Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-12
FROM WASHINGTON.

Especial Correspondence OF the ALEXANDRIA 6azete.l
WASHINGTON p. g.. Feb ~ 1886
The House Ways and Means Committee
to day agreed to report favorably bill in
relation to the importation of wrapping to.
bacco. fixing the rate of duty on stemmed
tobacco at one dollar and on unstemmed al
seventy Ave cents.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee, at
their meeting to-day, agreed TO make no re.
port upon the dynamite resolutions, for the
assigned reason that the Congress of the Uni
ted States would not, even by implication,
warrant the idea that any American citizen,
either native or adopted, was guilty Of the
Infamous crime of the dynamiters.
The Senate Judiciary Committee this
morning agreed to report favorably upon
the nomination of Mr.. Emory Speer to be
Judge of the United States district court of
Georgia.
The House to-day, after disagreeing to
!. the Senate amendments 20 the Consular
and Diplomatic bill, considered several bills
. under the ten minutes rule during the hour
devoted To such business, and then resum-
ed the consideration of the Postofice APP
p"opriation bill.
At the meeting Of the House Committee
Gu Pensions, Bounty and Back-pay this
morning, clerks in the Pensions Bureau tes-
tlUeu 10 tue eueCJ tu1t I'LL OFueT was lsSueu
i'm that bureau last Oct ODER with relation to
the payment of claims, intended solely and
entirely to make votes for the republicans
at the then impending election, and that
that intention was known and understood
by every body in the bureau. The order
was that no claim should be reported for
rejection.
Iu the Senate to- day the resolutions of
Mr.. ingalls, and Mr.. Hoar, together with
the House resolution authorizing q com.
mittee to wait upon the President-elect and
inform him Of the result Of the official count
Of thu electoral vote, were all referred with
out debate 10 the Committee on Elections,
and thus, contrary to expectation, the old
question of the right of the President of the
Senate to declare the result of the count
was not revived, and debate upon it conse-
Guently STAYED of. Senator Garland and
Mr.. Tucker both say that Mr.. Edmunds's
declaration yesterday was right, and that
he had nothing else TO do than announce
the result of the count rs reported to him
BY the lellers. Under the Ferry idea of
1876, supported then by majority of the
republicans. but not by Mr.. Edmunds, the
President Of the Senate could open the cer-
tifcates and announce any result he might
choose Mr.. Tucker says that the duty of
that referred to is like that of the Speaker
of the House when he announces the result
of o vote that has been taken upon bill or
resolution in that body.
At the second Swain court martial to-day
the Generals counsel objected to Colonel
Brooke's sitting as o member of the court,
and also to several other members of the
court, and resorted to other dilatory meas
ures.
The Senate to day passed a resolution re-
turning the Arctic steamer Alert to Great
Britain, with the thanks of this Government
for the material assistance rendered by that
ship in the recovery of the Greedy party,
and for the kind feeling that prompted the
tender of her services.
It is understood that Mr.. John Mclean,
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has set his heart
upon the next q. S. Senatorship from his
State, aud that his conceded influence with
the boys" will probably make him Mr..
Shsrman's successor.