Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-15

the Virginia State Grange, to the effect that
taxing olive oil made of exported cotton
seed oil. and prohibiting the use OF cotton
seed oil in the manufacture of lard, would
not be Injurious to the cotton planters in
the Soutb.
Mr.. NIL. We;hay, the last OF the late
Senator Rlddleberger's appointees In the
Senate, has been removed.
Judge Waddiil, the republican Congress
man from the Richmond district, told
friend here to-day that he would not be
candidate for denomination.
In the Senate today Mr.. Paddock pre-
sented protest from the Farmers' Alliance
OF Casanova, Va, against the passage of tho
| bill to establish government storehouaes and
advance money on the farmers' crops stored
therein.
| Ex-Representative Wise has obtained
promise from the census bureau that Miss
L. w. Turpie of his district ehall have
cerkship in that bureau on the 1st OF July.
A republican editor here to-day says he
has coOly enG dispassionatey gone over the
whole ground and that his deliberate opiD-
ion now Is that Vermont Is the only State
upon which the republicans can safely rely
at the next election. Pennsylvania and
Kansas, he says, which have heretofore
given such immense republican msjorities,
have become debatable States.
1t Is understood that charges either have
been or will be brought against MIR. JONI
SOD, who has been nominated for postmaster
at Danville, and whose confirmation Is nos
before the Senate postoffice committee
| Some of these charters relate to the part he
took in the riot and to his shooting the CHIEF
of police of Danvlle. Mr.. Blackwell, the
] e.. IN hOE
ttict at the last election, Is here urging Joht :
sons confirmation.
MIR, Williams of Ohio, REPUBLICAN, chair
man of the subcommittee of the House
military committee to which the Mt. Vei-
non Avenue bill was referred, told the GA
ZETTE's correspondent to-day that Mi.
Cutcheon, chairman of the whole mmlttee,
had spoken to him about that bill, but that
the members Of the committee had to be go
much in the House while the tariff bill Was
there that they had no time to be consider
ing euch minor bills as the one referred to-.
He said, however, that he thought within q
, ! week the Subcommittee would meet end
make report on the bill.
bill to permit the erection OF MOTEL at
Old Point Comfort for the accommodation
of negroes, which had previously passed tbs
} House, was reported favoraby to the Senate
. | to-day from JD6 VI tuaI bOuJ ~
, which it had been referred. The legislature
of Virginia passed bill to the emma effect
last winter.
! 10 a report made TO the Houee By the
library committee of that body yesterday Ill
favor of the erection OF q statue to the late
Secretary S .snton, it is stated that Ee sent
two and q half millions of men 10 thu heid
: and spent three thousand millions OF dollars
during the war batween the States. After
this it can hardly be said that at the point
, of contact" or at any other point, the federal
and Con federate forces appropriated equal
ity in numbers.
Mr.. Morrill,, republican, author of the
House pensions bill, said to-day that the
Senate substitute for that bill was in effect
measure to promote perjury and need
cancy.
Among the nominations sent to thu SeL-
ate tt day was that of William G. Repass to
be postmaster at Wythevlle, Va.
The House Pacific Railroads committee Mt their
meeting to-day practically decided to report blll
providing for the funding of the Union Pachc
Railroad debt in $50 aud that OF the Central
Pac ic in 2-75 bonds.
The negro who assaulted Senator Eustis AZ inc
circus last night tried in the police court here
| to-day and fined $50 and sentenced to threo
months imprisonment
Tho contract for building two new steamers for
| tho Washin ston, folk and Old Point Steam
boat Company has beon awarded to Harlan g.
Holingsworth, OF Wilmington, Del.
' Tho nomination of Mr.. Lurty, of Virginia, rs
u S. marshal for Oklahoma has been confirmed
His application endorsed By all parties in
Virginia-General Mahono on the part of the Ma
honoites, Collector Brady the p ,rt of tho kick
ers, and Judge John T. Harris on tho part OF the
democrats.
General Lee, the representative from tho Alcxan-
dria district, who, with Ii family, has spcnt the
| wintar here at tho Ebbitt House, has gone back
to his country residence Ravonsworth, in Fairfax
county.