Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-04-18
From Washington.
Especial Correspondence Of the Ale1a. aAzaliH'I
WASHING ron. D. c., April Is, 1888.

iustructng the ways ana Meaus
Comnittee to report one of the many oiiis
hat have been referred to it for repeating the
tobacco tax. Mr.. Hopkins, OF Virginia, has
nresented petition of Purcell, Laid q Co.,
Of Richmond, and 500 others, for the reduc-
ton oftho duty on glass bottles. MIR. WISE
has presented petition of Mary Hudson
for pension MIR. Yost has presented a
petilion Of T. W. Coolidge and others
against the reduction of the duty on raw
materials also petition of Henry Sehufeldt
and others for the reduction OF the duty Oh
glass bottles In the Senate the OIL Ior
lighthouse on Cob Point Bar mas oeen re
committed to the committee on commerce.
On motion of Mr.. Vance the vote ny Whlcn
the bill to change the limits of the Attn Gus
toms district, in Virginia, was passed, was
reconsidered and the House was requested
to return the bill. 10 the Senate yesterday
Mr. Daniel, from the District OF Columbia
Committee, reported faporably the bill max
ing Inauguration day legal holiday
10 The District; also petitions from
citizens of Virginia for the ,preserVa'
ton of Yellowstone Park, and against
chasing druggists as liquor dealers
In the House yesterday Mr.. ToWnsneno'
from the Committee on Military Affairs, re-
ported fayorably the House bill making an
appropriation for the construction OF road
and approaches from Alexandra, Va, to the
soldiers cemetery near that city. MI Bow
den, of Va, from the Committee on Claims,
reported with amendments bill for the re-
lief of J. w. Patterson; also bill with
amendments to authorize the Court OF
Claims to adudge the claim of the Piedmont
Railroad Company. MIR. Gaines, of Vir-
oinis: from the War Claims Commit.
fec reported bill for the relief of
the estate of Henry S. French also q
bill for the relief OF the heirs of Mark
Davis, deceased. Mr.. Lee from the District
of Columbia Committee reported favorably
the bill making Inauguration day legal
holiday MIR. Lee also presented papers in
the claim of Catharine Fossett widow of
James Fossett also papers of the claim OF
]. V. Davis. In the Senate to-day a bill
was reported favorably giving the widow of
the late Lewis w. Washington of Jefferson
Co. w. Va, 81 ,45i for guartefmaster stores
taken from her late husband during the war.
The claim of D. d. Dana, provost marshal,
for services rendered in the capture of j..
Wilkes Booth was transferred from the
Committee on Claims to the Military Com
mittee.
During the debate in the Senate on the
bill to admit Southern Dakota as State
into the Union, yesterday evening Mr.. Ed
munds said, 81 think | believe in almost
everything that MIR. Jefferson believed in
and said but the difference between the
principles of Mr.. Jefferson as stated and
those suggested TO q friend of mine the
other day as 'barbaric politics l think ID
yerv wide indeed. The notes of MIR. Jetler
son on Virginia may bear pretty striking
contrast (pernaps it is not pertinent to this
easel with the later notes of Virginia, which
are in some trouble at the present time"
To this Mr.. Vest replied as follows: u
know nobody who is more capable OF manag-
ing the question of the latter-day notes of
Virginia than the Senator from Vermont
IftEe:e is any nc ce sity of invoking an pro.
fessional assistance he is always ready in
emergencies OF that kind"
A delegation of Alexandria ladies, Mrs.
Beckham, Mrs Johns, Miss Smith and Miss
Davidson, escorted by Major Robert w.
Hunter, called upon Senator Vance at the
Senate to-day and requested him to deliver
q lecture in their city for the benefit of the
Inflrmary there, he to select his own time
and subject. The Senator gave them very
genial reception, and said he would comply
with their request, aud inform them by let
ter on both particulars.
In the Senate to day MIR. Sherman; from
the Foreign Affairs Committee, reported
adversely on Mr.. Riddleberger's resolution
for the discussion of the fisheries trea.
ty in open session. 1t is, of course,
not known that he selected Mr.. Rid.
dlebergerS absence as the time to
present the report, but it is known that he
cast fnrtive chances all around the floor of
lie ba lov
seen that Mr.. Riddleberger was not present
Senator Daniel told the GAZETrE's cores
popdent to day that the Committee on Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds had agreed to
hold special meeting next Saturday week
for the purpose of considering the bill for
paving the claim which Virginia has turned
over 10 the Mount Vernon Avenue Associa-
ton, and that from the expressions of GER
tain members of the committee on the sub
iect. he was led to believe that the majority
of the committee was disposed to help the
proposed road. He said 1t wonld be we'll if
o delegation of those interested in the road
be present on the day named, and select
one of their number to make statement to
the committee.
Two we'll known and we'll informed re.
publicans-oue from the North and the
other from the South-while talking in one
OF the corridors of the Senate to-day about
the death of Mr.. Conkling, agreed that it re.
moved the only formidable opposition to
Mr. Blaine in New York, and that there is
now no doubt that Mr. Blaine will receive
the solid vote of that State in the Chicago
convention
The U. s. Supreme Court to-day an
nounced that it would hear the case of West
Virginia w. Kentucky for the rendition OF
the parties to the Hatieid-McCoy vendetta,
now held by the latter State on Monday
next. Representative Enstacs Gibson,
of West Virginia, will appear for his State,
and ex Gov. Knott. of Kentucky, for his.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Rela
lions this morning decided by party vote
[, report the fisheries treaty adversely. The
report was adopted on motion of MIR. Frye,
and Mr.. Edmonds was instructed TO secure