Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-29

T. i s.id at the Capitol to-day that the

T. is said at the Capitol to-day that the
io;nt resolution introduced in the Senate
yesterday by Mr.. Vest, granting John
chamberlain, of this city, the privilege oil
erecting hotel on the Government reser-
vatiou at Fortress,Monroe, will probably be
nassed. Should it be, it is understood Inc
hotel will not be very large one, but VIII
he the most luxurious ore on the AtlahtiC
coast, The resolution provides that IL VIII
be subjected to State and national taAalloh,
from both of which the present hotel at Oia
Point is exempt.
MI. w. e. Smith, 2nd Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, will resign, and the vacancy
he filled by the appointment OF Governor IL Z.
s. THOMPSON, Of South Carolina.
Mr.. Bowden, of Norfolk, who was here
last week in attendance upon Genera! Ma
homes State committee, hopes TO be The Cen
erals candidate for Congress in his district.
The democrats on the civil service com.
mittee of the House arc having good deal
of trouble about their report i'll the ran
Electric Telephone case. Mr.. Boyle and
the majority of them want to excupatc eve,
rv body accused of any crookedness at all
connected with the Judiciary Department.
but Messrs. Eden, of Illinois, and Hale, OF
Missouri, will not go so far, and think that
private parties, and not government officials,
should have contested the legality OF the
Bell patent The republicans OH the COM
mittee have had DO such difficulty. They
have all signed Mr.. Rauney's report, which
inculpates every body tho majority oil Inc
democrats want to clear.
Mr.. Tucker, chairman of the House Ju,
dietary Committee, says that while Inc Dill
to nav Alexandria county. Va, for educat'
IL nj m
of the negro settlement on the Arlington
estate. has as vet only been considered b. a
sub committee, the matter will soon be
brought to tho attention of the whole com
mittee, and that he hopes, late as 1t Is lii
the session, to be able to submit favorable
report before adjournment. With regard to
tho proposition that Congress enquire into
the responsibility of the national govern
ment FOR the reputation of any part OF the
Virginia debt, Mr.. Tucker says the further
consideration of that question by the Judi
ciary Committee was postponed at the ln-
stance of Col. Parsons and some OF the other
representatives of the bondholders who ad.
yocate that inquiry. Mr. Tucker also says
that 50 sincere is he in his determination to
withdraw from Congress, that he will not
accept denomination if it be rendered him.
In Col. Parsons argument before the
House Judiciary Committee last Saturday
in favor of the proposition for Congress
sional inquiry into the question of the Gov
erpment's share of the censnre attached 10
the reputation of the Virginia debt, he said:
1.-The people of Virginia had been taught
that the honor of the State was beyond all
other considerations, even national o6llga,
lions. They had been taught that the bond
of the State was the bond of every citi.
zen that the pressure of every voters hand
was in the imprint of the great seal. 1t was
FIVE wears after the war before any one
thought of oven suggesting the reputation
| of any part of the public debt, and then the
suggestion was met by the prompt resolu-
ton that such legislation would be no less
destructive Of our future prosperity than OF
our credit, our integrity, aud our honor,
and. with one exception, every vote in SEN
ate and House of Delegates is recorded
| 'aye'n
The Senate to day, after the routine bust
ness, took up the Presidents veto of the bill
| legaiizing the titles of the settlers along the
Dss Moines River in Iowa, upon which Mr.
Evarts spoke at length.
Great CONSERVATION prevails in tho Treasu1y
Department in consequence of report that lSO
OF the clerks in that department will be dis
charged on the 3Oth inst. AS the list OF The
doomed has not been mado public, none of the
clerks in the Department is certain that his name
is rot on it, Hence the CONSERVATION.
The Senate yesterday determined to insist upon
its amendment to the postoilice bill appropria-
ting 100000 as a subsidy to American ships
carrying tho U. S. mail. But member; of the
| House to day say their body would rather the
whole bill should fail than that such subsidy
should be granted.
The democrats of Page county, Va, were to
have elected their delegates to their comgrcsscna!
convention yesterday, but the friends of Mr..
OFerrall the efficient representative from that
district had the election postponed until next
| month, as they did not think there had been suf-
ticient notice.
The President today sigucd the bill for incor-
rorating trades unions