Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec. II, 1859.

FROM WASHINGTON.
-special Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzETTE.J
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. II, 1885.
Mr.. Mitchell. who married his first wife
under the name of Ripple, and who, though
a republican, was recently elected to the Y.
s. Senate from Oregon by means OF demo
cratic votes. appeared in the Senate this
and was sworn in. He was warm
" congratulated by his republican col
LEAGUES. with whom there is no DOUBT ne
will vote on all party questions, ana MS
desk was loaded with beautiful flowers, pre-
sented by some of his lady admirers III this
city. for though he has grown children ne IS
a young looking man yet.
Among the bills which Mr.. Libby, of Vir-
pinia, hopes to have passed at the present
session of Congress, is one for new AND
larger wharf at Old Point Comfort. In the
deed to the military reservation there, 1t ls
stimulated that the Government shall pro.
vide good and sufficient wharf accommoda-
lions. as it is the shipping point for all the
region round about. The wharf now
ia said to be neither large enough nor in
GOOD condition. In this connection it may
be mentioned that the reservation was made
solely for military purposes, but that as
large and profitable hotel is kept there now
the State of Virginia is considering the ad-
visibility of attempting some means by
which taxes on that valuable and lucrative
property can be collected.
President Cleveland brokea his rule last
night and attended dinner given by Secre-
tary Bayard to DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
of Boston.
Congressman Rankin, of Wisconsin, is re-
ported to day as dying of Bright's disease,
at bis rooms in this city.
Gentleman from Fairfax county, Virginia,
here to-day, say that Judge Cockerill, OF
that county, will probably be the democra.
tic candidate for the House of Delegates Of
his State, to fill the vacancy that will be
made by the resignation Of Mr.. Chichester,
who has recently been elected Judge Of that
county. They also say that Mr.. r. r. Farr,
now superintendent of Public Instruction
in his State, will, when his term as such
shall expire, return to Fairfax, reside there,
and run for the county treasurership.
In the House to day the consideration Of
the proposed new rules for the House was
resumed as soon as the session began, MIR.
Long, republican, of Massachusetts, leading
off in opposition to the report of the MAORI
ty, and, while favoring an early report Of
the appropriation bills and the exclusion of
legislation from all such bills, Directing to the
removal of those bills from the control of
the Appropriations Committee and subject
ing them to the powerful influence of log
rolling among the democratic chairmen of
the several other committees to whom it is
proposed to entrust their preparation. The
proposed aew rules are meeting with strong
opposition from both democrats and repub-
licans, but the impression is they will be
adopted. The regular debate on them will
conclude this evening, but the debate under
the five minutes rule will probably continue
all day tomorrow.
In the Senate to-day among the bills in
troduced was one by Mr. Cameron appro-
priating one million dollars for the estab-
lishment of q gun factory at the Washington
navy yard for the manufacture of the heav-
lest kind of ordnance, in accordance with a
recommendation of the Secretary Of the Ma
Wy. After the regular morning business a
rather personal debate took place between
Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Butler on the latter's
resolution, introduced yesterday, respecting
the unauthorized meeting, State Legisla-
ture in the Territory of Dakota, and its
election of TWO u S. Senators before Con-
gress had passed bill for the admission of
that Territory as State into the Union,
was improper, iuasmuch as Dakota had only
acted in the line of democratic prece-
dent, and Mr. Butler asserting that the res
olution was one of enquiry only, and that
the Indiana Senator's attempt to give it q
partisan bias was inspired by partisanism.
A son of Col. FAINT, formerly of Bealton,
Faquier county, Va, has been appointed TO
place under the doorkeeper of the House.
Mr. Morrison acknowledges he did say
the President was surrounded by influences
that would not lead him to correct conclusions
on the tariff question, but emphatically de-
MES that he attributed to any member Of
the administration corrupt motives in con-
nection with that subject. The Presidents
ideas on the tariff as contained in his mes
sage are not satisfactory to Mr.. Morrison.
The Senate yesterday in executive session,
against the wishes of some Of the democrats, prac-
tically decided that the list of removals aud the
reasons therefor should be published in the Rec
ord