Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-13
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Especial Correspondence OF the Alexis. GAZETTE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. IL. 1883.


Though this was the day for the regular
meeting of the Senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, there was, as usual,
no meeting of that committee, none OF Its
members reaching the Capitol till eleven
O'Clock, at which hour the Senate now meets.
From talk with member OF that commit.
tee it was learned that nothing more than
what has been already determined upon
would be done with Mt. Vernon Avenue at
this session, and possibly not even that much.
What that is has been previously stated ID
this correspondence. 1t Is for Senator
Spooner to move as an amendment 10 the
deficiency, or some other appropriation Dill,
an appropriation OF ten thousand dollars Tor
survey by the government OF the route OF
the proposed road. But. az stated ABOVE,
even that much may not be done,as such an
amendment may be rejected, and II adopted
may, and probably will, pe amended by re-
ducing the amount Of the appropriation, Us
the committee has already been Informed
that parties are anxious to DO the WORK for
| half that sum.
Representative Brown, OF the Danvllle
district, Gays it was not he who said the
Hard Shell Baptist preacher, who was can
didate in one of the counties Ia that district
I for the legislature, was an inhde', but that
the democratic newspapers there said so.
4 la the Senate to day Mr.. Edmunds intro
| duced two resolutions, one against the prop
osition TO erect electric wires along the route
of 6 proposed new street railroad in this city
and the other against the determination Of
the Judiciary Department 10 pay supervis
ors OF federal elections only for i've days
service at the coming election. After q
short morning session the consideration Of
the Canadian fisheries treaty was resumed
MIR. Call lesdiug off with speech in favor
of that treaty.
The republican Senators engaged in the
preparation of the Senaie's tariff bill have
not vet reported that bill to the full Finance
| Committee, nor is it known definitely to-day
when they will Nor, when it shall be SO
reported, is ii known how long it will be re
tanned by the committee before it shall be
presented to the Senate, and it is still said
that no bill that can be formed will be salts
factory to all the republican committee now
engaged 10 preparing the bill, to all the re-
publican members Of the Finance Commit
tee, nor, of course, to all the republican
members OF the U. S. Senate. So prevalent
among republican Senators is the belief that
no Senate bill can be agreed upon. that Mr.
| l0BalS, piC tCih. VA bhS '1Soo'S
doesn't hesitate pow to say that no attempt
will be made to pa such bill, and thai
the adjournment of the session will not be
prolonged much beyond the first of Sepiem-
| Der.
Representative Bowden of the Norfolk,
Va, district, says be has the assurance of four
members of the conference committe on the
| naval bill that they will sse that the appro'
],priation for the grounds at the naval hospl-
tel at Norfolk, that was stricken out by the
House committee, be restored before the
passage of that bill.
From Petersburg it is learned to day that
Mr.. Gaines, the present republican repre-
sentative fire. N that district has pretty well
abandoned hope Of a denomination, and that
he has written to his friends here that hi;
congressional life will expire with the termi'
nation of the present Congress.
The House to-day devoted several hours
to the consideration of District of Coumos
bills.
Mr.. Tucker, the democratic candidate fol
for Congress in the Staunton district, will
open the campaign in that district at Am
herst County Court next Monday.
A private message received here to-day says ono
of the telegraph operators who "e1odused' from
Jacksonville, Florida. account of the yellow
fever has been stricken with that disease at Colds
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