Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-02-10

From what those members of the national
democratic committee who have been here
recently have said, it is supposed that Chi
cnego will be the place and June the 9th
the time for the next national democratic
convention.
State Senator Bib, of Virginia, has been
offered the consulate at Yarmouth, and not
that at Port Hope, as heretofore reported,
ar d az the former is not as attractive place
q. the latter il is doubtful If he will accept
IL.
The House River end Herbor Committee
this morning agreed TO order surveys OF
Ware river, and Pangoteaeue, Occohannock,
Erssauaddox, Hunting and Holden's creeks,
in Virginia, and appropriations, as advised
nv the engineer, for Neabsco and Nomini
creeks. Rappahsnnock river, TCtusky snd
Ijrbauus or,eks, and Mattsponi river ;
three hundred dollars TO be expended
above tidesat+r ut Dunkirk. Colonel
Ruffn, If Virginia. appeared bafore the
committee and argued in favor of an sppro-
priation Of $400 600 for James river, stating
that Richmond WIS not only nearer The great
West but nearer the ocean than any other
of the Atlantic porte. Congressman Scott,
of Pennsylvania, was slso before the COM
mittee, and urged an appropriation for
pier and lights ct Cape Charles City, Vir.
GINA, where he has large interests. Con-
gresham Browne, of Virginia, appeared for
Cape Charles City, and also for all the other
named improvements on the Eastern Shore
of Virginia.
a sub committee Of the House Commerce
Committee today agreed to report favor
ably Mr.. Brownies bill for permanent
quarantine station at Cape Charles City. Va.
Mr. Huntington appeared before the House
railroad committee and said it would De
impossible for the Pacific railroads to accept
the House bill for the settlement OF the Sc
counts of those roads with the government,
and that the best the roads could do would
be TO put off tho payment OF the principal OF
the debt for one hundred and twenty-five
years and to pay two per cent. interest on
| it. He said the railroads really owed the
government nothing, as they had not Only
| increased the value Of the Western LANDS.
| but saved the government immeass sums Dy
means of the defense they had afforded the
Western settlements against the Indians.
Ia debate in the Senate yesterday on
what the republicans spoke OF as the
Rebellion Records" Mr.. Rlddleberger
provoked his republican allies no little by
saving that he chose to call the books re-
|
Representative Lee. of the Alexandria district,
received the following this morning, pos.marked
| Alexandria:
Dear sir-I see that you are carrying out the in.
structions laid down III the 44th verse of the 9th
chapter of st. Matthew. You may be blessed in
| the next world, but ii is doubtful whether you
| will be by your constituents in this. OBSERVER
This is the verse referred 10; But say unto
YOU Iowa your enemies bless them that curse you
do good to them that hate you. and pray for them
which despitefully use and prosecute you"
| The nomination of MIR. Marshall Mcdonald, OF
| Virginia to be Fish Commissioner has not yc:
! been acted upon definitely by the Senate.
| MesSrs Hutchins and Fox, of the two morning
papers of this city, appeared before the House
| District Of Columbia Committee to-day and sroke
against the bill prohibiting them from publishing
lottery advertisements. The committee decided
70 report the bill, with the understanding that its
members shall vote as they may choose when it
| comes before the House.