Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-23

election law passed at the last session OF the
Legislature unconstitutional and as there
are fears that should the vote of Virginia be
necessary to elect democratic President,
the republican Senate will attempt to throw
that vote out. The republicans and Ma
honeites already threaten to do that if there
be a close vote in the State, on the assumed
ground of bulldozing, and there is nothing
in the past that indicates they will not do
so if there be the slightest flaw in the law.
The thievery and robbery now practiced
in all the departments Of the Government
taken in connection with the fact that Mr..
Arthur is not the candidate for President,
so that he can not he further hurt by any
disclosures that may be made, induced the
republican Senate to-day to adopt resolu-
ton providing for thorough investigation
of all the disbursing offices. After that the
Senate took up bill granting the right of
way to railroad through the Indian terri
tory, Mr.. Dawes opposing, and Mr.. Harrison
favoring its passage Two o'clock is the
hour for the resumption Of the consdera-
ton of the Mexican pensions bill. The re-
pubicans are attempting to defeat this bill
by making it provide for giving nearly eve
ry Northern man in the country pension,
but many of the democrats say that sooner
than let the old Mexican veterans go any
longer without their pensions they will vote
for the bill, no matter how large the sum to
be expended under it may be. 1t is thought
that some of the very republicans who Of
fered the amendments referred to will vote
against the bill when it shall be put upon
its passage.
This, under the rules, was District of Col
umbia day in the House, but as the demo
cratic caucus had agreed that nothing
should interfere with the appropriation bills,
the sundry civil bill when called up to-day
could not be antagonized with any other
bill. Mr.. Randall in talk with Mr.. Bar
| bour on the subject said that if any OF the
day was left after the sundry bill was dis.
posed of he would not object to the consid-
| GRAFTON of a bill for free bridge across the
| Potomac at Georgetown. But even if thai
be done it is doubtful if that bill can be
passed, as the majority of the House was
so large against any bill when it was up be-
fore that it is improbable it could be passed
without long debate and that the House
will not now permit. Mr.. Riddleberger
who swore that the bill for a bridge at the
Three Sisters should be passed, seeing there
is no possibility for his bill to pass is very
anxious that the House bill shall pass.
General Guzman Blanco, Ex-President O
| Venezuela, was presented to the President
to-day by the Secretary of State. Senator
Logan and Her Won Esendecker also called
on the President.
General Malone, Mr.. Riddleberger, Major
Yost and some other Virginia republicans
held a conference in the formers committee
room to-day. The General had his hair
curled and wore bob-t tail coat, and pre-
sented even a more remarkable appearance
than usual.
A caucus of republican Senators has been
called for this evening. The object is sup
posed to be for the purpose of considering
The "order of business" and to decide upon
the day of final adjournment.
| In the contested election case of Chalmers
republican, vs.. Manning, democrat, the
House Elections Committee have agreed
with only one dissenting voice, that Chal'
mers is entitled to the seat. Mr. Chalmers
was asked to prepare the report, but
declined, whereupon Mr.. Cook, demo
GRAFT of Iowa, was asked, and he pre-
pared report, which, while it con.
cludes with a resolution for the ad.
mission of Chalmers, is u regular democratic
campaign document, scoring it into the Ad
ministration for its partisan interference
with elections in the South. The republican
| members of the committee, while agreeing
with the resolution, repudiate the report to
which their names are signed, and say they
will be heard from when it comes up in the
| House.
When Mr.. Randall called up the sundry
civil bill in the House to-day, Mr.. Morrison
offered an amendment to the effect that al
the surplus in the Treasury over one hun
dred million be invested in u. S. bonds
but that no premium bonds shall be bought
as long as the others are in the market
] Mr.. Randall said he would not object to
| that.
Major Yost, of Staunton, Virginia, one Of
the committee appointed by the national
republican convention to notify Messrs
Blaine and Logan of their nomination, has
just returned from Maine, and, with the rest
of the committee will call upon Gen. Logan TO- NOR
row. Tho Maj. says he has heard nothing definite Of
| any formal proposition for withdrawal of the
Malone electoral ticket in his State and the forma
| ton of new one in which the straightouts shall
be represented; that the national committee which
meets on the 26th and could do nothing but re
| commend such thing.