Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzETTE.]
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WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug. 6, 1886.
Mr.. Butcher, the independent candidate
for Congress in the 7th Congressional dis
trict of Virginia, who is here to-day, says he
was treated very discourteously when he
made his speech at Front Royal last Wednes-
day, 80 much so that some of the gentlemen
of that place apologized to him for it. He
saws some of the crowd actually went so far
as to obstruct his way through the hotel to
the porch where he could speak, but that
he forced his way through, and would have
done 80 with pistol if it had been necessa.
nv. He says that upon the invitation OF
Messrs. J. C. Ergood, Ralph Gwinn, K. B.
Cropley, and other leading business men of
the District of Columbia, he will deliver
lecture here next Wednesday night, the
proceeds of which will be devoted to the
expenses of his campaign.
Up to one o'clock to-day the President
had not made known his intentions regard
ing the question of his attending the funeral
of his uninaugurated predecessor. Secreta.
ries Fairchild and Whitney, Treasurer Jor-
dan, Solicitor McCue, and other prominent
officials of the government will attend, but
whether the President will or not is un-
known. The fact that he did not attend
the funeral of Vice President Hendricks in-
dictates the latter.
Major Robert w. Hunter, of Winchester,
Va, has been promoted from his present
position as chief of division of accounts in
the general land office, to that Of special in.
spector Of the public land service, at salary
of 81, 500.
The Capitol, which was yesterday so
| crowded, is to-day almost entirely deserted,
almost the only people seen about there, ex'
cept the regular employees, being the clerks,
who were engaged in closing up their work,
and few newspaper men. The appropria-
/ ton for guiding the statue on top of the
CAPITOL failed to pass, but "a tho regular APP
preparation for the care OF the building did
pass, laborers are already at work cleaning
the whole of that building, from the crown
of the Goddess Of Liberty to the crypt at
the bottom of the basement.
It has been ascertained that Secretary
Bayard drew up the silly resolutions adopt
ed by the foreign affairs committee of the
| House of Representatives in regard to the
Cutting affair at Paso del Norte, in Mexico
and that he is by no means pleased with the
manner in which they were treated by the
House. Why he should have taken such a
bold stand, for no cause, toward weak
country like Mexico, and at the same time
have pursued conciliatory course toward
q strong one like England, against which
there is at least plausible ground of COM
plant for the seizure of American vessels in
Canadian waters, is inexplicable, except for
reasons by no means complimentary to the
Secretary.
The adjournment of Congress yesterday
evening was unattended with any of the
unseemly scenes that usually mark the ad-
journment of the long sessions, the only ex-
ception being in the case of Senator Riddle
| berger, as noticed in this correspondence
yesterday.
There seems to be as much interest mani
tested here in the result Of the democratic
Congressional convention now in progress
in Alexandria as there is in that city. All
the candidate before the convention are we'll
and faYorably known here.
About forty nominations were Enacted upon oy
| the Senate The resolution for cxpendIng the
surplus in tho Treasury and few private bills
were unsigned by tho President.
Surgeon General Murray Of tho army, was re,
| tired to-day Surgeon Baxtor, Chief Medical
| Purveyor, has been designated to act as Surgeon
General until an appointment to that position DO
! made. -,
About one hundred members of Congress still
| remain in the city, among them several OF the
Virginia delegation, but most OF them have gwen
| notice of their intention of leaving to-day.