Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.
i I'll, 4 1914

WASHINGTON, D. g., Feb. i, 1884.
To-day was the day Tor Introducing bills
and other papers in the House Under the
call of States for that purpose, when Vir-
sinia is called, DR. George d. Wise will in
troduce the petition Of certain citizens
of Gasoline county, Va, for public build
ing at Bowling Green, the resolutions OF the
Commercial Club Of Richmond against the
Lowell bankrupt bill, and the petition of
the Agricultural Society of Virginia for the
extension of the signal service TO the farm
ing rs well as to the commercial interests OF
the country Mr. Cabell will at the first
favorable opportunity introduce bill to
abolish the entire tobacco tax, and will do
what is possible to secure its adoption.
Among the bills introduced in the House
to day was one by Mr.. Long, Of Massachus-
etts, for life-savng station at the scene of
the late shipwreck Of the City of Columbus.
This is pat example of locking the stable
door after the horse has been stolen.
1t is rumored and currently believed that
Attorney General Brewster is TO he sent as
L. S. Minister to France, vice Mr.. Morton,
who will be nominal Secretary of the Treas
ury, but whose real work will be to manage
the financial affairs of the next national re-
publican campaign, and that Secretary Fol-
ger will be made Attorney General.
General Malone and Captain John Wise
have returned from Richmond, and were in
their in Congress to-day.
Among the candidates who passed sue
cessful examinations before the Civil Service
Commission, aud who were sent by that
commission to Secretary Chandler for APP
pointment, were four Firginians. To the
examination papers of one was appended a
foot note as follows: For illustration see
tod b,,i AL, ,;s{r t;o,>
befriended by the executive, openly yiolat-
lug public law and escaping through tech
nicas minutia" This MIR. Chandler said
was gross insult to the President, and
therefore excluded the applicant. The
other three were excluded, he says, because
each OF them failed to spell correctly one Of
the three words Mississippi, Massachusetts,
and Louisiana.
Senator Hampton says there is such
large majority in the South Carolina district
made vacant BY the death Of Mr.. Mackey
that there would be no use for any white
democrat to run, but that there is quite an
Influential colored democrat in the district
named Tom Hamilton, an intelligent man
with some property, whom he and other
democrats of his State have advised to run.
A gentleman interested in the Richmond
aud Danville railroad system, in the city to-
Gay, says C02G SDOutu DdlllluoTe acceeQ 10
the proposition to lend that system two mil.
lion dollars, that sum will probably be ex-
pended in making connection between
the B. & o. R. R. at Washington and the
Virginia Midland Railroad at Alexandria by
a road which shall cross the river either at
the Long Bridge or at the Aqueduct bridge
at Georgetown.
1t is reported here that John Wilson,
colored special agent of the Treasury De-
partment, one of Mahone's appointees,
is devoting his time, which belongs to the
Government, to working up boom among
his race for General Malone to be chairman
of the Virginia delegation to the next ma.
tional republican convention.
Among the petitions introduced in the
House to-day is that of Levi Hertzog, of
Baltimore, for pay for clothing for the lst
Maryland Regiment during the first part of
the civil war.
It is reported to day about the Capitol
that though the bill made by the committee
who attended the Heskell funeral was too
large for their own approval, it was made
larger by the Sergeant.a at Arms of the House,
and that it will be the subject Of investiga
ton by the House