Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-04-27
From Washington.

.en nt nelitions Of W. J. stors, S. G. Hudgips
and others of York county, Va, and OF ".
8. W. Tinsley and others Of Pulaski county,
Va. against the passage of the Dill cFes1inS
a bureau of animal industry. A bill was H.
PRODUCED appropriating s. 600 for the III. =.
Church at Harper's Ferry, DESTROYED 9S .he
Federal eolders during the war: In lne
Senate Mr.. Riddleberger, from the naVs,
affairs committee, reported iaVorsDly DH I
for the relief of Commander George NJ.
Bache. q. s. n. In the House, on motion 10 oi
Mr.. O'FerralD, the bill to relieve ). H. Wooo
and John T. Ballard, of White Hall, Abe
marie county. Va, of the payment Of Sl3S6O,
tho tax ON l54 gallons of brandy destroyed
hv fire in 1887, and that the suit against them
f,r that amount be dismissed, was taken up
and passed without objection. MIR. }. H.
Brown presented papers in the claim OF
Theodore Teed of Alexandris. Mr. Hop
kins presented petitions of B. F. Hart, e. d.
Parsons and others Of Caroline county; Oh
P. Nj. Jones and others Of Buckingham
county; of South Fork Grange of Loudoun
county of G. W. Handy and others OF
Neck enburg county, and of w. d. BROOKS
and others of Franklin county IN favor OF
nure food Mr.. O'Ferrall presented petl'
tion of DR.. ]. NJ. Neff and others of Virginia
for he repeal of the Law classifying drug
p;sts as liquor sellers. 10 the Senate yesterday
among the bills passed was one appropri-
atina $50, 600 for the construction OF count
erpoise battery to mount one six inch Dreech
loading rifle cannon, of the Kennon pattern,
nm the banks of the Potomac below, and
within twelve miles of, this city. On mo-
tiop of Senator Daniel bill approptlaling
$50 600 for public building atNorfolk was
taken up and passed without opposition:
Representative Bowen of the 9sh Virginia
district, republican. who has Just returned
from visit to his home, says the county q
Smythe has elected divided delegation TO
the republican State convention OF Virginia,
but that Tszewell, Giles, and Buchanan
will send Malone delegates, and, he thinks,
all the other counties in his dlatrict VIII 40
the same, and also that Mahones irlends
will have a large majority in that conVen-
tiop. He says ex-Attorney General Frank
/ Blair who, it will be remembered, discovered
! that "nonor wouldn't buy q breakfast in
{ Virginia. who has heretofore been Chased
| among the "kickere," has returned to tho
Generals fold.
Secretary Endicott says there is no truth
lin the published report that his daughter
and Mr.. Joe Chamberlain. the English men,
Der of the late fisheries commission, are TO
be married.
AS the day for the meeting of the national
democratic convention approaches, the num-
Der of removal5 of republicans from the Of
fees they have been holding during near y
the entire term of the present democratic
administration increases. These removals
are not confined 10 any city or State, but arc
going oa oil over the country. Among them
are several clerks in the departments here
who hail from Virginia. If these removals
had been made three years ago the parties
removed would have manifested less dis
satisfaction, and the feeling among the
democrats towards the President been less
lukoWarm.
To the revision OF the legislative Eill, the
provision for the salaries of Messrs. Laherty,
of Virginia, son of Rev. ]. J. Lsfferty, and
Wtlch, of Tennessee, 81. 900 each, official
stenograDhers of the House committees,
which had been left out, has been reinserted.
Among the strangers on the floor of the
House to-day was ex-representatlVe Lewis
Mckenzie, of Alexandria. He was talking
with the republican n embers from Virginia,
one OF whom told the GAzETTE's cores
poudent his business with them was TO get
the names Of suitable persons in their dis
tricts 10 whom copies of the New York
Tribune could be sent for distribution. Mr.
Mckenzie told Virginia republican here
some time ago he "reck theywould have
to get rid OF Mahone," and this looks very
much as if he s of the same opinion still, as
the Tribune and the General have now part
cd company, the former advising the Vir-
GINA republicans to have az little to do With
the latter as possible.
The protectionists have strong lobby
here, among them Mr.. Jarrett, of Penpsyi-
| vania, who once made speech in Alexan.
dria. They listen to every word that is said
| by the low tariff msn, and anything they
can misconstrue to advance their own ends
they have at once telegraphed to the differ
emit trade centres for it's effect upon the
workingmen. The tariff debate flows on
uuinterruptedly in the House, and will con
tiuue to do so indefinitely. Mr.. Breckin
ridge will make grand speech in favor of
the Mills bill. Mr.. Speaker Carlisle will
come down from the chair, and advocate the
bill before the debate closes. Mr.. Randafs
speech in opposition to it is looked forward
to with no little interest, as in the last one
he made on the same subject he took the
ground that tariff imposed for protection
was unconstitutional.
| The House committee on the expenses of
the judiciary, of which Mr.. Hopkins, of Vir-
| ginia, is member, is now considering the
| bill which increases the salaries OF u. S.
Judges, abo!ishes the Zee system 10 the judi
ciary department., and gives the district at.
torneys, marshals. commissioners and clerks
salaries scaled according to the amount of
fees they have heretofore been receiving,
the minimum to be 81 900.
The fact that the recent republican con-
vention OF Pennsylvania made no expression
on the subject of the Presidential nomination,
being alluded to in the presence of the two
Senators from that State, Messrs. Cameron
and Quay, they both responded to the
effect that the Pennsylvania delegation
would 60 TO Chicago uninstructed, but that
when there they would weigh the qnalifca.
tions of all the candidates, and vote as
unit for the best man.
Representative O'Ferrall, of Virginia, on
being asked to-day who he thought would
be the delegates at large from Virginia to