Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON, -. c., March q, 1854.

ESPECIAL Correspondence Of the Alexandra fazette
WASHINGTON. D. c., March q, 1854.
No portion of the American people are
exempt from the quality of pugnacity. In
the room Of the House Banking and Cur
reucy Committee this morning, Mr.. Frost, a
gray haired, rich, and respectable looking
man from Boston, deposition in the broken
Pacific bank of that city, said that be had
been induced by Mr.. Needham another
witness, and also respectable looking
elderly man, the bank examiner of Massa.
chusetts, to put his money in that
bank. Mr.. Needham told him he must
take that back, that he had come four
hundred miles to defame him, that he was
Cd id liar, and that if he would step
out of the committee room he would make
him eat his words. Further proceedings
were suspended by order fthe chairman of
the committee and by the interpostion OF
mutual friends.
The Senate District of Columbia Com
mittee agreed to-day to allow the railroad
stations in this city to remain where they
are, and to permit the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to tunnel Capitol Hill within 400
feet of the Capitol building on its way to
the Long Bridge. Mr.. Riddleberger, who is
a member of the committee, is decided
anti b. & 0. r. r. man, opposed both these
favors to that road, and says he will oppose
them when the bill shall come before the
Senate.
Mr.. John Wise, could he have gotten the
Speakers eye on the day the Lasker affair
was before the House, intended Offering
resolution to the effect that the entire mat
ter be referred to a committee consisting of
Prince Bismarck and the Hon. Thomas
Porterhouse Ochiltree, with power to send
for persons and papers, but whose report
should never be presented
The Secretary of the Treasury issued an
order to day prohibiting all customs officers
from disclosing the names of the consular
officers and of the Treasury agents reporting
information respecting market values and
differentiation Of invoices.
The bill extending the bonded term Of
whiskey will come up in the House to-mor
row and will be defeated, Mr.. Randall says,
by twenty-five majority; by twenty, accord
ing TO Mr.. Blount.
The Senate Committee on Territories
agreed this morning to confirm the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Brunn, of Pennsylvania, for
Governor of Idaho Territory.
A bill was introduced in the Senate to-
day to admit Washington Territory and a
portion of Idaho into the Union as a State
under the name of Tacoma.
1t is understood at the Capitol to-day that
the call for the democratic conference on
the tariff bill was issued to-day, and that the
meeting will be held next Tuesday night.
The resolutions adopted by the Virginia
State democratic committee at Alexandria
yesterday, relating to the tarifquestion, are
the subject of no little talk at the Capitol to-
day and they have undoubtedly strengthened
the weak kneed among Mr.. Randall's follow
ers, and produced an exactly contrary effect
upon the weakened men in Mr. Morri-
sons party. There seems, however, to be
no doubt that the Morrison bill will be
adopted by large majority of the confer
ence. but it is no less certain that however
the democrats may split on the tariff they
will be united on the Presidential ticket.
News here today from Culpeper county,
Va, is to the effect that the republicans of
that county who have heretofore acted with
the Mahoneites have kicked against the ap-
pontment of scalawag democrats az their
delegates to the Malone State convention,
and that they will unite with the straight
outs and appoint delegates to the straight
out republican convention.