Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-12-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria tiazette.
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lspectal Correspondence Of the Alexandria iazette
WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec. 81. 1884.
Instead of a reduction in the public debt
this month, there will be an increase, as
there was last month, the only difference
between then and now being that whereas
the decrease then was half a million now it
is million. There is but little if any diff
ference in the receipts now and those OF the
fall months, when the monthly decrease in
the debt was reported to be large in order
to make a good show for election effect, and
when the unusual pension expenditures
were concealed for the same purpose.
Time of itself, if nothing else, will de-
yelop more and more Of such and
worse crookedness as it rolls along.
The Secretary of the Treasury and the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue deter.
mined to-day, in consequence of the recent
decision of the Attorney General, if the
whiskey men be willing, that there shall
be a suspension of the collection Of the tax
on whiskey whose bonded term has expired
from the date of the filing Of the export
bond until the return of the landing certifi-
cate. provision being made that the distillers
shall not be forced to comply with extor.
tionate rates of shippers who may try to
avail themselves of their straits to raise
freight charges. If this be agreed to. the
practical effect will be an extension of the
bonded term for from Eve to seven months.
Senator VOORHEES, has been invited to de-
liver lecture at Fredericksburg, Virginia,
the net proceeds of which will be devoted
to the payment of expenses to be incurred
by reason of the Presidential Inauguration.
Congressman Bland, chairman of the
Committee on Coinage, Weights and Meas
ures, to whom the bill susrending the coin
age of silver dollars was referred, has re-
turned, and says that bill will never pass.
Mr.. Phil. Mckinney, one of Virginia's
delegates to the national democratic con-
vention, and his bride are among the
strangers in tho city to-day. They are on
their return home from trip to the North.
Congressman Sprgg, of New York, per-
soual friend of the President elect, says no
body who wants to turn the rascals out"
can object to Gov. Cleveland IS recent letter on
civil service. Mr.. Sprigg also says that the
most remarkable thing that has recently
come under his notice is the large number
of democrats who hold federal positions.
Men he says, whom he has known for years
to be active and proscriptive republicans,
now come 10 him and tell him that they
were democrats all the time but had their
hands tied. He says, however, that all such
are known, and that they will doubtless
have their just reward.
Congressman O'Ferrall of Virginia is and
has been for some days past laid up with
severe cold. He was 80 i'll day or two
ago that his physician would allow none bat
his wife tosee him.
Senator Blair, who was at the Capitol to-
day, said that from what he heard he was
induced to believe that the educational bill
would become law at this session of Con-
gress. Prominent members OF the House,
however, say otherwise, that is, unless rad.
ical amendments are made to the Senate
bill. They say there would be less ohjec
ton to the bill if the appropriation were
to come only out of the surplus money now
in the Treasury, so as to create no necessity
for continuing high tariff and internal rev.
nue. duties
General Wells, one of the lessees of the
Alexandria canal, says the last brief in the
case involving the validity of the title that
can be given the Government TO the piers
of the nqueduct Of that canal at George
town was presented to the War Department
on Monday, and that he does not think
Iucio tatli no any lutbuCk opJoCbiou " liiiI
title.
Mr.. Willis, chairman of the House Com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors, says the riv-
or and harbor bill will be ready to report
about the 18th proximo.
Postmaster Dalton, Of the House, was the
recipient to day off handsome gold headed
cane, presented to him by the clerks and
messengers in the House postoffice. Assist
ant Postmaster Fisher, of Virginia, made a
very pretty little presentation speech,
which was appropriately responded to by
Mr. Dalton
The remains of Joel I. Hart, the sculp.
tor, who died in Rome in 1877, are now ly-
ing in the depot of the B. g. P. R. r. in this
city. They have just arrived from Europe,
and will, this evening, be shipped to Frank
fort, where they will be reinterred in the
State cemetery among those of other dis.
tinguished people of Kentucky. Mr.. Harris
Triumph of Chastity" is one of the most
admired works of modern sculptors.
The death of Mrs. Lamar is sad blow to
the Senator, to whom she was married when
she was only nineteen, and he only twenty
one years old. She had been in bad health
for some time, but was supposed to be i'm
proving. The Senator has never been the
same man he was before he had stroke of
paralysis, and this new affection, it is fear
ID, will iujure him still more.
THREE GIRLS ABDUCTED.-J.C c. Tolbert,