Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Ale1s. GAZETTE
WASHING roE, D. c., April a. 1880

Gspecial Correspondence Of the AleIs. GAZETTE
WASHING roE, D. c., April a. 1880.
The sugar re6ners, who want more pro-
lection. and the carpet manufacturers. who
want cheaper WOOL have pooled their lt &c
terests and will endeavor to have the taliH
hill amended when it shall come up In the
House.
r,ittse ON rules to which Mr.. Chambers
Gag law was referred, is reported 10 nave
said that in his opinion that resolution VIII
be adopted. Mr.. Speaker Reed ofthe House
told friend this morning that it would not
only be adopted, but would have to be, II
the republicans in the Senate intend to COZ
cur in the action of their party friends In
the House.
Es-Postmaster Windsor of Alexandria
has sold his new house In the fashionable
part of this city to Col. Dudley, OF "olocks
of FIVE" notoriety, for S45 600.
The House committee on reform IN the
civil service, now investigating the charges
against the civil service commission, meet
to day. A letter from the civil service COM
missioners was read protesting against the
evidence as printed and alleging numerous
errors in it. They say they have examined
the testimony taken, and this examination
reveals such multitude of glaring errors,
often of vital consequence, that they feel
obliged to protest against being held re :
sponsible for many of the statements "hicn
thew are Represented So having made.
| The following is the only change IN Inc
4,h class postoffices Of Virginia that was
made to- day Landmark, Fauquier county,
NJ. Zimmerman appointed postmaster, wee
Annie E. Skinner, resigned.
O.-oior Ioh,,o, Dlo cly u II q n Z,
Parr of Danyille, Va, are here to-day lock
ing after the postottice OF their clty. Elk
| Congressman Brown of that district is eX-
nected here tc night on the same business
The purchasers of the million and quar-
ter acres of land in Virginia, Tennessee and
Kentucky, recently sold By Col. Larry Bryce
of Clarke county Va, as agent for the heiri
of the original owners, are now ia Boston ar
ranging for the payment OF the first pur
chase money, $500 900, as their legal ad-
visers have assured them that the condition
OF that payment has been complied with
the presentation of q clear and undisputed
title to 800 900 acres.
The sui committee ofrepublicans to whom
the republican majority OF the House cleo
lions committee referred the Langston- Ven
able case, to-day commenced the oopsidera
ton of that contested election case, and, Il
is said to day, will have their report thereon
ready for presenta ion to the whole commit
tee at next Tuesdays nesting Whether
that committee will set on 1t or not before
.hs members thereof now IN Arkansas X
vestigatipg the Clayton Breckenridge cass
returo, the committee Itself does not as ye
know. The impression still seems to b'
that the lawyers on thu committee think
Langston has no case. But as the negroes
threaten to desert il not recognized, the re
suit rHmsips uncertain.
MIR. Green, Virgpia's agent for the colleo
ton of her claim for 1872 money, the bill tt
pay which has already passed the Senate
says he has assurances that that bill viii
soon be csled up in the House and be pass
ed by that body also.
In the Senate to day Mr.. Teller intro
duced real unaduiterated free coinage sill
yer bill as a substitute for the other coinage
bills now before Congress.
The House committee on labor to-day author
| jed favorable report on a bill forbidding the
employment by the government Of any aborer
who has been convicted Of crime, and prohibiting
| the purchase of articles made by convict labor.
| People from Philadelphia here to-day say the
protective 30 called democrats of Mr.. Randall's
old district are So intent upon running one OF
their own set for his scat that they will probably
d ,feat the real revenue reform democrat who will
| be nominated, and give tho scat TO a republican
Col. Haines has not yet sent his modified plans
aud estimates for Mt. Vernon Avenue to The
| House military committee.
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