Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-13
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refusal to order his Secretary ofth In
terror, Mr.. Villas, TO resume the Issue os
Mexican pensions 10 ex-Confederate.
suspended by his, Vilas's, direction
said he knew all about it. as he had
vainly begged Mr. Cleveland to issna
such an order. He said that though the
pensions were provided for by law and
though that law was sustained by Mr.
Garland, the Attorney General. and Ly
the law officer OF the Interior Depari.
ment, and though some ex-Conf.der.
ates, who had been III the Mexican war
were in receipt of them, Mr.. Villas
when he was transferred from the pns,.
Office, to the Interior Department. sps.
pended them, and demanded further
congressional legislation. He. Barbour
went to the President several times and
explained the case to him. and asked
him to issue the requisite order. but q
promise that his request would h..
granted was all that could be obtained
The very last day of Mr.. Clevelmd,
term, Mr.. Barbour says, he went 10 the
White House on the same subject and
made final appeal, closing it with the
remark that if he refused to issue the
requisite order, Mr.. Harrison. the in.
coming republican, President. would i,
sue it within sixty days after his imam.
guration. Mr.. Cleveland did not Issue
it. but Mr.. Harr.s IN did. within less than
sixty days.
The Senate committee on civil service
agreed to-day TO report iavolably the
bill compelling heads of departments to
dismiss all employees who are not na-
tive or naturalizcd citizens
4 dispatch was received ut the War
Department to-day to the effect that in
a fight Yesterday on the Mexican side
of the Rio Grande between deiach-
ment of the Mexican army and forty
bandits. ten of the latter were killed
among them Julian Flores. who was
Cara main man.
Speaker Crisp laid before the House
to-day letter from the acting Scuc-
Iary of the treasury transmitting an e.
innate of deficiency in the appropria-
ton for pensions for the current fiscal
year of s. .674.322 This, in addition 10
the billion appropriation by the last
Congress. 4 letter from the commits
sioner of pensions says the totalamcml
available for pensions forthe months Of
May and June of the present fiscal year
is SIS, 1877, 40 and the commissioner est
mates that it will require $26. Sll.712to
make the payments for these months
a Fauquicr county, Virginia rcpg-
lican here to-day, says now that The
democrats in his State seem to be DE-
vidcd, the Alliance men, certainly those
in his district, are cvincing signs Of IL.
yiving life, and that all who ever
souinted that way before. now seem tohc
dead set on it. He says they say they
commenced too late TO gctin their work
mt the Congressional election, bat
they will have all their arrangement
prepared by next November For that
purpose, he says, they intend to meet
in Warrenton at an early day and or
ganize for work.
General Malone is still at Roanoke,
detained there by sickness. How'll 20
to Minneapolis several days before the
meeting OF the convention. TO look the
field over and see where TO place The
Virginia delegation so that il will do
him the most good. The delegation
will 90 in chartered Puimaa car
with Il caterer, so that if there be any
trouble about accommodations ut Min
neapolis, the members ofthc delegation.
white and black alike, can bunk and
eat together OH that car
A democratic politician from the lst
Virginia district, here to-day. says that
from what he can learn there the two
delegates to the Chicago convention
from that district will be Mr. Fletcher
of Accomac, and Mr.. Lloyd SMITH of
Northumberland county, and tina! eN-
Senator Quisenbcrry OF Caroline Will he
the elector.
The river and harbor bill as reported
to the Senate to-day increases tie AZ
for the Potomac river in the
District of Columbia $50, 900 and for the
Chickahominy river in Virginia >22.5l9.
1t decreases the appropriation Tor the
Rappahannocl river $4,000.
At the Raum investigation to-day
witnesses testified that the pension Of
the famous Colonel Dudley was RAISED
without going through the regular
forms Of the department. and that he
draws pension for amputation ii The
knee joint. though the amputation VS.
several inches below the knee.
In the Senate to-day the Washing.
ton, Fairfax and Alexandria Railroad
bill WAS, as anticipated in this core
pondcnce, reported fayorably. This
is the bill that provides for Il railroad
from Washington to Arlington VIA
ferry nj Analostan Island. The bill
provides that work on it shall con-
mence within two months from the
time it shall become Il law. and for ihc
first eight months MY be cratcG b
horse power.
The statement that was published in SOM
Of the newspapers this morning 10 the cil,c
that MIR. Harrison would be renominated and
that too, without the votes of New York and
was prepared ut and given ou.
from the White House. II is secuted by well
Informed republican Senators and Represent
,tiyes, who point out its numerous inacclri-
,ics. Even Senator Cullom, fayorlhly Dis
posed rs he is to Mr.. Harrison, says it is ob
,iously incorrect.
SUPREME LODGE KNIGHTS OF iIoNoE-
The Supreme Lodge of the United States and
5lnada of the Knights Of Honor, in session II
Charleston, s c. yesterday elected the fol.
owing officers: Supreme dictator 'mati,
Illotz, of New jersey vice dictator. Mar,!aA
of North Carolina: assistant dirl4'
or, John Mulligan, Of New York; IePor'tt'
B. +. Nelson, of Missouri: treasurer. j9>',9
" RI.Inch of Missouri chanlain RnY. W. ~