Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-21
FROM WASHINGTON.

Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria aazette
WASHINGTON. ID. G.. Jan. 81. 1855
1t is currently reported here that Mr..
Randall, seeing no possibility of obtaining
the Speakers chair in the next House, has
wisely determined to make no contest for
that place, aud that therefore Mr.. Carlisle
will be re elected without opposition. But
while Mr. Randall will not be a candidate
for Speaker, u seat on the floor is not too
agreeable to him, 40 that be would not be
averse to one in the Cabinet of the next
President. Owing to his views, however,
on the tariff question, he would have strong
opposition did he aspire to the Treasury.
With the Navy it would be different; for
there he could exercise his we'll known eco
nomicll ideas, and at the same time achieve
u reputation for building up a navy. For
that position he would probably be support
ed by his whole party, and would probably
accept it if offered to him.
The Senate to-day after the morning hour
went on the calendar, after which the inten-
ton is to resume the consideration of the in.
terstate commerce bill. In the House the In
dian appropriation was taken up and will
occupy the attention Of the House until four
o'clock, when eulogies will be delivered upon
the late Senator Anthony.
Among the petitions offered in the House
yesterday was one by Mr.. O'Ferrall from
w. a. Baker, Holmes Conrad, Oscar Barr,
c. w. HenselI and forty other citizens of
Winchester, Virginia, praying for the i'm
mediate passage Of the Potter refunding
bill.
In the Senate to-day the committee on
Claims reported favorably bill for limiting
the time for the presentation and payment
of claims against the United States to three
years from the passage of the bill.
A gentleman from Richmond in the city
to-day, usually we'll posted about politi-
cal affairs in his State, says his impression
is that neither Caruthers nor Clark will get
the Richmond Lostoffice, but that the posi-
ton will be given to Mr.. Bland Morris,
merchant of that city, and Mahoneite.
During the meeting of the House Pen
sions Committee to-day, when the crooked
ton with pension agents was again under
investigation, clerk in that department
produced a decision just rendered by that
department to the effect that pension claim.
ants can change their agents at any time
they choose, and without the delay and
trouble heretofore necessary to do so. This
has created no little commotion among the
agents, who say that hereafter after taking
all the trouble and expense requisite to put
the claims in shape for payment, the claim
ants may take the papers from their hands
and give them to others to collect for a
smaller fee.
Mr.. S. s. Cox, when asked this morning
about the probability of Mr.. Cleveland
asking Mr.. Barbour to be member of his
Cabinet, said he understood that Mr..
Barbour was to be Senator from Virginia,
and did not want to be Cabinet minister.
He seemed to think that Mr.. Garland would
probably be in the next Cabinet
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
to-day received a telegram from Collector
Young, at Raleigh, N. c., saying that his
deputies seized an illicit distillery in john
sion county and arrested the proprietor,
Nehemiah Hicks.
at meeting of the Inauguration Com
mittee last night Mr.. Willard asked the
ball committee to allow the managers
of the Garfield Hospital fund to use
the bali room the night after the ball |