Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-17
From Washington.
-, c,r-a,nonaence of the Alexa. GAzErrs.7

WAsHINGTON, -. ~. Jau. IL, loco.
The two Browns and msssrs. Bowen and
Gaines of the Virginia republican Congress.
sionsl delegation have gone to Richmond to
attend the convention Of invited delegates
to be held there to. might to organize State
republican league. Mr.. Yost wss invited,
but did not CO. but he is not Malone re-
publican. Mr.. Hopkins, the !ator repre-
sentative, also received an invitation, but, as
stated in this correspondence yesterday, he
ia democrat.
ceived by the President to day, and treated
with all the courtesy and consideration &C
corded the representatives. of any foreign
country. It is reported here that the chief
of the embassy didn't want to come here,
but that he was Informed by the King OF
Cores that he would either go to America or
to a warmer place, and that, like the wise
man he ia, he chose the lesser of the two evils.
All the members of the embassy wore elab-
crate costumes of silk and gold with curious
looking tall hats.
One of the first acts of the President this
morning was to attach his signature to the
commissions of Mr.. Justice Lamar. Secreta-
rv Villas and Postmaster General Dickinson,
The republicans here don't abuse Senator
Riddeberger for voting for Mr.. Lamar's
confirmation, but many of them condemn
Senators Stewart and Stanford for doing 30,
some even going 30 far as to accuse
them of voting as they did in order to infiu
ence the Presidents action on the reports OF
the Pacific Railroad Commission.
Representative Yost, of Virginia, has accepted
an invitation to address republican meeting In
Baltimore next week.
Senator Riddleberger had long private and
| iDta President yest6r-
day, previous to the commencement of that day
session Of the Senate
Speaker Carlisle vas better at eleven o'clock
this morning, but his physicians are still extreme
IL anxious about him. He had one congestive
chill Yesterday evening and another one at4 O'Clock
this morning The third usually proves fatal.
Among the bills introduced in the Senate to-.
day was one to make good the losses of depositors
| in the Freedmcn's Bank.
Mrs General Lee received her friends in her
parlors at the Ebbtt House this afternoon There
we're large number of callers, among them many
of the most distinguished people in the city.
The President sent to Congress to-day the ma
iority and minority reports of the PACING Rall-
road Commission, accompanied by message lean
ing towards the former. which ID more favorable
to the railroads.
The American shipping league convention
which met in this city yesterday evening re-
sumed its sessions this morning. Among tho del
egates from Virginia are General Imboden, Col.
Anderson, COL Bufort, j. B. Pace, J. A. Cook, ]. s..
Darlington. Peyton Wise, Congressman Wise, JAS
Mcdonald John Enders, Col. Palmer. John OFT,
S. C. Williams, F. A. Reed and W. A. Smoot.
Among the applicants for the place of o. s. At
| torney for the District Of Columbia are Captain
]. W. Foster, of Loudoun county, and Jas. Lyons,
jr, of Richmond. The former is strongly en-
dorsed by ex-senator Thurman.
A congressman from New York. one of the in
ner tub republicans of his State. says that while
Mr.. Depuy is really stronger there than MIR.
| Blaine the latter Is sure to receive the vote OF
that State in the next national republican conven.
ton.
| The House elections committee had before them
to-day tho case Of Judge Lowry, of Indiana, who
/ is contesting the seat of republican on the
ground that the latter is not naturalizod citi-
| zen. General Hunton is the Judges counsel.
| The speeches of Mes5rs. Edmunds, Hoar, Eyarts
and Sherman against Mr.. Lamars confirmation
during the executive session of the Senate yes
| terdsy were very bitter, partizin and sectional
| but the democrats knowing they had the game
! in their own hands said never word.
| 1t is stated here that az 8 consequence OF the
bills now before Congress for prohibiting all sorts
! of gambling within the District OF Columbia the
value of property at the south end of the Long
Bridge has advanced considerably of recent yeara
1t is reported to-day that memorial contain
| ing three thousand names asking for the reopen
ing of the oebe-Carlisle contested election case
ia on its way here from kentucky, and that an at
| tempt will be made to induce some republican
member of the House to advocate its consdera-
| ton.
It has been ascertained that there are twenty
thousand moro women than mon in this city.
Among the strangers at the Capitol yesterday
was General B. F. Butler. The General is an old
man now and, what's worse looks like one. His
bald head has lost its gloss, his feet drag, and ne
no longer sports red rose bud IN the button hoie
| in the left lapel of his coat
|