Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WAcuJNcToN d C. July g. 1856

a telegram was recelVeu Heio Co.uaJ LULU
Mr. Barbour just before he and his party
boarded the steamer for Europe, IN which
he stated that he and Mr.. Libby were paired
upon all political questions.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Eustis intro
duced the House bill to provide for dis
tinction in the mode of packing tobacco.
1t is reported at the Capitol to day that
Mr.. Morrison from the House Ways and
Means Committee will report n resolution
for the adjournment of Congress on the 10Th
inst. So early an adjournment is hardly
possible, as some Of the regular appropria-
House, and some of them will require days
of consideration in The Senate committee.
1t is reported in some of the Virginia
newspapers that Col. Cabell, the efficient
representative in Congress from the 9th dis
trict Of that State, has, like his colleagues
Messrs. Tucker and Barbour, refused to be
q candidate for denomination. This is en-
tirely incorrect. The Colonel has remained
here doing as much as any other man could
for his district and his State, and has not
been of electioneering, but for all that he
is not only q candidate for denomination,
but expects 10 be re.nominated. or one
thing bis constituents Iuay be assured
and that is, that they cannot find man who
will attend to their business more attentive
" and efficiently than their present repre-
sentative.
Senators Teller, Evarts and Logan, the
three republican Senators on the Senate
Elections Committee who voted against in
vestigating the charges of fraud in the cleo
ton of Senator Payne, are preparing state.
ment intended to restore to them the favor
of their party in Ohio which they lost by
the vote referred to.
In the debate in the Senate yesterday on
the resolution to reduce the number of the
employees of that body, Mr.. Riddleberger,
who opposed it, said if any of the employees
should be discharged, it should be the bar.
Der who parts the hair of the Senators so as
to cover the bald places on their heads, and
wakes their ef1eminate mustaches.
At the regular weekly meeting of the Vir-
ginia democratic association, of this city,
held last night Messrs. Luttrell, Hume and
Fleming were appointed a committee to
collect funds for the next Congressional
campaign in their State. Mr.. Hume head
ed the subscription list with contribution
of S25.
The democratic members of the House
Ways and Means Committee will, early
next week, report tabulated statements of
tariff bills, a comparison of which will make
it plain that the adverse report they intend
to make upon the latter is justified in every
particular.
Mr.. Horace Whitney, the cashier of the
United States Treasury, died suddenly this
morning of heart disease.
Mr.. Howell, editor of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition, who was at the Capitol to day, says
that already General Gordon has q two
thirds majority of the members elect to the
Georgia democratic convention, that that
majority will be increased by the elections
to be held the thirty remaining counties,
and that he will he nominated for Governor
with hurrah.
The Senate District of Columbia Com
mittee to day agreed to report favorably the
bill for bridge across the Eastern branch,
and adversely OH the bill to charter the
Chesapeake and Potomac Navigation Com
pany, the latter TOR the reason that charter
can be obtained from the courts.
Mr.. Speaker Carlisle said this morning
the House would meet on Monday, the day
for passing bills under suspension of the
rules, and that on that day he would recog-
nize the member who has the bill to increase
the pensions of soldiers and sailors who have
lost an arm or a leg to 5000, and if that bill
be disposed of, the House would spend the
remainder of tho day on unimportant bills.
To-day the House was occupied in Inc con .
sideration of the General Deficiency bill.
The report published in Richmond news
paper that the Senate Judiciary Committee
had reported iavorably upon the nomination
of Col. Gibson, for u. & Attorney for the
eastern district of Virginia, is incorrect.
The committee has as yot made no report
in tho Colonel's Case, but it is feared that
when their report shall be made it will be
adverse.
In the Senate to. day M. Ritl1leherger
presented petitions from citizens of Notta-
way county, Virginia, and Of Illinois
against the passage Of the oleomargarine
bill, and from assemblies of knights Of la
Dor in the Cd district of this State in favor
of the passage of the following bills Row be-
fore Congress 10 repeal the timber cul-
ture act, to readjust railroad and all other
land grants, to forfeit all land grants the
terms of which have not been complied
with, to organize the Territory of Oklahoma,
to open portion of the Sioux reservation
to settlers, to prohibit aliens from holding
lands, to make Presidential and Congress
sional election days holidays, and to dis
burse two millions of tho Treasury surplus
and substitute Treasury notes for the re-
tired bank notes.
To the item of the deficiency bill appro.
propriating for U. S. commissioners who
act as examining magistrates Mr.. Cabell sue.
ceeded in securing o provision to the effect
that no commissioner should receive fees
exceeding $500 per year or rebate amount
for less time, and that no charge OF docket
fees should be mado. This provision, with
that upon the sundry civil bill refusing any
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great satisfaction to the people of the fruit
distilling sections of the country who have
been greatly harrassed by the actions OF
commissioners, spies and informers:
Quite sensation was created at the Cap.
itol to-day by tho uuannounced and unex-
pected appearance there of the Presidents
wife. She was accompanied by Mrs. Villas
and Mrs Lamont, all under the escort Of
Captain Eads, of Mississippi jetty fame.
Mrs. Clevelano's gown was made of ecru
pongee trimmed with black. She has quite