Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-02-23

.ime with the consideration Of a report IN
;ayor of annexing that part of the Territory
If Idaho, known as the panhandle" to
Washington Territory. Among the reports
introduced was bill by Mr.. Tucker, OF
Virginia, to prohibit the trial OF cases IN
volving life or liberty, except upon lndice.
ment by grand jury. Should 1t pass IL
will prevent the practice that has been IN
vogue in some portions of Virginia, and in
other Southern States, of arresting people
and carving them hundreds of miles away
from their homes, for no other purpose than
to profit the officers of the U. 5. Courts 10
the amount of the fees they would collect.
As there was no session yesterday, an at
tempt will be made to allow bills to be In
troduced to-day.
Tn the Senate to day Mr.. Cockrell intro
duced a bill to pay the Chesapeake and Al
bemarle Canal sum not to exceed So
1920 for freight charges during the war.
After the morning business the Senate was
engaged until two o'clock with the bill Tor
monument to Gen. Grant in this city. MIR.
Plumb opposed the bill because the memo
nv of Grant would be preserved without
monument, and because the money the
monument would cost could be better spent
in pensions. Mr.. Hoar urged the passage
of the bill, and said the General was the
most magnanimous conquerer the world
had ever known. He also wanted monu-
ment for the volunteer soldier, General Lo-
gan, when the time for it came. MIR. Blair
supported the bill, but thought the appro-
priation, $3.50, 900, entirely TOO small. he
also thought another monument should be
erected here to the memory of Lincoln.
The House Ways and Means Committee
to day agreed to hear nothing on the tariff
question after the 18th proximo, when they
will proceed to put that bill in shape to be
reported to the House. The republicans on
the committee opposed this to man, for
the reason that the different interests could
not be heard in that time, but it was car.
ried by strict party vote. The Committee
on Public Lands. agreed 10 report in favor
of the forfeiture of the lands granted the
Ontonagon and Michigan Railroad. The
Naval Committee has agreed to report In
favor of the building of six new ships of four
thousand tons, and twenty torpedo boats,
half to be constructed at navy yards and
half by contract. The River and Harbor
Committee, when they 80 through with the
list of rivers and harbor5, will 60 over them
again. Persons interested in having i'm
provements made 10 rivers and harbors
in Virginia should make their wants known
TO the Virginia Congressman, whom the
committee will hear. The Committee on
Accounts has agreed to report in favor of
giving Il. D. Becky $400, the difference be-
tween the pay of laborer and messenger,
which latter place he filled.
The following 9TH class postmasters were
appointed in Virginia to-day j. +. Snow
at Chesapeake, Lancaster CO.; Caleb Sewer
at War Golf, Floyd CO.; and B. Il. Wade at
Snow Creek, Franklin county.
The democrats of the Virginia Congress-
ional delegation will meet this week and Sc
lect one of their number to be the Virginia
member Of the democratic Congressional
campaign committee.
The House doesn't seem to make any
better speed under the new than under the
old rules. It is now nearly three months
since the session began, and only two of the
regular appropriation bills have as yet been
reported. The only two bills amy impor-
lance it has passed are the Dingley shipping
bill anh the FIX John Porter bill.
Among the bills reported in the Senate
to-day was one to quiet the apprehensions
of settlers on public lands, who fear that
some of the rulings of Commissioner Sparks
will cancel claims made in good faith.
Senator Morgan introduced resolution in
reference to the report of the Judiciary
Committee in tho case of the difference be-
tween the President and the republican
10 alubers CT tho Senate, which was laid over.
Fcam the Northern Neck of Virginia, it
is learned hero to day that Col. Robert
Mayo, of Westmoreland county, has lost an
eye by an accident, and that Mr. Spicer
Cu:lett, CT Lancaster county, will be can
didatc for the republican nomination in that
Congressional district. Both these gentle
men are now republican members of the
Virginia Legislature.
Southern Senator who went to Secretary La
mars office the other day to SEQ him on official
business, upon being told that tho Secretary
could hot be seen, left, but remarked audibly be-
fore he did so,that the Secretary reminded him Of
All cid marc belonging to one of his neighbors-
hard rs hi 30 catch, and not worth a d-n when
she was caught.
Mr. George Mason, of Alexandria, was this
morning appointed a postal inspector with sal
airy of 81 200 and expenses. Mr.. Mason appeared
before the civil service board that met here re-
Gently and passed q most satisfactory examination.