Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-09-19

te,mined that while they are willing and
anxiou, to adjourn as soon as possible, they
will not give the republlcanso the Senate an
opportunity of eaying they would have re-
norted tariff billif the democrats OF the
Honse had not forced an adjournment.
They saw the republican Senators have got
Themselves in a hole, and that they are not
going to help them out Of it, and that If the
republicans of the Senate want to ADJOURN
thew must say So and thereby confess that
they have pever had any real intention OF
reporting a tariff bill, and have been deiioer'
ately deceiviug the people for two months,
during which the surp!us 10 the treasury
has been increasing at the rate OF eleven
million dollars every fifteen days.
The President some days ago, while max
ing subscription to the yellow fever cut,
ferers in Florida, took occasion TO cay, ana
very properly, that while the object ap-
neaIed to the sympathy and generosity OF
every one, help could only be Afforded Dy
individual action, as it was beyond the pale
of governmental assistance. AS MT. Ed
MINDS believes that politics is politics, this
aggression of the President inspired bin to
dav TO Introduce resolution in the Senate
appropriaiing one hundred thousand dol
lars toward the assistance OF the sufferers
referred to, and to say the case had ceased to
be local, and had become national mat
far and merited the help of the nation. The
resolution passed unanimously.
In the Senaie to day Mr.. Jones, OF Ar
kansas. read a long and carefully prepared
speech on the Presidents message. The
House al an early hour resumed the consid-
GRAFTON of the sundry civil bill
The fact that Mr. Edmunds, in the Senate
to-day. from the foreign affairs committee,
introduced resolution requesting the pre-
siding officer Of the Senate to withhold the
Chinese exclusion bill, which passed that
BODY Monday, for the present. looks very
much as if the opponents OF that hiil bad
mustered up enough votes to reconsider ana
defeat il a. their next trial. VI course alter
the introduction of the resolution referred
to. nothing more can be done with the bill
until further Senatorial action.
MIR. Lewis Mckenzie, OF Alexandra, has
been invited by eZ Commissioner OF Pen
sions Dudley, one of the partles to the pur.
chase of Indsna in 1880, and now one CT
the chief agents OF the national republican
ecomm.tea, to meet him at republican head
quarters in New York for consultation about
the management OF the campaign IN Virgin
ia. 1t is said that should Mr.. Harrison be
~. T..
and admrer Of Mr.. Biains who will run
the administration, aud whose contempt for
Malone is only equalled by the latter's
hate for him, will be consulted upon eli mat
tiers relating to Virginia.
Senator Pugh is q very we'll disposed map,
but like many such people, ls liable to allow
his feelings to ruu away with mis- Judgment.
Some time ago Senator Mitchell accused
Senator Morgan of being drnnkard. Mr..
| Morgan very wisely took no notice OF the
| low and ont of place remark. Mr.. Pugh,
however, recently: without consultation
with Mr.. Morgan, prepared certificate OF
| Mr.. Morgan's sobriety, got several Senators
to sien it. and published it in the newsps-
pecs this morning. For oil of which he Is
being laughed at extensively.
A republican from the 9Th Virginia dis.
trict here to-day says that Mr.. Agnew, who
was nominated by the republican conven'
ton yesterday for Congress in that district,
wrote letter eId sent it by what he sup
posed was reliable conveyance to the
| con INVENTION, stating that if he were nominated 1t
would DO with the distinct understanding that ne
| was not to make canvass that the national
| committee was to furnish the campaign money,
and that he was opposed to the present organiza,
ton of the party in Virginia and to General
| Mahoue but that the letter was not shown to
the convention.
here was rumor about the Capitol this morn
| in to the effect tn 1t the once prominent demo-
| cratic politician who has recently been hanged in
enc of the western Territories for horse stealing"
was ex Representative Morgan r. Wise, of Penn
sylvania Mr. Wise's reputation was not of the
best when he was in Congress, Tut no body then
supposed he would meet such fate AZ is said TO
! have befaien him. and go unfortunate is IT that
| the report referred to can hardly be credited.
Senator elect Barbour, of Virginia is confined
| to his house here by ndisposition, and has been
ever since he returned from the recent meeting
! of the State democratic convention of Virgins at
| Richmond
This was the day the President was invited to
70 to Fredericksburg to the Rappahannock fair in
progress there but he notified tho managers of the
fair that an acceptance of their invitation was
impossible.