Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-12-09

10 negro cadet at West Point who cut his

The negro cadet at West Point who cut his
,wn ears, is in the city to-day. He came
o advise President Arthur to announce
himself a candidate for the Senatorship
from New York to fill the seat now occu-
pied by Mr.. Lapham, and says if he does ne
will be elected without any trouble. Mr.
Arthur is exceedingly DESTROYS of becoming
q New York senator, but fears defeat, ano
.t]ets dare not wait upon would"
THE Senate at an early hour to day went
to hu.insss on the calendar, with the lnten.
ton of taking up the bill admitting South,
ern Dakota Into the Union as State at
O'Clock. The discussion on this bill will be
useless, as it can not possibly pass at this ses.
sion The House, after the introduction OF
q few bills, one of them by Mr.. Chalmers
for re establishing republican form OF gov,
eminent in the State of Mississippi, resumed
the consideration of the Interstate COM
merce bill. W.
The reasons that induced Mr.. O,Ferrall to
introduce his resolution in the House yes
terday calling upon the Secretary of the
Treasury for information respecting the
public building at Harrisonburg, Va, were
that though an appropriation was made LOT
that purpose three years ago, nothing nas
vet been done toward it except to buy lot
and dig hole. Regularly as each election
has come Cd since that appropriation was
made number of laborers have been put
to work enlarging this hole, all of whom as
regularly vote the republican ticket, but
the election being over they have been dis
charged. Then, too, there is report cur,
rent about some crookedDess connecte q
with the papers necessary to the purchase
of the lot. 1t is to have satisfactory e1-
PLANTATION of these matters that Mr.. O'Fer
rail- introduced his resolution.
Mr.. Massey was at the Capitol to-day.
He wants to have the minority report OF the
House committee on elections amended 30
as to give him the seat; also to have the
case called up in the House at an early date.
The majority report, signed by six republi-
cans aud two democrats, gives the seat TO
Wise. but the minority report, signed by
seven democrats, while not giving him,
Massey, the seat, declares Wise not eligible.
Mr., Wise has not been here since the first
day of the session, and as he has bis mall
forwarded to him at Richmond, and has
written here that he is going on hunting
expedition, it is rumored that he is staying
away in order to prevent the calling up of
the case, supposing that it will not be call
I'D in his absence, as be fears that when the
House considers it the minority report WILL
be adopted.
It is reported here this morning that Mr..
Eustace Gibson, member of the House from
West Virginia, has gone TO see President
elect Cleveland. to advise him against max
ing ex-senator Davis, of his State, mem
Der of the Cabinet.
Notwithstanding the fact that Attorney
General Brewster declared that the matter OF
the title to the Aqueduct bridge at George
town had never been referred to his depart
ment by the Secretary of War, the report In
the case sent to the War Department from
the Department of Justice had the signature
of Mr.. Brewster appended to it, and that,
too, written by his own hand. Engineers
were engaged to-day in surveying the realty
upon which the northern abutment OF the
Aqueduct bridge is located, so as to fix its
former ownership in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, which paid the Alex.
andria Canal Company forty odd thousand
dollars when the latter built that abutment.
When their report is made, General Wells
will complete his last brief in the case and
present it to the Secretary of War next
Monday. The missing paper now wanted
to make the title that eau be given the
Government 10 the northern abutment per-
April 5, 1889, in which the c. & O. Canal
promised 10 puy the Alexandria Canal the
amount above referred to, $40, 600 This
paper was in Annapolis recently, but has
mysteriously disappeared now that it is
wanted for the purpose of securing good
and convenient free bridge across the Poto-
mac at Georgetown.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the
House agreed this morning to ask for day
on which to urge the passage of the bill
providing for the payment of the French
spoliation claims.
The House Naval Committee heard
arguments this morning in favor of CIV
ing prize money to the officers and crews
of the Monitor and Cumberland for de-
stroyiug the Confederate ram Merrimac,
and that, too, though nothing is better
known than the fact that the officers and
Grew of the Merrimac destroyed her them
selves.
Among the petitions offered in the House to-
day WAS one by Mr.. OFerrall for the removal of
the political disabilities Of DIR. Il. II. Hill, OF
Front Royal Virginia, who was a lieutenant In
the u s. artillery before he entered the service of
the Con federate States.