Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents Of the Ale1s. aASarhAl

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jan. 81, 1850.
The snb committee of the special house
nm, mittee on the worlds fair were engaged
this morning In an attempt 10 carry ua'
the ,nstruotiops to formulate bill PROVO
ino for holding a fair In 1872, but maue
little or no progress. The committee on
rnles agreed this morning to report faVofa.
hIv on the resolution for adding four mole
,nemhera 20 the worlds fair committee, pu1
adversely on the proposition LOT maAlas
that committee report not only siIe pu'
plan OF the fair. rr,oo held an
othar meeting this morning, ana though LUG
ssnuhIican members made more concessions
~ fheir democratic colleagues, they refused TO
make enough to satisfy even the most easily
satisfied man on the democratic side OF the
House. Mr.. Carlisle says they WILL nave
another meeting tomorrow ana that ne WIN
try to have report ready before the resolu.
ton to oust Jackson, democrat, ana seat
Smith, republican, from West virginia
shall come up In the House next Weohes'
day. Mr.. Speaker Reed, on the contrary,
saws he doesn't know whether the report
will be ready by that time or not, and that
there is 20 need for any hurry, as tne oemo
Gratis ssy they will filibuster on the rules as
that he thinks the beet course will Do 10 20
RIGHT q ong. as the house has been doing, lr-
resneotive of democratic Alibustering or
democratic protests.
Among the nominations sent by the Pres
idept to the Senate to-day were the follow.
ing Augustine Heard, of Massachusetts,
tn be minister resident and consul general
of the United States to Corea; Louis Gotta
ohalk. of California, consul at Stuttgart !;
John F. Winter, of Illinois, consul at Mann
hahn Richard Guenther Of Wisconsin,
oopsul general at the City of Mexico; Ihos
! McDermott, of Tennessee, consul at Saint
| Thomas, West Indies; Geo. M. Pepper, OF
Ohio, consul at Milan.
| Among the papers introduced In the sem
ate to-day by Mr.. Hoar, was get OF resolu
lions adopted at recent South.batine
meeting In Boston, in which the South was
threatened with renewal of EortSumpter
scenes. with the calling forth of troops to re-
press e rising rebellion, with countrymen
and brothers in hostile array in tented held,
with their blood spouting and mingliDg 10
stagnant pools or taken In by drinking soil,
and with the torch and like cruel resorts by
black Americans taxed to bloody point"
la order to have this real old time bloody
shirt naper printed in the Record and given
as wide circulation in the North as posi-.
ole. Mr.. Hoar read It and smacked
his lips with the delight of the hyena.
| People from Utah here to day say the re-
publicans have organized conspiracy for
| distranchisng the Mormons, VINO are dem
ocrats, 10 the territories OF Idaho Utah and
! Arizona, and then admitting those terrific
ries as States into the Union, SO as to secure
the election of republican President IN
| 1892, irrespective of the vote OF New York.
| len of Mississippi told the
CAVITIES correspondent this morning that
Sens' or WalthRll, of his State, would re
spond to Mr.. Ingalls, late speech. and prob
ably do 90 this afternoon. Some democrats
| think the better course would DE to let IL go
without reply, and that instead thereof, the
speech be printed in large numbers and sent
all through the South as a democratic cam
paign document well calculated to keep that
section solid.
The Senate committee public buildings
and grounds have agreed to report favora
bly, bill appropriatng $4,000 for post
Office at Fortress Monroe.
The House Ways and Means Committee
at their meeting this morning adopted by a
strict party vote the cotton schedule Of the
Senate tariff bill of the last Congress, which
increases the duty on nearly all cotton
manufactures.
A gentleman at the Capitol to-day who
attended the funeral ct the late Mr. Riddle
berger last Saturday evening, says the at
tendance was very large, as large, he was
Informed there, as at any that ever previ
ously took place in the Valley. and that
every body spoke kindly OF the Diseased.
Congref sman Wise, of Virginia, was 10
the room of the House committee on public
buildings aud grounds this morning, trying
to expedite the passage of his bill for pub
tic building at West Point.
Among the bills introduced ia The House
last week was one for the relief of the heirs
Of the late e. W. Vsndegrift, OF Alexandria.
Among the strangers 10 the city Ia MIR.
Earhart, collector of the port of New York,
who is here to look afCer the confirmation
of his nomination Mr.. Barker, chief clerk
10 the comptrol ef's offoe, was removed for
refusing to allow the fraudulent bills of Ear
! hart, Johnny Sullivan and Shields for cleo.
tion purposes and for exposing those frauds.
He is still out of Office, but the men he ex-
! posed are still drawing large salaries.
Representative Forney, of Alabama Is seriou:-
ly Ill. :.
The following changes in the 4th class pO,tof-
fees in Virginia were made to-day: Hicks's
Wharf, Mathews county, w. E. Hicks appointed
postmaster, vice J. @. Davis, removed; King
| George c. g., King George county, A. B. Chris.
mond, vice II. q. Hunter, removed; Picketts,
Henrico county, w. G. James, vice t. l.. Pollard,
resigned Pigeon Run, Campbell county, d. Y.
Doss vice Martha E. Flynn, resigned.
LEGISLATIVE
In the State Senate on Saturday com
| munication was received from Railroad