Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-02-07

for tbe loss of its jail destroyed while occu-
ried nv u. 8. troops in 1865. Mr.. Yost in
PRODUCED bill granting pension to ". NJ.
Mayhem.
Ia the Senate to day Mr.. Plat resumed
his speech in favor OF 8 protective tariff. at
its conclusion Mr.. Dolph will speak on an
Indian reservation BILL and when he con-
cludes Mr.. Call has the floor on the Blair
bill. 10 the House, after the morning hour,
bills from the Judiciary Committee were 10
order. the first being one to punish BANK
officers for fraudulent transactions.
The House Ways and Means Committee
to day agreed to report favorabIy the bill for
consolidating certain customs distficts'
among them that Of Alexandra.
In the House to day Mr.. Hopkins pre-
eented petition FROM citizens OF Liberty,
Va. for the removal ofthe tax on salt; also
q net;tion against charter for the Nicara.
guam canal.
The light house board has recommended
Mr. BROWNIES bills for light houses at Tangier
and Great Wicomico, and for buoy depot
at Chincoteaque, Va. All these bills will be
reported favorably in q few days.
Mr. Robbins, the ex-proprietor OF the
closed Braddock House in Alexandria, is
living here. He says that the debts of that
house, outside of what is due him for keep.
ing it, DO not amount to more than $3.50,
and that if the Pocshontas people would
nav what they owe for board tnat which is
| due rim would be paid.
Ia the bury Of the preparation OF this
correspondence of yesterday it was stated
that HIr. Sherman said Mr. Riddlebergeg 8
question was not gentemsnly. The state
lnent should have been that Mr.. Sherman
said it would be ungentlemanly for him 10
answer Mr.. Riddleberger's question.
The board OF reviseys in the pension bill
reau consists OF 46 members, of whom 40 are
republicans. During the three years OF the
present administration six democrats have
succeeded in passing this board and getting
In the office.
A delegation OF ready made clothing
manufacturers appeared before the House
Ways and Means Committee to-day and
advocated a proposition TO increase theduty
on foreign made clothes, from 80 per cent,
the present rate, to 90 per cent, the rate OF
the tariff on cloth. But Chairman Mills told
them he thought the better plan would be
to bring the duty on cloth down to 80 per
cent-what it is on ready made clothing.
Il is reported at the Capitol that recently
marked change has been observed in the
sUclel treatment Certain ObLuOCEaIiC 'huuiilcs
here have received at the hands of the White
House, end that whereas heretofore those
families have been ignored, they are now
remembered whenever there is ea opportu
nifty.
The suggestion that ez-Seerstary Gof of West
| Virginia, now member of the House. be made
the republican candidate for the next Vice Presi-
dency, is heartily endorsed by all the republican
| newspapers in his State.
| Many of the subscribers of the GAZETTE here
com plain of the irregulsrity with which they re-
ceive the paper.
! As anticipated in this correspondence, the con-
/ tested election case in the House WAS decided in
| favor OF the republican late yesterday evening,
forty.six democrats voting against the unanimous
report OF their own members of the Elections
| Committee, and that too, though there was Moth
| ing to show that he had ever been nsturalized.
The action of the democrats referred to shows that
the discipline Of the party organization has been
| entirely destroyed. Mr.. Reed the leader on the
republican side of the House, says there are too
many raw recruits on the democratic side. The
President it IS understood, Is greatly provoked
with them. But as ho has been independent
enough to retain republicans in and sppoint them
20 Office, it is supposed the democratic members of
the Houss think they have right to be equally
| independent and to give a seat in their body to
an nnnaturslized man, though By doing SO they
will elect o republican President should the cleo
| ton lie thrown into the House.