Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE. ]
WASHINGTON D C. May Ii 1855

Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE J
WASHINGTON. D. c., May -, 1856.
The Senate to-day, after the routine bus
mess, during which hundreds of petitions
for the passage of the oleomargarine bill and
for the redemption of the trade dollars were
received, went on the calendar, having re.
fused by vote of - to 10 to take up the
B. & o. bill to bridge the Kill Won kull I'M
til two o'clock, when it will probably take
up the pension bill. This bill, Mr. Blair
says, will not only contain provision to
pension every disabled eX.Union soldier, no
matter when he was disabled. but that he
will offer an amendment to it to pension the
widow of every such soldier, and that ne
will do so in order to prevent the passage
of bill to pension every man who was en-.
rolled in the Union service during the civil
war, which would cost billions of dollars
more than the country could afford.
In the House, yesterday, through the Pc
tition box, Mr.. Barbour introduced the pc
tition of French Dodd that his war claim be
referred to the court of claims. Mr.. OFFER
rail-, in the same way, introduced similar
petition of Mary l.. Mutton, executrix of
James Boen, of Clarke county, Va, and
that of c. G. Shumaker, executrix of Peter
Zettee
The House passed the army appropriation
bill yesterday evening, and commenced the
consideration of the consular and diplomat
ic BILL To-day it resumed tho cousidera-
ton of the Chinese indemnity bill, but the
hour expired before vote on it could be
reached, so that it will have to 60 on the
calendar, and it is probably killed, as it is
hardly possible it can be reached again this
session. The House then resumed the con-
sideration of the consular and diplomatic
bill
A good deal of indignation is expressed
in school district No. l, the tony district in
the northwestern portion of this city, at the
appointment of Dr. Purvis, colored man,
as trustee in charge, and therefore the SUI
perintendept of the white, female as we'll as
male, schools of that district. This appoint.
ment was made by the District commission
ers appointed by Mr. Cleveland.
Among the bills reported fayorably bv Mr.
Sewell from the Senate Pensions Committee is
one granting pension to Mrs Margaret Dunlap
of Augusta county, Virginia.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee to-day
appointed subcommittee to investigate tho
whole subject of the recent seizure of an Ameri |
can fishing vessel in Canadian port. and agreed
to report favorably q resolution requesting the
President to inform Congress what, if anything,
he has done to maintain the dignity and respect
OF the country in the matter referred to. 1t also
determined to smother the resolution thanking
Mr.. Gladstone, the English Premier for the re-
cent Irish bills he has introduced in the British
Parliament.
The condition Of the labor strike now in pro
gress here remains in Statu quo. One of the mas
ter builders association In talking to the GA
ZRTTE's correspondent to-day about the strike,
said the members of that association would be
compelled to maintain their stand as some of the
strikers in unguarded moments had, by saving
they were only striking for time now but that