Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.


Confederate army officers here who
were engaged in the battle of Chica-
manga are amused at the recent gable
about that battle in one of the papers
of this city. They say the contents Of
General Forests note to General Bragg
were we'll known to the Confederate
army and that had General Bragg kept
up the fight the federal army would
have been routed, as it was democrat
lied, and that steamboats, and pontoon
bridges in the river had to be cut loose
in order to keep the soldiers from run
ming away.
It is reported here that at the late
meeting of the republican State COM
mittee of Virginia, when some
opposition was expressed to the
selection of Mr.. Agnew, of Alex
andria, as q member of the executive
committee, Mr.. Brady said that but for
Mr.. Agnew the money for the cam
paign in Virginia would not have been
received, and that the republican mana
gers in General Walkers district would
not have gotten the $4,000 that was
sent to them. He and Colonel Lamb,
1t is said, were considered by Mr.. Hanna
as the only business members of the
committee, the others being merely
politicians, and that Mr.. Hanna was in
fluenced chiefly by them.
The diamond four of the republican
party in Virginia, Messrs. Brady, Wad
dill, Bowden and Agnew, who have
been here for the last day or two con-
sultipg about the affairs of their party
in their State, have gone home. They
did all they could to induce Chairman
Mccall, of the elections committee, to
have the contested case of Yost vs.
Tucker called up this week, but failed.
Mr., Mccall went to Pittsburg and
it is doubtful if the case will be reached
for some time, if eyer. The republi-
cans referred to determined that Mr..
Johnston should be postmaster at Dan
Vile, Mr.. Banks at Norfolk and Mr..
Crupper st Alexandria, and that Mr..
Agnew should be the collector of in
ternal revenue for the upper district of
Virginia. Whether their determine
ton will be effective or not remains to
be seen.
The ways and means committee OF
the House to-day heard epreseutativ' 8
of the earthenware, glassware, marble
and stone industries.
There was no session of the Senate
to-day and the entire session of the
House was consumed in the considera-
ton of the bill to extend the time and
reduce the interest on the indebtedness
of the Central and Union Pacific rail
roads to the government. Nobody
seems to know what the fate of the
bill may be. From the way the Vir
ginia members talk, some of them at
least will probably vote against it, and
one will speak against it-Mr. Swan
son.
There was large sprinkling OF
Georgians in House elections commit
tee No. this morning to hear the ar
gument in the contested election case
of Watson VS.. Black, from the tenth
district. Mr.. Watson will be remem-
bered as the recent popnlist candidate
for the vice presidency, while Mr..
Black has been for many years q mem
Der of the House. 1t was expected that
Mr.. Watson would present his own
case but he failed to appear.
Mr.. Meredith has presented the pc
tition of the late Coleman Reid, of Eau.
quier county, Va, praying that his war
claim be referred to the court of claims.
An echo of the great railway strike in Chi
cago four years ago which eliminated in the
imprisonment of Eugene V. Dcbs was heard
in the House committee on the judiciary to-
day. The bill in relation to contempts of
court which passed the Senate last session has
been under consideration by the House com.
mittee for the past fortnight and to-day tho
House bill provides that any contempt in the
Senate bill as amended was ordered to 3
favorable report. In its present form the
presence of the court may be punished by the
court alone, but any contempt outside of the
court, except the refusal of witnesses or jurors
to attend, must be tried by jury if the &C.
cused so demands.