Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-27

Alfred street, in said city of Alexandria, should
first be obtained before any money Is spent unuei
the appropriation. =;
Mr.. Kieore. made row about SINH.
lar bill for North Carolina, and 1t would not
he fair to allow this to go through.
Mr.. Townshend. Would it not be better
to give up on North Carolina as well as Oh
this one for Virginia?
Mr.. Kilgore could not do that To-Day.
Mr.. Townshend. viii state thae tni7
bill was introduced by General Lee, o1 VIZ
ginia, and as he is not present can o9
nothing more than withdraw the Dill.
move that the committee rise.
The motion WAS agreed 10.
Mr. Kileore subsequently, also objected
to the consideration and passage OF the Dill
far improvipg the road from Fredericksburg
to the cemetery near that town.
Both houses of Congress passed the sun
drv ciyi, bill to day, 80 there now remains
but one of the regular appropriation o'lis
unnassed, the Deficiency, and that Is II the
banda of conference committee.
When Representative Bowden went away
ba reonested two Of bis republican co..
Ieacues TO be on the lookout fer the Dill 10
chanpe the limits OF the Norfolk customs
district. and when it was reached on the
calendar to object to it. But yesterday
when that bill was resched neither OF the
colleagues referred to was present, ard no
body Directing it went through, as was sta
ted in this correspondence Of that date.
The Senate has agreed that when it ad-
iourns to day it will be until Monday, and 1t
| il rumored that the House will do likewise
In the Senate to-day Mr. Gibson of Loulsi-
ana made long speech in opposition to
Mr.. Chandler's resolution for an investiga'
ton of the late election in his State.
A democratic congressman from Michi-
Gan saws that H. A. Robinson, the chief OF
the knights of labor 10 Detroit, has declared
for cleveland and Thurman.
Among the bidders for the erection and
completion of the new public building st
Abingdon, Virgins, was J. Z. Tinaley OF
Staunton, whose bid was SCI 600. The low
est bid wss that of Bright q Humphrey OF
this CITY, sos 753.
Dr.. joan Rust, Of V rginia, recent grad
uate In dentistry, wi. leave here for Swift
szersud on the 6 h proximo.
Thomsa Terrett Of Fsiyfsx county will be
sappointed postmaster at Bailey's Cross
ERoads 10 his county, vice b. l. Bailey, de-
ceased.
The Senate finance committee met to-day
land heard part Of the tariff bill the reput-
can members of that committee have pre-
pared. bat the bill is very long one, and
the clerk mad only concluded the metal
schedule when the hour of adjournment
arrived. What was read, however, was
sufficient, il the democrats be wise, to make
them demand the publication OF the whole
bill as soon as possible, as it will be one OF
the best campaign documents they CAP send
out.
A we'll known and well informed demo
crat from the lst Virginia district mere to-
day says he hopes the democrats in the other
parts of that State are better organized than
thew are 10 his, and that from what he can
learn all the organizing there has been done
by Mr.. Kendall, the democratic nominee
for Congress- republican, from the same
district, but not much interested in the
present campaign. agreed with what the
gentleman referred 10 said, and added that
unless the democrats shall work harder
than they are doing now it would be nip
and tuck in his State, and this, too lie said,
Notwithstanding the fact that pot single
one of the republican electors in the State
had as vet made speech advocating the
election of Harrison aud Morton.
Senator Voorhees,, who has just returned
from Indiana, says the democratic prospects
there are Just as favorable as be or any other
reasonable man could desire, and that every
we'll Informed democrat there is confident
the State will go for Cleveland in NOvem.
Der. Representative Johnston, a republican
from the came State, who returned on the
same train with Mr. Voorhees,. says the
State will go republican. But he qualified
that remark by saying it would GO republi-
can provided tho feeling in the other parts
of the State was like that which prevailed
in his own district.
Gen. Lea says another winter ia approach
| ing. aud he is anxious to secure the passage
of the bill for an iceboat Oh the Potomac be.
fore it shall come, aud will try to do 30, pro-
vided the House Commerce Committee, to
whom that bill was referred, will make a
report, but that, though he has made sever
al inquiries about it, so far as he can learn
the committee alluded to has as yet done
nothing definite about it except TO refer it
to subcommittee.
There were but few Senators in the Cham
Der yesterday evening when Mr.. Daniel
made his speech on the Presidents message,
but all who were present remained until its
close, and to-day speak of it as perfect or
atorical effort.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Stewart, from
the Committee on Claims, reported n reso-
luton TO the effect that the claim of Isaac
Davenport, of Richmond. and other Virgin
ians, previously referred to the Court OF
Claims to he tried under the act of Congress
Of Ma .ch. 1888, be by that Court also tried
under the act Of Congress of March, 1887.
Private sdvices received to day from Iowa
indicate that the democrats are making a
very aggressive fight and have strong hopes
of recovering several Congressional districts,
especially that represented by Hon. Mr..
j l. 4
years ago by small majority. MIR. Kerr Is
one of the republicans who spoke at Wood.
bridge near Alexandria last Saturday. He
says the meeting there was not large, aud it
was composed iu part of democratic, but that it
was Just as respectful as any he ever attend
ed in the North, and that he has always
been in favor of northern republicans going
into the South and speaking there.
Associate Justice Lamar and Senator