Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-01-07
FROM WASHINGTON.

pudiating the just debt of Virginia.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE.J
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Z, 1886.
General Warner, democrat. Of Ohio, the
great silver advocate in the House, told the
GAzETTE's correspondent to-day that he
thought majority of the coinage committee
of the House would be in favor of the sus-
pension of silver coinage, but that the House
itself, and no committee thereof, would
take charge of the silver question, and see
to it that silver coinage should not be sus-
pended
Mr.. Morrison, who will be chairman Of
the House committee of ways and means,
says that committee will be as decidedly in
favor of reduction in the tariff as it was in
the last Congress.
When the new rules Of the House were
first adopted the general impression was
that Mr.. Randall, as chairman of the appro
priations committee, was shorn of nearly all
bis power over the legislation of the House.
But that impression has been entirely dissi-
pated, and it is now believed that the bills
which have been left with his committee
will enable him to have as much influence
over the legislation of this, as he had over
that of the last House.
congressman Brady, Wise and Libby, of
Virginia, accompanied the agents of the
Virginia Steamboat. Company, which runs a
line Of steamboats, between Norfolk and
Richmond, to the PostofIice Department
yesterday, to protest against the proposed
reduction of the amount now paid that line
for transporting the mail. Should the re-
duction be made, it is said the steamboat
line will be withdrawn, and the railroads
between the two cities be left without COM
petition.
General Bragg, who, it is said, will be
chairman of the House Military Affairs
Committee, says that bill to reinstate
General Fitz-John Porter will be passed in
less than month.
1t is evident from the instructions given
by the Senate to its District Of Columbia
Committee to-day that the street railroad
companies of this city are to be hauled over
the Goals, and made to pay their taxes, and
increase and improve the accommodations
they are now afording the public
It is reported here that company with g
capital stock of $25, 600 has been raised in
Virginia, with the object of buying and re-
starting the Richmond Iphigasa democratic
paper, and that the paper will be under the
merly owned and edited the Danville Regis.
ter.
The argument in the Virginia coupon
cases was commenced in the U. S. Supreme
Court after two o'clock this afternoon. Mr.
Royal led off for the bondholders. He will
he followedsby Acknowledgement Ayres Of
Virginia and Judge Staples for Virginia, and
ex-Gov. Chamberlain will close for the
bondholders. A decision is not expected
for some weeks.
Among the bills introduced in the House
yesterday were the following: By Mr..
Tucker: to settle accounts with certain
States growing out of moneys expended by
those States during the war 1912; paying
certain advances made by Maryland and
Virginia to the general government, and to
repeal the internal revenue tax on tobacco.
By Mr.. Cabell to extend the benefits of the
signal service to the farmers; to repeal the
internal revenue laws ofthe United States
and to abolish all taxes and offices created
by them, and to aid in the establishment
and temporary support of common schools.
Mr.. Wise presented resolution of the Leg
slature of Virginia, instructing her Senators
and requesting her representatives to vote
for an appropriation for the public schools.
By Mr.. O'Ferral: 10 aid in the establish
ment and support of the public schools, and
for the erection of monument to Daniel
Morgan. By Mr.. Trigg: to change the site
for the public building at Abingdon, and to
repeal the tax on tobacco and fruit brandy.
By Mr.. Libby: for an iron pier at Fortress
Monroe, for light house at Newport News,
for a public building at Fortress Monroe,
for three months pay to Mexican soldiers,
and for public building at Newport News.
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imposed by the 18th amendment to the Con-
to repeal the statutes concerning inspectors
posing special taxes on brewers and distill-
ers. By Mr.. Barbour: to erect free bridge
across the Potomac at the Three Sisters, for
the relief of the Episcopal Seminary and
High School of Virginia, for the payment Of
the claims of the heirs of r. B. Mason, for
the relief of r. L. Rotchford, to refer the
claim of G. w. Adams to Court of Claims.
The House not having completed the call
of States yesterday resumed that call to-day.
The committees will be announced when
the call is completed. In the Senate, after
the morning hour, Mr.. Brown, of Georgia,
spoke on the silver question.
In the House yesterday the Speaker laid
before that body communication from the
Secretary of War asking for an appropria-
ton to provide quarters for the keeper of
the monument at Yorktown. In the Senate
on the same day Mr. Malone introduced
bill for the relief of II. H. Sibley; he also
a bill for the enlargement and
completion of the public building in progress
of erection at Harrisonburg, Virginia. Mr..
Cockrell introduced a bill for the relief of
the legal representatives of the late