Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-09-20

bslliopn in selecting persons for appoint
ment to q place under the Government,
under penalty OF disqualification from the
right to hold Office.
MIR. Speaker Reeds intense and unscrur-
ulous partisaDism again got him into trou-
BILE today. Enough democrats, by agree
ment, remained in the House to enforce
demand for en- aye and no vote, but Mr..
Reed couldn't see them when they stood up
before him, though he can see them when In
the Hobbies and corridors entirely outside
the chamber. As every body else. however,
could see them, his acknowledgment of their
presence was enforced, though reluctantly
and with exceeding bad grace.
In the Senate tc-1ay Mr.. Blair presented
petition Of so me mbers of the South Caro-
lima republican convention for the protec
ton OF the negroes against the Injustice OF
the bill prohibiting the use of cotton seed
oil in the manufacture of lard.
The common talk 10 and about the Capt.
tol tc lay s to the effect that the republi-
cans 10 the House are retardlng and delay
layiug the whole b lsiness OF the country for
no other purpose than to turn fairly elect
ed democratic member out of his seat and
give it to a negro who was not elected.
| This talk ia by no means confined to demo
Gratis. That the democratic members are as
sisted by some oitheir republican colleagues
| 10 their effort to prevent the contamination
of the contemplated outrage, Ia proved by
the fact that at least six of the latter LETT
the city last night. Langston was on the
floor OF the House to-day. He looks sick
and detected. proposition was made by
the republicans to the democrats to-day to
lay the case aside temporarily, but 1t vas re-
| fused unless the suspension be until the next
| session.
People from the Marlboro. Md, congress,
ional district hare to-day, say Mr.. Compton
| the democratic nominee for Congress IN
that district, will be elected by such pro-
nounced majority that even Mr.. Mud, who
now holds his seat, and who Is his repuol!'
o,n opponent, will not have audacity enough
| to contest the result.
Only two democrats, Messrs. OFerrsl
AND Crisp, remained in the House day
after they succeeds sd 10 having an aye and nc
vote. The two referred are the democratic
guards.
Tee bill which passed the Senate yester
l1ay for a road from the Chain to the Lonl
bridge, running by the Aqueduct Bridge ent
in front of Arlington, appropriates $50 ,O0(
for that purpose, and provides that the roet
shall be sixty feet vile, shall be gravaled
macadem;zed or both, aud sbsll be free road
The bill TO improve the roadway to the soldiers
cemetery st Acxsl dria sppropriates 81 O0O ant
provides that the road be either gravel or a mac
adamized road, and shall go via Wilkes street t.
the intersection of Alfred, and that right of Wa,
be granted the q. g. at least fifty feet wide t
Payne street. and thence thirty feet wide TO m
| cemetery passing between two private cemote
ries Tho first bill has not yet been acted on b,
the House. the second hes passed the House bu
will have to 20 back there, a, il was amended il
tho Senate to make it conform to rule of tina
body.
Mr.. 8. P Bsyly, jr of Fauqnier county, Virgin
Ia who WAS talked about in connection with
republican congressional nomination in the Alex
sndria district is hero to dsy. He says the repub
cans of that di.trect, with few exceptions, are il
favor of Mr.. Hume