Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-12-04
ErnH,, Washington
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHING TON. d. c.. Dec #, 1883.

Frern Washington
ESPECIAL Correspondence OF the Alezs. GAZETTE
WASHING TON. D. c.. Dec 4. 1883
Congressman Brown, of the Danvil!e dis
trict, received letter from the President
elect this morning, tbarking him for con-
gratnlatory dispatch received the day after
the election, and also for the political work
done by him during the campaign. Mr..
Brown was not q canddatefor reelection.
Congressman Bowen, whoswas candidate
but was defeated, says that among
the frauds committed in his dis
trict was the voting OF forty residents
of West Virginia in oDe precinct
alone, He mentions numerous other Gases.
I[e says be has not yst Determined
whether or not TO contest the seat fJr which
his democratic opponent, AR. Buchanan,
was elected. Congressman Yost says that
money was the chief cause of his defeat,
and that some of it came from the State
democratic committee. He says that the
Mahoneites in his district worked as bard
for his election as anybody else, and that
some democrats voted for him. Mr.. Yost
SAVE he will not contest MIR. fuckers SCAT
unless he shall have better grounds for y
ing 30 than he has now.
The Senate to day Immediately after the
morning hour proceeded to The considera-
ton of the Senate tariff bill As Mr.. Vance
insisted upon the reading of the eutire bil.
preliminary TO reading il 10y sec,ioDs for
amendment, ard % such reading would cor
sumo not less than sn hour, the galleries
were at once emptied, and but few Senators
remained On the floor. Ii seems to be the
prevailing impression that the Senate will
paas this bill without much trouble and
even without any great opposition from the
democratic members of that body, but that
it will tail in the House, either by the al
most solid vote Of the democrats or by dem
ocratic opposition 10 lis consideration,
though there are some who say thst in ad
Gii:ion 10 the solid vote OF the republicans
there, it will also be supported by ten or
twelve democrats. Democrats. however,
say that it can ny 10 possibility receive
more than six democratic votes in the
House, and that number is not enough to
pass il. So that very few think anything
will he done with the tariff ball this session.
A prominent member OF the Masonic or
der in Fredericksburg here to-day says the
Masons there are contemplating the build
ing of magnificent granite temple, to cost
$3.50 000 and that as it is TO be monument
to the father of his country" it is sup
posed that the order throughout the coun-
try will contribute towards IT'D erection.
1t is now pretty well understood that the
bill TO refund the money collected under the
direct lau6 tax bill of 1861 will not be con
sidered on Thursdsy next. The committee
on rules to which the resolution 10 that effect
vas referred did not have meeting to day,
and probably will not have one to- morrow,
and until they do, aud report the resolution
favoraby, and that resolution be adopted by
the House, the objection of one member will
be sufficient TO prevent its consideration.
Aud so the benefciaries of the bill are again
doomed to disappointment.
A private letter received here from Spring
Vile, Erie county, n. Y, says that dead
man dressed only in a shirt WAS found in
field near there last week, his clothes being
found in barn yard some distance oh, and
that from papers found in them it is sup
posed be was Thomas Cunningham, of
Ricbmond, Va.
Mrs Alice A. Hunter Of this city has
taken an appeal to the Court of Appeals of
Virginia from the decision OF Judge Keith,
of the circuit court of Alexandria county,
involving the validity OF the sale Of tho Ab
ingdon estate, in the county named, TO A.
seeks to have set aside.
Representative Lee, OF the Alexandria
district, Gays be has heretofore been very
unsuccessful in getting Offices for his con
stituents, but that az hope springs eternal
in the human breast, be intends to persist
in the efforts, and trusts that he may have
better success during the remaining three
months of the present administration, IS Of
fee, il for only short timP, is better than
no office at all.
Representative O'Ferral, OF Virginia,
SAYS the democrats have taken their posi-
ton for low tariff and must maintain it, and
that any giving way now, or eny attempted
compromise by which an inch of that posi-.
tion would be relinquishsd, instead CT doing
any good, would have the most disastrous
effect, and, ia addition, bring ridicule upon
the party.
la the House to-day all the morning hour
Was consumed in the consideration CT mo-
,ion to reconsider previous action OF tho
House on bill Tor monument to General
Knox
Active canvassng for the Speakersbp of
the next House has already commenced.
Mr.. Reed, OF Maioe, who really deserves the
place, is trying to make himself popular
with his fellow members. Mr.. Mckinley
says he will not seek the place but he will
accept it gratefully if offered him, and MIR.
will be candidate only in
case Senator Sherman has place in the
cabinet. Senator Sherman, Mr.. Mckinley
and NJ. But,erworth had conference this
az which il was agreed that 10
case MIR Sherman shai go in the cabinet Mr..
Will be candidate f1r his place
in the senate, ard Mr.. Buttefwor'h be a