Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-19
From Washington.
Special Correspondence Of the Alezs. GAzE1

From Washington.
rjuecisl Correspondence Of the Alexa. GAzsTTE.l
WASHINGTON. D. c., May 10, 1883.
The galleries aud floor Of the House are as
Gro wded to-day as they rarely have bsen be.
fore, the occasion being the close of the gem
eral debate on the tariff bill Hundreds OF
people were turned away, it being impossible
for them even to get sight OF the iioor
through the crowds that packed the door
WAYS and the adjoining space in the corrl-
doris. Mr.. Baker, of Illinois, opened the de-
bate replying to the able speech Mr.. Brock.
enridge, of Kentucky, made yesterday even
ing. He was followed by Mr.. Reed, the
republican leader of the House, who made
as good speech in favor of high tarll as his
subject permitted, and took the bold ground
that protective tariff is solely for the
sake of protection, and that incidental pro.
lection is a sham. He also said that now
that the President had shaken the dust of
civil service reform from his feet, he had be.
qua to gather his party around him. AL
most every sentence of Mr.. Reeds speech
was applauded by his side of the House.
He will be followed by Mr.. Speaker
Carlisle, who hos already left the
Speakers chair and is down on the
floor, ready for his part when the time
comes What the programme will be after
BIO shall conclude nobody seems to know.
All that Is known about it up to this time Is
that Mr.. Mills's proposition for direct vote
on his bill as it stands has notyet been accept
ed by ID q rapubl caus, and that without such
a,ceptance such vote cannot be taken, ara
that if all the sections of the bill be discussed
under the five minutes rule the debate will
continue indefinitely, certainly for five or
oil fn f0rc
were on the floor ofthe House to day, atten-
tive listeners to the speeches that were made.
When Mr. Breck inrdge concluded his able,
magnificent and effective speech in favor of
the Mills bill yesterday evening, the up.
plause, which had been literally bestowed
upon it throughout almost its entire delivery
broke out into vocifsrous and enthusiastic
storm, one apparently unanimous cheer
hardly subsiding before it was succeeded by
another equally as demonstrative, and the
ladies in the gallery catching the inspra
sion waved their handkerchief long and
vivaciouslv
In the House yesterday Mr. Lac present
ed q petition of Anna l.. Buckley, widow oil
Joseph c. Buckley, and of Matte d. Trice,
heir of Silas Buckley, of Louisa county, Vir-
GINA, for reference of their claim to the
court of claims. Mr.. Wise presented a sim
liar petition of Hiram w. Tyler, of Henrco
county, Va.
The Virginia democratic association ofthis
city were addressed last night by represent
alive Wilson of West Virginia. La his
speech he sustained both the Presidents
message and the Mills bill. Among the
audience were several of the delegates to
the recent Virginia democratic convention
at Norfolk, and some ladies. The latter
treated the association to some excellent
music, for which they were appropriately
thanked by Major r. W. Hunter. The as.
ISOLATION by resolution endorsed the action
of the late democratic convention of Vir-
ginia.
Representative Yost has returned from
the late Virginia republican convention at
Petersburg. He says that over two hundred
of the uuccntested delegates to that con-
vention, among them nearly all from his
Congressional district, left it and organized
the true republican convention of the State,
and that now there is once more real re
publican party in Virginia, composed Of the
free citizeps of the State. He says that con.
venions to elect district delegates to Chica-
go either have been or will be held in all the
Congressional districts of the State except
the first, and that he is assured the dele
gates elected OF such conventions, and none
others, will be admitted. Whether the dele
gates.st large elected at the Malone or
the anti-Mahone convention will be admit
ted, he says will not be known until the
meeting ofthe Chicago convention.
Representative Libby, of the Norfolk
district, Virginia, who was also delegate
to the Virginia republican convention, was
on the floor of the House to day. He says
that his, the anti-Mahone wing of the repub.
lican party in his State, in view of the man.
ner in which the vast majority of the dele
gates to the State convention were elected.
are we'll satisfied with the show of strength
they have made. and are convinced that the
best element of the party in the State is
with them.
delegate to the late republican State conyen-
ton of Virginia at Petersburg now here
says that during that convention Mr.. John
Wise met Mr.. r. F. Walker on the
street and accused him of having stolen his
delegates, and that Mr.. Walker retort-
ing with 'yon'1e liar," Mr.. Wise struck him on
the head with his umbrella and at the same time
gave him 4 severe blow in the face with his fist,
and that a rough-and- tumble knock-down-and-
drag. out gutter fight was only prevented by the
interposition of spectators.
General Lee and his family have given up their
rooms at tho Ebbitt House, in this city, and gone
back to their home at Ravepsworth, Fairfax coun-
ty, Va. The General goes ont there on the train
every evening, returning to his duties in the
House every morning.
a dispatch from Rome says: "a party of
anti-clericals came into collision with re-
ligious procession at Barcino. near Palermo,
on Wednesday. A eight arising. the militia
~ was called out and the soldiers were com.
nalle0 In fire. uDon the mnh Several ner- Z