Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-09
FROM WARRINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAzETTE.J
WASHINGTON. D. c., June 8, 1856.

rsnecisl Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAzETTE.]
WASHINGTON. D. c., June 9, 1886.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Call presented
a petition of the employees of the Norfolk
navy ward for q summer vacation, and for
regular pay during sickness.
When General Malone is asked about the
Virginia nominations now before the Senate,
his stereotyped reply is II am not on the
committee to which the nomination mas
been referred and therefore know nothing
about it," No witnesses have yet been sum-
moned in the case of Mr.. Glennan, post
master at Norfolk.
Mr.. Trigg, who has in charge the bills for
returning to Virginia the money she ad-
yanced the Government in the war 1877,
and with which the first government build
ings here.were erected, has urged upon the
chairman ofthe claims committee the import
ance of being present at the conference
now being held between the Speaker and the
charmen of the leading committees of the
House, and of demanding that certain day
be set apart for the consideration oil those
bills. for, if not, there is no chance now OF
their passage at this session. About the
conference referred to it may be said that 1t
will amount to little or nothing, as MIR. Ran
dali, Chairman of the Appropriations Com
mittee, the most important one OF the House,
will have nothing to do with it, for the
reason, as he says, that it is only scheme
to obtain time for the consideration of the
tariff bill, to which he is utterly opposed
This, of course, will cause great delay by
suuabbles for the order of business, and may
possibly postpone the adjournment of the
House for weeks beyond the proper time.
The ti-miscegenation bill, which the
House District of Columbia committees at its
yesterdays meeting, agreed to report favor
ably, makes the marriage of white person
with negro, or of negro descent, null and
void, and felony punishable with fine and
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Malone, from
the committee on public buildings and
grounds, reported favorably the bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the public building at
Harrisonburg, Va; also on amendment to
the sundry civil bill for the same object, so
that the appropriation may be secured even
if the special bill for it shall fail.
The President and his bride returned
from Deer Park yesterday evening, and are
now luxuriously quartered in the White
House. The President to-day was attend
ing to his ordinary business as usual.
In communication sent to the House to-
day from the Secretary of State, through
the Secretary OF the Treasury, an approprI-
alton of an additional SIC, 900 is recommend
ed for a search of the records of France and
Spain for evidence respecting claims under
| the French spoliation bill, and for obtaining
copies of the same.
The House this morning resumed the
consideration Of that provision of the legis.
lative bill restricting the powers of the civil
service commission, Mr.. Compton, OF Mary
| land, making an able speech in favor of it,
A strong effort will be made by some of the
republicans, assisted by mugwump demo-
Gratis, to have the provision ruled out on
point of order, but it is doubtful if they can
| succeed.
Mr.. Benjamin Grymes, of King George
county, Virginia, has received his commits
sion as keeper of the light house at Matthias
Point, in that county, and will enter upon
the discharge of his duties on the LIST prox'
| imo.
Secretary Lamar says the statement con-
| tanned in the New York Tribune to the ef-
feet that he had allowed his decision on the
application for the reopenipg of the Bell
| telephone case to be copied and used for
speculative purposes before it's official pub
| LEGATION, is without shadow of foundation.
party of journalists of this city and neigh
| borhood and their wives, left hero this morning
as the guests of the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany for trip to Watkins Glen and interme-
date points The train was magnificontly fur.
nishcd, and was supplied with all the conve-
! niences and Injuries of summer excursion.
Among tho party were MIR. Hubert Snowdcn and
wife, of tho GAZETTE.
The Senate to-day after the routine business
went on the private calendar and passed several
bills, among them one for paying Mrs Ward, of
Norfolk, for hay purchased Of her husband by
Government agents during the civil war