Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-05-28
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.l
w ,cu1Nc,rnN d C. Nav IS. SKI

saws the entire delegation have secured
quarters at the Palmer House. The dele
CATION were at the Capitol this morning,
and among them were several colored men
whose faces are familiar in Alexandria.
Mr.. Massey has returned from Virginia
and expects that the House Elections Com
mittee will reach Il vote in his case probably
this, but certainly next week. The COM
mittee has two other cases before his and is
remarkable for its slow work. Mr.. Adams,
the New York democrat on the committee,
who mas become enamored of Mr.. Wise,
continues to assert that he will never vote
to unseat him, and also that he does not
believe thirty democrats in the House will.
He talks glibly and with reckless ignorance
about the right Of the negroes TO vote, and
Of his intention Of sustaining that right, Of
the great crime of slavery, of the restriction
put upon suffrage by the capitation tax,
and Of the trouble the Southern democrats
have brought upon the party. Mr. Adams
is a banting who never would have gotten
into Congress if anybody had supposed there
was the slightest chance OF a democrat being
elected in his district. That he should not
be there is demonstrated by such talk as
that referred to. What trouble has the
Southern democracy ever brought upon the
party? 1t was the Northern democracy,
under the lead Of Butler, Logan, Cochran,
McClernand, Lane and the like, who split
the party and nominated Breckenridge
And what would the party be except
for the Southern democrats? Then, too
Mr.. Adams pretends to be lawyer,
and yet says that the fact that some Of the
money required by the capitation tax law
was paid subsequent to the election, made
81 Il. 1Iof, = 1,l Il
it previous to the election, though required
by law to do so. As to his objection to the
restriction upon suffrage by the capitation
tax, lie should demand the removal of that
in Rhode Island and other New England
States, Pennsylvania and other Northern
States before he is so glib with his excep-
tons to that which once existed in Virginia,
but which WAS laid upon all and all Of
which was devoted to the educational fund
The democrats of Mr.. Adams's district
should select some one else to represent
them in the next House, as he is decidedly
too fresh.
At the request of the people of the res
pccive neiehborloods Mr.. Barbour has
applied for the establishments OF post. office
atWhite Ridge, in Fauquier county, near the
Stafford line. and for one at Waterlick,
Warren county.
The International Peace Congress now in
session in this city; whose object is to elect
the settlement OF international disputes
without Il resort to arms, called upon Mr..
Curtin, chairman Of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the House this morning.
The House to-day refused TO take up the
river and harhor bill, though one of the
supporters of that bill said if it were not
taken up to-day it would not be at this
session. and commenced the consideration
of the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill.
Wicker who was recently deposcd for the
position of collector of customs ut Key West
Tor crookedHess in the matter Of the Cuban
fIibustcrs, is in the city, and says hat the
President having received correct informa-
ton upon the subject will reinstate him.
In the Senate to-day an adverse report
was made upon the bill to pay J. II. Mad
dox, of Charles county, Md, for tobacco
taken from him by the Government about
the close of the war. 4 similar report was
made upon the bill to pay Mrs. Clara Morris
for articles taken from her house near Camp
Lee, Richmond, by federal soldiers at the
close Of the war. The bill to reimburse the
several States Tor interest paid on war loans
was reported iavoraby. 4 bill was intro
duccd making Decoration Day legal holi-
day. After the routine business the con-
sderatiou of the Mexican pension bill was
resumed, Mr.. Logan makinga strong speech
in its support, and saying that !hc territory
won by the soldiers OF the Mexican war was
more valuable than that ever before won by
conquest. 1t is the impression that the bill
will pass. 1t has already passed the House,
but having been amended in the Senate will
have to 20 back TO the House.
Mr. Mcrrick has written letter to the
Springer committee informing them that no
will appear before them next week and tell
them all he knows about the star route
trials. As Mr.. Merrick is the only lawyer
in the cases who has come out with clean
skirts, and as he is intelligent enough to
know all about the trials, the country will
now learn what else there is to learn of
their true story.
A large number Of The republican men,
bers of both houses of Congress have
already gone or are going to Chicago, and
both those houses now show many vacant
seats. 1t is thought that by Friday there
will not bea quorum in the Senate. Twenty
three ofits members have already announced
their inlension Of being absent, all of them
except one by reason of the national repub-
lican convention.
AS the time for the national republican
convention, next Tuesday, approaches, talk
about its probable action increases at the
Capitol. The general tenor Of that talk to-
day is that Blaine will be the nominee, hut
that should he fail. Sherman, who has been
diligently setting his traps for months past,
stands the next best chance. Itisgenerally
conceded that Mr.. Tilden will get the nomi-
nation Of the Sth of July.
Some army officers have requested Mr.
Blair to amend his educational bill so as to
include the Indians among its benefciaries,
as labor and education, they say, are the
only means Of making the Indians good
citizens.
4 subcommittee of the House Committee on
Agriculture reported day in the full commit
tee bill to establish agricultural experiment
stations in connection with the various State
Agricultural Colleges.
COUPON CAsEs.-In the Circuit Court Of
Richmond yesterday, in the cases of Faure