Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-24

dehete several members commented In
severe terms upon the unsatisfactory man
ner in which q great deal of the mail service
is now conducted.
The House appropriations and naval
committees held meetings to-day. In the
former large appropriations for Notifications
seemed to meet with favor, and in the latter
most of the members appeared to favor
liberal appropriation for the Improvement
and enlargement of the navy. But no large
appropriations will be made for any pur'
nose until the amount of the reduction III
the tariff shall be determined.
The House Judiciary Committee to-day
agreed to report favorably the Senate copy
rieht bill with an amendment including
chromos in the class of protected publca'
tions.
The Senate TO day after the routine bust.
ness and long speech by MIR. Stewart, TO
which nobody listened, in favor of his bill to
restrict the veto power of the President by
making q simple majority, and not two
thirds majority, sufficient to override We
to. went into executive session to determine
whether or not to reconsider the vote by
which the resolution to consider the Cana
dian fisheries treaty in open session was oe-
feated. u,
The low tariff men in Congress are IN nlgh
spirits to day at the action OF the democratic
convention of Pennsylvania yesterday.
Thev say that that action shows that the
democratic party of the nation Is solid on
almost the only national question that now
divides the people of the country, ana that
wherever democrat may be, whether IN
an agricultural, commercial or manufactuF
ing State. ne believes ia and supports the
To- f Il
revenue tariff. They say that no matter
how long decisive action on the Mills p,ii
may be DELAYED, e vote on that bill will be
reached before the end of the session, and
that when taken the name of every demo
crat in the House except Messrs. Randall
and Sowden will be recorded in the ailirma'
tive.
The inclement weather prevailiog to-day
interferred seriously with the ceremonies
incident to the laying of the corner stone oi
the National Catholic University near this
city. Cardinal Gibbons, many bishops, and
! large number of priests. among the latter
Rev. Father O'Kane, of Alexandria, and
numerous Catholic societies from Baltimore
and other cities, and representatives OF those
of still others, including Richmond, are pres
opt, and, with the local clergy and societies
will participate at the appointed hour this
evening if the now falling rain will permit
Mr.. Morrison, the interstate commerce
commissioner. is candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for Vice President. He says
the friends of Gray, of Indiana, and Steph-
enson, OF Illinois, have united against Black
of Illinois, so that the latter is out of The
way. Secretaries Villas and Dickinson are
also candidates, and it is reported that the
President would prefer the former to all
others. But the course of MIR. Villas when
Postmaster General was 80 Objectionable
that it will hardly be possible for him to be
nominated.
Senator Hscock, Of New York, proved before
the Senate commerce committee to-day that he
could not pass satisfactory examination before a
civil service reform board. Hc appeared before
that committee az an advocate for an increased
appropriation for the Improvement OF Shcepshead
Bay, but in his speech spoke of that bay as being
on Long Island Sound. The members of The
committee. knowing that the bay is directly OF
the Atlantic coast, were so digustcd with the Sen
ator's lack OF local geographical knowledge thai
they refused to grant his request.
General Hunton, Of Virginia, to-day addressed
the House committee elections, considering
the South Carolina contested election case i'll be-
half of Elliott, tho sitting member.
General Sheridan is improving, and desires that
the rumor to the effect that he has been attacked
by paralysis be denied.
Congressman Belmont, Of n. Y, says that at the
first opportunity he will introduce resolution in
the House authorizing an investigation of the con
vction and Imprisonment of John Curran Kent
an American citizen, in London, for completely III
a dynamite plot