Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the AleAnnoria Gazette.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., April II, 1884.
Messrs. Barbour Garrison and Wise, of
the Virginia Congressional delegation, were
before the House River and Harbor CON-
mittee this morning in reference to the ap-
preparations for their State. Mr. Garrison
made a speech recommending the appropri-
alton of SOC, 900 for York river, the annual
trade on which, he said, amounted to over
twenty million dollars; $4,000 for the
Rappahannock, $1,000 for Urbana, and
sufficient amounts for the surveys of
Totusky Greek, and for breakwater
at Cockpit Point, on the Potomac
Mr. RuiTn, from Richmond was also pre-
sent, and with Mr. Wise recommended the
appropriation Of $4,000 to be expended
next year on the James river. Mr.. Barbour
Joined Mr. Garrison in recommending the
Cockpit Point improvement. He would
the channel for The Alexandria and Mary
land ferry, but the committee had previous
ly determined to consider no matters Of
such miuor Importance. The committee
will try to limit the whole River and Har-
Dor appropriation bill to S12,000,000
The House remained in Committee Of the
Whole as of Wednesdays legislative day
until six o'clock yesterday evening, when it
adjourned until to-day, SO that there was
no Thursdays session. While in committee
it agreed upon seven bills for public build
ings. To-day the Senate resolution Offering
reward of $25, 900 for the discovery of the
lost Greedy expedition was concurred in.
Mr.. Phil. Thompson announced that on
Monday he would move to set aside the
continuing order for the consideration of
bills for public buildings. Mr. Hopkins
called up the report Of the committee in
the Boynton. keifer case, but said he would
not discuss it unless the republicans opposed
it, and no opposition being manifested it
was adopted unanimously. Mr.. Keifer sat
as pale as a sheet during the proceedings,
and though the report convicted him Of
libel and perjury, he seemed to be vastly
relieved when it was passed without debate
The Attorney General has ordered the
transfer of the convict L. R. Redmond from
the State peniteutiary at Auburn, n. Y. to
the South Carolina pentientiary at Column
bia This was done at the request of Sem
ator Butler and the District Attorney. Red
mon was notorious moonshiner, and had
killed several men who attempted to arrest
him. He was finally surrounded by posse
and was literally shot to pieces. He is q
cripple, unable to work, and carries seven
bullets in his body His general health was
rapidly failing in the cold climate Of Auburn
and be was removed South where the
climate is warmer and where he can be
cared for by friends.
Dr. Norvin Green made an argument be-
fore the House Committee on Postofices
aud Postrouds to-day in opposition to postal
| telegraphs. If, however, the Government
determined to enter into the business, he
thought it ought to buy out existing lines
and manage the work exclusively in its own
way. II also said that if the Senate Com
mittee bill became law the Western Union
Company would become bidder for the
contract for which that measure makes pro-
vision.
Messrs j. M. Johnson, for the Alexandria
Canal Company, and General II. H. Wells,
for the lessees of the canal, have agreed up.
on bill which they say will give the Gov
eminent good title to such part of the
piers of the canal aqueduct as it may want
for free bridge across the Potomac.
An attempt will be made next week to
have day fixed for the consideration of
national bankrupt bill.
In the House to-day claim of the W. s.
O. K. r. for $500 for supplies purchased
by the agent Of the War Department in 1861
and receipted for by that department, was
reported upon adversely by the Committee
on Claims.
The accounts of Gen. Adam Badeau, both
as Consul General at London and Havana,
are in arrears, and he has been requested
by the First Auditor to settle. Gen. Ba-
deau has resigned his position at Havana.
The bill to pension the soldiers of the
Mexican war which has passed the House is
now before the Pensions Committee of the
Senate, but has not yet been considered by
them.
Mr.. Wise has not yet presented his brief
to the Elections Committee of the House.
The Wise. Massey case will he considered by
the whole committee without the previous
consideration by subcommittee, and it
is understood that the committee will not
wait much longer for Mr. Wise, but will
proceed to consider the case without his
brief if he does not present it at an early
day.
General Nagley was before the House
Committee on Public Buildings to-day, and
advocated an appropriation OF $4,000 for
improving the soldiers home at Hampton.
Fifty thousand copies of Mr.. Hurd's late
free trade speech HAYS been ordered for
campaign documents in the Northwest,
where there is great free trade boom.
A well-informed democratic politician
from Virginia, here to day, says that in his
State, and he believes in the entire South
there will be no heart burnings among the
democrats, no matter who may be the dem
ocratc candidate for President They will
be satisfied with whomsoever the Northern
democrats think is the best and strongest
man.
There is no truth in the report that tho Gov
ernment is contemplating the purchase of Cuba.
The Indiana democrats here jublant over
the result of the recent local elections in their
State. At similar elections two years ago the
State went democratic by seventeen thousand |