Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-05-01
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WASHINGTON, D. c., May l, 1883.
Tn the Senate to-day Mr.. Spooner offered
the direct land tax bill lately defeated IN !ns
House as an amendment to the sundry ciVii
bill, amended, however, by providing thaI
the amount to be refunded to the States snai,
not be offset by any claims the government
NAV have against the States; also tnae .he
whole amount be refunded to the STATES,
none to be retained for claim agents. VIM
must look to the States for any pay tney
are 70 receive: also that the period Tor pre-,
senting claims to the States under the bill
shall be limited to six years, after which
time the unclaimed money shall 60 into the
treasury of the States. Among the other
hills introduced in the Senate to day was
one by Mr.. Morrill, providing that the pro
ceeds of the sales of public lands and OF the
receipts from cotton. land grants and rail-
road. companies be appropriated to the more
complete endowment and support OF colleges
for the advancement of scientific and indus-
trial education. MIR. Blair, from the Com
mittee on Education, reported favorably the
bill for the establishment OF Department
of Labor.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Lee, of Viz
GINA, presented q petition of various citi
zens of Virginia for the repeal OF the law
classifying druggists as liquor sellers; also
a netition of Matthew Woodward, OF Prince
William county, and of Henry W. Quaries.
of Louisa county, Va, for reference of their
claims 10 the Court of Claims.
The nomination of Mr.. Fuller Of Chicago
for Chief Justice was so surprising that 1t
still continues to be the subject of general
comment. 1t is understood today that it
was suggested BY Mr.. Farwell, one of the
republican Senators from Illinois, and was
recommended by Mr.. Cullom, the other
one. and that no democratic Senator or
Representative was consulted in the matter,
Three of the democratic Senators who were
asked about the nomination this morning,
said they hoped it was q good one, but that
thew had either never heard of the nominee
before, or if they had, it had escaped their
memory. -,
Senator Daniel being asked to day If he
had seen statement in one of the neWspa'
pers of this city that some of the members
of the Senate committee on public buildings
and grounds say they would rather vote TO
make donation outright to assist in estab-
fishing Mt Vernon avenue than to rem
der any aid either direct or indirect, to.
wards recovering Virginias claim, replied
| that he had not, but that on the contrary
several of the members of the committee
had given him to understand thatthey were
in favor of the bill now before the commit
tee, and that he i5 in hopes OF having Ia
yorable report upon that bill.
General Malone arrived here last night
from New York, spent the night here, and
left for Petersburg this moving. When III
New York he repeated his assertion to the
effect that letter written after the republi
can victory in Virginia in 1886 was the work
of MIR. Pareons and was prepared at the In
stance of Mr. Blaine and in New York city.
He also said the editor of the New York
Tribune had advised the assassination OF Gen.
Grant, and had accused MIR. Blaine of fraud
and CORFU ton. The Tribune says the Gen
eral must either accept MIR. Parsons's nomina-
ton of Mr. Sherman as umpire or put
slight upon his own candidate for President,
and that Mr.. Craig, the Generals lieutenant
in the Valley, lis just the sort of calf to hang
| himself if given enough rope"
The bill providing for the erection ofpub-
lie buildings in every town the annual re
ceipts of whose post office amount to three
thousand dollars will involve cost Of about
eighty million dollars. The President is ut
terly opposed to the bill, and says if it shall
pass there will be- no need for any further
Efforts TO reCuce lne surplus.
The House to-day, at an early hour, re-
sumed the consideration of the tariff bill,
Mr.. McCreary, of Kentucky, leading off iu
favor of the BILL and saying that 10 his State,
the products Of which were not protected,
there is no such suffering as now exists
EN- ing tie families Of the numerous strikers
in the protected State of Pennsylvania. Mr..
O'Ferrall of Virginia, is on the list oil
speakers for to day, and though he has been
sick for several days past apd is yet by no
means well. there is no doubt that his speech
will rank among the best delivered on the
subject. In the Senate, after the morning
business, Mr.. Stewart made speech in
favor Of his silver resolution. In coose.
onence OF the previous announcement that.
Mr.. Ingalls, would reply to the criticisms
upon his late speech, in which he de-
uouncsd the President and Generals Nc
Cltlian aud Hancock, at o'clock this after
noon, the galleries OF the Senate were crowd
ed to their utmost limit long before the
session of that body commenced, and By II
O'Clock the corridors into which the galleries
open were 30 jammed that passage through
them was slow and difficult task.
General Lee, who returned from New
York last Thursday, went to Philadelphia
last Saturday to witness the launch. He says
the entertainment was prlncely affair, and
the refreshments as excellent and as abun-
dant at its close as at it's commencement
He says the expense of the entire trip was
borne by Secretary Whitney, and the cost
he has heard estimated at not less than eight
thousand dollars, the transportation alone
costing four thousand.
Representative Browne, of the First Virginia
district, says that because the warm weather has
arrived is no reason why he should relax his ef
forts for an ice boat on the Potomac next winter,
and that 30 far from relaxing, he has rather in
creased them, and will be disappointed if he shall
not succeed.
of the ship James and the schooner Lucy-Freuch
Spoliation-were certified yesterday.
Among the strangers on the floor of the Senate
to-day was General Dabney Msury, of Virginia
U. s. Minister to Bogota, who is now home on fur
Tough. The General looks bigger, fatter and bet
Tor thar, ho hef.ara Ln