Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-08
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April s, 1886.
Tn the Senate 10 day Mr.. Sabln lntro-
ancod ,ha memorial OF VIM. Webster for
nav for keeping up and tending the wharf
at Newport News for the use OF the Army
during the civil war. The Senate passed
the bill for the erection Of Il Congressional
library as it came from the House. Inc
building will be erected on Capitol LII,
directly east OF tho centre Of the Capitol,
and in.t one square beyond the Capitol
grounds. Mr.. Plumb then addressed the
Senate on the subject of a railroad in Kan,
sas. At two o'clock it is supposed tho Dill
for the admission Of Washington Territory
into the Union as :, Stale will be called up.
The House District of Columbia Com
mitteo were engaged this morning IN
considering tho bill relating to TIC tax on
drummers. The tax is now two hundred
dollars. The District Commissioners rec
ommend reduction TO the extent OF one
half of that sum. Solno of the committee
favor the abolition of the entire Tax.
Mr., Ssinlie Menifee, whose accident WAS
mentioned in this correspondence yesterday,
was hur; worse than at first supposed Both
bones of his leg arc broken between the
| knee and ankle, ANA his back also was serl.
ously injured. J.,
Interviews with many of the most dis
| corning democratic members OF the House
are all TO the elect that the civil service
policy Of the administration has taken the
| life out OF the democratic party. and that
unless it be changed the next House Will
be republican, and the administration
then have Congress, both branches OF
which, instead Of one, as now, will be OPP
posed to it.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee
will, ut its next meeting, consider the sug'
gestion of the State Department for the APP
Dointment Of u corps of fifty consulate clerks
under the civil service law, who will be en-
ployed either at the State Department or al
such consulates as may require their ser.
vices, and at which they will take the places
of the foreign vice consuls and clerks now
employed.
| The House Committee OF Mines and
Mining at their meeting this morning agreed
to report faYorably on the famous McGarra'
han claim, or rather TO report in favor of q
bill that will relieve that CLAIM, from the
operation Of the statute Of limitation and
allow it to be tried in the courts de Aoro.
The House to-day resumed the considera
ton of the silver bill, the intention being
to reach vote upon it this evening if pos
sible.
The vote by which the repeal OF the stat
ute prohibiting ex Confcderatcs from hold
ing commissions in the army WAS defeated
in the Senate yesterday, was 2l to 25, Mr.
Riddleberger voting against the repeal, anC
thus, by his one vote, defeating it, as Gen.
eral Malone had done on former occasion
Both the Virginia Senators are thus on re
cord as having by their individual vote:
defeated propositions for the repeal of a
statute that attempts to stamp with re-
proach and ignominy the Confederate cause
in which both Of them were engaged. Why
it should be so, they alone can tell.
TheSenatc Postoffice Committee have, it is
1umored at the Capitol to-day agreed to re-
port urfuyorab!y upon thu nomination O.
several postmasters in Virginia, among
them Mr.. Button, of Lynchburg, and Major
Herbert. Of Alexandria, the former for ad
verse criticisms upon republican Senators IN
his newspaper, aud the latter, from no OBJ
lection TO him. but because there arc charges
against Mr.. Windsor, his predecessor, and
the committee propose TO reject The
nomination of The latter's successor Until
those charges are mado public, so that il
wrong they may be vefuted. The same
course, it is understood, will be pursued by
the committee in all similar cases.
| In the House Yesterday Mr.. OFcrrsli present
cd tho petitions of Daniel J. Updike, Lydia Uol
aud Hannah Updkc, of Rappahanmock county,
Virginia praying that thoir war claims be refer
| red to the Court Of Claims Mr. Trigg presented
| the memorial of the Board Of Tradcand r.. chGugc
of Portsmouth, Virginia, rotating to an iron ship
| yard at Gosport.
| r. w. Laws, Il colorcd democrat, formerly oil
Hanover but now Il resident Of Fairfax county
Virginia has recently received 4 lelorcr'S place
on tho House side OF the Capitol.