Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-25
FROM WASHINGTON.


FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the ALEXANDRA Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 25, 1884.
It is reported that some of the Mahonites
in the House are making inquiries OF Beck
lev and Fisher, two colored men from Vlr-
ginia who have been appointed, at the in.
stance of Virginia democrats, to laborers'
places in the House, as to the manner OF
their appointment, for the purpose OF max,
ing party capital for the next Presidential
election. The two men referred to draw
$50 mouth, and were appointed because
they did the democrats good service at the
last election in Virginia, when they showed
the moral and physical courage requisite to
face the enmity of their race.
The Fitz-John Porter bill engrossed the
attention of the House to-day. Mr.. Taylor,
Garfield's successor in the House, conclu-
ded dull and common place speech in OPP
position to the bill, and Bayne, of Pennsyl-
vana, also republican, took the opposite
side. There is no telling when the debate
| will cease, but when it does, Mr. Curtin, the
War Governor of Pennsylvania, but now a
good democrat, will make the closing
speech, and urge the passage of the bill.
Mr. Ochitree, in talking about the bill this
morning, said he knew nothing about it,
but was willing to accept General Grants
| opinion, and thought that if wrong had been
done Porter, he should not only be reipsta,
ted, but have all his back pay.
| AS stated in this correspondence yester-
day the consideration of Shermans Dan
vile resolution has been postponed until
Monday. 1t will probably give rise to
heated debate, for though Virginia has no
| one in the Senate now to defend her, she
has plenty of friends there from her sister
Southern States, and they will not let her be
maligned and abused with impunity. Thetwo
men now in the Senate who hail from and
pretend to represent Virginia. worse than
ever the carpet-bag Senators from the
Southern States were, for when the latter
had secured their seats they were always
willing to stand up in the defense of the
States from which they were accredited.
But Messrs. Malone and Riddleberger,
though natives of the State, instead of re.
polling Shermans false charges against her.
render him all the limited assistance it is in
their power to give. Malone has hisspeech
sustaining Sherman already printed, and
was on hand to read it to-day, but when the
consideration Of the resolution was post
poped at the instance of Mr.. Lamar, left,
after short talk with Mr.. Sherman.
Among the bills now before Congress
which will probably pass is one authorizing
the construction ola public building for every
second and third class postoffice in the coun-
try. 1t has the approval of the Postmaster
| General and there is no Congressman who
doesn't want as many of such buildings in
his district as possible. None Of such build
ings are TO cost over $4,000.
There is bill now before both houses of
Congress TO return to the States the surplus
money in the Treasury the amount of the
direct land tax collected during the war
S442 81 "a were collected in Virginia. about
so GOO of which came from Alexandria.
In the Senate to-day the Finance Com
mittee reported unfavorably upon Sher-
mans bill relating to bank circulation, and
iavorably upon McPherson's bill allowing
national banks a circulation equal to the
par value of their deposited bonds. Should
this bill pass it will increase the circulation
of the national banks in Virginia to nearly
three million dollars.
Among the bills introduced in the Senate
to-day was one providing for the free trans
mission through the mails Of newspapers
and periodicals.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Barbour
presented the petition for the relief Of Thos.
Ayre.
The white woman Fred. Douglass mar
red last night is a woman's rights woman,
and the editor Of the Troy alarm. She is
young and good looking. When Fred kissed
her at the conclusion ofthe ceremony, his os-
culatory emotion was excited to such pitch
that he kissed all the women in sight, and
hung SO long upon the lips of young
woman Of his own race that her husband
thought it proper to interfere. This is re-
voting, but it is the legitimate result of re-
publicanism.
1t is said to-day that Mr. Edmunds was q
little over excited the other day by doing
what Mr. Frye had seen man with q
blouse and with his trousers in his boots
doing, when, in executive session, he made
his gratuitous assault upon the South and
her representatives, which Mr.. Lamar on
the instant so Indignantly, so justly, and so
effectually repealed.
Virginia from 1889 to 1883 got from Con
gress over 81 100000 for Improvements to
her rivers and harbors.
Should the tobacco tax rebate bill which passed
the House yesterday pass the Senate, tobacco
dealers in Virginia will receive nearly fifty thou
| sand dollars.