Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence OF tho Alexandria Gazette.
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ference here yesterday were Congressman
Bowen, Libby and Wise, Judge Paul OF the
IT. S. District Court Mr.. Fowler clerk OF
the q. s. Court, L. = Marshal Watts, In.
ternal Revenue Collectors Rogers, Raulston
and Craig. Postrnasters Morris of Lynch
burp Lindsay of Portsmouth, Windsor or
Alexandria and ID ~ OF Winchester, Messrs.
Lewis Mckenzie, Richard Wise, Wyatt FL
/, lott. Thomas Popham Duff Green, Strother
| and Shumale nf Fauquier, Clark and liam
of Richmond, NlaA or Lamb Of Norfolk, anu
others, Mr.. Lihb. was the only republican
present and 30 negro was there or was eX-
pected. Indeed, the idea CT some of those
present was hat the n-grc.s are draw
back rather than source OF strength TO tins
party, and that the party would nave more
white if it hai less negro strength. Ihough
Mr.. Rildlehe.ger wus, IS stated in this cor
responde,ce Yesterday, with Gen. Malone
until tate hnur the night before, he was
not nj the conference, and, when asked
about hi aG,~ance, said he had not been III.
yitcd. He also volunteered the oplnlon
that Mahone'- persistent attempt to take
supreme cout:ol Of the party and run 1t as
he sees fit y IL result IN lis entire and complete
failure aud dc:tn;. At the conference yes
terlav arrnn.ci3, mts were made for the
complete Reorganization OF the party for
supreme ttl1lt 1T xt fall by which 10 secure
The Generals re election TO the Senate.
The opponents OF Mr.. Jonas now say that
that gentleman was Instrumental III some
way in procuring the charter OF the Louis
lana Lottery Company. and that conse-
ouentlv he stands 40 show Of al invitation
to become member of the next Cabinet.
Mr.. Tauhee, the democratic successor OF
the scaawag J. u. White, from Kentucky,
was 10 the House TO day. He says he VIII
present q marked contrast to his predeces
sor. MS he is noted for his silence and mod
est.
The deficiency nil! VA passed by the
House today. AMONG lis provisions Is one
for abni!>!ling the census hlii eau,and direct
inv l;:c Secretary of the Interior 10 employ
Il few extra clerks - close up the work
of the last ccila.i4 within Il scar
Messis. Randall ofthe House and Aili=oa
of th., Senate, the clairnen Of the appro.
pration.; committees Of their respective
houses, lad Il los. conference this morning
on the subject o. th:- appropriation bills. l!
is understood thai they both agree That all
the bills can lie passed ii there be no unne-
cessarv delay before The ith of March. Some
democratic Iuumh-i% l,.weVer, among them
Mr. Cox, are ut nc impression that al ex-
ira session will be held and that it will be
we'll for the democratic party if it be 80.
Some Of the clerks In the departments
here, who live across the Potomac Ia Nir-
ciuia, were st i." Capitol to day TO ask
Mr.. John Wise 10 move TO suspend the ru les
and take up the Sea,e bill Tor u free bridge
at the s'rhrar Sisters" But even should
Mr., Wise caasaht, 40 such bill could pass
al this session.
The river aud iihrhor bill rs il now stands
aoolishcs tn Mississippi Commission and
the necessity -: EArtai" i3tG5. The !r:e'i';:'
of the Mississippi Nil! uaito with the oppo'
nents Of the bill i! provision he no. made
for that river 4 pan was prepared, ont
too late, to relieve nc Hoods in the Missis
sippi By correcting The Missouri with the
rivers which empty in!" ne Mississippi re.
low il by a system of can":s
Now since it is pretty val! understood
that Mr.. Villas wiIlste member oil The next
Cabinet, the me,nnrr 81 the fact nat BIZ was
q third term Grau; maG h&S been revived,
and news comes rom tie Northwest that
the democrats there waHj Ia know |! Their
section is To D. !epre* scented ~ the Cah:-
net why the representative should 10; he an
old and conssi eDt mcairr .! ;ho party.
The two safes ol the Adams Express
Company which were in the car that was
burned at the Seem. # ID: r"c@hL collision
at Four Mile Run, mear tOs city, were
opened in the Office Of line Z. ). Treasurer
to-day. The charre.i nnney which they
contained is being examined ny three lady
experts OF the Departments. It has been
shown that ever $4,000 was ia the safes.
Most of ina: been identified, and will be
redeemed.
Mr.. John Wise got mp Il i,:li in The House
to-day to extend The patent of Dir. Leigh
Burton, Of Richmond, for generating heat
from electricity, but it was defeated. The
fact that Mr. Wise has ordered bis mail
to be forwarded TO Richmond looks as if he
| had been assured that his contest ed election
case Will not be called up.
The river and harbor bill will be COM
pleted in the House this afternoon, and the
sundry civil bill taken up. 1t IL; on this
latter bill that the silver fight will be made.
A number Of Representatives opposed 10
| the soppage of the coinage of silver, will
oppose the passage of the sundry civil bill
under suspension Of rules unless the clause
providing for the suspension Of silver coin
age is eliminated.
The fact that the long delay in the pro-
cession here during the extreme cold of last
Saturday was caused by the time consumed
by the President in taking his lunch seems
to have just been discovered, and is the sub
ject of no little adverse criticism.
Ex-Commissioner Dudley, of the Pension
Office, was before the House Pensions Com
mittee to-day, and testified to the effect
that that bureau was not, as proved, run as
a republican electioncering bureau at the
last Presidential election. 1t is needless to
say that his testimony was of the tlimsiest
| conceivable texture.
1t is understood that Mr.. Mark Brick
Pomroy will start :. democratic newspaper
| here after the installation of the democratic
| administration, and that Mr. Aleck Hunter
| will be one of its editorial staff.
At Jessup's cut, Oil the B. & O. +. r., be-
tween this city and Baltimore, this after
noon. DR.. Ossie' Maupiu, of Norfolk, and
Miss Virginia Bond, daughter of General
Bond, were married.
There is now on exhibition in the room
of the Sergeant at-Arms of the Senate, an
exceedingly we'll executed postrat Of Pat
rick Henry, by George B. Matthews, ofNir
ginia, which Mr.. Voorhees, will try toinduce
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