Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents OF the Alexandria tiaro''e

Especial Correspondence OF the hioxhhoi'H u"Io'''
WASHINGTON. d. c., Feb. 5, 1886.
The House to day after long wrangle
about resolution changing the rules so as
% allow a ten minutes debate On any Dill
called up in the morning hour before oD]ec-
ton TO its consideration be III order, IN Ia,
vor of which Mr.. Randall made an able and |
effective speech, and when was aaopIeo,
reports from committees, and then
resumed the consideration of the River and
Harbor bill. The Texas delegation held
conference last night and agreed to allow
the section OF this bill providing for the en-
n}ovment Of Captain Eads to be so modified
as to authorize the President to appoint on
engineer from civil life to superintend the
nroposed Improvement Of Galveston harbor.
The prevailing impression concerning this
hill now is that its consideration will con-
sumo the remainder of the week, by which
Time very little of it as originally reported
will remain.
Up to ten o'clock this morning the dec:-
sion of the Department of Justice IN regard
to the legality of the title the lessees of the
Alexandria canal can give the Government
TO the piers Of the aqueduct FOR free
bridge, il made, had net been received by
the Secretary Of War, who has The final dis
position Of the case. 1t was slated at the
Department Of Justice yesterday that the
case was to be passed upon there that day,
and it was understood, unfavorably.
A republican from Fairfax county, Nir-
gipia, who holds Office here, when asked to-
day if his party in his State would submit
to the control and leadership of Malone i'll
The future as in the past, replied that he did
not suppose they would, as they had oniy
done SO heretofore from policy, and there
was nothing TO he gained by pursuing that
policy any longer.
Messrs. Isaacs and Courtney of Richmond,
Sener and Russell of Fredericksburg, Reed
| of Alexandriu, and other prominent MasOns
| in Virginia are from the city to. day making
arrangements for the Masonic part OF the
| ceremonies incident TO the dedication of
the Washington Monument on the Dist
instant.
The delegation of Virginians appointed
to go to New York and represent 10 Prosi-
dentelect Cleveland the extraordinary
claims Virginia has for representation in
his Cabinet, and the especial fitness of Mr..
Barbour for the place of Postmaster Gener-
al, left here last night and will see Mr..
Cleveland to-day. Many members OF Con-
gress, Senators as well as Representatives,
| from other States have also gone to see the
| next President and to recommend people of
their respective States for Cabinet positions,
Gov. Jarvis, for instance, of North Carolina
| and General IIawton, Of Georgia, and Mr..
H. G. Davis, of West Virginia, some of
whom, it is understood, if they find there is
no chance for their own men will aiG the
Virgnians in their recommendation Of Mr.
| Barbour.
| In the Senate to day Mr.. Malone, from
| the PostOce Committee, reported bill
appropratiug $Gl0,0 600 Tor the purchase Of
| the square Immediately west Of the Post
office Department for city postoilice, the
assessed value of which is only $3.50, 1000.
| The House, it is thought, will reduce the
| amount named IL the bill considerably.
General Malone was at the White House
Yesterday He has been there four times
recently-ubout as often as he had previ
ously been there in all his life before. 1t is
understood tha' his visits relate to the Rich
| mond postoflice, 10 which the rumor again
| to day, as yesterday, Is that the President is
anxious 10 appoint General Dabney Maury,
true democrat, but that the General has
| some hesitancy about accepting office from
republican administration.
Cards are out for the marriage of Con
gresham McAdoo, of New Jersey and Miss
Eva Tardy, OF Lynchburg, which will take
place neat wednesday, III DOuaiT, heaI
Richmond. All tho democrats in the Vir-
ginia Congressional delegation are among
the invited guests.
General Sheridan, chief marshal of the
procession on the occasion of the dedication
of the Washington Monument on the 2lst
inst, has rendered polite invitation to
General Fitz Lee to take command Of the
second division Of that procession. The
second division will be the most noticeable
one, as it will contain the President and all
the chief officers of the Government, and
the orator of the day. IL is understood that
General Lee has accepted the invitation in
the same courteous spirit in which it was
extended.
The Seuatc having finally, and just rs expected,
killed the interstate com mcrcc bill, by defeating
the Reagan bill, and passing the Senate bill, which
delays indefinitely any abatement of the existing
abuses, is now considering the bill to redeem
trade with standard silver dollars and to suspend
silver coinage after 1886.
The news from Egypt was tho subject of general
comment at the Capitol to-day, and while the pre-.
vailng tenor of that comment, at least among
Southern men, WAS sympathetic with the Eng
lish, there were sonlo who received the news with
great satisfaction.