Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-22
PRCH WASHINGTON.

ISneeisl Core srondence of the Aexa. GAzErrE.l
WASHINGTON. D. c., juno %, 1856.
In the Senate to day, when the report OF
the Secretary OF the Navy was read on inc
hill for retiring Commander Quackenbosh
on q pension, Mr.. Ingalls, SAID Inc
report concealed the facts which be bad at
tempted TO educe by his resolution calling
for that report, which were that QuacEcn'
bosh had been dismissed tho ecrvice Tor
drunkenness while OH duty in foreign
port, for visiting improper houses while IN
That condition, and thereby OF putting MS
country and lis flag and the UNIFORM ne
wore 10 disgrace in The eyes OF foreigners.
A prominent democratic politician from
Virpinia. hero today, when asked about
the report that republicans, as well rs dem
ocrats in his State had offered coupons III
| navrnent of their taxes, said it was true,
and That such tenders would increase lii the
future. as it is Impossible to prevent ortiina-
nv people from saving money, especially on
such Objectionable bills as tax bills, anu
that he believed all Of the next years Lax
bills would be paid in coupons. lie sala
that Judge Bond, of the u. s. Circuit Court,
will try the Dulany suit for $4,000 against
the Slate indemnifying board, Tor attach
ment after the tender of coupons, IN Rlch-
mond on the 18th inst. and that his decision
will make that board and the sureties of its
respective members feel i'll at ease.
The President sent another batch OF We
,oes to the Capitol this morning, among
them one for public building for Zanes-
Vile, Ohio, and one for similar building at
Sioux City, Iowa. The first made Mr. Will
kins, the democratic member oil the House
from the GAINESVILLE district, and for which
he has been fighting all the session., feel
sick, and the latter, Iowa democrats here
said, will take the life out Of the party IN
that city.
Mr.. Randall having defeated the taiiif
bill and made all tariff legislation lmpossl'
BILE at this session of Congress, has now pre-
pared tariff bill of his own, and talks OF
introducing it to day. 1t will reduce the
customs receipts about ten million dollars
and the internal revenue about twenty-five
million. 1t will contain all the adminlstra-
tive measures of the Hewitt bill, simplifying
the mode of collecting customs and prevent
on tobacco, and that on whisky used in the
arts, and that on liquor distilled from fruit.
It will reduce the tax on steel rails and on
several other articles, but has no free list.
| The duty on rice and sugar remains as it is,
as we'll as that on wool, but that
| on woolens and worsteds is changed.
General Mabone's Virginia State Com.
mittee will meet here Saturday, in
the rooms of the Senate Committee on
Public Building and Grounds, to tx
the time and place of the several Con
cressional conventions of his party in his
State, and already several members of that
committee have made their appearance and
| were seen to-day lounging about the Capt..
| toll.
Mr.. Butcher has formally announced him
selrin the morning republican newspaper
of this city as an independent candidate fol
/ Congress in the Winchester district. Mr.
Frank Hume, of Alexandria county, will, ii
| is said not be an independent candidate fol-
Congress in that district, as previously re-
ported, but will he pushed by his friends fol
the nomination of the regular democratic
convention People from the Northern
Neck of Virginia now here say Genera
Beale will be candidate for the democratic
nomination in tho 1st Congressional district
Of that State.
Among the bills introduced in the House
Yesterday evening was one by Mr.. Barbour
TO psy Maria Trunnel $500 for damage tc
property in he District Of Columbia.
The House District of Columbia Committee a
their meeting to day agreed to report favorably
| the bill for compelling tho owners of houses il
| this city in which large numbers of people are
employed to have those houses supplied with tirt
| escapes.
| Mr. Ridllcbcrgcr has hccn quite i'll for the las
| three or four days, hut is better to-day, thongi
| not we'll enough to b, out.