Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-21

From Washington.
Special Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE. u
WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. q, 1858.


Special Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D. c., Mar. q, 1883.
Senator Riddleberger yesterday evening,
an the hill to restore Commander Quack-
enbush. who was suspended for drunken
ness. to his rank in the navy, resorted 70
bulldozng and was eminently successful.
He said, II undertake not to threaten any
BODY, but if can not have proper consla-
Grafton of a bill which bring here from
committee because of the objection OF one
Senator, will sit here and Will Dc nU r
nopolist in the matter of objections. WIZ
see whose bills go through here Wnen QUO
objection can stop them. l listoneu yee.
terday until we reached this Dill, anu .ne 11
the Senate went back and TO- day am toiu
that one Senator can object to IL, ana IL ihus'
90 over. If one Senator from missouri can
70 ono thing. I will teach him the Lesson
thst there is Senator from Virginia who
ron do the same" The bill was taken up
and passed. only five members voting
AGAINST it's consideration, though the Senate
had been proceeding by unanimous consent
TO take ND bills on the calendar subject 10
objection.
In the Senate to day Mr.. Blair said that
his ex-Confederate bill was in order, put
that upon consultation with several sen,
ators on both sides of the chamber he would
move that it be not taken up until next
Tuesday. which motion was agreed TO. Mr.
Vance said. before the matter was dropped,
that Mr.. Blair spoke from incorrect Informal
ton when he stated yesterday that there
were twenty thousand ex-Confederates 10
North Carolina unprovided for. The wound
ed ex Confederates there were pensloned by
the State, and that no ex Confederate was
NOW or ever had been in an alms'house
there.
A conference of the leaders OF the low tar
;fr members of the House was held thls
morning, at which it was ascertained tnat
nobody knew exactly what strength they
had. To obtain such information and there
nv be relieved of the darkness in which they
ara now acting, and know how to conduct
their fight committee was appointed TO
canvass the House and find out how every
democratic member intends to vote on the
question. The Ways and Means committee
of the House has concluded the consldera'
ton of the bill, but as it now stands 1t con
tains no appropriation for the tobacco re-
bate.
In the House yesterday evening MIR.
Wise, of Virginia, introduced bill Tor
public building at West Point, Va. Mr.
Lee presented petition of Thomas K. Da.
vie, of Prince William county, Va, and OF
Charles R. Stuart, executor of Charles Stu
art. of Fairfax county, for reference Of their
claims to the court of claims.
Solicitor General links says that notwlth-
standing the recent decision OF the U. ,.
Supreme Court in the Bell telephone case,
the government will go on with its suit
against the Bell company in behalf OF the
Pan Electric company.
The House Committee on Agriculture TO.
day authorized an adverse report on the bill
to provide for payment OF an export 0oun,
ty of seven cents per bushel on wheat ana
corn, and SO cents per barrel 90 flour pro.
duced in the United States and exported
for sale in foreign markets. The bill also
provides for the payment of an additional
bounty of 2! cents per ton for every l0o
miles TO the owners OF United States vessels
ira importing such products
A prominent Virginia republican here to-
day, one we'll informed upon all the affairs
of his party says MIR. Wise since his recent
letter has written to friend in tide water
Virginia to the effect that Notwithstanding
that letter be is utterly opposed to Blaine,
is in favor of Sherman all the time, and
thinks General Malone should remain at
the head of the party in Virginia. de also
says, however, that such expressions don't
mollify the feelings ofresen:ment engender-
ed 10 the General by that letter, and that
the relations between him and Mr.. Wise are
now decidedly strained What was partic.
ularly Objectionable in that letter was the
statement that the republican party in Viz
ginia was all head and no body. To this, he
says, the General replies that Mr.. Wise
fho of hn ri N
mond district at the last election and by an
tsponzirg the labor vote there lost that dis
trict.
As stated in this correspondence yesterday
Representative Bowen was that day select
ed by the republican congressional delegation
from Virginia as the Virginia member of the
congressional republican campaign committee
Mr. Gaines nominated Mr.. Bowen who wss elect
ed unanimously. Neither Senator Riddleberger
nor Representative Bowden was present, though
the former was by proxy. 1t is understood that
Mr. Bowen will be the republican candidate for
Governor of his State at the next election. Mr.
Bowen in talk with the GAZETTE's coIrespon-
dent this morning said he was an out and out re.
publican, that he was Sherman man, that Sher-
man was the favorte of the republicans in his Sec
tior of Virginia, and that Blanes letter had weak
ened him in that section OF the State. There was
nothing, however, he said, at the meeting OF the
delegation yesterday that indicated the preferen-
ces of the delegation or of any member of it, 9th
or on the Presidential question or on the manage
ment Of the party in Virginia.
The colored Virginia voters in this city held a
meeting last night and adopted a resolution re-
commanding Representative Gaines for renomi-
nation in his the Petersburg, district but didn't
do so until there had been great row, in which
chairs, canes spittoons and fists were called into
requi.ition id the directors elected.
Representative Brown, of Virginia told the
GAzETTE's correspondent to day that the sub.
committee of the House Commerce Committee, of
which he is member, had determined to report
bill to the whole committee providing for the
building of new buoy tender or quarantine boat,
SO constructed as to be available for the purposes
of an ice boat on the Potomac during the winter.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
DR.. Cox. of Springfield, Mo-. has been
held in s., 600 bail for throwing vitrol over
Effie Ellis.