Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-06

House. the bill to Ply William ! ABB OF
Srottsylvania county, natural ed Eognsn
man. S2,149.75 Tor supplies taken fron ms
farm Nv General Rockers forces IN 1868,
and General Grants in 1864, was passed at
Inc instance of Mr.. La Toilette of Wlscon
sin. As the bill had previously passed the
Senate all that is now required to make It
a law ia the Presidents signature.
Mr.. Allen having been induced yesterday
evening to abandon his intention OF insist
ing upon q quorum in the House Ter the
transaction of any business, several private
hills were passed. There were opportuai'
ties for passing several other private. VIZ,
ainis bills, among them that for the reilef Oh
General Sibley's heirs in Fredericksburg,
bnt not one of the seven republican nor oil
the three democratic members from Nlr-
pinia was present to look after them.
Neither house of Congress was In session
tn dsy. Several Senators and more repre-
sentstives were at the Capitol, but none OF
them seemed to have any more definite
idea about the date of adjournment than
people who are 40. Congressman nave,
though they thought that an agreement mad
beep reached by the conference committee
on the deficiency bill, The last of the regular
appropriation bills. As previously stated IN
this correspondence some Of the democratic
Senators labor under the impression that il
will never do to let the Senate tariff bill, de-
f.ctiye and liable to the criticism OF the
average reader as it is, 60 to the country
without being accompanied with some o.
their wisdom, and 30 il is not probable az
adjournment will be effected until they
have plastered some of that unappreciated
wisdom upon the pages of the Congressional
Record.
To show how crude is the majority report
on the Senate tariff bill, and how hurriedly
that report must have been prepared, not
withstauding the long time the bill was II
the hands OF that majority, it is only neces
sary to say that while on one page 1t is STA
ted that low duties increase revenue, on tht
very next ore it takes the opposite grounc
and SAYS low dues decrease revenue.
At the meeting of the Virginia democratic
association of this city last night commit
tee was appointed to collect the politica
assessments upon the Virginians holding
federal and District offices here, but thu
member of the association who had beer
previously appointed by the State demo
cratic committee of Virginia to collect thos'
asses: ments was not put on that committee
and the action of the Virginia committee IL
appointing him was criticized.
Some of the members of the G. A. Il her.
are very wro,h at what took place at Rich
mond yesterday, end'censuret the Pennsyiva
MIA veterans for marching behind tn
rebel" flag Of the old l7th Virginia. The.
say that such thing is almost too much 10
human flesh TO bear.
1t is reported here that ex Judge Sanester
Of Fairfax county, has been appointed U. :
supervisor of election to serve at the cleo
ton iu that county next month. II this b
80 the appointment must have been mad
by the IT, 5. district court.
| Gen. Lee of the Alcxandria district, in refer
ence to the report that there Is some doubt aoou
| the way his own county, Fairfax, would go. say
| he would not advise his friends to bet it would &
republican