Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-01-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
-special corresponasnce Of ahe Alesandrie Gasette


WAssrae ron. Q. O.. Jan. IL, 1890.
Whist iha resso0 10 has Tot yes been di-
-vujped. bat Tbs fsct is tbat the work of
coak,ng eli sorts of ammunition has recent
" been incres SD st the Navy Yard hero
aas Is pcw being prosecuted uniGtsrrupteC-
Iy pisht auG Gav.
a lrcminept Nav York democrat ct the
Capitol to-day says that while the democrats
of his State ars aware of the fact that MIR.
CisvelaGd is popular in most of the other
States, they still lhlDk be will not have
sirgle member of Tho New York delegation
10 the next national democratic convention,
and are confident that that convention will
not nominate q man Objectionable to the
party Of his own State.
The friends of the Washington and ar
lIngton Railroad bill did not attempt to call
up that bill in the Houae to-day, but Wli!
try to 60 so st 81 early day as thu BIZ!
he's passed the Senate and is Dow Oh the
Saeaker'a table In the House, under the
rules If that body, it can De called &C any
| time.
Lieut.. John y. L. Holcombe has been de-
t.ched from duty in Coast Survey end Or
dered to the Fish Commission steamer al
| betrosg.
Il is the intention of r representative RoS-
ers Ct an ee,ly dag to ask the House for the
reason of the fsct that while Mr.. Speaker
Reed voted FOR the bill to refund the direct
land tax Ia e democratic Congress, he
ooD, in republican Congress, refuses to
allow that bill 10 bs taken up.
| Ii is said st ehs Capital today that the
siivar bill will dbsily go to conference
mmittee, which will report bill that will
| M epDrovei 5y the President.
| Z claim egent here had in his possession
to-day land warrant issued to Mrs. Etz''
aeth Hunter, widow Of Major Teliaiefro
| Hunter, quarte.mas'er In the Virginia mi
itia in the war of 1872 for one huuGred and
sixty acres Of lands. MIS-. Hunter died long
ago, aad of eli Der children DR.. Hurter, oil
King George G Z, Virginir, row veneer
able old gentleman, is the only survivor.
The bill for Ia admission OF the ShenaG-
doeh Valley Railroad into this city is now
before subcommittee of the House District
Of Columbia committee. That committee
" "a ready 70 consider the bill last Wedne5-
day, but Mr.. Sands, the counsel In the case
| Hss on shat day engaged in the U. 5. Su
pret3e Cour'. General Lee has attempted
o have tbs bill taken out OF the hands o
| the sab. committee 50 that II Can be cOnsid
cred in the whole committee, but as yet ha'
oeep unable to do Sd. There Is rumor 10
the lobb, OF the House to the effect that Che
surveys for the rou;e from River.oa 10 Wash
iug,on were inside for the purpose of scatinl
the Richmond aad D.nVi!le road into SALE
Of the Laesburg branca of that road TO th'
Shenandoah Valley. in which Gaze the
bcsacn referred 10 will be produced to B,r
rySlla.
Nothing is new about the fate of the Force bill
TO-DAY 4 c4ncus of the republican Scnators vii
be held b.tween row and Wednesday, whom tAt
vote on tho Financial bill will be taken in th'
Senate at which the means By which tho passage
of tho Force bill may best be- attempted will be
dete;m ned upon. That the attempt will DO made
ia re is little or 10 doubt, though Senator Pat
gave notice to .day that as SON as the sinsncia
bill wa5 OFT of the way he woUid move to take W
| the Copyright bill and Senator Paddock said thai
without regard to the copyright or any otheI bill
he wonl6 move to take up the pure TODD bill
In the uonsc TO day Mr. Blanchard introduced
| q resolction for IN investigation of the recent
proceedings IN the New Hampshire Legislatu G
| 10y which Che will of the people as expressed al
| the polls had been set aside snd the title OF the
Govern hip snd the q. S. Senatorship for that
| Safe been iuvaidated, and to determine whether
that Safe has a republican form of government
| within tho meaning Of tho Contribution.
The following is the only change in tho fourth
cla.s possoaicci of Virginia that YVES male to-day
| FRO yer = consck county, G. T. James appointed
postmaster, v;cs J. L. Tlower, resigned