Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-01-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Ale1s. 9AzETTIl
Wlsu1ya rcH.D D. c., Jan. II, 1880.

FROM WASHlNGIUN.
Io,oo,o, corrssnonaenee of the Alexs. GAzETTE]
WAsH1sarcr, D. c., Jan. II, 1880.
The bill introduced in the Senate yesteT-
terdsy by Mr.. Barbour for q public oullolng
at Stsunton provides that the site AND DulIa'
inp together shall not cost more than sfo'Uoo,
and that there shall be an open space arounu
the building sufficient to protect 1t from 'ne
burning OF surrounding buildings. 49,
The following is the only change 10 eno
An class postofices of Virginia tna1 YVES
made to day Raymond, Surry county n y
Allison appointed postmaster vice - T.
Mancha, deceased. ~
no;nted Willie A.. Pratt q cadet at the West
Point Military Academy, and anne NJ. Iai-
10 farro as alternate. The former Is the son
ofG q. Julian Pratt of Waynesboro, q prom.
inent member of the Farmers Alliance, and
the latter, Of Dr. Taliaferro ofAmerst county.
II ia generally understood that MIR. Lodge,
chairman of the House committee on the
election OF President and Vice President,
will reportfrom tt a. committee g bill making
the adoption of tie Australian system OF
voting obligatory upon all the States. but a
member Of that committee told the ga
ZETTE's correspondent this morning that be
had heard nothing of any such bill IN the
committee room. The Houk bill, which Is
before the committee, is almost a verbatim
copy of the Virginia election law, except
that the election machine Is run from this
CITY instead of from Richmond.
The following Virginia nominations were
confirmed yesterday h. deb. Clay to De
collector of the port of Newport News L.
]. Jarrett to be collector of the port OF Pc
tersburg. and Henry w. Daipgerield to be
collector OF the port of Tappahannock.
Ex-Gov. Foraker, of OHIO, this morning
resumed his testimony before the House
committee that Is engaged in the investlea'
ton of the Foraker alstead forgery. bis
evidence was long and tiresome, and, sifted,
was to the effect that he and Halstead were
90 intent upon defeating Gov. Campbell
that they were willing to sacrifice Senator
Sherman, Representative Butterworth aud
| other prominent members of their " par
ty to accomplish that result. This is the
beat construction to put upon it, the other
being that in publishing the forgery they
really desired to ipj nre the parties referred
to as we'll as to defeat Mr.. Campbell.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Tucker pre-
scented the petition of J. Marshall McCue,
of Staunton, Va, for the erection in this
| city of q grand exposition building of the
| Three Americas for 1892.
General Mahone's friends here cay that
now that he has been acquitted of shooting a
c~harivarist in Petersburg he will soon return
to this city aad resume his efforts to hIr,
some more of his friends dsyaPRg ps s'Sllss5di to Office,
to ton nave ~ those aii.s ssady appointed confirmed
a1a a.BlS sG Che nomination of Mr.. Brady.
ar. is not his friend, az collector OF internal
| revenue for the Richmond district, rejected
REPRESENTATIVES Carlisle and Randall havt
| p7epared q minority r. p1rt on the rules o.
| the Houss. differing in many essential and
radical particulars from that of Mr.. Speaker
Raed snd Representatives Mckinley aud
| Cannon. who compose the republican ma
| iori,v, tt will be presented to the majority
lust as soon as they are ready to receive 1t.
IL will emphasizes the Importance OF the In
| diyidual acticnof Representatives and OF the
! preservation OF the rights Of the minority.
Col. John s. Mosbg argued his " case
before the u. 8. Supreme Court to day, the
government baiug represented 5y Mr.. MAUI
~, a assistant U. 2. Attorney General. Tue
| snit Ia for the recovery of fees amounting 10
| shout fourtt ca thousand dollars, collected
by the Colonel when Q. 8. consul at Hong
Kong, and by him turned into the treasury
though, according TO a decision in the case
| of General Badesu, they belonged to him
The claim was granted by the US. Court OF
| Claims, from which decision the government
| appealed to the U. 8. Supreme Court.
A committee from the New York Bar Assoeia-
| t'on to-day addressed the House Committee on
| the Judiciary in support OF pending biils TO IN.
| cresse the salaries of u. s. circuit and district
judges.
| the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, IS an ap'
! plicant for the place of keeper of the House rea'
taurant.
The Senate Committee on Territories to-day
| agreed to report in favor of admitting Wyoming
as a State and for getting Oklahoma a territorial
government.