Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-19
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It has been discovered By Judge Gar
rison, member of the House from the lst
Virginia district. that the surveys for the
Improvement of Quautico Pankatank and
Great Wycomico, appropriations for when
were stricken out Of the river and
barbor hill. of the House by the COM
mi,tee which reported that bill have already
been made This being SO the Judge, as the
only way row left to get appropriations
for those improvements, will try TO have the
bill amended in the Senate. The amounts
recommended by. the engineers report sie
s3333 433 for Quanlico, S43 800 for Piankatank,
and S25 070 for Great Wycomico.
A dispatch has been received at the Navy
Department stating that some of the ma
chinery of the Thetis, of the Arctic Expedi-
ton, had broken short time out of New
YORK, that the duplicate could not be found
that one of the engineers had his finger
mashed. and that the 1st fireman was found
unfit for duty.
In the House to-day there was long
debate upon bill reducing the tariff upon
works of art. Mr. Hurd made speech IN
its support. hut the sentiment OF the present
Democratic House seems TO be so much In
favor of high tariff that the bill was de-
tealed aud thus restriction upon the de-
ye,opment Of the artistic genius of the
country was continued.
In the House this morning, the Wallace
Mckinley contested election case, which
was to have been decided at todays ses-
sion, vas postponed in consequence of the
indispositi0n of Mr.. Mckinley's wife, which
necesstated the absence Of her husband.
The League Of American Wheelmen, BIZ
cycle riders, met at Ford's Opera House
here to-day. in annual convention, to make
rules to govern them for the next year, and
to designate an official organ. 1t is said
that about five hundred of them are in the
city. They will have a torchlight process
sion tonight.
In the Senate to day a resolution was
adopted accepting a mosaic picture of Pres.
dent Garfield, presented by DR.. Salviati, OF
Venice.
General Slocum, the patron Of the bill to
remove some of the existing restrictions
upon American shipping, said to-day that
he is of the impression that the bill will be
passed at this session of Congress.
Mr.. Hopkins, democrat from the Pitts
burg, PENNSYLVANIA, district, will, it is said
be renominated without opposition, and
will be elected no matter who his republl-
can opponent may be, as he, being a pro.
tectonist democrat, will receive a large
number of republican votes.
During an examination by e. S. Commits
soner mere, last Saturday, reliable witness
declared that the testimony OF ex-Speaker
keifer. previously taken, was utterly incor-
rect. was manufactured out of whole cloth,
and was evidently repetition of the Boyn-
ton business. And yet Mr.. Keifer was
speaker of the House when the republicans
had control of it, and was their caucus nom
inee for reelection.
A bill was introduced in the Senate to-
day providing for the immediate forfeiture
of the land grants upon PA miles of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, and for further
forfeitures unless other portions of that road
be built
A dispatch at the State Department says that
tho President of Mexico has given effect TO the
decree OF the Chamber Of Deputies Of that country
appToprigtimg one hundred thousand dollars for
Mrx!co's exhibit at the New Orleans Exposition
1t is reported that had the U. S. four per cent
bonds last week declined below 11S, the Secretary
cf the Treasury would have invested in them the
balance due the Sinking Fund and the surplu:
revenue on hand, as in doing lie would have
saved Il largo amount over an Investment in TIRES
per cents at par
1t is reported that the Hewitt note to Mr.
Oliver is forgery, but the report is not credited
because the contents of the motto are uotoriousy
true
Among tho petitions init oluced in the Senate
to-day were some from the citizens Of Washing
ton against the passage of any law allowing the
anu tcration of inod-in which fatal cases OF poi
soning from such food were stated to have occur.
red in that city aud IN Virginia Other petition:
we're presented against the establishment Of Il
postal trcLra 9h service.
IN the senate 10 day when the bill for au inves
teation f the recent bank failures i'll New York
was mp. NJ. Morgan. in advocating its adoption
ca led attention To the fact that rich old men
had lent their money to young brokers upon the
promise Of large profits from Government con
tracts, without ever enquiring into the nature OF
those contracts aud perfectly satisfied with that
nature Whatsoever it might he, provided they re-
ccived enormous rates of entcre,t, which they
must have known coud not be made in lcgiti'
mate business. ami drew the Inference that the
commercial honesty of the people of that section
must have been d"bAnch.d
Among the petitions introduced in the House
last Saturday that OF I. i Il. Wright and
atiiav!tS thereto relative to The claim of Essex
county Virginia. which WAS referred to the Courl
vi Claims.