Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-01
EKONI WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette
WAsHlNGToN. August ].


published before midnight Saturday,
could not be delivered in the House to-
day, owing to Il lack OF appropriations
to pay the messengers, drivers oil the
COY eminent printing office and others
whose duty il is to transport the runll-
cation from the Office to the Capitol.
The public gallery of the House WAS
well filled this morning, principally by
EMPLOYEES of the printing Office. The
appropriation for the lighting of the
Capitol and otherpublic buildings is also
carried in the sundry civil bill, and al
though the appropriations have iapsed,
the coax rooms were Illuminated rs OF
yore.
Eva a. Clarke was to-day appointed
postmaster at Beach, Chesterfield coun-
ty. Va, vice w. i. Clarke, resigned
The President has approved the act
amending the act in regard to the pen
sion law, so as TO remove the disability
of those who. having participated IN the
rebellion" have, since It's termination,
enlisted in the army and become dis
abled, and the act providing for the eX-
animation and promotion of enlisted
men CT the army TO the grade OF second
lieutenant.
The investigation of Congressman
Watson's charge to the effect that men,
bers of the House reel through the aislcs
of that body and make drunken cXhlbi-
tions of themselves with IMMUNITY, was
continued to-day by the committee APP
pointed for that purpose. Several wit
nesses testified that Mr. Cobb, the only
member named byMTWatson, though his
charge includes the whole HoLse, was
not drunk at the time referred 10 10y
Mr.. Watson, and that Mr.. Watson was
entirely mistaken when he said he was
1t is probable that the report OF the
committee will severely censure Mr..
Watson, but the general opinion about
the Capitol on the subject is that he
should be expelled.
The report of the House committee
that investigated the Homestead affair
was completed to-day, but has not yet
been made public.
Work was resumed as usual this
morning at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing Notwithstanding the fact
that there is no appropriation out OF
which it can be paid for. Superinten-
dent Meredith told the employees the
state of the case and said he did not feel
authorized to suspend operations with
out an order to that effect from the Sec
rotary of the Treasury. He added,
however, that if the men went to work
they must understand that they did SO
at their own risk. All the employees
without single exception began their
usual duties with this understanding.
The light house establishment, the life
saving service and the public building
service, the expenses of which are pro-
vided for in the sundry civil bill, were
also in operation as usual this morning
for the reason that in the absence OF
Secretary Foster no one at the Treasury
Department was willing to assume the
responsibility for action in the matter:
The House to-day, after Mr.. Reed
and other republicans made speeches
attempting to put the responsibility OF
failing to make necessary appropria-
tions for the government upon the dem
ocratic majority in the House, though
everybody knows that Mr.. Holman Of
fred resolution on Saturday to ex-
tend the appropriations until the 18th
iastant, but that objection was made by
Mr.. Hopkins, a republican, passed that
resolution, and the Senate soon thereat-
ter conclrred, so that the suspension OF
work at the government printing office
was only for half a day, and need not
have been for moment but for the de-
sire of the public printer to make capt.
tai for his party by closing up and at
tributing the blame to the democrats.
The appropriations for several other
branches of the governments service
had also been expended, but the officers
in charge of them did not close them,
knowing, as Mr.. Palmer did, that the
requisite money would be forthcoming
to-day.
Messrs. Hume and Lacey of Aleyan-
dria county were mt the Capitol to-day
looking after the charter of the Wash
ington, Alexandria and Fairfax Rail
road. and are by no means pleased
with the Washington and Arlington
Railroad Company, which, having fail
ed, is now trying to cross the Potomac
on their line.
Young Mr.. John Popham, L. s con-
sular agent at Panama, is expected
here on the Sth inst. and will return to
his post on the Goth. His father, Col.
John Popham, will so back with him.
From Virginia it is learned to-day
thai though lecturers of the third par
ty have been in several Of the counties
of that State they have few people to
hear them, and that the third party's
strength in that State is small and is
not increasing.
So far as indicated by appearances TO-
day the adjournment of the session is as
indefinite as ever, but it looks more
and more as if tie men who are trying
to get five million additional out Of the
treasury for the Chicago fair will not
succeed The democrats so far from
weakening are more determined to de-
feat that scheme than ever, and the
speech Mr.. Reed made in the House to-
day has strengthened that determine
ton.
The President to-day signed the act limit
ing the hours oflabor of laboIeTs ana mechan
les employed on public works. He also signed
the joint resolution providing temporarily for
an extension of appropriations coming under
the sundry civil appropriation act. The reso-
linton was received by the President ut
o'clock, and he Immediately fixed his sigma
ture toit
AT bowling alley at Ulm, Germany,
q player slipped, and in falling struck
with his chest one of the thick balls,