Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
,special Correspondence of the ALEXANDRA Gazette


I'd BIZ the elections committee to the effect
hat in the contested case of Chalmers vs.
Manning neither had prina facie right to
q seat, and in that of Garrison VS.. Mayo, the
latter had the prima facie right. Mr.. Fln-
erty. republican from Chicago, offered q |
resolution eulogstic of the late Wendell
Phillips and declaring that Congress heard
of his death with sorrow and regret. 1t was
objected to by Mr.. Eaton, democrat, fortu-
uaieiy for the South, from Connecticut. ~
bill was introduced making bills of lading
negotiable, which, it is understood, will be
Ieported upon favorably. The House at al
early hour resumed the consideration OF the
report of the Committee on Rules.
Aprivate dispatch received here today from
London states that Mr.. George B. Loving,
nroprietor of the Fort Worth Texas, Gazette,
had sold to English capitalists his cattle
ranches iu Texas for five million dollars.
Afr. D,zendorf, chairman of the straight
out republican committee of Virginia has
ordered the State central committee Of that
ps,tv to meet at Richmond on the twenty
first inst. for the purpose of calling State
convention. The State central committee
of that wing of the republican party which
has supported Malone will meet in Rich
mond on the 10th inst.
Congressman Brumm is working up his
case against Mr.. Hewitt in the matter OF the
O'Donnell dispatch in true detective style,
and says he will have it ready for the
Foreign Affairs Committee next week.
1t is understood that nolle pros. will be
issued next week in the case of Bill Jones,
the ayenger," for shooting at Gutean. 1t
appears that Jones is an unnaturallZed
Englishman, so that if he had been tried his
80 II, nIab bovp raised an infer
national question.
1t is understood that the House Pensions
Committee will probably report favorably
next week bill for pensioning the surviv-
inc soldiers of the Mexican war, and that
the bill, without amendment, will practl-
cally prevent pension agents from attending
| TO the claims.
| The Senate committee to Investigate the
Copiah, Mississippi, affair, under the Sher'
man bloody shirt resolution, will leave on
Tuesday next. II is understood it will pro-
coed to New Orleans and hold its sessions
there, summoniDg witnesses TO that city,
where the committee, like the famous visit
ing statesmen, can, if they choose, attend
uuadroon balls and enjoy other divertis.
ments at the public expense.
The House Banking and Currency Com
mittee have practically agreed to report
in favor of calling 10 and redeeming the
trade dollars with standard silver dollars.
4 committee ofthe citizens of Rappahan-
mock county Virginia, consisting of Messrs.
G. Y. Menefee, H. NJ. Miller. p. II. O'Ban-
non, W. r. Mason and WE. Anderson,
waited upon Mr.. Barbour at his committee
room in the Capitol to day with reference TO
the proposed construction Of branch rail-
road from some point on the Virginia Mid
Gil a.,
SperryviIle via Little Washington, and pos
sblv further. 1t is understood that the
county of Rappahannock will probably sub
scribe $4,000.
Mr.. Stevens having resigned the consul
late to Palermo, Philip Carroll, of New
York, who was commercial agent at Port
Stanley and st. Thomas, Ontario, has been
nominated for that place. This is the plac Q
one of Major 5. 7. Bayly's sons resigned
with the understanding that his brother
should havei it. 1t was supposed that Cen
eral Malone supported Mr.. Bayly's appli-
cation, but doubts are expressed about that
now.
Mr.. jeff Chandler made al argument to-
day before the House Committee on Post
offices TO prove that thelaw relating to stop
ping the mail of lottery companies is uncon-
stitutional. The Postmaster General was
invited to have a representative present,
but the invitation was declined
The House Committee on the Judiciary,
which has before it the bill to refund to
| Virginia the money she advanced the Gov
ernment to erect the Capitol that was de-
stroyed by the British, would make q favor
able report at once if they were agreed
upon the exact meaning of the word lad
vance,
Congressman Ochiltree and John 5. Wise
are reported to be in the same boat regard
ing club exclusion. 1t is said that the for
mer was blackballed in the Westmorcland
club ut Richmond, and that the latter has
lust been treated in the same way by the
! metropolitan club of this city. Mr.. Wise
| doesn't deny the truth Of the statement
about himself but Mr. OchiItree protests
with strange oaths that there is not a parti
Gle of truth in the report about him. The
Metropolitan is very exclusive, and it is re-
| ported blackballed ex-senator Rollins n
| night or two ago.
| 1t is said here to-day that of all the Ma
hone delegation in Congress, Mr.. John Wise
| is the only one with whom the General is
| in accord aud that even Mr. Wise to his
| friends, has expressed himself as by no
means so euamorea of the Generals leader
ship as he used to be-
The lives of the Mahoneites in Congress
are said to be made miserable by their he
gro constituents who stick to them is close
as Ruth did to Naomi and demand Of them
any thing, from fat office to pair Of cast
off trousers. One Of them was so beset that
to get rid of them he changed his quarters
FROM one hotel to another, at which he did
not register. But they soon discovered his
whereabouts and were after him before he
was up next morning. They wanted ten
dollars, and when he offered them three
all he had in his pocket-took it and said
they would accept his check for the other
seven.
In the Senate to-day, Mr.. Beck having
withdrawn his resolution relative to the
removal of an employee of the Senate, Mr..
Rddleberger offered a joint resolution pro.
viding for an investigation of all the re-
movals and appointments i'll both houses of
Congress during the present session, and
made speech, his first one, 10 favor of it.