Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
,specisl Correspondents Of the Ae1anorA oahette'I
WARRINGTON, D. c., April q, 1884.

WARRINGTON, -. ", aplll 20, Aoo1.
At Georgetown it is learned to-day that
,ha Alexandria Canal will not be ready for
nayigation for at least two weeks, If then,
hut that even ut that time there is no GER
rainty that there will be much business for
IL Whether that will be due to no orders
or because companies heretofore doing busl-
ness at Alexandria are sending all their
coal to Baltimore by railroad is unknown,
but 1t is fact that the coal companies which
in former years have been hurrying the
canal people seem now to be Indifferent as
to when the Alexandria Canal will be ready
for navigation.
Judge Garrison was before the House
Committee on the Library yesterday, and
advocated the bill approprlating ST., 600 to
complete the monument to the mother OF
Washington at Fredericksburg.
The House Commerce Committee to-day
determined to report favorably bill max
ing bills Of lading negotiable in all parts OF
the world.
A special meeting Of the House District OF
Columbia committee was called for one
O'Clock to-day to hear what the District
| Commissioners have to say respecting the
! financial affairs of the District in relation to
/ the investigation of those affairs now IN pro-
| gress by the committee.
Il is said to-day that it is probable the re
port of the House Elections Committee
| ia the O'Ferrall- Paul contested case will
| be presented in the House during the cur
rent week. The dilatoruess in the action
of the committee referred to is the subj ec,
of q great deal of adverse comment among
the party 10 which the majority of thai
committee nominally belong. The commit
tee, after five months, have decided thai
| Mr.. O'Ferrali is entitled to the seat to which
he was elected, and having done so they
should report that fact to the House. !
they intend to reconsider their decision, they
| should do go at once, so that new election
can be ordered, and not deprive the people
of the It'll district of Virginia of representa-
tan during the entire session.
In the Senate to-day Mess,s. Hoar anC
Sherman objected to the consideration of 8
bill making greeubacks receivable for Gus
toms dues, and the bill went over. Among
the bills reported hvorably was one allow
ing the claim Of Mrs. Sally Carroll, eXecu
trix, of the late w. r. Carroll, for timber
destroyed by the federal troops during the
war on the farm known as Sligo, neal
Washington. The pleuro-pneumonia bill il
the regular order Of the day.
In the House to-day the report of the APP
preparations Committee non-concurring with
the Senate's amendments to the naval anC
posto.1ce appropriation bills Increasing
the expenditures of those bills was pre-
scented, aud il was stated that debate
would be allowed thereon. The con
tested election case Of Wood. democrat
vs. Peters, republican, from Kansas, wa:
considered, the contestant making Ions
speech in his own behalf to which no body
listened He was defeated by sixteen thou
sand majority, and the only ground of hi
contest is that the successful candidate
held State Office at the time o
his election. The committees report, with tn
exception of MIR. Bennett was unanimously il
favor OF the sitting member When this case i
out Of the way. the consideration Of the tariff bill
! will he resumed, the first the list o
| speakers being that Of Mr.. Hscock, Mr.. Hurd'
| being Second.
The pension bill which passed the House yes
tcrday provides that agent, attorney or othe
person shall receive any fee for his services in
pension claim except through the agent for pay
ing pensions.
The claim of Virginia for money advanced tn
Government to build the Capitol, and which it
understood will be reported favnrably, is TO
$15O,OoO with interest from 1855. when tn
! claim WAS first made.