Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-20


,nhot wssunder consideration, not only were
,be galleries cleared to-day, but even the
corridors back of them, and also the cores
nondents' room and the telegraph stations.
The re seams to be no doubt that the nomi'
no,;on will be confirmed by decided ma
iority. ,,,a
The House commerce committee helc
meeting this morning and heard Represen-
tatiye Lind, republican free trader, argue
in favor of 40 amendment to the interstate
commerce law prohibiting railroads from
charging more per mile for longer than
FIR shorter distance for instance, to pro
hibit the B. 81 2. Railroad from charging
seqenty-fiye cents from Baltimore to Alex
sndria if it charged only fifty cents from
Baltimore to Washington. The committee
instructed Mr. Browne to report favoraDiy
a hill for light house at Hollands Island,
Chesapeake Bay.
Daring debate in the House to-day on
Hill providing for State homes for I: ..
soldiers. Mr.. Spinola, democrat, from New
YORK. in reply to Mr.. Kigore, of Texas. who
had opposed the bill, said "The brave men
who had taken the field to save the Union,
the men who marched and bivouacked, and
fought for the flag of the country, the gen.
tlemau from Texas branded az psupers. de
hurled the assertion back into the DIRTY
throat from which it emanated. No man
shouId stand in his place on this foor and
brand the Northern soldier as pau
per, without bis (Mr. Spinols) reaenting. it,"
Mr. KiQore said that the gentleman from
New York had put words into his mouth
which hs had never used. He had said that
il was the tendency of the republican party
to enlarge the power, of the federal govern
ment and contract tho powers OF the STATE
government, and that this measure was 10
the line of this policy. As to the offensive
language used by the gentleman from New
York Mr.. Spinola) that gentleman was TOO
old q man for him to characterize him In
the manner he deserved F.; but if the gentle
man had henchmau to do his bidding, who
would use such language to him MIR. Kill
gore) he would brand him as liar on the
floor of the House." MIR. Spinoa withdrew
the offensive remark.
] In the House yesterday evening MIR. Gull
bersop, from the Judiciary Committee, re-
ported back favorably tbs bill for the re.
moval of the political disabilities Of Col.
John n. Parker, of Tappahannock, Va,
I which was referred to the Committee OF the
/ Whole on the private calendar. Mr.. Lee
| presented papers in the case of the claim oil
Edwin C. Fitzhugh, of Fairfax county, Va.
Mr. Mckee, who was arrested and lm-
prisoned here the other day for disregardiDg
an Injunction restraining him from drawing
his fee of $500, 600, 80 per cent. OF the amount
| OF the granted Choctaw claim, was tried to-
| day and acquitted.
Representative Gains, Of the Petersburg
district, who has just returned from visit
to his home, when asked this morning If the
report was true that Gen. Malone would
run for Congress in his district replied that
be did not know, but that things were very
uncertain in that district, and that between
Professor Langston on one side and General
Malone on the other. his fate was hard to
determine He said his impression had
been that Mr. Hooper and that gentemsn's
friends were so much opposed to Lsngston
that he, Gaiues, would getth support. The
colored people in his district, he said, under
stand Prof Langston pretty well, and con-
sequently are by no means unit in his sup
port and that though the Professor had, as
he bad been informed, through democratic
Influence, been enabled to have some of his
colored workers appointed to office, he did
not think that would strengthen him among
his own race.
The debate on the Mills bill in the House
was practically closed yesterday evening.
Tomorrow Mr.. Mills, the author of that
dill, will make the formal closing speech,
after which, at one o'clock, the vote will be
taken. The bill will be passed. Mr. Ran
dali is "a yet too unwell to be present, go
that his vote will be lost, a5 no democrat Will
pair with him. There is rumor to- Jay
hat the finance committee Of the Senate, to
whom the bi i will he referred as soon as it
- no p6
visibility of not acting on it and OF not re-
porting a substitute, but OF reporting In
favor of postponiDg its consideration until
next December and in the meantime Of
giving all the interests involved patient
hearing, and of preparing bill in conformi.
ty with tie Information thereby received.
Mr.. Frank Hume being asked this morn
ing if the newspaper report to the effect that
be might possibly be an independent candi-
date for Congress was true, replied that it
was not that unlike the President, he was
neither independent of nor better than his
party, and that though others might disre-
gard and sprrn its wise and time proved
policies, he would stand by them to the last,
and be found mourning over their destruc
ton as Marius mourned over the ruins Of
Carthage. No" said he, II repeat am
neither better than nor independent of my
party. I am in, .of, and for my party,
rather than for myself, as, unfortunately
for it, are too many ofthe men upon whom
it has conferred it's most coveted honors.
shall never be an independent candidate"
The conference report on the River and Harbor
bill was agreed to by the House This evening.
By it the appropriation for the Improvement Of
the Potomac flats. off this city, is reduced to
$500 900. The provision for surveying the
g Oh al hat ri a 10
site MARYLAND shore is retained in the BILL
Flag Pole Raising.
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