Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-23

and that it would he nothing more than
,;mnle iustice 10 consider that business on
This. The last day on which it could possibly
t., considered. Mr.. Randall antagonizeo
ms District business with al appropriation
nil saving that of District and national
bn.iuess the latter WAS the more Important,
and so the House decided, though Mr.. Bar,
hour succeeded in having motion adopted
that al six o'clock this evening the House
rec.ss until eight, and that the evening ses
sion shall be devoted to the consideration OF
District business, among which Is the Dill
for free bridge across the Potomac al
Gaoruetown. The House then took up Inc
naval appropriation bill.
A large number of strangers were 81 tne
Capitol to-day. composed of those WHO had
come to the dedication Of the Washington
monument but had not returned, OF the al
vanced guard of the throng who are TO
come to the inauguration, ard OF the resi-
dents of the city who had holiday, the day
being u national holiday.
Among the bills introduced in the House
today was one by Mr.. Barbour for paying
Virginia her share of the public lands sold
under the act Of September 4, lS4l.
Senator Sherman to-day introduced an
amendment to the Pacific Railroad funding
bill. intended to benefit the railroads ut the
expense of the people.
Senator Mahone, Postmaster General
Hatton and Secretary aud Senator: elect
Teller had long talk on the floor OF the
Senate to-day. What they know and wont
tell about what certain of the government
departments did in the way of eIectloneer'
ing in the late cam aign would be worth a
good deal to discover.
The Senate to day. after weeks OF discus
sion, finally passed bill to permit the
souatters on the Des Moines River lands TO
defend such claims as they assume TO have,
in the courts. The Senate then took up the
postoffice appropriation bill, strlklng out Inc
sections for SPECIAL delivery ana ior al
lowing the bureau OF engraving and print
ing to compete with private printers tor
doing the printing OF the postotice depart
ment. The republicans all voted for strik.
ing out these sec,ious, for the reason that
had thew been adopted, there would have
been a necessity for the employment OF
more mail carriers and more printers, and
the democratic administration would have
had the patronage Several reductions III
the amount of the appropriations, suggested
| nv Mr. Hatton, the republican Postmaster
| General were also made by the votes vi
the republican Senators, because such 70
ductious would reduce the patronage OF the
Postmaster General under the incoming All.
minis;ratinn.
The Senate Committee GU the District OF
| Columbia tni= mnruing determined to re-
| part bill directing suits to be commenced
at once, to which all the claimants to what
are called the Kidwell Bottoms, which are
the Potomac fats of this city, large por-
tons. if not all, Of which have been pre-
empted, are made defendants; that the
validity Of their claims shall be tried, and if
| found good that the lands SO claimed shall
be condemned ut their value at the date OF
preemption and without any reference to
the improvements made by the Govern
ment. and that until such claims are tried
and decided no more money shall be ex
| pended upon the reclamation oi the flats,
and that the claims Of such claimants as do
not become parties to these suits snail be
| null and void Among the claimants re-.
| ferred to are the heirs of The late Richard
| Lloyd, of Alexandria, Va.
A Northern democratic Congressman who
had talk With the President-elect last
| week says be is by no means sure that the
| Postoffice Department will not yet, not
| withstanGing all the talk to the contrary,
be offered to the representative for the S-h
Congressional district of Virginia. II The
Navy Department shall 20 TO New EGG
land, as is supposed. mauy think that Con
pressmau Charles Mitchell. Of Connecticut,
may get it.
It is reported here that two more OF The
victims OF the late railroad collision At Four
Mile Run, who w.re brought here after
that casually, died last night
The general impression here concerning the
Grafton of Major Daniel is that it was mastery
effort, appropriate TO the OCCASION. honorable to
his State aud creditable to himself. Col. L. Q
Washington give the Major dinner party ut
Wormey' last night, the Other guests bring Sena-
tor, Bayard, Lamar, Hampton aud Gibson; Con
gressmen Dunn aud Barbour and Mr. John Goode.