Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispeeial Correspondence Of the Alesanor,a GaEeti

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aw of the district, so as to increase the tax
% enlarge the area around school houses,
from which bar rooms shall be excluded,
and to make the bar keepers get the appro-
val of their ueighbors to their applications
for licenses, instead of compelling the neigh
bors 10 get protests against granting such
applications. One Of the delegation, who
said his arm had been shot off in defense of
city, said his children were in more danger
now from the liquor dealers than they would
be from thousands of Earlys and Lees.
Commissioner West, who was also before
the committee supported the present license
law, and said that the whole liquor law Of
the District was such that no liquor dealer
would ever pay fine or license tax If he
thoroughly understood that law.
Mr.. Brown, republican of Indiana, who is
opposed to the bill giving pensions to the
survivors of the Mexican war, intends,
when that bill comes up. to offer al amend
ment peusioning all the Union soldiers in the
civil war. He will do this in order to kill
the bill and put the democrats on record rs
opposed to Union soldiers.
At the Boynton-Keifer investigation to-
day a witness, whose chief claim to reliabili-
ty was said to he the fact that he is cousin
of the late President, testified that he had
overheard General Boynton tell another
man that Kefer could not be bribed to IA
yor the McGarrahan claim. Mr.. Keifer
then plead for more time, and to please him
the further examination was poned un-
til next Saturday. So far as it has proceed
ed it has not benefited Mr.. Keller, who, in
stead Of being the accuser, occupies the posi-
ton Of the accused.
The argument in the O'Ferrall. Paul con-
tested election case was concluded yester-
dav. In this case Judge Harris took the
broad ground that all the appointments of
collectors made by the Auditor were with
out authority of law, and that all the acts
of those collectors were illegal and void
that the auditor bad power to send the de-
linquent tax lists under the Doth section to
sherila, constab'es, sergeants or collectors,
but that he had no power to appoint colIec-
tors except under the Saith section, which
authorized him to appoint them to collect
from officers already appointed and who
we're in default to the Treasury. Major
Daniel argued that the appointment OF
deputy collectors was corrupt because none
but Mahoneites were appointed, and also
that the money for the tax receipts was not
pair before the election. Should the views
of these gentlemen be sustained by the com.
IQltleC MT. JpHu -. W lSe W III udNc W udiIS
his harp on the willow tree. for it will no
longer he heard in the halls of Congress.
The senate Committee on Territories have
agreed TO report a bill providing for the ad-
mission as II Stale Of that portion Of Oak ota
south of the 46!h PARALLEL. The bill will be
reported to the Senate next week.
The selection of Chicago as the place for
holding the next national democratic con-
ic oil q q
the fact that in two other instances in which
the national conventions Of both the politi-
cal parties were held in the same city, the
democratic nominees were elected.
After the morning hour in the House to-
day the consideration of the bill creating a
bureau Of animal Industry, better known Us
the pleuro pneumonia bill, was resumed
with the understanding that the debate
upon it should close in three hours and a
half Among those who spoke against it
were Messrs. Gibson, of West Virginia, and
Stuart, Of Texas. The impression is that
the bill will be defeated.
The House Ways and Means Committee
will hear the knit goods and sugar men next
week, and will then close the hearing Of
arguments, and proceed to prepare their
report upon the Morrison tariff bill. Mr.
Potter WAS before the committee this morn
inc and argued in favor Of the funding bill
be recently introduced in the House.
1t is understood that the information
which the Postotlice Department refuses to
send to the House at its demand, upon the
request Of Mr.. Springer's committee, has been
obtained from other quarters, and that it
will put Senator Plumb, ex Senator kellogg
and other prominent members Of Congress in
unenviabie positions.
People from the Pacific slope and from
the South, now in the city, say that Presi-
dent Arthur is holding back appointments
in those sections of the country for the sole
purpose of trading them off for delegates in
the next national republican convention.
From Georgia it is reported that Longstreet
would he removed from his marshalship
were it not for the fact that he will proba
bly, head the delegation from his State in
the convention.
In the House to-day Mr. Shelley from the
District of Columbia Committee reported
favorahly the bill to build free bridge
across the Potomac at the Three Sisters.
The District Committee of the Senate will
report q similar bill. Mr.. Wilson, of the
House District Committee, in talk with
the GAzETTE'S correspondent this morning,
said that since the committee had acted up
on The bill he had been to the site of the
proposed bridge, and had become possessed
of information respecting the subject OF
which he, and he thought the committee
were entirely ignorant, and that he is now
of the opinion that though the bill has been
reported favorably it will not pass.
man supposed to be from Washington and to
be named Lane was found severely wounded and
in al unconscious and supposed to be in lying
condition on the railway track at Rockville last
night.
The bill for new building for the Congression-
al Library, on Capitol Hill, was reported fayora-
bly, in the House to day.
Rochester, n. y, is excited over one of
the most remarkable cases of disappearance
that ever took place there. Some three
weeks 400 q beautiful girl named Innisa