Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-04-28
From Washington.

In the House yesterday INC OIL ioi I" n
,damized road from Fredericksburg to the
soldiers cemetery near that town, was Ia
yorably reported from the Committee On
Military Affairs. Owing to the persistence
Of Mr.. O'Ferrall, who threatened to ral.e
the point of order OF no quorum unless n.'
reoues. should be granted, bill giving MIS-
Mary Maria Hoxie, of Harrison ourg, ualsu.
fer of the late John Minor Bolts, ana WIDOW
of Major B. w. Hoxie, of New jersey,
pension of $50 month, was taken up anu
passed Mr.. Wise presented a peteion VI
Massina Beazley, OF CnesteIhelo County,
and of Catharlne O'Dea, ana OF MILDRED
Ann Warrington, of Henrico county, va,
for the reference of their claims to the Court
Of Claims. Mr.. Bowden introduced bill
for the relief of Theodore Ieeo, OF Aiexan
dria IN.
Representative Brown, of the Danviiie
district, Virginia, says he has heard that Ms
party, n Patrick county, has elected anu
Malone delegates to the State convention
but that go far as he has learned all the
other counties in the district have eleeeeu
Malone Delegates. Mr.. Brown thinks
General Malone will not have mucn erouo'e
in controlling the State convention.
The desk of Mr.. Matson, who has just re.
ceiyed the democratic nomination Tor Gov
ernor of Indiana, had upon it this morning
a beautiful floral design, on which was In
scribed Governor of Indiana" It was the
offering of the Indiana democrats in this City.
% to last night eighteen speeches, OF the
.iphiy booked on the tariff BILL were deliver
ed Of which eleven were in favor of the bill
and seven against it. Several OF those 70
favor of it to be made hereafter by democratic
will be more in the nature OF apologies 10
Mr. Randall and his decreasing following
far leaving them than of sincere arguments
in favor Of the bill but though these
speeches will do the bill no good, they can
do it no BARN. MIR. Landes of Illinois, who,
by the by, ID a native of Augusta county,
Va. in his speech, said the only fault he
found with the bill was that while it did
not 90 far enough in the reduction OF the
tariff, ii went too far in reducing the internal
revenue tax.
Senator Blair, in a short talk with the
GAZETTE's correspondent to-day on the sub,
iect of his bill to prefer crippled to sound
ex Confederates for positions in the civil
service, said there would be no use in calling
i, ND merely 10 have it defeated, and that
probably he would not call it up again until
after the Presidential election, when its
consideration would be less embarrassed BY
politics. He said tho democrats seem 10
orpose il from the fear that it would be unpop-
uiar in he North and because they don't want
the ina to ba removed He said several OF
the republican Senators who hsd opposed it
" ould not Go 80 again, and that though the
Southern politicians opposed it, numerous
letters from all parts of the South as
sured him that the eX.Confederetes out OF
politics supported it to man.
Nearly all the Congressman and most OF
the newspaper correspondents here went to
Philadelphia to. day on the Invitation OF
Secretary Whitney to witness the launching
Of two new naval ships When tbs House
was called to order to-day only twenty
three members were present, and after MIR.
Kerr of Iowa commenced his speech against
the tariff bill, many of them left. The only
Vireipians present were Measrs. Hopkins,
Bowen and Brown.
Quincy, the colored man arrested yester.
day for rifiing the mails, ia one of the prom
inent negro republican politicians ofthis city.
Mr.. Wilson, who has just been nominated
for Attorney General of Indiana by the
democratic convention Of that State, ls
native of Virginia. was educated at Wash
inrton and Lee University, and was pupil
OF ex Representative J. r. Tucker.
Ex.Represeatative Eustace Gibson, OF
Wet Virginia made speech at the meeting
of the Virginia democratic association OF
this city last night, in which he took the
most pronounced low tariff grounds said his
wasa low tariff State, that thu Presidents
low tariff message had made him solid with
the democrats there, and that the State was
safe for the democrats next November.
A Northern republican politician, we'll
veised in all the minutia Of his party's
management, told the GAZETTE's CORES.
pendent this morning that whether the dis.
trict republican conventions 10 Virginia were
well attended or not, the delegates elected
by them.w5ud be the ones admitted at Chi
csgo aud not those who may be elected at
the State convention, except the four at
large.
At this mornings investigation of the af
fairs of the Standard Oil Compans now be-
ing conducted by congressional commit.
tea, most of The witnesses refused to answer
the questions propounded to them. At yes
terdny's meeting Two of the witnesses got to
abusing each other, aud we're put out of The
room by the chairman of the committee, and
told to settle their quarrel by fight out
side
The Phelps bubble has burst, and the Min
iater will return to England at the expira-
lion Of his furlough.
Congressional committees, as general
thing. have very little regard for people
who have business with them. The House
Committee on Claims made two engage.
ments some time ago to hear delegation
advocate the passage of the bill for the pro
posed Mount Vernon Avenue, but broke
one entirely, and gave FIVE minutes to the
other. The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds made special ar
rapgement to hear similar delegation on
the same bill to day, but when the delega
ton arrived, not a single member Of the
committee was present, and the committee
room not even opened.
Senator Riddleberger says it has been
printed in republican paper in his district
that be ia in favor of the present plan of or
ganization of his party in his State, of Gen.
Malone for chairman of the State commit
tee, and of the unit rule; but that nothing
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