Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-23

nublican credu!ity to the stretch in claiming
twenty thousand republican majority, II he

nublican credulty TO the sIelcn III cis!uhoS
twenty thousand republican majority, II Ne
had done so.
aneech at the Grange Camp, near Fails
Chnrch. yeste rday, Gays his trip there was
very agreeable one, and that Though there
,uas not as large a crowd as he expected to
ace aN who were there seemed to enjoy
themselves. He says be did not know IN
tjl he left there that many of the people OF
that neichborhood are northern settlers, put
that. willie be spoke ss though his audience
was composed entirely OF e1-Confederates
or their. children, he said nothing that could
offend the sectional feelings OF the most To-
teusely northern man.
Representative Butterworth, republican,
of Ohio, who, in the tariff debate with rep
resentatiye Wilson, of West Virginia. dem
ocrat before the Woodlawn Farmers Ciub
last Saturday, took the protective side, be-
inn asked to day who seemed to have the
feelings Of the audience with him on that
occasion. replied that it was difficult to tell,
hut that from the applause he was rather
disposed to think that the majority were
with Mr.. Wilson.
It ia reported here from the 9th Virginia
district that the prohi5itionists there are TO
run Mr.. Wineo, republican, for Congress,
and that he will take Oft no little strength
from Mir. Bowen, the present republican rep
resen;a,ive from that district, who will be
renomipated by his party.
II is reported here from Petersburg, Va,
that Langstou, the colored republican can
didate for Congress there, says that not
witnstanding Mahone'5 and Fred. Doug
lass's opposition to him, he will be elected,
end that he says he knows heis popular In
the district because in Mecklenburg county
Mr.. Thorpe was put up against BIN, but
that he cot such an overwhelming majority
that MIR. Thorpe gracefully accepted the Sit
uation, and eulogized his fitness for seat IN
Congress.
The republican caucus committee OF the
Sepate have proposed to the similar com
mittee of the democrats OF that body That
| Congress take recess Tor Two weeks, but
the latter have declined to accept the prop
osition. The democratic Senators say Con-
press should remain in session until all the
necessary appropriation bills shall be
passed. and that then if there be no more ma
tional legislation TO be enacted. itshould ad
Eiourn regularly and in order as it does at
the expiration ofevery long session.
Senators VOORHEES, and Butter will address
the democrats of Augusta county, w., at
Stanton next Monday, court day. On the
same day Representatives Taraney, OF
Michigan, and Allen, of Mississippi, will
address the democrats Of Accomsck. On
the first Monday in September Dir. Speaker
Carlisle will address the democrats OF Rock
bridge county at Lexington. All these
speakers will advocate the Presidents wise
low tariff ideas.
There seems to be no more definite idea
about the time the Senate finance commit
tee will report it's tariff bill now than there
was month ago. There is no doubt of the
fact that the West and Northwest are in
favor of reduction Of the tariff, while the
Esst is opposed to it. Such difference OF
course makes it difficult to prepare bill
that will reconcile the con rary interests.
Then, too, the national republican platform
declares against any reduction OF The tariff /;
go that 20 prepare bill that Wi reduce the
tariff and ct the same time be in accord With
a platform that declares the tariff shall not
be reduced, ia job which more astute men
than the republican members of the Senate
! inarc committee can not easily do. And
besides all this, il is binteG around the CON-
mittee room that the President is waiting
for the bill referred 10 80 that be can riddle
il in his long deferred letter accepting the
reorganization conferred upon him at st.
Louis. and that the republican Senators are
not willing to sford lin that opportunity.
! In the Senate lay Mr.. igsrts made
| long speech Oh the resolution relative to the
statue OF General Garibaldi. At its conclu-
sion Mr. Chandler resumed his bloody shit
speech on the alleged suppression OF lie CO..
| ored vote in the South By murder, h)egin9
and bullaosiug. The House spent some
time in referring SAnate bills 20 the proper
! t - .aH . hot ha . ~
GRAFTON OF the defci.ncy bill, containing q
provision for the payment of the French
| Spoi:s,ioa Claims, will be resumed later in
the day, aa6 that Err. Burnes and others
will make further opposition to the payment
of those claims,
! Tho discovery that the appropriation bills for
/ next year will about absorb all but fourteen mil
| lion dollsrs of The estimated revenue for that
year will, it is feared, initiate against the adop-
| tion of any of the proposed amendments to those
bills that will increase the amount of the appro-
priations, including the one for Mt. Vernon ave-
nue. and that for returning to Virginia the money
she advanced the government in the war of 1872
| though it is provided in the latter that all the
money shsll be retained in the treasury to Offset
claims the government holds against Virginia.
| 1t is reported here from the Stanton district
that the Malone republicans in that district are
trying to get Mr.. Cr4igs consent to be the repub-
licsn candidate for Congress in that district, and
that ii they succeed he will be the nominee of the
republican convention.
DR.. Murrell, who has been spoken of as an indie
pendent candidate for Congress in the LyDchburg
| district of Virginia was at the Capitol to-day.
He says be thinks there will be an old whg can
didate for Congress in his district. and that he
will get large vote, but that whether he, Muir
rell, will be That candidate is matter for future
determination, though he has already received
many letters from various parts of the district
urging him to announce himself. He says he
hears that Mr.. Hopkins, the present labor repre-
sentative from that district, will luu again, but
that il he Shall he fears he will fly the track, be
translated, and never be heard of again.
Among the STRANGERS at tho Capitol to-day were
Judge Claiborn, of Franklin county, Virginia and
Mr.. w. L Moore, member of the Virginia Legis-
lature. The former says he subscribes for a
Lynchburg newspaper solely for the purpose of
reading the Washington correspondence of the
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