Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-03-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
special Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE

FROM WASHINGTON.
rsr.o,al Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHING TON. D. c.. March -. 1880.
The following is the only change in the
All class postoffices OF Virginia that was
made to-day Dryburgh. Halifax county, =.
B. Dortch appointed postmaster vice u. v.
Willard, resigned.
The House committee on agriculture spent
this morning in listening to arguments by
Congressman Butterworth of Cincinnati and
Mason of Chicago, the former opposed to
and the latter in favor of compound lard.
In the course of his remarks MIR. Mason SAID
the farmer is the rock to which most men
hg for the foundation Of their action Wnen
they cannot justify it in any other way. 30
some city politicians fly to the laDorlng man
for their rock OF refuge.
The House committee on claims, IN their
report in favor of the claim of X. ID. Beckley
of Alexandra and Leon Howard, two col
ored men, for the difference between the
nav of laborers, which position they held IN
the House, and that of messengers, the du
ties of which they had to discharge, says:
| 1t is refreshing, indeed, in the experience
of this committee, in these modern days OF
thrift and accumulation, to have such bill
"a this referred to them. 1t stands out like
an oasis in q sandy desert-a standing mon
nmept-iike the honor and integrity OF an
Gent Lot stood out In his day and genera.
ton, that there was one man who did not
wish all the earth and its possessions. go
this claim stands in this generation. and
will. as an enterna monument, that Two
men, humble in circumstances, 1t may De,
and OF 8 prescribed color, are to be found
who are not on the make in their dealings
with the government"
The House committee on the election OF
President and Vice President, at their meet.
ing this morning, considered the McComas
election bill. At their meeting next We'd
nesdav they will vote upon it, and will re.
port it favoraby by strict party vote. The
Obi ect of the bill is to set aside the recent
action of the legislatures OF Ohio and Mary.
land redistrctiDg their States, aud thereby
to secure republican majority in the next
House of Representatives.
The House appropriations committee are
so impressed with the large expenditures
recommended by other committees OF the
House. that In order to keep some money In
the Treasury, they have determined to re-
duce the appropriation bills referred to
them to tho smallest possible proportions.
The Qualifications bill is one of these, and
that one will be very small this year
Gen Framework, ex-adiutant general OF
New York, and prominent democratic
politician of Albany, who is reported in one
of the papers of this city as saying that
Cleveland will be the nominee OF the next
national democratic convention, told the
| GAZETTEs correspondent this morning that
he never said anything OF the sort, nor any
thing that could have given color 10 The
lreport.
The report OF the House military COM
nttee in favor of an appropriation Tor
road TO the national cemetery at Yorktown.
Va, sage the cemetery is one mile south of
the landing at Yorktown and contains the
remains of 21S3 Union soldiers, and ia near
the monument that commentaries the sur
render of CORVALLIS.
In the Senate to-day favorable report
was made on the bill to reimburse II.
Rives, of Virginia, ex-collector of internal
revenue, for 1898 90, the amount spent by
him In securing the arrest of J. G. Henley. a
deputy collector, charged with embezz E.
ment.
In the argument of the Langston- Venable
contested election case before the House
elections committee yesterday, MIR. OFFER
rail-, of VlsgiDia. member of the committee,
by certain questions he propounded to Lapg
ston's counsel made the other members
aware of the fact that General Malone did
all he could to defeat Langston. II the rest
of the republican members of the committee
think of this case as one of them talked
about it this morning, Mr.. VenabIe will re-
tain his seat.
The dead body OF Ellen Warwick, won
an sixty odd years of age, and long resi-
dent of the lowest dens in this city, was
found this morning at the head of the dock
of the steamer Lady of the Lake. II is sup
posed that while drunk she fell from the
wharf and was drowned 10 the shallow
water.
Representative Leo OF the Alexandria district,
to-day introduced bill in the House for the con-
struction of road from the Long to he Chain
bridge or the Virginia side of the river also one
| to pay the heirs of Branch Kincheloe, of Eau
Guier county Va, $4,000, for stores Used By tho
| Union army during the war
The House District of Columbia committee this
morning agreed to report in favor Of estsbli hing
park and geological garden on Rock creek.
Arguments were made before the House ways
and means committee to-day in favor of duty on
oranges and on silver and lesd ore.
Tho House committee on territories to-day
| head argument by Judge Thomas Smith, of New
Mexico, in favor of the admission of that Terrific
~ as State.
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