Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE
n q Dan 10 1890

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Dec. 10. 1889.
The sut committee of the House elections
committee to whom the matter had been
referred, agreed this morning to report the
order in which the contested election cases
should be considered. By that report the
order of the Virginia cases is az follows:
Bowen Va. Buchanan, from the OH district,
will be the Sth that of Waddill vs.. Wise,
from the 81 district, the oh and that OF
| Lspgstou vs.. Veuable, from the Attn, the
18th. The report also provides that the
cases. after argument and decision by the
committee, shall be reported to the House
| in the same order. IL is probable the re-
port will be adopted by the full committee
as it was unanimous and was the result OF a
mutual agreement by which each side put
it's strongest cases to the front.
Il seems to be pretty generally under:
stood that Mr.. Ingalls, will be put forward
by the republicans in the Senate as their
chief advocate of the bill for putting cleo
tions in the South under the control OF fed
ersl officials, and that in his speech on that
bill he will attempt to excel, If that be pos
sible, any OF his many previous exhibitions
of yenomous malgnity toward the South
and Der people.
The House committee that has been en-.
gagged In the investigation of the SllcotI de-
falcaticn, agreed this morning to report that
the money that was left, amounting all told
to about eighty thousand dollars, be divided
pro rata among those members who had
| made deposits with the ex Sergeant at
| Arms of the House, and that the government
make good the loss in the salary account
| This report will not be presented until alter
| hot
| adopted and 80, as has generally been ex
peeled from the first, the government, that
! il the people who are taxed on the neCe,-
ssries of life, will bear the loss caused by the
riotous living of one of the employees of the
House of Representatives.
Among tbs Alexandrians here to day was
lady who told the GAzETTE's correspoL-
dent that happening to pick upone of the few
copies of the Washington papers that are
Rad in her city, and seeing the adVer-
tisements OF Christmas goods and the cheap
prices at which they we're sold, she had
been induced to lose half day in order TO
come here, but that she did not regret that
/! loss, as she isnow satisfied that counting the
| time, travelling expenses, lunch. breakage,
| and trouble, Christmas purchases can be
made decidedly cheaper and more satisfac.
torily in Alexandria than in this city.
The members of the D. s. Supreme Court
ara utterly opposed to the Senatorial idea oil
changing their court room and offices to the
Butler building, south of, or to the Malthy
! house, as also proposed, north OF the Capt.
! toll. They say building should be erected
l for the special use of the Court and of the
Department. of Justice. and that the adoI-
ton OF any temporary measures WILL onl5 b.
the means of delaying the erection OF surn n
necessary building.
Among the adverse reports made to the
Senate to-day was one by Mr. Hoar on Mr..
Rlair's bill for giving Congressional repre-
sentation to the people fthe District of Co
lumbia. Mr.. Blair did not like the sum
mary manner In which his bill had been
disposed of, and plainly intimated as much
in the few remarks he made on the subject,
The call of States for bills in the House
yesterday was entirely unexpected conse-
uuen.ly many of the members were not pre-
pared for it, having left their biils in their
rooms. aud among the latter were
Messrs. Buchanan and Lester, of Vir-
einia. Among the bills the Virginia
members did introduce were the fol
lowing: Gen. Lee, TO allow the Falls
Church and Potomac Railway Company to
build railroad across the Arlington reser
walton Mr.. O'Frrrail, to give national aid
to State public schools. to settle Virginiss
claim for money advanced in the war of
1872. for road from Winchester to the
national cemetery near that town, to
erect q monument to General Morgan at
Winchester. to abolish the tax on to-
bacco and fruit brandes MIR. Bow1en,
for public buildings at Norfolk and New
port News; Mr.. Brown, for federal aid TO
| public State SCHOOL,, to repeal the tax on
| tobacco and fruit liquor, to promote the Ell.
| fciency OF the life saving service, to refund
the direct tax, for various light houses on
the Virginia coast, for monument to the
mother of Washington. for road to the
national cemetery at Fredericksburg, to pay
| Virginia's claim for money advanced to
erect the public buildings iu Washington
| and in the war of 1872 fer public building
at Fredericksburg by MI. Wise, to remove
the political disabilities Of Col J. e. Parker
| of Virginia, to regulate the purchase OF TO-
bacco for the use Of the army by Mr.. Ve-
nsble, for public buildings at Petersburg
and Farmville by Mr.. Tucker, for the re-
peal of the tobacco tax and for road from
Staunton to the national cemetery. MT.
| Wise also presented the resolutions OF the
Virginia legislature favofing Washington
as the site for the worlds fair.
| Mr.. Speaker Reed told friend to-day that he
| would not announce the House committees until
Saturday. He said many Senators and Repre-.
sentstives were anxious to 60 home aud COM
mence the Christmas holidays at once, but that
there wera 80 many diverse Interests to be con,
suited in the appointment of the committees, and
so much pushing and urging by members for
places thereon, that he would be unable to COM
plete them to his own satisfaction before Satur-
| day. ~,
The following changes in the 4th class post.
off ces in Virginia were made to-day Halfway,
Fauquier county, G. B. Sinclair, appointed post
master, vice H. A. Howdershell, removed; Par
hams Store, Sussex county, II. NJ. Tyns, vice NJ.
c. Rabbit. resigned; Shady Grove, FRANKLIN
courty, c. W. Draper, vice F. Cook, resigned.
sHor HIS Son AND THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE.
In Amherst county last Monday night fight oc'
Cured between Samuel V. Marks and his son, In