Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-08
From Washington.
lspeeisl Correspondence OF the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. O.. Mar. 8. 1883.

MFR. Francis P. Stevens, we'll known
member of the Baltimore bar, had inter
v,eg s with several members of the congress
sional committee on the Library to day in
reference to the proposed sale to Congress
of the sword of General Washington, by
Miss Virginia Tayloe Lewis, daughter OF
Capt. Il. h. Lewis, of Baltimore, formerly
of the u. s. Navy, to whom it was be-
uueathed, and who gave it to his daughter
when he resigned and entered the Confed-
crate service at the beginning of the civil
war. as one of the conditions of the beque5t
was that it should never be drawn against
the United States.
In the Senate to day an adverse report
gss made on the bill making en- appropria
ton for the construction of the Potomac and
Chesapeake Canal.
The House Committee on Banking and
Currency to-day agreed to report adversely
the bill to remove the tax of ten per cent.
on State banks.
After the routine business In the Senate
to dav the consideration of the dependent
pensiona bill was resumed. The Senate hes
agreed that when 1t adjourns to-day 1t ehall
he until Monday. The House at an early
b ur took up the resolution for the purches
of tho swords presented to the late General
Shields for meritoFious service 10 the MeIi-
| can war.
Mr. Randall's tariff bill is completed, and
will. ii is seid 10 day, bs introduced in the
House on Saturday next It reduces the
revenue from tariff twenty five million, and
from internal revenue sixty million. Its
wool schedule is nearer that of the Mills
bill than it is to that prepared by
the wool growers aud manufacturers, but
the latter have accepted it as the
best they can get. The republicans in
the House while almost unanimously OPP
posed 10 the Mills bill are as much divided
| 10 opinion as to the sort of bill that should
be passed as the democrats are, and the fact
that they are is so provoking to Mr.. Reed,
their leader, that in talking about it to a
friend yesterday he said be now knows why
hell and harmony both begin with b.
Senator elect Barbour and ex Congressman j. 7.
Harris, of Virginia, left here yesterday evening
for Richmond, to attend the meeting of the vir.
| ginia State democratic central committee to be
| held there tonight.
In the sspate Mr.. Daniel has presented petit
ton of F. Johnston and other citizens of Virginia
| for monument to General Andrew Lewis, the
! hero of Point Pleasant when Virginia coil wa5
The bill authorizing the President to appoint
VIM. English, of Virginia, al officer of the army,
! has been put on the calendar with an adverse re-
port. House bill to remove the political disabili-
| ties of Orris A. Browne of Virginia has been re.
ferred to the judiciary Committee. IL the House
Mr.. Yost has introduced bills for the relief Of M.
E. Harrison and G. Fl. C0rgell.
Representative Gaines, who has just returned
from Petersburg, SAYS he heard there that the
movement to make Professor Langston, colored,
his successor in the House did not as yet amount
to any great DEAL and that he also heard there,
thou ne doesn't know Indefinitely, that the Pro.
e:sor is not General Aahone's fayorite. Mr..
Gaines says ne thinks that he will receive the
support Of the regular republican organization of
the district.
Among the strangers in tito city today are
Messrs. K. Z. Prentice and ]. B. Primer, of SUI
folk, Virginia, who are here to urge the House
River and Harbor Committee to appropriate
$780, 900, the full amount of the engineers esti-
mate for the improvement of Ns2semond river.
Judge John T. Harris OF Virginia, who is now
here rays that no matter what sacrifices Senator
eject Barbour has made, or how much out of hsr-
mcly he may be with the administration, the
democrats of his State will insist upon his leading
them IN tbs next campaign.
General Tslisforro, of Virginia prominent
demoorst CT hie State, and an ex-member of the
Legislature thereof, who is here to-day, Gays by
no means are ell the democrats In his State i'll ia
vor OF the Blair bill.
Representative Hopkins, the labor Congressman
from Virginia, says he Is for the removal of the
tax on tobacco and also on fruit liquor, but that
be will not insist upon the latter; also for lower
ing the tax on manufactures, but not on raw ma
terial and that he is for President Cleveland all
the way through.