Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-09

FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAzETTE.]

FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispeeial Correspondence of tho Alexa GAzETTE.]
WASHINGTON. D. c., July 0, 1886.
The Senate werton the private calendar rs
soon as it met to-day and remained thereon
until half past twelve, when on motion Of MIR.
Edmuuds it went into executive session, for
the purpose of cleaning up rs lar as can be
done in one day the docket of the unconiirm-
ed nominations. 1t is supposed that the case
OF Mr.. John Goode, CT Virginia, who has
been nominated for Solicitor General, will
be one Of the first considered. With regard
to this case, the prevailing impTes sion now,
as it has been from the first, is that Nr.
Goodies nomination will be rejected. At
first it was supposed that several republl-
cans would support hin, among them SEN
ators Eyarts, Bowen, Van Wyck, Mitchell,
Of Oregon, and Riddleberger but Evarts
went back early, Van Wyck later and
Bowen later still. Mitchell is still undecided;
and OF all, Riddleberger Is the only one posi-
lively known TO hold out and as intending
to do so to tho end. He Gays that Mahone's
opposition to Goode is solely the result OF
personal enmity and that so far as in him
| lies, he will do all he can do to prevent such
| malignity from defeating an official noml-
nation. He also says that Ex-Governor
Cameron thinks just as he, Riddlebercer,
does on the subject, and authorized him TO
saw so when he was here last. Those who
are intimate with the Senator say that he Is
so pronounced in his opposition TO General
Malone in this matter, and so outspoken,
that scene between the two Virginia SEN
ators during the executive session will not
be surprising.
The House Naval Committee have agreed
to reduce the amount OF their recommends
ton for next years expenditures for a new
navy from six TO three millions. They have
also agreed to the expenditures Of the forth
6cation bill.
1t is stated to-day by Virginans that ono
of the duelists from their State recently ar
rested here will soon be married to the
Young lady, his letters to whom were the
cause of the difficulty, as he had said they
were tempered with.
Col. Cummins, private secretary of Major
Dive, when the latter was chief of police of
this city, has been removed from that posi-
ton under the Majors successor. The
Colonel is not only an accomplished but
cultured military officer, and those who
know him best say he would have made
better chief of police than the man who
has removed him. The Colonel was gal.
liant officer in one of the Washington volun-
teer companies that joined the Confederate
army at the commencement of the civil war,
and has many friends in Alexandria.
Thirty carpenters from Richmond did the
work on the building here recently bought
by the Richmond and Danvlle system Of
| roads for their headquarters that was neces-
sary to change it from a newspaper office
and census bureau into railroad Office.
| With regard to the ad journment Of Con.
| ,raeo oil iS atj1l matter Of unnartljnty
| Mr.. Cabell, member of the Appropriations
Committee, says he doesn't anticipate an
adjournment earlier than the first of Au-
] gust, and that he has never before,in all his
| long experience in the House. known the
members to manifest such Indifference as to
| the date of adjournment. In the Speakers
room it is thought it will not be postponed
later than two weeks from next Monday,
by which time it believed all the appro-
priation bills will have been passed and
signed.
The House to-day resumed The considera.
ton Of the vetoed pension bills, finally
reaching one on which it was agreed there
should be short debate and a vote to show
! the strength ofthose who wanted to pass them
over the Presidents veto On it MIR. Boutelle,
republican, of Maine, is making one of his
characteristic bloody shirt speeches, accusing
the democracy. and consequently the South
of an indispositicn to do anything toward
pensioning the men who fought for the
Uuion.
The nomination of Col. N. ID. Ball, form.
erly of Alexandria, to be u. $. attorney for
the territory Of Alaska, was confirmed some
time ago, but the Injunction of secrecy was
only removed Irom it q: yesterdays execu
tive session. The nomination OF Henry
Ward Beecher;s son TO be collector Of Gus
tons in Washington terri!viy, WAS reported
adversely at yesterdays executive session,
but at that session no Virginia cases were
either reported or acted upon.
There is an amendment to The s:uilry
| civil bill now before the Senate, providing
| that all the silver surplus in the Treasury,
| amounting to about ninety millions, shall
be expended in the appropriations of that
bill and others, and ii is said to-day the Sem
| ate will agree TO it rather than delay the
adjournment.
In the Senate to-day General Malone reported
an amendment to the sundry civil bill prorid-
ing an appropriation for public building at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio. tho regular bill for which has
In "A a. prooi