Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-19
IRON WASHINGTON.
,pee;sl Correspondence of the Alc1a GAZETTE
WAsHISSToN. D. c., July 10, 1856.

able and at the same time humorous
speech. He took the ground that tae bill
was unconstitutional, and that what we
should eat and what We should drink and
what we should wear, should BIO left to our
own discretion, or, ii to others, to our States.
He also said that the bill put q tsx of three
dollars upon every steer that was slaughter.
cd, and that il taxed the immense number
Of beef rasers all over the country for the
benefit of the comparatively few people en-
gagged in the manufacture of butter. He
said the republican Senators knew very
we'll that the bill was an outrage, but that
butter, like conscience, made coWards of
them all. He closed with the following
paraphrase:
So the struck COW stretched upon the plain.
No more through fields of grass to roam again;
Sees her own tallow on the fatal dart,
Aud winged the shaft that luttered IL her heart
Mr.. Butler offered long amendment TO the
bill, making the same provision against spu-
rious wines and liquors that the bill makes
against spurious butter. Mr.. Miller, who
has the bill in charge, said he would not dis.
cuss the amendment, and moved it be laid
upon The table, as he had been Informed by
members of the appropriations committee
that if the bill be disposed of to-day Con-
gress could adjourn next week. At the in
stance of Mr.. Butler, however, he withdrew
that motion, and Mr.. Gray proceeded TO adj
dress the Senate on the amendment.
General John G.. Meem, of Shenandoah
county, Virginia, who is here to day, Gays
that Mr.. O'Ferrel's denomination in that,
the 7th district Of the State, is assured. Oth.
er people from tho district say that Mr.
O'Ferrall will have solid delegations from
all the counties iu the district except Page,
Frederick, and Clarke, that he will have
half of that from the latter and that from
one district in Frederick, and that he is so
strong that he will not contest for that Of
Page.
There was an executive session of the
Senate last Saturday, but at it no Virginia
nominations were either considered or re-.
ported.
All the several Stale and district demo.
cratic associations of this city are making
arrangements for consolidating and estab-
fishing we'll organized and permanent
political club, the rooms of which will pro-
badly be in the building of the Washington
Endowment Fund Association, on 1O;h
street.
The House to day passed the Qualifications
bill with the provision for commission
stricken out, and with provision that all the
material used shall be of American produc-
ton. 1t also passed resolution providing
for the printing of the annual report OF the
civil service commission, and then had II
long debate upon the order of business.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Blair offered his
educational bill as an amendment to the
Morrison resolution for the expenditure Of
the treasury surplus in excess OF once hum
dred million in the redemption Of redcema,
bio bonds.
No body now thinks that Mr.. Gcode will
be renominateG for Solicitor General. The
three republicans who did not vote, Messrs.
P.umb, Mitchell and Riddlsberger, say
their votes would not be sufficient to con:
firm him, and none Of those who voted
Against his confirmation will agree to move
reconsideration. Many people think that
Mr.. j. +. Tucker, who has positively de-
cined to be candidate for reelection to
Congress, will hc appointed TO Mr.. Goode' =
place, and that next fall he will be made
Attorney General, as they believe that MIR.
Garland, when TO SHALL go TO Arkansas,
will not return. They also think that both
Genera! Jolinston, Commissioner Of Rail
roads, and Mr. Ai;ors. Commissioner Of the
Indian Bureau, will lose their places sooner
the Pan Electric stock. The latest runner
in connection with Mr.. Gcode's place is
that it will he offered TO Governor Knott, OF
Kentucky.
In the House on Saturday Mr.. Daniel
presented the petition of certain citizens OF
Duwiddie county, Va, against the internal
revenue system also, that Of N. M. Craw-
ford, Thomas Padgett, James Young. J. III.
Harris, II. A. Sins, A. H. Reid and numer-
Gus other citiZons of the 9th district Of his
State, in favor OF the passage of certain bills
now before Congress. Mr.. Tr;gg reported q
bill for the relief Of Henry Brock, aud Dir.
Croxton one for the relief Of the heirs of
Msjor Matthew Smith, Of the Virginia line
in the Continental army. In the Senate to-
day Mr. Harris offered petitions for the pas
sage OF certain bills from people whom he
said purporSed TO be citizens of his State.
The civil service news here to day is that
of the 100 employees in the Pension Office
200 arc negroes, and less than 100 demo
Gratis, of the latter OF whom seventy odd
have been appointed by Commissioner
Black, aud yet more than third Of Pres.
ident Cleveland's term has expired. The
Daniel Manning Club, a social club com.
posed of Treasury officials, has been dis.
banded at the instance Of the President, lest
it's existence might be considered as ucon-
s!stent with civil service reform. 1t Is now
positively stated by the gentleman to whom
the remark was made by the President that
his objection to Mr.. Thompson, who was an
applicant for the position of commissioner
of internal revenue, was that he had killed
q man." and that too, though Mr.. Thomp-
son had only done what in every State in
the country it is conceded he had right to
do.
In the Senate to day Mr.. Van Wyck Of
fered an amendment to the bill relating to
the powers of the commissioners of tho Dis.
trict of Columbia, authorizing them 10 pro.
vide for the abatement Of the nuisance OF
bowling dogs.
The Senate Finance Committee will consider
the resolution to expend the surplus in tho Treas
ury in the redemption of bonds, tomorrow, and
will probably report it fayo1ably.
The U. 9. Court ut Baltimore has dismissed tho
bill of tho Great Falls Manu- featuring Company
to restrain the Government from further work
on tho dam at the Great Falls on the Potomac.
LOGAN AND EDMUNDs.-Senator5 Ed
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