Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-25
From, Washington
special Correspondence ct the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHING Ton. d. c., Aug %, 1888.


special Correspondence ct the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHING Ton. D. c., Aug. 20, 1888.
There was no session of the Senate to-day,
that body having adjourned yesterday until
Monday. In the House Mr.. Game, the
delegate from Utah, made long speech on
the report Of the committee that was au-
thorized to inquire into the number of par
dons the President has granted to Mormons,
on which he made an able and effective de.
Tense Of the people he represents.
Representatives Brown and Bowen and
Judge Ciairborn, of Virginia, all republicans,
while AT the metropolitan Hotel this morn
ing, seemed to agree among themselves that
Virginia next fail would go republican.
They made the following estimate : The 1sf,
5th. 9Th and 10th districts about even. The
Bird, democratic by two thousand the 7th by
two thousand, aud the s by FIVE thousand.
The I'd republican by five thousand, the
4.h by eight thousand and the 9Th by six
thousand This estimate being subsequent
ly shown to we'll informed Virginia demo-
Graf, he said he thought the democrats were
suro of the Sd, 9Th, 6 h, 9Th; Sth aud 10Th
districts, and that they had an even show
in the 1st, and fighting chance in the h..
1t was almost impossible, he said, with the
immense negro majorities in the 2d and
4th to hope for anything in those districts.
The State, he said, be thought was safe for
the national democratic ticket.
It's reported to day at the Capitol that
the opinions among the republican Senators
ere so divergent on the tariff, that it is more
doubtful than ever if they will report any
tariff bill at all, as the interests are go con
trary that no agreement can be reached.
There are now only one hundred and
forty four members of. the House in the
eity, about one half Of whom are democrats.
Mr.. Speaker Carlisle last night had tele-
grams sent to all the absent democrats di-
rectiug them to report here as soon as poe
sible SO as to make quorum. His main
object is to have no unnecessary delay IN
adopting the report Of the Committee en-
Foreign Relations to which the bill to carry
out the object Of the Presidents late mes
sage on the Canadian fisheries was referred.
That committee will meet on Monday, and
Mr.. McCresry, acting charman OF it, says
the bill referred to will be rel orted practi-
cally without alteration.
The Vrg mia democrat association of
this city, at their meeting last night, were
addressed by Representa- i've Anderson of IL
lnois, a native of Botetourl unity, We, Mr.
Kendall, the democratic candidate for Con-
gress in the 1st Virginia district. and Rep
resentatve George Wise, of the Richmond,
Virginia, district. All the speakers took
decided low tariff grounds, ard Mr.. Wise
Landed the President for his retaliatory
message.
The opinion stiil prevails here respecting
the Presidents message on the Canadian
fisheries treaty 8. that the republicans, having
made that treaty q political game. are now
mad because the President has beat them.
Some Of the republican Senators now con-
fess that they were in favor Of the treaty
and feared that something like what has
happened would result from its defeat, but
that they were compelled to vote against it
by the command of their caucus One DEM
ccratic Senator told the GAZETTE's CORE
spondeDt to-day that the President had
brought Mr. Edmunds out of his hole "a he,
when boy, used to get old hares out of
THERE. He had gouged all the hair
of him by the treaty and finally
brought him out By to- Ere and
smoke of his message, Though . had de-
clared, when the Senate determined to dis
cuss the treaty in open session, that he
would take no part III the debate upon 1t.
He also said the message bit The republicans
between wind and water, staggered them,
and that they had not yet entirely recover
ed from the shock Mr. Hoar, he said, was
50 ratified that he grabbed the different
sheets Of the message and carried them of
while other Senators we're engaged in read.
ing them. aud that Mr. Eimunds was so
fustered that be took Ms. Wilson, a repub
lean, fl the floor by moving an adjourn
ment while that Senator was making
bloody shirt speech and that Mr.. Will
sou is so much provoked by the
way he was treated that he threatens to
bring the matter to the attention of the
Senate MIR. Morgan, he said, had refuted
every point made by Mr.. Edmunds in his
yesterdays speech. The Senator referred
to said the debate on the message bad COM
plettly counteracted aHy bad effect the
bloody shirt debate, that was in prcgress in
the Senate when the message was received,
might have had in the North. The bloody
shirt debate, he said, was a deliberate at
tempt on the part of the republicans to
make party capital for the present campaign,
but the message bad so discomposed them
that they had forgotten all about their plan
and allowed it to be defeated
1t is rumored at the Capitol that the point of
order on which the French spolation claims Sec
ton of the deficiency bill is suspended in the
House gets its inspiration from the White House
in consequence of the discovery that all but four
teen million of next years estimated revenue
would be consumed by the appropriation bills,
and that bad that discovery been made earlier the
river and harbor bill would have beon vetoed
Ex-Repre sentative john Go0de, OF Virginia has
accepted an invitation to address the grand ratifi
cation meeting to be held here on the night Of
Sept. Oh The meeting will probably
be one of the largest political gatherings held in
this section in recent years.
The latest Amusement at Brussels is rid
ing on lie Chemn de Fer de l'Armour," or