Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-22
FROM WARRINGTON.
Isnecial Correspondence Of tho Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c., May %, 1886.

WASHINGTON. u. u, May ~, 1886.
The legislative, executive and judicial bill
will be called up in the House on Monday
next. and will probably be debated for q
whole week, as it contains provisions ad-
verse to the civil service reform law, as now
administered. and as the republicans are
anxious TO get the democratic opposition TO
that law on record, and as there are several
democrats who are not only willing put
anxious TO let their opposition to the ia" Do
widely circulated.
There was no session of the Senate to-day,
that body having adjourned over yesterday
until Monday. The House to-day, after
passing Mr.. Cabell's bill for the relief OF La
fayett Fowler, of Carroll county, Va, con-
sidered a private District of Columbia bill,
and after spending considerable time thereon
fruitlessly, took up the bill of Mr.. Dunn, OF
Arkansas, allowing Americans to purchase
ships where they can buy them cheapest
and sail them under the American flag and
with American registers.
Though Mr.. Riddleberger always votes
with his party when his vote is wanted by
them, he almost always stirs some OF them
up when he rises in the Senate Yesterday
he had bout with Mr.. Blair Oh the appa
rently loose system by which pensions are
given to almost every body who asks FOL
them.
1t is reported here that Mr. Barbour will
write and publish letter to his constituents
next week, in which he will thank them iol
the consideration he has always received a
their hands, but will express his intention
of not being q candidate for denomination.
The House Committee on Pacific Rail
roads have agreed to report in favor of TIT
resolution directing the Secretary OF th'
Interior to inform the House whether O.
not he knows that any director Of th'
| Northern Pacific Railroad has availed him
self of his position as such to further his OWL
private ends.
The House Judiciary Committee has pre-
pared bill more rigorous against polygam.
than even the Edmunds bill passed by thu
Senate.
One of the causes of complaint against tn
administration is the procrastination ant
disingenuousness, if not actual duplicity
with which it has treated applicants 10
| office. Numerous cases are mentioned II
which applicants who had been waiting TO
months on promises of places, have realized
upon opening newspaper, and seeing tina
some one else has been appointed, the trutl
| of Bill Sowers's observation that cabinet otti
GERS, like bank directors, are very good me!
individually, but collectively, the d-est liar
be ever knew.
Among the bills passed by the Senate yes
terday was one to establish life-saving sta
tons at Fisherman's Island and at Lynn
haven Inlet, in Virginia
A gentleman from Richmond here to-day
says that the object of the so. called work
ingmen's political movement in that city
turns out to be to elect some of the wors
republicans there to municipal offices, ant
that it has already, even before the election
practically petered out.
/ Tho Senate District Committee was engaged to
| day in he investigation of he assigned reasons
for the high price of gas in this city. Cns of tn
witnesses testified to the effect that many of thu
gas companies opposed to the use of water gas tw
| years ago are now engaged in the manufacture o
| that sort of gas.
| At the executive session of the Senate yester
day evening the consideration of the nomination
OF Mr. Scott to be marshal of the eastern distric
| of Virginia, commenced at the previous session
| was not resumed, nor was that Of any other Viz
ginia nomination commenced.
master builder of this city in talking abou
the existing strike here to-day said he thought
| would be pretty near over by the end OF mex
week, and that, too, upon the terms they had bee,
willing to make from the frst-nine hours ant
the abolition of the card system.
| The prevailing belief here now about the recon
disclosures in respect of the Bell telephone patea
| is that they arc truo, and that that patent wa
| obtained by crooked means
| Mr. Randall received letter this morning from
Mr. Gladstone, thanking him for tho cable dis
patch sont to him on the Goth ult. from tho Iris
meeting in this city, and telling him that sucl
dispatches were of great service to the Irish caus
| in England
| In the Senate yesterday the bill for changing
the site Of tho Cherrystone customs house to Cap
Charles City was passed.