Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-12


A. Hoffman, of c. o. Lunday and of the
of J. Fl. Foster, all of Gray
son county, Virginia, and oil ante bellum
mail contractors.
Among the bills introduced in the House
to-day was one one to incorporate the Great
Falls Railway Company. Another was to
prohibit by fine and imprisonment the sys.
tenn of Italian padronjng now practiced in
this country. An Italian who seemed much
interested in the bill was at the Capitol to-
day, and had no hesitancy in telling every
body he talked with that DR.. Verdi is the
agent of the system in this city.
The Senate to-day, after the morning
hour, resumed the consideration Of the river
and harbor bill, Mr.. Allison speaking in
favor of an appropriation for the Hcnnepin
canal. The House, after its morning hour,
took up the Senate's amendments to the
legislative bill.
The appropriation for the public building
at Abingdon amounted to S62 800, OF which
SIC, 500 has been expended for site in Alb
ingdon. When the appropriation was first
made General Malone tried 10 have the
building at Wy.hevllc instead OF at Abing-
don, in order to punish Abingdon for going
against him, but Messrs. Fulkerson and
Trigg came on here and stopped that piece
of malice Thu site chosen in Abingdon,
however, is unsuitable, as it is too high and
will require s25, 900 to grade it. Then, too,
the plan of the building WAS deficient, be-
cause it was for too small q building. 1t
was for those reasons that Congressman
Trigg got the Treasury Department to send
an agent to Abingdon to examine the mat
ter, aud it was on the latter's recommenda-
ton that the bill which Mr.. Trigg got
through the House last Saturday, changing
the site of the building, was passed.
Under the bill the present site can be traded
off for more eligible one in another part
of Abingdon, and larger and better build
ing be erected. The bill, however, never
would have passed had it not been that Mr.
Beach, of New York, who objects to the
consideration Of ali such bills, WAS not pres
ent, owing to serious illness.
Col. Cummings, recently resident of
Alexandria, who has been transferred from
one position on the police force of this city
to another, has determined, his friends say,
to resign aud seek other em ployment.
One of the charges brought by General
Malone against Mr.. Goode was that of
fraud at elections. And yet Virginia
Congressman has now in his possession 81
letter written by Gen. Malone to the State
democratic committee in 1876, telling them
that he, who was then running the dem
ocratic machine in the Petersburg district
did not want them to send any election
tickets to his district, as he would provide
them himself. As the tickets for that dis
trict had already been printed, and that too
| at considerable expense, tho committee were
puzzled to know why the General wanted
| to subject himself to the extra expense OF
printing others, until after the election,
when they found that he had printed and
| used tissue ballots, the first and only time
they were ever used in tho State.
The President this morning pardoned
J Baker, the president Of a Buffalo bank, who
| was convicted Of swndIng, for the reason
| that he is familiar with the whole history
of the case, and thinks that The moral effect
of the conviction has already been accom-
plished. He has approved the bill for for
| feiting the unearned land grants of certain
Southern railroads.
Surgeon Charles Page, U. S. Army, ma
| tive of A!eyandria, Va, is q candidate Tor
the position of Surgeon General, to be va
Gated next month by tho retirement OF the
| incumbent, aud has influential friends at
| work for him; but it is said at the Capitol
| that the place has already boon pre-empted
| by somebody else.
| The Senate 10 oay paSScu tne Rouse MEX
lean pension bill, but only after striking out
all after the enactng clause aud inserting
| an entirely new bill, to which it is sure the
House will not agree, as one ofits provisions
is AS follows: provided. That every such
officer, enlisted man, or widow who is or
may become siz!y.two years oil age, or who
is or may become sutjsct to any disability
or dependency equivalent to SONIC cause pre-.
scribed or recoe nized by the pension laws OF
the United States as q sufficient reason for
the allowance Of q pension, shall be entitled
to the benefits Of this act but it shall not
be held to include any person not within the
rule of age or disability or dependency here
in defined, or who incurred such disability
while in any manner voluntarily engaged
in or aiding or abetting the late rebellion
against the authority OF the United States"
In the Senate to-day the bill to pay the largo
claim of Joseph Fl. Maddox, now of alexandria,
was reached on the calendar, but WAS objected to
bv Mr. Conger vino said he wished to look into
it, and at his instance it went over until io-mor-
row.
Ex-Gov. Thompson, of South Carolina took the
oath of office this morning and entered upon his
duties as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury