Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-02-25
From Washington.
fspecial Correspondence Of the Ale1a. GAZETTE.


WASHINGTON. D. c.. Feb. %. 1888.
In consequence OF telegram received
by Senator Blair that Professor Langston,
coo.ed, and delegation OF the Virginia
I LEGISLATURE would be here yesterday to ad-
vocate before the House Educational Com.
mittee. to which that bill has been referred.
the Blair bill, that committee was called to-
eetber. but as nobody appeared, 1t adjourn,
ed iudefoiteiy. Representative Yost oil
Virginia, in talking aboat the Blair bill tc-
dav7 said that from what he could learn
from members of the Education Committee
II won 4 never come out of that committees
room. lie said general resolution, under
which it might be got into the House, was
introduced TWO weeks ago, but had been
referred to the Committee on Rules, where
It too. be thought would sleep forever.
The Virginia congressman were again
laughing to-day at the reception of another
official notification from the Legislature OF
their State instructing and requesting them
to use their utmost eXertions TO have ma
tional agricultural station established at Ar
lipgton. One of them said be thought the
| Legislature had got tired of that sort OF
business; another one said the Legislature
ought to move up here, and direct Virginia
congressional legislation at closer quarters.
In the House to day Mr.. Yost of Virginia,
republican, assisted by all the other Vir-
GINA members democrats and republicans
made fight for the bill giving lady from
the Valley of Virginia, the widow OF Major
R. NJ. Kirby, of the Seminole war, pension
of $50 month. The bill was passed.
]. C, Parcel, clerk in the Pension Once
who was removed in 1885 for ofiiclous re
publican partisanism, has recently been ap
pointed to clerkship in the Surgeon Gen
erals Office. None of the republicans re-
sign, and the few who are removed are re
appointed. Senator Vest Gays the army that
does not reward its own soldiers will come
to grief.
| General Lee, the representative from the
Alexandria district. has changed the scene
| OF his official receptions from the 9th street
depo' to the Ebhitt House, and the time,
| from once week to every day. There IL
hardly day that ne doesn't hold numer'
ously attended one just as he emerges from
the break fast room, and his rounds OF the
departments and government printing oi1ice
are daily. Blu, the reeult is inappreciable
The pub ished rel ort that Major Porter
of Falls Church, son of Admiral Porter, has
been appointed chief of division in one Of
the departments here, cannot be substantla'
ted at ans OF those departments.
The Virginia democratic association oil
this city. of which the late DIR. Corcoran
was an honorary member, met last night
but after passing appropriate resolutions
and appointing committee. consisting Of
Messrs. Biecoe, LuttrelI, Dean, Garnett
Jones and Fleming, to attend MIR. Corcor
ans funeral, adjourned as further mark o.
respect to the memory of the deceased. ME
Corcoran never concealed his sympathies
for the South in the civil war, aud during
that war went abroad. His property in this
city was seized by Secretary Stanton, and
would have been coDtscated except for the
efforts of Col. j. O. Forueg, who got Mr.
Lincoln to revoke Stanton's order. In death
as In life Mr.. Corcoran remembered the
South, as is shown by the gentlemen he
designated as his pail bearers.
The House River and Harbor'a Commit
tee will, on Monday next, consider the ap-
pfopIalions that are to be made to the llV'
ers in Virginia 1t is the general impress
sion that liberal appropriations will be made
in the River and Harbor bill this session,
and that, as this is a Presidential election
wear this bill will not be vetoed as the last
one was.
| 1t Is understood that majority of the Senate
committee on rules il Ia favor if not of open ex-
ecutive sessions Of at least some modification OF
the existing rules both with respect to treaties and
nominations.