Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-26
Erom Washington.

for bills, the only bill introduced from VIZ.
eioia was one by Mr.. Bowden for light
ship at Pney Bluff, Elizabeth river:
10 the Senate to day among the bills iAV-
orally reported from committees was o:e
appropriatipg $4,000 for permanent
quarantine station at Cape Charles, virginia.
Among the petitions introduced 10 toe
Senate to- day was one from the Nationa'
Farmers Association for raising tue agficul
tural bureau to the Importance OF depart
ment also one from the farmers OF NE"
Jersey for the extirpation oil pluero pneu-
monis. :.
When the House adjourns to morrow 1t
will bs until eleven o'clock a. M on Weu
nesday. at noon on which day the funeral
esrvices of the late Chief Justice Waite will
take Mace in the House. The Senate day
passed resolution appropriating 50, OoO Tor
The expenses of the funeral referred TO. "A
meeting of the members of the bar OF the
II. 6. Supreme Court was held IN the room
of that court this morning with Senator
Evnrts In the chair. Resolutions were
a6opted for attending the funeral In body,
and for appointing committee to prepare
suitable resolutions to be presented at
subsequent meeting.
A democratic bureau of Information has
been established at III 9th street, In which
about fifteen clerks are already employed,
and more will be as tine campaign progresses.
The object of the bureau is to disseminate
good democratic doctrine in the States OF
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Fir-
pinia. West Virginia aud North Carolina,
all now said to be doub full, during the COM
ing Presidential campaign. The bureau is
beautifully supplied with funds, many prom
inent democrats, among them the President,
having subscribed literally. Among the
clerks are many who were engaged in the
same sort of work during the last campaign.
The International Council Of Women CON-
menced its sessions at Albaugh's Opera
House bere at ten O'Clock this morning. A
large number of short haired women and
long haired men were present.
Treasurer Harlow and exsPostma1ter
Windsor, of Alexandria. appeared before.
the Senate committee on public buildings
and grounds to. day, in advocacy of bill,
subsequently introduced in the Senate by
Mr. Daniel. for paying the Mt. Vernon Ave
nue. Association the amount Of the claim re-
c,n,ly turned over to that association by
the State OF Virginia. -Four of the seven
members of the committee were present and
exp, essed themselves as decidedly in favor
of an appropriation for the avenue, though
one, MIR. Vest, said he was opposed to pay
ing the claim referred to. Mr.. Daniel, an
other member, but who was not present. IS
in favor of paying the claim. 1t ia not
known how the remaining two members OF
the committee who were not present stand.
Bot even if they are opposed to it, the ma
jority will be the other way. Messrs. Har'
low and Windsor made an appointment to
appear before the House committee on
claims at 10 o'clock to morrow on the same
business.
Among those spoken of as possible candi.
dates for the Vice Presidency on the next
national democratic ticket is Commissioner
Black, of the Pensions Bureau. A proml
nent democratic ex- Congressman, now here,
saws that Mr.. Black has already been absent
from his office nearly two hundred days,
nearly ell OF which he has spent in address
ing posts Of the G. A. r.
Mr.. Riddleberger addressed the Senate
to-day in favor of his resolution for consid-
ING the Canadian fisheries treaty in open
session.
Among the many people ill with pneumo-
MIA in this city are Senator Edmunds and
the wife of Postmaster General Dickinson.
At one o'clock to-day the friends of the
bill 10 regulate the supply of dead bodies to
the medical colleges of this city were trying
to have that bill taken up in the House. 10
the Senate Mr.. Morrill, was trying to get be
fore that body the bill authorizing the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to purchase and re
deem the bonds of the government.
Chairman Mills, of the House Ways and
Means Committee, who was taken sick last
Thursday, is reported worse this morning.
He neither eats nor sleeps. and, it is said, his
respiration is restricted.' IL is also said that
his mind seems to be always engaged on his
tariff bill, and that he can be heard mutter-
ing about the varions provisions of that bill.
If he shall improve, it is supposed bis bill,
with majority and minority report, will be
presented to the House on Thursday next
Rev. Nj. w. Montgomery, of the Congre-
gational church, addressed the Senate Com,
mittee on Territories this morning, in oppo-
sition to the admission of Utah, and in favor
of legislation to suppress Mormonism, and
confscate the property of the Mormon
church.
Gov. LEE DISCUSSES Politics Gov.