Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-03-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special correspondence OF the Ale1a. GAzETIE'
W.su1NGToN d c. March 8 1856.

5uced bill to- pay to Washington Wright
and Simon Basye, surviving trustees of Sill
lob Baptist Church, OF Fredericksburg, com
pensation for damage done that church oy
Union soldiers under General Burnside DUR
ing the civil war. Among the bills report
ed was one making seduction under elgn-
teen years of age penltentlary onence;
4 substitute was introduced for the OIL
to create q commission to test the ethcacy
of incubation as preventive OF yelioW
fever. Mr.. Riddleberger provoked ripple
BIZ Offering resolution requiring every sen.
ator to state, on Monday next, the name OF
his private secretary. He did 80, ne sala,
because he saw on the floor OF the senate
men who were admitted as Senators pri
vate secretaries who would not be admitted
to the parlors of the houses be visited. de
alluded to the resolution introduced IN Inc
House day two ago in reference 10 sne
presence of Captain Eads on the floor otthat
house and said that though the Captain
was not on the floor of the Senate, three OF
his henchmen we're, two the correspondents
of republican and one of democratic news
papers, who came upon the floor as private
SECRETARIES of Senators, and abused that
privilege by maligning, libeling and SIAN
der Senators. The resolution was adopted,
and the rare and radiant Senator retired.
Mr.. Hoar said that when the Virginia Sen.
ator reappeared he would move to recon-
slider the resolution and to amend it by pro-
yiding that the Senators, instead OF rising IN
their seats next Monday and reporting the
names of their private secretaries, report
those names to the Secretary OF the Senate
and have them printed in the Record. Tue
Senate then resumed the consideration OF
the Blair educationa! bill, which bill is max
ing more and more enemies the longer 1t Is
debated.
The House Naval Committee completed
the naval bill this morning and expect to
report it on Friday. The Secretary's estl-
mates were for fourteen million dollars, but
the bill appropriates only six million. Some
of the ordnance will be made at the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
II is understood that fight similar 10
that which recently occurred in the House on
the Norfolk navy yard matter will be made IN
the Senate when the nomination OF Comma
dore Truxton, commandment at that yard,
for rear admiral shall come up for contlrma-
ton. The Commodore sustains A1r. Wise,
and for that reason General Malone will
attempt TO have his confirmation rejected
General Malone and his lieutenant in the
House, ar Brady, had long conference on
the floor Of the Senate to-day, it is supposed
on matters connected with the Generals at
tempt to prevent the confirmation CT the
Virginia arpointees
The three members OF the House Shipping
Committee who were absent when the vote
on the pilot bill was agreed to be reported
favorably will not change that report.
The bill allows the masters of sailing vessels
engaged in the coast trade the right to be
licensed TO pilot their own ships, just as
those of steam vessels have been doing for
years past.
Tie House to-day, after the morning
hour, resumed the consideration OF the bill
creating q commission to test iron and STEEL
After that is out Of the way it will proceed
with the consideration Of the pension bill,
on which many political speeches will be
made. a message from the President was
read in the House recommending some leg
isation for the protection Of Chinese in this
country.
Iii The casa % pillsbu:y, tho internal rev.
enuc collector whose nomination has been
rejected. it is understood the President will
make no ether nomination, as the appoint
tee was nominated to ill q vacancy, and is
therefore entitled to hold his place until the
adjournment Of the Senate.
Ii is understood that Senator-elect John
w. Daniel, now member of the House,
will he selected by his democratic colleagues
from Virginia as the Virginia member of the
Congressional democratic campaign COM
,littee. Mr.. Daniel having no campaign of
his own to prosecute next fall will have
more leisure than any other member of tho
delegation, and, it is understood, has init
mated that he would accept the position.
A delegation Of Virginians waited upon
Postmaster General Villas day or two ago
and recommended to him a wellknown
gentleman OF their State for the position Of
3rl assistant postmaster general. 1t was
intimaled to them that the place would
probably take tho lato Mr.. Greeley's advice
and go West.
Mr.. Speaker Carlisle has had great diff.
Guilty in obtaining the consent of leading
members Of the House to act as members of
the committee to investigate the Pan E!ec-
trio Telephone matter. Both Messrs. Reed
and Hiscock, republicans, and several re-
cognized men Of ability among the demo.
Gratis have decliaed 10 serve. Butthe Speak
er hopes to be able to secure a committee
in time to announce it this afternoon.
Dir. Moran, of Falls Church, Virginia,
who says he has discovered that the nation
III government owes virginia aDouG Qll-
lion and half dollars on account of the
distribution Of the proceeds OF the sale of
public lands, has just returned from Rich
mond, where he was summoned to testify in
that case before a committee CT the Legisla-
turo. He says that he and Attorney Gene
raj Ayres, of Virginia, have been appointed
TO collect the sum referred to. He says
that the Sil 900 Of this fund, all that was
ever paid, was collected by man named
Paxton, Of West Virginia, short time after
the first battle of Manassas, and has never
been satisfactorily accounted for, but can
be recovered as Paxton is now rich man.
Mr.. p. II. O'Bannon, q member of the
Virginia Legislature, is in the city to-day to
attend the marriage of Mr.. Russell
Smith, of Culpeper, and Miss English,
daughter of Commodore English.
w. N Stevens, a colored clerk in the pen
sion office, has been removed. He has been
member of both branches of the Virginia
Legislature, aud will now go back to his
state, and, it is reported, be a candidate for
Congress in the Petersburg district.