Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-08-05
,honobt that MIR. Brown, Mr.. Lester's pre-
Ssaeanr stands the better chance.

shouoht that Mr. Brown, Mr.. Testers pre-
dacessor. stands the better chance.
The House elections committee met thia
morning. All the democratic members ex-
cent one, 10 watch the prot sdiDgs, we're
absent, but Boss Reeds kilograms had
brought all the republican members back,
so there was quorum ofIepublicans. With
out hesItsncy tire quorum 80 composed OF
one party adopted the partisan report of their
partisan subcommittee, by which MIR. Breck-
ipridge, OF Arkansas. is deprived of bis 800
majority and defeated by % votes. The
committee also determined to attempt to
call up In the House the LangstoL-
Vepable case as soon ss possible.
Before that case can be reached, how
ever. the Chalmers Morgan case from
Mississippi will have to be disposed OF. The
contestant in this case, Gen. Chalmers, has
been reported against, not because ne was
not elected, but because, though now re-
publican, he is accused of slaughtering ne
eroes at Fort Pillow during the war.
which be will denounce the republican
members of the elections committee for re.
porting against him and In favor of three
democratic contestants from bic State, there.
by scouting the republican charge OF unfair
elections there, while crying aloud for the
Force bill to secure fair elections. As the
republicans know his intention, it is possible
they may not allow him to speak.
People from the Lynchburg district. Vir-
GINA, here II lay, say Mr.. Gaines has with
drawn from the contest for the democratic
domination In that district, and that the
popular incumbent. Mr. Edmunds, known
here ga Farmer Edmunds, will be renoni
natsd without opposition.
People from Alabama and Kentucky here
tc -jsy say the immense democratic ms iors-
ties at the State elections held In those
States yesterday. eighty thousand IN the for
mer and thirty five thousand In the latter,
we're the legitimate result of the Force bill,
which forced all the white people to come
together. Tais is no time, they say, for
whie people In any part OF the South to be
dividing.
Congres man TilIman, of South Carolina,
brother of the Farmers Alliance cand ID ate
for Governor of that State. Gays his inform
alton s to The effeot that the Alliance will
carry Kansas, Nebraska, Town, Minnesots
and South Dakota next fall, that Senator IL
CALLS is as good as defested, and that the sban-
document OF the Force bill is the result Of the
danunciatien o. that bill by the Knights Of
Labor. the allies of the Alliance, though
Chief Powderly aud Secretary Gomper',
and that some of the House republican;
who voted for that bill are not as easy noW
as they were before they recorded them
selves in its favor.
senator Barbour, who Is member of the Sen
ate District of Columbia committee, to which the
famous petition for the retrocession OF Aiexan
dris has been REFERRED says, OF course, nothing vii
como OF it, for the very good reasons previously
| given by the GAZETTE, but thlt according to his
experience the signers of the petition who COM
plain of high taxes in Alexandria, wouldn't have
| loss cause of complaint if their petition wee
granted and they were to become items Of the
] District Of Columbia.