Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-02-06

r. 8. n, and to AZ the status of carpenters
In the navy. Mr., Lee, the resolutions OF the
Virginia legislature for the establishment OF
station at Alexandria for testing the prac'
ticability OF making sugar from sorghum.
Mr.. Hopkins, bill for public bulldog at
Roanoke Mr.. Bowden, bill for buying
certain property adjoining the Norfolk navy
yard. ,.,,,
said that as resolution was under discus
zion providing for an International ezposis,
ton. ii was an International question, ana
gave him an opportunity to ask tue c 70 II.
man OF the foreign affairs committee il ne
would State to tho Senate what WA the
character of the amendment he proposed 10
offer to the British extrsd!ton treaty. MI.
Sherran said he must call Mr. Riddleberger
20 order az he might just as we'll have aaked
him If he would steal. 1t wac improper,
ont Of order and not gentlemanly to ask such
nnestion, az the proceedings Of the secret
sessions could not be discussed in open ses-
sion. The president pro tenn, Mr.. Iugals,
se!d MIR. RiddlebergeT was ont Of order,
snd II hs proceeded must do SO IN order
Dir R,ddIeberger said about the only right
he had in the Senate now was the right to
ne reouked, but for all that, if he had any
thing to say about executive sessions be
would do 80 before the Senate, where be
would be subject to rebuke, aud not send
lettars to Chicago telling how he was goins
TO vote 10 executive s+ssion, as Mr. Sneru u
had done in the Lamar case. To the gen
tlemanlyn part uf what Mr.. Sherman hac
said he would not reply, as every man wn'
aware of his own gen'iiity, and ii be want
his Intimate friends were, He concluded oJ
saving that Mr.. Sherman dare not rise snd
tell the American people the character OF The
amendment he had proposed to the treaty
referred 10
Representative Browne OF tbs Asoo1acs
Gl.triot, Virginia. by lpquiring at the STATE
Department, has discovered that all thf
mopsy appropriated Tor the monument, and
it's approaches, at the birth place of Wash
ington, 10 Westmoreand county, Virginia
has no: been expended. He will try to
! have the balance made available at once
and also to obtaiu an additional appropria-
| ton.
It is reported this morning that the new reve'
nue. bill proposed by the sub committee of the
HOUSE Ways and Means Committee will be report
ed to the whole committee on Wednesday next
and be reported to the House on the 10Th inst
| The Senate to day passed resolution for cele
| Dr2tluE tl6 one uuuOTSuIu duhlfCioaig Va s"S
adoption of the constitution and the four hun
dredth anniversary of the discovery of this oonn
| try.
After the call of States to-day the House re-
sumed the consideration of the contested election
case from Indiana.
| Mason Davis son of Capt. S. b. Davis, of Alex
| andrs, page in the House, is another one of the
Virginia employees appointed by the last door
keeper Of the House who hsve lost their places
In the U. S. Supreme Court to-day the case Of
the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, that is
! General B. F. Butler, against the United State:
for infringing upon the rights of that company in
getting water for the District of Columbia, We:
dismissed Mr.. Goode, of Virginia, when Solicl
tor General, was the Governments counsel in thi;
case.
| In the Senate to-day Mr.. Riddleberger present
ed petition for prohibition in the District Of
Columbia The people who send such petitions
seem never to realize the fact that the people Of
this district know wha. is best for them, and thai
such petitions are an interference with their mat
tors which they naturally resent.
| A young man named Chichester in Alexsndria
for whom Representative Lee had obtained s
place under the District government here, having
refused to accept it, General Lee has offered it tt
John Doroughty. also Of Alexandria.