlice De
partment for the quarter ended March 3lst
1854, were SO, 76S, 293, a decrease of 81 ,O43,
600 as compared with the corresponding
quarter in 1883. The expenditures for tn,
same quarter were S4,l6S,5S7, or s2SS,S
more than the expenditures in the CORE
spending period in 1888, thus leaving ne
difference of 81, 33l ,S97 in favor of the Marcel
quarter in the year 1883.