Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-12
The House Military Committee has agreed

The House Military Committee has agreed
tn appropriate S25 600 for the next annual
celebration of the battle Of Gettysburg, Oh
which occasion the President is expected W
be present and read the speech delivered ny
Mr. Lincoln on the battlefield as an ih'ro'
duction to his own remarks.
A letter received here to-day from one OF
tba most prominent republican klckers III
Virginia is to the effect that the republican
convention of that State,to meet on the l|tn
instant. will divide, and that two conVen.
lions will be held instead OF one, ana tnaD
the hall has already been engaged Tor the
kickers. The leaders of the kickers VII!
meet and confer previous to the meeting OF
the convention. They expect that their
convention will be attended by many OF the
delegates who were elected as Malone men,
for the reason, as they say, that they. have
been informed by the national republican
committee that the delegates elected by that
convention will be admitted at Chicago, anu
that the men referred to will like TO be on
the successful side. They also say that sen
ator RiddeDerger will head the delegation
the kickers will send to Chicago 49,
According to q bill to be reported oy Inc
House Military Committee, Generals Nose
Grams, Schenck, McCauey, Palmer aud bu
ell. who are now in civil life, will be restored
to the rolls of the army, and placed on the
retired list with the rank and pay OF Major
General.
There seems to be great satisfaction
among the people of this city at the expi.
ration of the official term of Judge smell, OF
their police court He has never been ID ao
cord with the feelings of the community,
ard has leaned so decidedly in favor o! Tue
| Ea 10 inR
list of the most pronounced negrophlles IN
the CITY. Judge Miller, his successor, Is
Virginian. His appointment appears 10 Do
entirely satisfactory.
The House now meets at II o'clock instead
OLE IL was induced to make this change
by reason of the long time that has been
| wasted by tho speeches on the Mills bill,
not one Of which has made or lost single
| vote for that bill. and by the fear, now al
most certainty, that the session will be pro-
need.way into the dog days, when mid
| summer madness becomes prevalent
The Senate District of Columbia Commit
/ tee st their meeting this morning agreed to
| report bill removing the present depot OF
/ the B. & O. 4. r. and allowing that road TO
stunnel 3,d street, Capitol Hill, so as to
/ reach b street, n. W., up which to run 10
B street, and establish another depot IN
mediately east of the present depot OF the
B. & P. r. r.
The bill introduced in the House to-day
by Mr. Hopkins Of Virginia, to prevent con,
| vict labor from competing with organized
labor, provides that all convcts employed
within the jurisdiction OF the United States
shall be employed at such labor rs they may
be best fitted to perform, and semi monthly
shall be paid the same rate of compensation
as is paid to organized labor in the locality
where the convict is confined. NO CONVICT
| is to be required to work moro than eight
hours day. The bill carries with it an az
preparation of one million do lars to be ex-
pended by the Secretary OF the Department
OF Labor in giving it effect.
Representative Bowden, OF Virginia, be.
ing asked to-day about the convention OF
his party in Virginia, said he thought the
reports about the troubles in it were greatly
exaggerated and that though he had heard
it intimated that the kickers would bolt and
organize convention of their own, he did
not think it would have many attendants.
| The call for district convention in his dis
| trict, he said, would not be responded to ex-
cept, perhaps, by few in Elizabeth City
county, and that outside of that county he
| did not think there was any republican de-
| lection or any opposition TO the present plan
! of his party's organization. He said ne was
assured that Mr.. John Wise would lead no
bolt, and that he, Wise, was the only man
| in the party who would have any noticeable
following as bolter
To-day was the regular day for the meeting of
| the liquor traffic committee of the House. but
| that committee has practically determined to
| hold no more meetings this session. The Senate
District of Columbia committee at their meeting
to-day agreed to report favorably bill providing
q high license tax on the sale of liquor in this
city-the license to be $3.50 for tho sale of beer
and $500 for that of stronger drink.
At last nights meeting of the Virginia demo
cratic association Of this city it determined to
attend tho reception to be given Senator VOORHEES,
no 1t week. and to present him on that occfslon q
| beautiful bouquet A motion to ocnsure the I0S
for its adverse criticisms of Mr.. Randall and the
protective democrats was defeated.
Representative Yost has Just returned from the
repub lean convention in his district that was
called by tho ant-Mahonites. He says all the
counties in the district west of the Ridge and two
cast of it were represented in that convention
and that he is assured that tho delegates elected
by it to Chicago will be admitted lie says sim;-
lar conventions will be held in all the districts OF
the State except the first, and probably the third
and fifth. In respect of the State convention, he
says the anti-Mahono mon will enter that conven-
ton as the other delegates, and will stay in it and
abide by its action unless they shall be compelled
to withdraw from it by downright, absolute scOun
| drclism in its management.
Southern Baptisfs.
The thirty second session of the Southern
Baptist Convention opened in Richmond