Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
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Especial Correspondence OF the Ae1ano1iS 0AAoseoI
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Nov. 80, 1885.
A magnificent special train of cars, in
which were the Chicago express sleeper,
dining room and smoking car, left the 9TH
street depot here at halt past nine o'clock |
this morning for Indianapolis. 1t contained
the Congressional committee and the com.
mittee of the U. S. Supreme Court who will
attend the funeral of the late Vice President.
It was accompanied by Mr.. Robert A. Parke,
passenger agent of the southe DIVISION
of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 1t will reach
Indianapolis at eight O'Clock o'morroW
morning, and it will arrive here on its re-
turn next Wednesday. Neither one OF the
Virginia Senators was invited by the Senate
committee to attend. Mr.. Barbour was in
yited by the House committee, but was un-
able to 90. The determination of the
President not to 60 bad the effect Of deter.
ring others, so that the SergeaDt-at-arms OF
the House had some difficulty in mastering
up a full committee of that body this morn
ing.
As soon as the Z. S. Supreme Court met
TODAY Attorney General Garland rose and
moved that as q mark of respect to the
memory of the late Vice President the court
adjourn until Thursday next Chief JUS
tice Waite granted the motion at once, go
that the court stands adjourned until the
time specified.
Several members of the Virginia Legisla'
ture have recently passed through here on
their way to Richmond. 1t is understood
that most of them expressed their inten-
lion of voting for Mr.. Barbour for Senator
from their State, and said they believed he
| would be elected.
Senator Sherman, who left here suddenly
for Ohio day or two ago, has returned.
| He is by no means as assured OF MS re'elec-
ton to the Senate as he would like to be, as
the republican majority in the Ohio Legis.
lature is exceedingly small, as the demo-
Gratis will be likely to vote for any body to
beat him, and as he has not that confidence
in all the republican members of the Legis-
lature that would induca him TO leave his
safe unlocked in q room with them.
The weather here to-day was delightful.
The air was still and the sun shone bright
and warm Tt was pleasant to stand in the
sunshine, and the office seekers who have
been here waiting and hoping until their
hearts are sick and their clothes threadbare,
came out and baskcd in it like snakes and
turtles do in the early spring.
The only Virginia Congressman here to-
| day are Messrs Barbour and OFerrall, but
all the others are expected here before the
| close of the week, as the democratic caucus
| TO determine upon the officers of the House
will probably TO held on Saturday night.
Office holding is certainly disease. Con-
gress will meet next Monday, and already
the men who during the last session held
positions under t,from that of laborer at $50
month to that of highly paid clerks, are
appearing on Pennsylvania avenue, and
button. holng the members who have ar
rived for their influence in getting them
their old places, though many of them could
doubtless make, and all of them save more,
money in any other employment in which
they might engage.
The Presidents determination not to 60
to indianapolis is variously commented
upon here Some say it was right; some,
and among them as wise and true men as
arc in his party, say it was wrong. One Of
the latter, who is known and respected
throughout the country, in talking about the
matter to-day, said the President should
have gone if he had been certain that the
train bearing him would have been derailed
at every switch on the line, and that he
would have been shot at from every station
on the road.
Democratic Oregonians here say that not
outstanding Mr.. Mitchell's speech to the
Oregon Legislature, they still believe his po-
litical opinions have been modified consid-
eraby, and that the democrats in the Senate
will have no cause to object to the action of
those democratic members of the Oregon
Legislature who voted for him. They say
that the only Notification over his election
was by the democrats of his State.
People here from Senator Riddleberger's
neighborhood say they are afraid the reports
about that Senator's condition are too true,
aud that he will reflect even less credit
upon his State in the Senate during the
coming, than he did during the last session,
which, his best friends acknowledge, was
little enough.
Commissioner Coleman, Of the Agricul
tural Department, in his annual report,
takes rosy view of the agricultural inter
ests of the country, and says the year which
opened in gloom, threatening the destruc-
ton of winter crops, is closing with bright
prospects of abundance for man and beast,
produced at q cost which is not a burden to
the producer, and to be sold at price which
is not barrier to the poor consumer.
The prevailing impression among the
members Of the House who have already
arrived is that the first business of the ses
sion will be revision of the rules, without
which hardly any business can DO transact
ed, to be followed Immediately by law
relating to the Presidential succession, and
that then the House will proceed
to a reform Of the tariff, Mr.. Hewitt, of
New York introducing bill by which raw
materials will be admitted free Of duty and
large reduction be made in the necessaries
of life, and Mr.. Randall, one which will ex-
press the limit Of the concessions the protec.
tionists will make. Mr.. Morrison will vote
for division of the appropriation bills
among the committees.
MARK TwAINs DIFFICULTIES IN BECOMING
A CoNFEDERATE-"Out West there was good