Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-13

Commissioners Chamberlain, who
broke his arm last Wednesday night, is
reported this morning as excessively
nervous and his general condition is by
no means as satisfactory as his friends
would wish.
A. B. Hurt, doorkeeper ofthe House,
who was yesterday appointed assistant
Superintendent of the. Free Delivery
Service, Postoffice Department, vice w.
W. Hill removed, will also receive the
appointment of Commissioner of the
United States Court of Claims, to adjust
the claims of letter carriers, vice Hill
removed. These combined positions
paw about s., 900 year.
The civil service reform league day
reelected all its present list OF officers
and approved the budget of the finance
committee for the expenditure OF 81
500 during the ensuing year. The re-
port of the special committee on e1ten
slons. of which Charles J. Bonaparte is
chairman, showed a great number OF ad-
ditions to the classified service, by or
der of President Cleveland and dis
cussed at considerable length the exec
utive order concerning the consular
service.
Mr.. Fl. S. Bundy of Wellston, Ohio,
member of the last Congress, died
here this afternoon.
None of the Virginia democratic
members of Congress talked to on the
subject have expressed themselves as
opposed to the Walton election law OF
their State, and most of them say the
law is as perfect as could well be de-
sired. One of the delegation who went
10 the Alexander's Island race track a
day or two ago says the racing and bet
ting there were as fair as he ever saw
on any other track.
Ex,Speaker Crisp, the two Georgia
Senators, Representative Swanson OF
the Danyille district, and about twenty
other Congressmen will leave in spe-
cial car on the 18th instant for Dan
vile, Virginia, to attend the wedding
of Miss Jeanne Smith, daughter of Col.
Frank Smith, of Alexandria and Mr.:
E. W. Barrett of Georgia, which will
take place there the following dsy.
1t is reported in administration Cir
Giles that the President is not overly
pleased with either Ambassador Bayard
or Secretary Morton, and that what &C.
ton Congress may take with respect to
either of them is of little or no special
concern to him.
Congressman Tyler of the Norfolk,
Virginia, district has had an interview
with the Secretary of the Navy on the
subject OF the contract for the two new
battle ships, and thinks that at least
one of them will be built at Newport's
News, though why both should not be,
when the bid of the Newport's News
| Company was $780, 900 less than that Of
any other bidder, cannot be told.
| Senator German and ex-speaker Crisp
and several of the other democratic
leaders in both branches of Congress
have had recent conferences, their OBJ
| ject being to unite and inspire their
party with hope for success in coming
contests, but to date they have reached
no satisfactory or definite conclusion.
Under the present rules OF the House
there cannot be two election com
mittees of that body. 1t is reported
that on Monday next an attempt viii
be made to change the rules SO as to
allow the creation of two such COM
mittees. If so, long fight may be ex-
pected. Mr.. Speaker Reed has already
said that the election contests should
be decided at once, so as to save the
expense of paying the salaries of both
parties to each case. That remark
implies that the Speaker bas pretty well
determined that the democratic con
testees were not elected and that Their
republican contestants were, and this
too, though he knows nothing of the
evidence in any one of the thirty cases
Congressman Cowan of Baltimore
the so.called democrat who helped tc
defeat the democratic ticket in his State
last month, and other people in the
railroad interest, who want the railroad:
to be allowed TO pool their charges
were this morning at the office of the
| interstate commerce commissioners, VINO
are now preparing their annual report
| to Congress.
Mr.. John Carmichael, Inspector o
Surveys General and District LanG
Office, is here on furlough, and will
leave for his home in Lexington, Vir
ginis, this evening to spend the holi
days.
Mr.. J. B. Scott of the Howard House
here, has bought the interest of Mr.
Charles z. Bear, formerly of Alexan
dria, in the National Hotel.
That Southern republicans haven't
| got much of the spoils Of the House is
shown by the fact that the share allowed
Congressman Walker of Virginia, who
deserves the whole of the patronage fol
his State, was one Capitol policeman
with salary of S1,100.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
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