Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-27
FROM WASHINGTON,
Special Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
w. cuINcroN u e. ADril 81 1856.

luced in the House this session is one TO re-
duce the tax on fruit brandy to fifty cents
Gallon. to abolish the use Of storekeepers
at distilleries which consume less than hVe
bushels of grain day, and to prevent the
,lcst ructiou Of distilleries without Jndiciai
Mr. Cabell and some OF the
other democratic members OF the virginia
Congressional delegation have had consul
tations with the democratic members OF tne
House Ways and Means Committee, ana IL
i understood that that committee VIII, at
un early date, report bill containing the
provisions of the bill referred TO.
The lobby which the silver league estao-
|ished here some months ago TO work 1or
the free and unlimited coinage OF SILVER,
aud which engaged cost y and luxurious
apartments, has, in the language OF the
streets, "busted,' vacated the apartments
referred TO, and been turned loose upon the
cold charity of an unsympathizInS World.
IA its work amounted to little or nothing,
80 shown by the vote on the silver question
that was taken in the House, those who
subscribed to the fund for its maintenance,
thinking the money so subscribed was
thrown away, failed to renew their subscrip-
tons.
The labor men got to squabbing among
themselves in the House to-day, to the
amusement of all the other members, nearly
all of whom gathered around them. The
trouble was between Mr. Foran, of Cincln-
natl, and Mr.. O'Neill, of st. Louis, both
pronounced labor men, but the former with
more sense and education, and therefore the
more plausible in his demaSogism. He
rose to personal explanation in reference
to newspaper article containing report
of what Mr.. O'Nell had said about him;
having read which, he denied in whole and
in part its every statement which he said
could only have been conceived by such
narrow and uncultured mind as that OF
O'Neil, who was unworthy of any constltu
ency and unfit for a seat in the House.
Congressman Barbour has appointed
Charles Dell Hine, of Fairfax county, w.,
cadet at West Point At the recent com.
petitive examination ut Alexandria for this
place, held at the instance of Mr.. Barbour,
Young Hine stood highest on the list, 90!,
Tbos. l.. Waters, of Alexandria, standing
next highest, Sc.
The Senate to-day passed the bill appro.
priatiDg $500 900 for the enlargement and
Improvement of the White House. Tho
| Senate committee on war claims reported
adversely OIL the bill to pay the surviving
trustees of Shiloh Baptist church, of Fred
ericksburg, for the injury done to that
church by federal soldiers during the war.
| The committee to whom the bill for an ln-
crease of appropriation for the extention OF
| the signal service was referred, reported
that the appropriations provided for in that
bill had been already provided in one OF the
appropriation bills. The committee on the
library reported in favor of appropriating
80 ~ loEa No fa Mor
tha Washington, at Fredericksburg, provi-
ded the Government be given title to the
land on which it stands, and the State Of
Virginia will see that the ground and mon
ument be kept in repair.
| Col. Bsv. Tucker who has been i'll for
some weeks past, was we'll enough to be at
the Capitol to day. Tho Colonel says he
hears it is said he ''has been employed by
the Mormons to lobby with the House ju-
dietary committee against the passage of
| the Edmunds' anti Mormon bill; but that he
never saw Mormon woman in his life"
In tho House yesterday evening Mr..
Daniel introduced bill appropriating $50.
600 for public building at the new aud
rapidly growing town OF Roanoke, Va, the
junction OF the Shenandoah Valley and the
Norfolk and Western railroads. In the
Senate Mr.. Ridileberger introduced bill
to pay Rachael Dyer, widow of VIM. Dyer,
OF Fairfax county, Virginia, $G5G.S0 for
property taken by the Union soldiers dur
ing the war.
There is rumur ahoat, which, however,
is not credited, and less by Firginians here
than any body else, that the President has
been informed by Senators that Mr.. Goode
will not be confirmed as Solicitor General,
and that he has picked out Mr.. J. Il. Tuck
or for the place.
The labor committee of the House at q
meeting last night agreed TO report bill to
divide the proceeds Of the sales of public
lands among the several States according to
their school population, providing that not
more than seven and half million shall be
so divided in any ono year. The report
however, does not indicate that majority
of the committee will support the hill, and
it is believed that a majority of them will
oppose it. That ma ority Of the House will
the members thereof nor is it at all proba-
Bile, as has been the case from the first, that
any bill for public instruction will be passed
at this session of Congress.
The House District of Columbia Commit
tee is now approaching the number on its
calendar which indicates the bill for a free
bridge across the Potomac. 1t is said that
the difficulty about the title to the site of
some of the piers Of the aqueduct bridge,
which has operated against the passage of
the bill providing for the purchase of that
bridge ana making it free bridge, either has
been, or soon will be removed, and that then
that bill will be reported favorably by the
committee with provision for the main
tenance Of the aqueduct. Every body in
Washington and in Virginia, except those
who expect some personal profit by a bridge
at Georgetown, thinks the new bridge should
be beautiful arch spanning the river from
Arlington Park to Potomac Park-the latter
to be located on the reclaimed flats Of the
Potomac.
Mr.. J. Il. Tucker prepared the adverse re-
port of the House Judiciary Committee on
the bill allowing the President to veto items
in the appropriation bills. The report is
said by competent judges. who have read it,
to be an exceedingly able and conclusive
one.