Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-06-14
From Washington
[5recial Correspondence Of the AIe1s. uAzETIE'I
WASHING TON. D. c., June IA, 1855.

favor of REFER ng tho bill for the relief OF
Isaac Davenport and other citizens OF Vir-
pinia TO the court of claims. In the House
Mr.. Brown presented g petition OF ). M:
Neal and no others of Danville, Va, and OF
John P. Millner, Of Brosville, Va, LOT the
repeal of the tobacco tax also petltion OF
w. y. James and others, OF FRANKLIN coun-
ty. Va. for the more effective protection OF
agriculture. Mr.. O'Ferrall presented Pc
,ition of Geo. w. Fiber, colored, for pay as
laborer under the doorkeeper of the House:
M Gaines introduced q bill for the relief of
G. r. Gray
Senator Riddleberger says he does not IL
tend to speak on the Canadian fisheries
treaty, as he is satisfied with having gained
his object in having that treaty discussed in
open session.
Representative Lewler. of Chicago, says
he has succeeded in having the Senate bill
for the relief CT the heirs of the late Joseph
Maddox, of Alexandria, put high up on the
House calendar, and that he thinks some
other member should now take it in charge,
az be has his own local bills TO look after.
Representative Brown, of the Danvllle,
Va, district, who has just returned from ms
home, says the only names be heard men
toned in connection with the democratic
nomination for Congress in that district are
those of Messrs. Sutberln, Cabell and
Brown; that the former is NEST talked
about, but that he believes Cabell can get 1t
If he tries. For the republican nomination
Messrs. Blackwell, Powell and Cornet are
sooken of. He is disposed, however, TO
think that he will be renominated.
The House committee to whom the reso-
luton for celebrating the four hundredth
anniversary Of the discovery of America b9
grand exposition in this city, was referred,
has agreed unanimously TO report 1t iavofa-
bly,.
The House to day at an early hour re
sumed the consideration ofthe Mills bill, the
section under debate being the one relating
to tin plate, on which Mr.. Yost, OF Virginia,
Yesterday made very good speech. Inc
debate on this bill will probably be inter
| rupted next week by the consideration oil
regular appropriation bills, as large mum.
I Der of the republican members Will attend
/ the Chicago convention. and as all who shall
4 do 30 will have pairs, 80 that nothing can De
done with the bill until they return.
Senator Daniel has returned from Chan-
celorsvile, where be made the jackson
monument address yesterday. 1t is said the
stand from which the Senator spoke WAS so
badly located that only few people could
hear him. All W no could hear him however,
speak of his address IS beautiful piece of
rhetoric and oratory.
The Senate to-day after the morning BUSH
ness look up the agricultural appropriation
! bill having yesterday passed the District
appropriation bill. Ia the morning BUSH
ness resolution was adopted allowing all
persons employed in the service of the
| United States who were present at the bat
ltIo of oil In
Confederate forces, leave of absence TO at
tend the reunion at Gettysburg on the 81
proximo hut not until it had been amended,
at the instance of Mr.. Hoar. SO as to contain
no reference to the Confederacy, as such
name, ne thought, should not be mentioned
in the official proceedings of Congress.
1t Ia understood that at the meeting of the
| Virginia democratic association to be held
! here to- morrow night to ratify the action of
| the ST. Louis convention, q resolution will
be introduced to the effectth the old issues
| in Virginia be abandoned and that econimic
questions shall be the leading issue of the
coming campaign in their State, the Presi-
dents low tariff message W. the republican
high tariff.
Representative Bowden, of the Norfolk
district in Virginia, in a short talk with the
| GAZETTEs correspondent to-day, said as the
republican party of his State was represent
ed by the delegates elected at Petersburg, he
supposed they would be admitted at Chicago.
Continuing, he said the delegates would vote
| for Sherman, who is the strongest man the
convention could run, so far as Virginia is
concerned, as of the 80 600 coored votes
| that would be polled in that State Sherman
would receive $1,000, and, with the white
| republican vote, would carry the State, with
out peradventure. When asked how many
1 colored votes the democrats would receive,
he said they had never received any before.
and as every colored man 10 the State has
heard of Sherman and is favorab'y dis
posed towards him, he didn't see why it
| shou be different with them now.
| Among the strangers in the city to-day is ex-
| Senator Lewis of Virginia, who is on his way to
| the Chicago convention as one OF the anti Malone
delegates from his State. Mr.. Lewis has entirely
| recovered his health and, barring his defective
eye sight, seems to be well as he was ten years
ago. He says if permitted he will tell the COM
mittee on credentials the true story of Mahoneism,
and that then, he thinks, there will be no doubt
| about which set of delegates will be sdmtted. He
gives many illustrations OF Mahone's methoes,
among them that afforded in the case of delegate
to the Petersburg convention from his district,
whose way to the convention and back WAS paid
by the General, and to whom when the conven-
tion was over a ten.dolar bill was handed with
the remark that his expenses had probably ex-
ceeded the amount of money he had brought with
him. The Senator says that so far as the counties
of Shenandoah, Rockingham and Augusta
! concerned, an overwhelming majority of the re-
publ, an party il opposed to Malone. About the
other portions of the State he is not prepared to
speak of his own knowledge, but that from what he
hears, it is not improbable that it is the same way
in them MI Lewis says that since he has been
here he has talked with good many republican
Senators and Representatives,, thinking that they
would probably know who would be nominated
at Chicago. but that he finds they are as ignorant
on that subject as he is. He believes. however,
that Blaine is the strongest man that can be NOM
mated, and that he will be; and also that the
anti Malone district delegates will be admitted
at the national republican convention.
Ex-U. 8 Marshal Watts, of the western district
of Virginia Malone delegate to tho Chicago
convention, is here to day. He says his delega.
tion will start from here on Saturday, and that
though he wears no badge, he is for Malone all
the time, and that if Mahone's followers were