Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.
Mr.. Speaker Reed is not only very
tall but very fat man; neither is he
Young. But, for all that, he is as active
as many lighter and more youthful
members of the House, and visitor who
saw him running from the street Car to
the Capitol yesterday morning, so as to
be in time to occupy his chair at the
opening of the days session, remarked
to a companion that if the st. Louis
convention had seen him, all Hanna's
money could not have deprived him OF
the nomination.
The remarkably virulent personal
speech delivered in the House of Rep
resents tives yesterday by Mr.. Grove
Lawrence johnson, of Sacramento,
Cal, does not appear in the official
Record this morning. II is Withheld
for revision and the statement is made
that "is will appear hereafter" The
| Speaker exercises q general control
over matter that appears in the Record.
Mr.. Reed was not in the chair when
Mr.. johnson delivered his remarks (the
| House being a. that time in committee
of the whole), or probably there would
have been no such violation of congress
sional decorum as that which shocked
the House yesterday.
Mrs. c. nd received Commander
and Mrs. b. Tucker, tho leaders of
the Salvatiot Army in the United
/ States. at the White House this morn
ing. Mrs. Booth Tucker presented
Mrs. Cleveland with special copy of
the life of Mrs. William Booth, the
"Motber of the Salvation Army" MIR.
| and Mrs. Booth Tucker returned this
afternoon to New York city.
The hearing before the ways and
means committee to-day was devoted
to iron and lead ores, metals and man.
ufactures thereof.
On Monday next MIR. Otey of the
Lynchburg district will introduce in
the House rs an amendment to an ap
preparation bill, resolution providing
that every member of Congress who
may not have it shall be supplied
with a full and complete set of the
"Records of the Rebellion" q publ
cation of which there are one hun
dred and forty.odd volumes.
MIR. Yost, the contestant in the con-
tested election case of Yost vs. Tucker
| from the Staunton, Virginia, district,
| in the present House, was at the Capt.
toll to-day. He says it has been ar
ranged that his case will be called UP
on the 18th instant.
The Pacific Railroads funding bill
which has been before the House all
the week, seems to have more friends
to. day than it had yesterday, and the
prevalent opinion concerning it now is
that it will be passed.
Congressman Tucker, Of Virginia,
SAYS the newspaper report to the effect
that he favored the retrocession OF
Alexandria to the District of Columbia
was entirely incorrect, and that he was
not here at the time the alleged inter
view was said to have taken place, and
hat he was never interviewed on the
subject. Neither is Mr.. Tucker jim
90, and especially not tllibuster.
The Virginia democratic association
of this city celebrated Jackson's day
last night. The meeting was large and
| enthusiastic. Among the speakers were
Col. L. @. Washington and Congress
man Jones of Virginia, who made apt
and admirable speeches that were
unanimously applauded.
Representative Jones Of the LIST Vlr-
gnia district says Mr.. Lloyd Smith of
Northumberland county will be pressed
by his friends for the democratic nomi-
nation for Attorney General of Virginia.
The democrats of his district, he says,
think they are deserving OF some of the
honors of the party, and no man could
wear one of them more becomingly than
Mr.. Smith. Mr. Jones is friend and
admirer of Major Scott, the incumbent,
who has performed the duties of the
office most efficiently, and only prefers
Mr.. Smith because be is in favor of ro.
tation in office, and because that gentle
man is from his own section of the
State, tidewater.
It has been determined by the re-
publican members of the House ways
aud means committee that the new
tariff bill they are preparing for the
next Congress will impose a tax on
sugar UQaO Will T6lS0 d1 lorsSu Gou AuiiiiSh
dollar year.
The enforced resignation of First
Lieutenant G. S. Hall, q. S. A, a ma
tive of Indiana and graduate of West
Point, for scandalizing beautiful and
fashionable young lady of Youngstown,
N. Y, has produced quite sensation
in army circles here.
The House committee on public
buildings to-day reported bills au-
thorizing the appropriation of 100000
each for public buildings at Norfolk and
Portsmouth.
Senator elect Money who has just returned
from short trip to Cuba, arrived here this
morning and is at his usual quarters the
Metropolitan Hotel.
THE NEGRO IN OBNOXIOUS.
Isaac B. Allen, of Boston, Mass, the
colored Councillor elect to Governor