Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence OF the ALEXANDRA Gazette.I
WASHINGTON, j. c., April 10, 1884.

to that convention either the name OF MT.
Tilden or that of Governor Cleveland, as
may be most agreeable to the democrats OF
that State. In view of the fact that the
Tammany Hall democrats, under the lead OF
Mr.. Kelly, have heretofore been lighting
both the gentlemen named, this action on
the part of Mr.. Kelly looks as if the demo-
Gratis of New York have determinedto unite
for the supreme effect the national party is
to make next November. Mr.. Kelly also
says that if stronger candidate can be
found than either one of the two named, he
is for him-he is for anybody whom the ma
tional democratic convention may nominate.
Among the bills that came up in the
Senate to-day, on the calendar, was one to
allow the State Of South Carolina to draw
her quota Of arms. During the carpet-bag
regime, when Moses was Governor Of that
State, the republican secretary of war al
lowed him to draw the States allowance
for thirty years ahead. Whether the arms
ever reached tne State, or whether instead
of being carried there they were sent North
and sold abroad, or whether they were sold
after they got South, or whether if distri-
buted to the negro militia they were APP
propriated by them as personal property, Is
not known but it is known that none OF
them can Do found now, and the bill re.
ferred TO is TO permit the State to draw her
annual quota of arms rs the other States do.
1t was objected to by Mr.. Conger and went
over.
During Il spicy debate in the Senate
Yesterday evening between Senators Vest
and Hale, the latter extolled the repubi-
cans for expanding three hundred and
eighty.ive million Of dollars since the war
on the navy. Mr.. Vest said no body denied
that they had expended that nor much
larger sum, but the fault WAS that there is
nothing TO show for so enormous an ex-
penditure.
The time allowed by rule for Mr.. Wise to
present his brief in his contested election
case expired last Monday, but nothing has
been heard Of it yet by the House Commit
tee on Elections. The subcommittee to
whom the case was referred has had no
In, citing since the expiration of the time
referred to because, they say, Mr. Cook, Of
Iowa, is absent. Mr. Cook is a democrat,
but is said to be the friend whom Judge
Paul is reported as relying upon to support
his case also. If Mr.. Wise were democrat
and the republicans had a majority of the
committee his case would have been con.
sidered last Tuesday, brief or no brief.
In the Senate Committee on Territories
Yesterday when the nomination of the sue
under consideration, Governor Ordway, who
was present, became so obstreperous that
Senator Plumb threatened to eject him.
This threat bad the desired effect.
The House yesterday in Committee of the
Whole took recess until IL o'clock to day,
so that the order of the day, the considera.
ton Of bills for the erection of public build
ings in the different States and Territories,
might not be broken. The proceedings to-
day therefore are under the legislative day
of yesterday, and may continue to be so
until the last Of these bills, and there are
about fifty of them, are passed. Up to two
o'clock to-day only four had passed the
committee, those for keokuk, Waco, Green
vile, New Albany and Pittsburg. The
amount provided for in all Of them is about
eleven million, of which only 81, 7000 900 is
for buildings in the South, not as much as
goes to Pennsylvania alone.
1t is now said that General Fitz.John
Porter's friends will not press the bill for
his relief until after the national republican
convention, as the support of it might af
feet inuriUuSly SOME of his republican
supporters.
A bill was favorably reported in The Sen
ate to-day to protect the employees of rail
way companies engaged in interstate COM
District of Columbia, by using couplers
which shall obviate the necessity of said
employees going between cars.
Incnuctor Wooduar woa hafnra tho
Springer committee to-day, and testified
that President Garfield was astonished at
the magnitude Of the star route swim
die, and directed that the ulcer be
cut out hurt whom it may. He also said
both Cook and Gibson were discharg-
ed as Governments counsel for good
and sufficient reasons, and that the Presi
dent said member of the Supreme Court
had expressed surpriZe at Cooks appon-
ment, saying that he was one of the most
disreputable members of the Washington
bar aud that his selection was disgrace to
the administration.
The Senate to-day resolved that when it did
adjourn it should be until Monday, rs tomorrow
is Go Friday. All the democrats but two
Mcssrs Pendieton and Morgan-voted for the
resolution, and nearly all the republicans ill.,
Guiding Mr.. Rlddleberger, voted against it..
1t is reported to-day that the subcommittee Of
the House committee to whom the claim of Vir-
gina for mouey advanced the Government to
build the Capitol will at early day present
favorable report.
Messrs. John NJ. Johnston, as counsel for the
Alexandria canal, and General Fl. II. Wells, one
of the essees of that canal at the Capitol to-
day Oh business connected with the proposed free
bridge at Georgetown, but the House District of
Columbia Committee was not in session.
The Secretary of the Treasury reports that the
war tax of 1861 imposed upon Virginia amount
cd to 1928, OIL OF; the amount paid was $751;
that of tho amount imposed sos, 47e.6 5 was
subsequently transferred to West Virginia.