Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Tspeoial Correspondence Of tho Aleza. GAzErTE.I
WASHINGTON. D. c., May IA, 1856.

As anticipated in this correspondence,
motion was made at Yesterdays executive
session Of the Senate to reconsider the reJec'
ton of the nomination of Mr.. Button to De
postmaster at Lynchburg. 1t was made by
a Western democratic Senator VINO SAID no
knew nothing about the case and only maze
the motion at the request OF iflenu.
Neither Senator Malone nor Rlddie0ersei
was present. Such motion Is always
sufficient. by the courtesy OF the Senate, ~
DELAY action upon itself until IL Sna!i 10
called up, which, it is supposed, Will hot oe
lonp postpoued in the case referred 10, as
Ganeral Malone is personally Interested 10
Il Shonld Mr.. Riddleberger favor tne re-
consideration, as it is not improoaDie ne
49, 40 as he has said it was his intention TO
snaak in favor Of confirming the nomination
+ an onportunity had been offered, il Will De
avon worse for Mr.. Button than il ne snsll
o,nose il az it has come to pass that his
srpuort of any measure in the Senate IS
almost sufficient to secure its defeat no mat
ter how worthy it may be. Had 1t not oeen
for the motion referred TO Mr.. Button . re-
lection would have been announced 10 tnls
mornings Record. 1t may now be helu up
for several weeks.
The House to-day after the defeat OF an
effort to take up the agricultural bill, pur-
sued its regular order of business, the con-
sideraton of private bills:
Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, mas
been selected as chairman Of the democratic
congressional campaign committee, Dut mas
not vet accepted the position, ana very nat
urally hesitates to do so until ne snail oe
assured that the prevailing impression thaC
party service is an etfectual bar TO aurnihls-
tration favors is incorrect. NO wise man
likes to assume the management OF cam
nairn in which those who may achieve vic
torV have neither honors nor prizes to ex-
pect.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Libbey pre-.
sented the petition of w. Z. Cathcart, Of
Norfolk, that his war claim be referred to
the Court of Claims Mr.. Tucker presented
similar petitions of J. r. Buchanan, son OF
David Buchanan, Of Craigsville, and OF Bar
bara Slower, administrators of Jacob Slower,
and of II. F. Colbreath, CT Augusta county,
Virginia.
Considerable excitement was caused at
the Capitol to-day by man who, having
removed every particle of his clothing in
dark part of the crypt, made sudden dart
ND the interior steps into the rotunda,
through which he attempted to rush to the
door opening upon the stairs that lead TO
the dome, from which, it is supposed, he
intended to make grand leap into eternity
via the stone base Of the capitol. He was
headed oil, however, by the police, and af.
ter making several circuits of the rotunda
with the police in pursuit, was caught and
sent 10 the police station. Clara Morris,
the old French woman who sells bric-a.brac,
after he had been captured, hastily supplied
the fig leaf in the shape of waterproof.
The appearance of tho man as he entered
the rotunda, as may we'll be imagined, soon
cleared that space Of all the numerous lady
visitors, who were hurried out by their male
escorts. The only words he uttered were
"Aiax defying the lightning" It is ruCaor.
ed that he is Virginian and came from
CuIpeper, but as, save the utterance referred
to, he was dumb both ut the Capitol ard ct
the station house, nothing definite can be
| learned about his identity. 1t is also said
that he called upon Mr.. Speaker Carlisle
Yesterday about claim he has had before
Congress for many years, and became so
importunate that he had to be removed,
and that not only his heart, but his brain
also, has been made sick by hope deferred.
The Senate to-day, after the routine bust
ness, on motion of Mr.. Malone, took up
and passed number of bills for public
buildings in different parts of the country,
among them one for such building at Har-
risonburg, Virginia. Mr.. Riddleberger OPP
posed the consideration of such bills out OF
their regular order, saying that bills for
souandering money always had precedence,
but that he thought they should at least
| wait for their turn. He persisted in his OBJ
lection even after the Senate, as usual, had
sat upon him, and until the president pro
| tempore declared his objections out of order.
At two o'clock the consideration of the pen
sion bill was resumed. Mr.. Holman, of the
| House, says if there be any large increase
| in the amount appropriated by this bill ii
will lie raised by an income tax.
The House labor committee agreed this
| morning to ask for q day for the considera-
ton of their bills, with the intention of call
ing up the educational bill; but the impress.
sion is that not only will that bill DO de-
| feated but that the request referred to will
not be granted, and that the bill will never
even be considered in the House. The post
office committee agreed to report adversely
| upon the Senate amendment to the pest
office appropriation bill appropriating $500, )
| 900 for subsidy to American ships carry
| ing mail, and Mr.. Bount, a member of the
committee says the whole bill will ho de-
feated rather than that amendment be
adopted. But there will be no necessity for
that, as Senator Ingalls, says if the House
shall insist upon its opposition to that
amendment the Senate will recede rather
than have the bill fail.
People here from Mr.. fuckers district
say that notwithstanding his bona fde in
tention of withdrawing from the House, his
democratic constituents will insist upon his
being their candidate again next fall From
all over the eighth district intelligence is to
the effect that the democrats there will re-
nominate Mr.. Barbour, irrespective Of his
inclinations on the subject.
AS the second week of the strike here
draws near its close the strikers are becom.
ing more and more dissatisfied with the men
who led them into it. Many of the brick
layers and carpenters in the movement have
already notified the builders that they have
withdrawn from it, and that moro will 60
so by next Monday. Some of the boycott.
ter's notices have come into the hands the
police here, and there is talk of ndicting
the signers.
Col. Popham. who was called to Fredericksburg
as the friend of Mr.. Wolff in the latters affair