Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-28
FROM WASHINGTON.

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forgive but forget.
FROM WASHINGTON.
lspecial Correspondence of the Alexs. GAHETTf1
WASHING TON. D. c.. April 2S. l8SO.
Mr.. McComas has completed bic, the re-
publicsn majority report of the House com,
mittees on the election of President and
Vice President on bic bill to nullify the re
cent action of the legislatures of Ohio and
MARYLAND in redistricting those States for
Congressional representation, aud Mr..
Tucker has completed HE, the democratic
minority report on the same bill. Mr.. Nc
Comas says be shall present bis report at
the fret opportunity. When be SHALL Mr..
Tucker Will present his. 1t seems to be un-
derstood among republicans that nothing
will come of this bill. as MIR. McComas IL
apparently the only men particularly Inter.
esied in it. The Ohio republicans don't
care fig about it, and Senator Sherman is
opposed to it aud says his State eau take
care of itself.
MIR. Mertens, of Cumberland, ia here to-
day. He says that while the receivers OF
the C. & o. canal, in their recent inspection
of that canal, found il in pretty bad condi-
ton near the Great Falls, they also found
the condition OF the remaining part OF the
line better than they expected. Ha says,
of course, he does Eot know what report the
receivers will make TO the court. but no has
every reason 10 believe, and none not TIC,
that il will he in favor OF maintaining the
canal 90 a water way.
The U. S. Supreme Court tclay rendel-
| ed an opinion adverse to the constitutional
i.y of State laws providing for the selZnre
| of LIQUOR brought into the State in original
| packsges. Such laws the Court holds are
| an interference with interstate commerce.
After the liquor becomes the property OF
| the Importer, the State may under its pc
lice powers regulate or prohibit sale, but IL
has no power ia the absence OF express Con-
eressional authority to prohibit the trant-
portation of the article from another State
and its delivery TO the importer.
Congressman Buchanan, Of the 9Th Viz
yinia district, has appointed o. B. Rosen-
baum, Of Smythe county, Va, cadet, and D..
c. Lsmpkiu. of Russell county, alternate, at
the West Point Military Academy and A.
T. Hull, of Marion, cadet, and W. +. Nal
tin. of Palaski, alternate, at the AOnapo-
lis Naval Academy. These appointments
we're made after competitive examinations.
Attorney General Miller being asked this
m rning what he thought of the Florida
protest against bis recent gratuitous libels
upon the character of the people of that
State, replied, in effect, that his object was
not to please the people of Florida, for whose
protests he did not care fig, but to execute
the orders of the partisan U. s. court officers
Of that State, and that he Intended to do so
utterly irrespective of what the Floridians
said or thought. Mr.. Miller, 1t Will be rec
objected, IL tbs man who removed terrific
rial Judge because his decisions were not In
accord with the policy of Mr.. Harrison.
General Wheeler, who is friend of the
Alexandria county fishermen 10 their fight
against the bill to probbit fishing in the
waters of the District of Columbia, says he
doesn't see how General Banks, tho chair
| man OF the ut-commttee TO which that bill
was referred. can report it to the House as
he intends to do, as 1t has not yet been re-
ported to the full committee of which he,
Wheeler, is member. But Mr.. Fsrquhar,
chairman of the full committee, told the GA
ZETTE's correspondent this morning that
the bill had been reported to the full COM
mittee, aud that they had adopted it and
! ordered General Banks to report it to the
| House.
morrow at ten o'clock is the Tina get
for Col. Hains to show and explain to the
House military committee bis modified and
chespened plans for Mt. Vernon Avenue.
| General Lee ia not only exerting actively
all his Influence with the members of the
committee to induce them to make favors
BILE report, but has got his personal friends
| In the House TO see their friends on the COM
mittee in behalf OF he same object. Nearly
| if not all the committee are we'll disposed to
the bill for the avenue, and nearly all the
| democratic members will vote for it, but
the republican members fear that their pen
zion bills. which now propose to pension
every man whose pane was ever on The roll OF
the federal army, will make such an nroaG
| into the treasury that no money will be lefG
for any other purpose, ana may therefore be
Induced either 10 oppose it or to reduce The
appropriation TO al utterly insufficient
amount.
As SENATOR Stanford, chairman OF the Sen
ate committee on public buildings and
grounds, will return from California by
Thursday next, it is expected that meet
ing of that committee will be held next Sat
urday, the regular meeting Gay. II such
shall be the case, 1t is probable the bill for
the Arlington bridge will then be considered
It is known that Mr. Stanford is friend OF
the bill and that me lrity of the commit
tea Ia inclined to it favorabiy.
II is rumored this evening that old Mr.
Sam Strong, now eighty tx, the man whom
| Zen. Butler recently mac imprisoned mere
for refusing to pay his exorbitant foe bill
forty odd thousand dollars, is sinking rapid
ly and may not live uuti IL tomorrow.
w. l.. Curriu, Byrd ]. Huff and G. E.
Porter were to-day appointed storekeepsrs
and gaugeTs In the 6:h, the Alexandria, w.,
internal revenue district.
Again the Virgnians who went to tho q. g. Su-
| preme Court rooms to-day to hear decision in
| the Virginia coupon cases were disappointed. Next
Monday and the 18th proximo will be the only
remaining TWO days which the court will len.
dor decisions previous to the adjournment of the
! session.
The following changes in the 4th class pos Of
icos OF Virgins were made to-day Darlington
! Ueighti PRINCE Ed ward cnnntv Afar,- Garta-