Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-25

zen he is without reproach; he has ever
been an active democrat hut most hon.
orable and liberal one to his political oppo-
nents, and is personally esteemed by re-
publicans.
The House Commerce Committee this
morning agreed to report favorably and
without amendment the Senate bill TO allow
the B. & O. r. R., to bridge the Xii Won
Kull on the line of its new route TO New
York. The Ways and Means Committee
agreed to report adversely on the bill for
carving into effect the Mexican treaty. MIR.
Hewitt, the most sensible and the falrest
man on the committee, made q minority
report, in favor of making the treaty opera
tive. The District of Columbia Committee
agreed to report f,vorably bill for bridg-
ing the Eastern Branch on the site of the
old burnt bridge. :,
The Treasury officers to-day determined
to issue during the next fiscal year monthly
calls for the redemption of forty eight mil
| lionbonds.
A gentleman from Fairfax county, Va. here to-
| lay SAYS tho democrats of that county are not
ONLY dissatisfied with tho present administration,
! but arc utterly disorganizcd. Hc says that the
| large democratic club at Linconla, in that cnun-
| ty, has cut down their flag pole, and sent their
flag back to the chairman of the democratic couh.
| ty committee with tho remark that II the present
administration DO democratic they are not demo-
| Gratis.
The House to-day resumed the consideration OF
| the olcomargarine BILL which will probably DC
passcd Us it is nominaiy in the interests oil inc
| agricutursls, and any thing III that interest
or in that Of labor and pensions goes Though
Congress without much difficulty.
| Upon tho recommendation OF Mr. B%rhoar,
| BENJAMIN Grvmcs, OF King George county, Va
! has been nominated by Collector Mayo at NOR
folk for tho position of light house keeper at Up
| per Cedar Point On the Potomac, and Will SOON
| be appointed
In tho Senate to- day two bills were reported for
| an appropriation of SlooGbo Tor lie" "iiart Ill
| Fortress Monroe.
| democratic meeting at Onancock, Accomac
county, has recommended Col. Croxton, the pres
emit congressional representative from that, the
| first district in Virginia, for denomination Gen'
| eral Pridemore, an eX-congressnan from the
ninth district, in the same State, will be candi'
| date for the democratic nomination for the seat
now filled by Mr.. Trigr, who will be candidate
| for denomination.
! DR.. Cole, one of the democratic members of the
| House from Baltimore, is very i'll at Brightwood
| Can't p. B. Hooe, as committee appointed al
citizens meeting of Alexandria to protest against
the bill now before Congress to remove the Gus
] toms House from that city, waited upon Mr.. Bar
! bour yesterday, and will formulate the reasons
why the proposed removal should not be mndo
and present them to tho House Committee on
! Ways and Means at its noxt meeting. BY the
terms of the bill referred to there will be but two
customs districts in Virginia, those Of Norfolk
| and Yorktown.
1t is an old custom that in tho appointment OF
congressional conference committees, of tho three
members appointed by each House two shall rep
resent the majority of that house on the particular
bill, and one the minority. The action OF the
Senate in dsregarding this custom and appoint
ing as its conferccs on the subsidy provision Of
the postoilicc BILL three friends of that provision
is the subject of good deal of adverse criticism
| on the House sido OF the Capitol.