Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-22

hat bill might be endangered. Now that
Cleveland is elected the Generals objections
% political prominence have been removed.
Messrs. Wells and DUNCAN, Of the lessees
of the Alexandria Canal, appeared before
the House District Committee to day, ana
the former made an argument IN favor OF
the committee delaying action upon the Dill
for free bridge across the Potomac az
Georgetown until the Attorney General, TO
whom The question of the validity of the
title the lessees can give the Government 10
the auueduct bridge has been submitted.
His argument was so convincing that the
committee agreed to postpone action LOT
two weeks from next Monday.
A disinterested gentleman fully CONVEX
SAINT with the evidence in the Swain court
martial case, says that evidence Is conVlnc-
ING and conyicting, and will be sufficient TO
cashier Gen. Swain, if the members of the
conrt do not take up the idea that the case
ia one between civilian and an army ofb-
Ger. and be Influenced by their esprit du
corps. ;,
The House Committee on Public Health
to-day decided not to press the bill prepared
by the various State boards of health. but
to recommend an appropriation of s2o,OOo
for the National Board of Health and s!Oo,-
900 for the President, to be used 10 efforts
to prevent the approach and spread OF
cholera in this country next summer
The Woman Suffrage Convention, now IN
session in this city, has been entirely divert
ed from the object suggested by its name
| by resolution introduced declaring in Ell
| feet that modern preachers are supporters
of Judaism, which ignores women. mat
! resolution the members endorse heartily
and saw the preachers are willing enough
for the women to raise money for church
purposes. but will allow them no other priv
ileges. They also say that the preachers
are too conservative aud throw cold water
upon all measures of reform, even refusing
to take part in the prohibition movement
because some of their congregations are en-
gagged in the liquor trade. 1t is the delln-
uuency of The preachers and not the lack OF
suffrage that now absorbs the attention OF
the convention.
Secretary Lincoln said to day that up TO
eleven o'clock he had received no dispatches
from Oklahoma, but that be did not antici-
pate any bloodshed. He said the squatters
were accompanied by their wives and child
rem. which would not have been the case
had they anticipated conflict with soldiers,
and that he supposed when they found that
the Government was in earnest and intended
to eject them they would vacate themselves
| without any more ado than protest.
II is currently reported here that Mr.
Blaine and the republican leaders in Con-
gress have been consulting upon the posi-
Bile advantages TO their party OF an extra
session of Congress; that no definite deter
mination on the subject has yet been reach
ed, but that should they conclude that such
a session will benefit their party by injurlng
the democrats the republicans in Congress
will resort to such .diatory measures on the
appropriation bills as will make such ses,
| sion necessary.
The collection of Internal Revenue dur
ing the first six months of the fiscal year
ending June so, 1885, were as follows:-
from spirits, $50 ,064 ,395 from tobacco, Sl2,'
1872 399; from fermented liquors. 50 SIC, 492 /;
from miscellaneous socurces, Sl5l .2S2; total
receipts, Soc, 5l8,56S, being 1920, 1856 less
than the receipts for the same period of last
year. The decrease was in the collections
from spirits, tS3,935, 1885, from tobacco,
1882 ST. J and from miscellaneous, (S272,-
| 1874 The only increase was from ferment-
@ liquors amounting TO 1920, 23S The ag-
gregale receipts FIR December 1884. were
S2775 ,049 less than during the same month Of
the previous year.
| After long and unaccountable delay
| General Malone, chairman of the Senate
| Postoffice Committee, has at last fixed upon
Monday next "a the day upon which the
conference committee of the two houses
shall meet aud decide upon the site for
city postofiice.
The consideration of the Indian appro-
priation bill was resumed at an early hour
in the House to-day. In the Senate the
consideration of the interstate commerce
bill is the regular order for this afternoon.
At the meeting of the Senate Indian AT,
fairs Committee this morning witness
named Townsend testified that while an
Indian agent, in the employ and pay of the
Government, he had leased large quantity
of land from the Indians.
The wi o of Justice Stanley Matthews, of the U.
8 Supreme Court, died here at an early hour
this morning after long Illness In respect to
the grief of her husband the court adjourned i'm.
mediately after meeting
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