Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-25
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From Washington
Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHING TON. D. c., July 25, 1883.
What the Senate will do with the taFih
continues matter Of as much doubt as ever,
and Ia as much 30 to the republican men,
hers of the Senate france committee as to
anv BODY else. The cause of this is the na.
tiopal republican platform, with which, OF
course, any bill they could report would
have to be in accord. That platform de.
olares against any reduction in the present
tariff. This leaves them only the internal
revenue to act upon. ard they know that
hundreds of thousands of their own party
will desert them if they avow determine
ton to remove the tax on whisky.
In the Senate to-day the committee TO
whom had been referred the bill for the re-
lief of Reuben Ragland, of Petersburg, Va,
reported in favor OF referring that bill to the
court of claims Mr.. Daniel introduced
resolution for purchasing portraits OF former
Secretaries of The Navy.
1t is reported here that movement ls on
foot to withdraw the temperance, the Two
labor, the woman's rights, and all the other
various Presidential tickets, except the regu-
lar democratic and republican, and to sub
stiiute for them one ticket upon which the
friends of those withdrawn can unite, and
that unless more recognition be given TO the
labor party in Congress, the movement re-
ferred to will be pushed forward By the
latter party as soon as Congress shall ad'
journ. :. -, -
Mr. Randail's physicians of the report that
he has cancer of the stomach, many people
believe that ne is afflicted with an incurable
disease, and that the days Of his usefulness
to the county are over.
The House Agricultural Committee at
their meeting to day agreed to revoke their
determination of last week TO postpone all
further action Oh the bills now before them
to prohibit the adulteration of food and
drink until next December, and TO report
favorably two of such bills, those known as
the Bu.terworth aud the Lee bills, WHICH
impose penalties upon the manufacture and
Gale of articles of food and drink deleterious-
ly adulterated.
Representative Bowden has iust returned
from Petersburg, to which place he went to
attend the late meeting of the State com
mittee Of the MahoDe wing of the republl'
can party of Virginia. He says the reply
that committee made to the communication
they received from the State committee OF
the anti Malone wing Of the party in refer
euce to the State electoral ticket, was that
if q majority of the republicans IN any ofthe
districts are dissatisfied with the elector
their delegates appointed at the State con-
vention, they can very readily and easily
appoint somebody else at the republican
congressional conventions, but thatltWss not
thought any change would be made. he
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was to the effect that the anti Malone wing
had little or no strength, that the party ia
practically united, aud that there vii! be
but one republican electoral ticket voted Tor
at the November election.
Senator Daniel told the GAzETTE's cor
respondent to day there was nothing new
10 the matter of the Mt. Vernon Avenue
BILL but that he hoped to be able to secure
the attendance of quorum of the Senate
Committee on public buildings and grounds
next Monday, and that if he did he would
certainly try to have some action taken on
that bill.
The Senate appropriations committee will,
it is understood, agrees to MIR. Hawley's pre-
posed amendments to the army appropra.
tions bill. This will obviate long debate
and expedite the passage OF that bill.
Representative Hopkins, Of the Lychburg
district, one of the two knights of labor in
the House. says that from what he hears he
supposes Mr.. Paul E1munds will probably
be the democratic candidate for Congress in
that district. He says there will be only
two candidates in the district, the regular
democrat, and an independent democrat or
knight of labor, and that all the elements Of
opposition to the former will unite upon the
latter. He says should the opposition eau
didate be an independent democrat, DR..
MurEill, Senator Daniels herin-law, will
be the man, AMI will probably De elected.
Senator Hiscock to-day introduced bill
pensicning all persons who served in the
army or navy from April, 1861, to July,
1866, at the ra per month oil one cent for
each days service.
Several members of the present House never
had any minds to lose, several more have lost
what little minds they had, and two have become
so dangerously inssne as to render their confne
ment IN lunatic asylums dire necessity. The
two referred to- strange to say, are both republic
cans, and both from New York-Messrs J. H.
MoffItt and 8. ]. Hopkins.
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The SUICIDE OF Mr.. ATHEY.-Mrs. ]. Fl.
Athay the wife of the younp man who COM