Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-01-12
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

lshoma bin. When the House met to day
Mr. Randall introduced aresoiuiion abolish
ing the rule for daily adjournment: at p.
N. This would have received the support
OF every democratic member, but the repno-
licans objected and bad it referred to the
Committee on Rules, which will not meet
until Monday. The proceedings OF the
House then went on ss usual, Mr.. Weaver
saving he would refrain from fi!ibuster
ing until the fate of Mr. Randall's resolution
should be decided The onns OF any future
dead iock has thus been transferred from
the democratic 20 the republican side OF the
Houee.
Judge Sener, as chairman of the Board OF
Trustees of the proposed Washington Ma
sonic Memorial Temple at Fredericksburg,
who addressed the Washington Ledge OF
Alexandria night before last in behalf OF
that Temple, i very much grati6ed at the
f ct that the lodge referred TO subscribed
500, 10 be psid in four annual instruments.
Mr.. Speaker Carlisle to day apponted
the House members Of the conference com
mittee outbe Nicaragua canal bill. It's said
that oil Of them are in favor of recedlng
from the House amerdm onts, which pre-
vented the bill from being, what General
Spi lola called il, a stock lobbjng concern,
aud of accepting it es it came from the
Senate.
II any anawer has IS yet been received to
the letter Senator Sherman wrote to the
Secretary of the Treasury 10 res, ect Of the
direct ia:d tax bill, the sub committee OF
the Senate finance committee, 10 whom that
bill was referred, have not been informed
thereof, so that committee, who are waiting
for it, have not as yet been able to make y
report TO the whole committee.
Among tho petitions presented IN the
Senate to-day was one By Mr.. Faulkner, OF
West Virginia, from Mrs. Henrietta B. Lee,
of Jefferson county, asking for such recon.
pense as the government may be disposed
to make for the destruction of her house in
1864 by federal soldiers under command CT
her relative, General Hunter.
Representative Browne, OF Virginia, re-
ceiyed letter from Secretary Villas ye5ter'
dav to the effect that as long as he, Villas
remains at the hesd Of The Interior Depart
ment % otiicer OF the Mexican war @ao
served in the Confederate army ehall re-
ceive pension. Ald this, too, it must be
re m mbeTe5, though the legal officer o! his
own department. t1s laws of Congress and
a decision OF the L. S. Supreme Court al
lag rec that such office. ere entitled to pen
Isions.
| Senator elect Barbour and Governor Les
arrived here last night from Richmond aac
mad conference here to-day. Mr.. Barbou
ssys the virginia democratic COMMITTEES, al
ita lste meeting, did not appoint commit
tee 10 csl upon the Governor with refer
erce to an exirg session OF the legislature
az reported il scme Of the newspaper; that
il Gid appoint committee 10 attend IL
-. i. bns Il Del
OF the legislature member OF that commit
tee He says that from what ne heard beis 10
ducad TO think & mel ority Of the State Com
miuee zee no Urgent necessity for an exlrs
session OF The legislature, and that an ansly
sis OF the voie # the Safe at the last olec
tion shows that a Is N ar vote mex, fnfl
l;. give tue democrats majority o
eight in the House OF Delegates and FIVE ia
| the Senate. He says he dCeeut know why
there ssou De an extra session, aud tbo'
he believes Governor Lee has "a yet beer
informed Of nothing that viii ndnca him to
call one.
The Mahcne delegation that started ffon
u,re Ion !aLiana pulls day before Yesterday
took with them letter from Fred Doug ass
70 tbs nsc. that the negroes did no. Think
the time bid yet cOme for them to be repre-
seuted by one of their own race in TIE
Cabinet; and ihst they would be salts.
fl ID if Genera! Malone be appointed
Tae delegation also took with them an en-
dorsement of the NorSh Caroioa republi
cans They tried to obtain letters from Sen
ators Sherman, Plumb, Cameron. Qnay ard
others. Ii is understood that Mr.. Quay pos
itiveIy refused, and that MIR. Cameron,
though great personal friend of the Cen
ersl. is 50 unfriecG y 20 Mr.. Harrison that
he did not think recommendation from
him would be in good taste. 1t is said that
Mr.. p ,unh also declined Whether Mr.. Sher-
man complied With the request is not known
That the Mahoneiies are TO make dead
set up on Mr.. Harrison is apparent. As
soon as the delegation referred to shall re-
turn, it will BE- followed In rotation
and with the sarne object by delegations
appointed by the conference Of Southern
republicans, By the Southern members of Con-
gress by the republican Presidential electors of Viz
ginis, aud by the negroes of Virgins. The anti
Mahcneites say the NJ shoneites OVERRIDING theii
work, and that all of it will amount to nothing