Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE.

GSpeciat Correspondence OF the Alexa. eIAZETTE.J
WASHINGTON. D. c., May 90, 1886.
Messrs. Taylor, Collins and Tucker, who
have been appointed q sub committee OF the
House Judiciary Committee to hear the ar
gument of the counsel of the Virginia bond
holders in favor of the proposition that the
national government shall pay Virginia
either in money or land for the territory OF
which tho State of West Virginia was crea-
ted, are ready to hear that argument "nen'
ever the counsel shall be. VINO that coun-
sci is, and whether he be MIR. ConKnns, as
reported, the committee DO not know:
Senator Vance addressed the virginia
democratic association of this city at their
reeuIar weekly meeting last night. He
commenced by saying that he had expected
tn address the office holders from Virginia,
Init that he had evidently been mistaken, as
he knew there had not been as many demo-
crafts appointed to Office by the present ad-
ministration in the whole South as he saw
before him. He then went OIL to say that
there was a great deal of dissatisfaction pre-
yailing among the party throughout the en-
tire country, and that when human nature
shall be so changed that party which has
striyen for q quarter Of century cs-
cendancy, and at last been successful, shall
not expect the Offices and be disappointed
and dissatisfied at not getting them, it will
be time for that party to pack its baggage
and tell Gabriel to blow his horn.
The next meeting of the House Ways and
Means Committee will be held on Tuesday,
when the argument of the Commercial Ex-
change of Alexandria against the removal of
the customs house from that to this city will
he presented. The chief points of that ar.
gumept are as follows: Every vessel that
goes to or comes from Georgetown or Wash
ington has to pass within q few hundred
feet of the wharves of Alexandria; all the
larger of these vessels have either to light
en- or take on more cargo at Alexandria,;
that of the eighteen foreign vessels that
came up the Potomac last year, all but
four we're bound to Alexandria, and only
four to the District of Columbia, and the
entire eighteen cleared at Alexandria,;
that all, or nearly all, the customs
business of the District of Columbia arises
from bonded freight brought there in cars
and can be attended to by deputy; that
while the captains of the few vessels bound
to the District of Columbia can enter or clear
at Alexandria without any delay on their
way up or down the river, the captains Of
those bound to Alexandria, if they have to
90 to Washington with or for their papers,
have to lose half or sometimes whole day,
and that if the customs house be removed to
Washington, as contemplated, a new and
costly building will have to be erected,
while the customs house in Alexandria is
large enough for all the business both Of
that city and this district. Mr.. Morrison,
chairman of the committee, is said to favor
Alexandria asHthe headquarters Of the con-
solidated districts.
Miss Virginia Won Sagan, who is the reg
ular appointed solicitor of contributions for
the Grand Army of the Republic, has been
at the main door Of the House for several
days soliciting contributions to defray the
expenses for decorating the graves in the
alike on the Confederate and Union soldiers
pleased with the liberality of the Southern
members who wore the gray, and says, judy
ing from their contributions, they have more
fought against them than those have for
whom those men fought.
There was no session of the Senate o.day,
| that body having adjourned over yesterday
until Tuesday next, as Monday will be De-
coration Day. The House to day continued
| the debate on the oleomargariDe bill. Mr..
Allen, of Alabama, one of the debators, Gre
ated a great laugh by saying that as his
name was the first on the roll call he sup
posed there must be great anxiety to know
how he was going to vote. Mr.. Allen is the
man who, foreseeing the defeat of the South
ern Confederacy, advised the Southern SOL
ders to stop killing and wounding Yankees,
| for the reason that the South would be tax
ed to nav pensions. There will be no ses-
sion of the House on Monday
The chief topic of conversation in this
city to. day is the Presidents marriage next
Wednesday. The announcement was a
great surprise to almost every body, for
| though the newspapers had boon talking
about it for weeks, the prevalent impression
was that it was only newspaper talk; and it
| is certain that among the most surprised
people are those who considered themselves
on intimate terms with the President. Tho
generally expressed opinion among those
people who lived here before the war, s, that
| in view of all the circumstances, it would
| have been in better taste for the marriage to
| have taken place at the private residence OF
some one of the BRIDES relatives.
Fred Douglass is now, and has been for
several weeks past, lecturing to the republi.
cans in the North for $50 night. As this
| is the busy season in the real estate business,
his oHlce mere, WHICH ne Stlll nOluS, because
the Senate has not confirmed his successor,
and the duties of which are performed by a
deputy, brings him in about forty dollars q
day. All of which shows how enamored
the republican members of the Senate are of
civil service reform. Mr.. Ramsdel, the
recorder of deeds, who over his own sigma
ture, in the Philadelphia Press, called the
President a fool, liar and hypocrite, and
who took his trained dog Dandy" around
all the bar rooms of this city, during the
campaign, and made him illustrate some of
the low charges brought against the Presi-
dent, still continues to hold hiso flee under
the so-called civil service reform.
In the House yesterday, Mr.. O'Ferrall
presented the petitions of Margaret Layton,
E. e. Hoover, Curtis Yates, Joseph Click,
Solomon Berry and w. X. Abbott, of Rock.
ingham county; Sarah Ambrose, Samuel
Filter. Harrison Fauber, Samuel Roller and
J. T. Hotel, of Shenandoah county, and Of
Harriet Walter T. W. Russell and John
Sans, of Virginia, that their war claims be
referred to the committee on claims. Mr..
port tod rat;f;np oF arfo ;,o ;F