Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-12-18

,,ored that neither Mr. Bayard nor Mr.. ,
German want to be in the Cabinet, but that
heir advice, together with that of others, |
Gill he consulted with reference to the COM
nosi;inn Of the Cabinet, and that those they
5on,t personally admire will not be recon- |
meuded "a highly as their QUALIFICATIONS
NAV deserve The opinion that MIR. Car
land of Arkansas, will be made Attorney
General seems to be gaining strength IN ev-
erv direction.
n the Senate TO day Mr.. Vest introduced
q resolution in effect denying the authority
# the Secretary of the Navy to send sur
yeying party to Nicaragua, and demanding
a revocation Of the order sending It, he
asked speedy report from the committee,
as he understood the expedition woula
START fron New York on Saturday if not
stopped. Mr.. Hale objected, so the resoiu'
ton had TO go over until tomorrow, Whep
Mr.. Vest said be would take occasion 10
comment upon it.
Before the Springer Committee this morn
inc more witnesses testified to the effect
that the deputy marsbals at Cincinnati on
election day provoked rather than quoted
disturbances, and prevented rather than pro-
noted q free vote and fair count One
old man who had voted there since 1887
swore the marshals had created more dis
,urbance than he had ever known there be-
fore It was also proved that great many
clerks in the pension Office here were APP
nointed deputy marshals and acted as such
on that occasion.
The House to-day, as soon as the journal
was read, proceeded with the consideration
of The interstate commerce bill. The re-
,,ublicans in the House are opposed to this
bill because it. restricts the powers OF the
railroads; they also hate the South, and
like to give her a dig whenever they can
Il was f,r these reasons that Mr.. Reed, OF
Maine, prepared the amendment offered by
O'Hara, the negro from North Carolina, pro.
hibiting discrimination between negroes aud
white people in railroad cars, and told him
when TO introduce it. That difficulty hav
ING been surmounted, Mr. Golf, republican,
of West Virginia, yesterday raised 1t again
by getting an amendment through that
practically made the same provision. 10
obviste that Mr.. Barksdsle, of Alabama,
offered another amendment to-day, and the
House was taking an aye and no vote on 1t
az two o'clock. Mr.. George Wise, of Vir-
pinia, is thinking about offerings resolution
in connection with this bill, declaring in Ell
feet lnat whereas the Constitution provides
nat there shall be no discrimination be-
tween the races, other laws for that pur-
pose are unnecessary, and that so far as
''assortlns" people, TO which Mr.. Reed
objected Yesterday, Providence did that,
not human IeeiSlatois; also that Providence
stamped men as gentlemen or rascals as
we'll as black or white. Dir. Rrumm, OF
Pennsylvania. while the bill was under dis.
cusSion yesterday, went out of his way to
saw that negroes were just as agreeable car
compn MONS as the women of the South,
who, he said, III effect, smoked dirty pipes
and chcWed snuff.
The Senate at an early hour to-day went
into executive session SO as TO give MIR. Rid
dlebereer time TO talk himself out on the
question of confirming Secretary McCulloch,
when they will confirm that gentleman with
probably a unanimous vote except that OF
the Senator referred to. In his continued
spesch in that question in executive sessions
he has lusged in the Virginia State debt
and Mr.. McCul och's connection Herewith,
and made that the sraveman of his opposl.
ton. Among those who have defended Mr..
McCulorh from his charges were Senators
Beck and Bayard The republican Senators
say Mr. RildieberGer by awaiting himself OF
the easy and cheap way afforded him by the
rules of the Senate in such cases OF obtain
ing notorieLy has rendered himself ridicul-
Gus.
It. is rumosed to-day that there will
| be a meeting OF the Virginia tongre. :
sioua democratic delegation to deter
| mine upon the course they shall pur-
| sue with reference to the represC MIA
iirn of their State in the next Cabinet.
| This ia only rumor, and it is hoped al in.
correct one, as the President by the time it
i. necessary for him TO commence the com.
position Of his Cabinet will know enough
about The prominent men Of the country to
select The proper ores without unasked
| advice.
| People from Richmond here to day say that the
| =, position of the bribery fund used by the Rich
! mond mud Danvlle Railroad to enable it to pay
its ndcbt ducss to the State Of Virginia is slowly
lu: surely being developed. and that so rapacous
| we've hose who We're influenced by the money
that but little of the fund left in the hands of
the agent who entrusted with its expendi
iure Mono of the Mahoneites who are said to
know anything about the matter can of course be
approached" on the subject.