Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-11
FROM WARRINGTON,
Especial Correspondence of tho Ae1a. GAzErTE'l
WASHINGTON. D. c., May IL, 1885.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of tho Ale1a. GAzETTE,1
WASHINGTON, D. c.. May IL, 1885.
AT last Wednesday evenings executive
session Of the Senate the nomination of Mr..
Button 10 lie postmaster at LyDchburg, as
solely stated in the GAZETTE OF the follow
ing day. was elected with out word of OPP
nosiIio,; and without even division. IN
der the rules tie action of the Senate upon
nominations can net he published in the
Record uu! i lWo executive sessions suose-
ouent to that at which such action was
takeu sha,! have reen held. 1t Is for that
reason only that Mr.. Buttons rejection has
not vet appeared in the Record 1t IL SAID
to-day that at the next executive session
motion will be made .,y some Senator who
voted in the affirmative. as all are supposed
to hive done, rs none voted in the negative,
to reconsider the rejection. The courtesy
of the Senate" always entities such Il motion
to consideration, and if ii be made the rejec-
ton will re held up until The Senate shall
vote y ke,her to udopt ii or no.. Such u.s.
pended action may last for weeks, if the
motion be- NO, called up, but with such an
enern, as G,nerai Malone, Mr.. Button need
not expo, that action upon the motion VIII
be long DELAYED When taken there is no
doubr here that the ,tj ction will not be re.
considered ami that IT will be published
officially the following day.
The House WAYS and Means Com mittae,
at their upeliug to-day, took up the report
of the sub committee, which, as previously
stated, is adverse 10 The Mexican treaty, but
did not gel through with il. The Judiciary
Committee agreed TO report tavorably MT
Libbey's bill for extending the jurisdiction
of the Court OF Claims for the use of patents
or patented inventions which arose before
the Court of Claims assumed jurisdiction.
The condition of he strike here remains
unchanged, except that the employers say
they are more determined than ever to do
no business at all or do it their own way
and that some of the employees are becom
ing heartily sick oftheir enforced idleness aud
its accompanying financial embarrassment.
At the meeting of the master builders a5so-
citation last night letter was read from
iourneym man anxious to work protesting
against the tyranny of the knights of labor.
The free bridge bill as passed by the
House Yesterday is by no means acceptable
to the tax payers of this city, who, by it,
will have to pay half the entire cost. Mr..
Barbour says the committee and the House
were against him, and that all he could do
was to strike out the provision for draw
in the bridge, and defeat the amendment
imposing part of the cost upon the county
OF Alexandria, and to retain the provision
for a bridge at the "Three Sisters" by which,
he saws, the Alexandria canal is left just "a
it was before, ~ nothing can be done with
the aqueduct bridge, unless with the consent
Of that company. Commissioner Webb and
a delegation Of the merchants Of The city
were at the Capitol to day TO see about the
BILL which having been amended in the
House, will have 20 go back TO the Senate
which will either concur III the House
amendments or refer ii toa committee OIL
conference. The aqueduct will be destroy
ed by the bill a. il is, hut should u confer
ence committee be ordered, all effort will
be made to provide for its security, without
however, much prospect of success. Mr.
Riddeberger, who has the bill IN charge ID
the Senate, when asked to day by report
or for a Washington paper, what the prob
able action Of the Senate would be on the
bill, replied that he would retain the posi-.
ton he now occupied of being entitled to
say that no interview with him in that pa.
per was authorized. A gentleman interest
ed in the canal company, here to-day, says
that company has vested right in the
aqueduct bridge, and will reIinquish it up
on no other terms than ample security for
the preservation and maintenance of the
aqueduct. With such security, he says, il
will not only allow the Government to use
its piers for free bridge, but be glad to dc
so.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Barbour
through the petition box, presented the pc
ttion of DR.. J. B. Gardner, Thomas Moore
w. H. F. Lee and others that pension be
given to Emma Florence Read, of Fair
fax county, Virginia, daughter of J. d
Read, soldier in the late war. Mr.. OFFER.
rell, in the same way, presented the petit
ton of Thomas McCardell, that his wal
claim be referred to the Court of Claims
also similar petitions of S. l. G. Scott, execu
tor of John Scott of Culpeper county, and
of Isaac Stein, administrator of Frank
Stone, late of Clarke county. Mr.. Cabel in
PRODUCED bill for the relief of Lafayette
Fowler, of Carroll county, Virginia.
The House to-day was engaged in the
consideration of the bill to settle certain land
claims in Arizona and New Mexico. After
that shall be disposed of it will take up an
appropriation BILL The Senate to-day after
the routine business resumed the considera-
ton of the Interstate commerce bill.
The House yesterday passed bill max
ing it penal ofense for any newspaper
published in this city to print lottery ad
vertisement.
A MrGHTy UNCERTAIN GAME,-The Bus