Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-09-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
rspecial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gass'S
WASHINGTON. D. O., Sept. 2. 'o'0'

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rsn,cial Correspondence of the alexandria Gass'"l
WASHINGTON. D. G.. Sept. 2. row. r.
Senator Edmuods when asS.d 70 u scm - q
be thought the petition he r IS aleT.naris
tme ago for the retroo'Coln mbia would
10 the Dls;ri again? replied that be
ever oe he EARN the matter thought, that
nau essented IL at the request of rep
No n e.e cit zen. az be would have done With
Nv other so handed him. and that be took
40 little interest in it that he did not even
know to what committee 1t had been re-
ferred.
Among the strangers at the Capitol TO-
day was Judge John c. Moncure, OF Louis
ana, son Of the late Judge Monoure. OF STAT
| ford county, Virginia. He has been treasu-
rer of his adopted State and is now jadge
OF its Supreme Court.
During the debate on the tariff bill In the
Senate today Mr.Hale, republican. OF Maine,
made speech In favor of reciprocity, that
Ia of free trade. with Central and South
America. Mr.. KenDa, who though 10 Dao
health and said to be suffering from heart
disease, made an able speech In favor OF q
reduction of the duties on the necessarles OF
life. and scoring the republicans for lessening
the rate of taxation upon the rich ana In
creasing it upon the poor, and who Whiie
CRYING out tor the protection OF Americas
labor, do all t! e. can to impose competition
and burdens upon that labor.
A bill introduced by Senator Coke in the
Senate tc-day provides that hereafter no
national bank shall Issue circulating notes,
and that within elk months each national
bank shall deposit money with the U. b.
Treasurer for the redemption OF ifs crculs-
ting notes. The bonds nov deposited fer
this purpose ebal be returned. Unitt
States legal tender notes shall be Issued In
place of bank notes. Authority is given
national banks to lean money on real e.
tate.
La the Senate tc lay the bill to regulate
the terms of the district and circuit Courts
for the western district of Virginia was IA
yorably reported from tbs Judiciary COM
} mttee.
{, Senator Butler who has just returned
from South Carolina, Gays that Illlmeu
does MOI rrotess to be at the head of tue
Farmers Alliance of his State, but OF toe
+ f-rmers, thai he is democrat and recogpi'
yes the fact that the white people there can
oct atford TO divide, that unless there De
.r..t aud unexpected charge 10 popular
feeling he will certainly be elected Gnveri
, or. that ,hs straghtout democrats will moi
run candidate against him. and thst Set
stor Hampton will probably be ~ elected j
= the ii ua ion he accepted
During All inv es iea ion by the House u
dicury committee 10 day, it was ad6uced II
evidence that in ths Huntsville, Ala, U. c
: liudicia district, during the last year. there
: had teen ooe buc dred and twenty cooVic
o tions. but no sents noes, but that each OF tbt
convicted parties WAS paid $40 Tor witness
fees. az thsy all had been lc!orme.e npor
7, each other. o. ccursa the commissioner
r and clerks OF the cours, and the marshal ant
. defuty meSshsls ali got thsir faes also. Tnii
! Is one Of the mary ways by which the gov
eminent Ia plundered under the MODE
8 reform administration OF President harfi
r son.
Mr. Speaker Reed will leave horo tonight fo
Maine, as tho congressional election in his stat
will be held within less than two weeks bio VII
/ stop in Boston for a night, aud while there VII
make sre Oh in Faneuil Hall, in which he VII
''eo for thu South in good old time abolition
John Brown, style. During his absence Mr. u
lius Caesar Burrows will preside over tins house
Second Lieutenant d. g. Shanks, U. 3. a., hs
been relieved from duty ct the Virginia gricui
tural and Mech ,nicsl College at Bl.cksbni g an'
ordered to special duty at Camp Douglass, WIS.
Now that kc p sentative smyser, republican
Ohio has been convicted of corruption ana ioIce'
to resign his place on the committee lnVestisas,ns
| he charges against Commissioner haum, Ar'
Speaker Recd, iustes1 Of appointing an hones
man to fill the vacancy, says he will leave the So
lection to the remaining republican memoirs
the committee.