Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-11

FROM WASHINGTON

FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexmdra Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., July IA well-in-
formed politician from the Norfolk district
of Virginia, here to-day, says that as Col.
4. W. Jones received nothing i'll the late
distribution of Offices in that State he Is to
be paid for the part he took in the last
campaign by giving him the editorship of
newspaper to be established at Norfolk by
General Malone Ralfe Saunders, formerly
of Richmond. will be one Of the writer's on
the new paper, which, it is reported will
be started at an early date. Colonel Jones
is now in this city. The Colonel, before the
war, was a clerk in the dry goods store of
w. w. Harper, i'll Alexandria, Va. 1t is
also said that there will be quite scramble
| for the Malone nomination for Congress
from that district; that Libby, Groner and
Spaulding are in the lead for the nonina-
ton, but that Libby will probably get it.
Dezendorf is running as the straightout cam
didate but with what chance Of success is
hard to tell.
Jeff. Chandler, Of st. Louis, one of the
counsel in the star route cases. closed the
argument in the contested election case OF
Stovall VS.. Cabell, from the 5th Virginia
district, before the House Committee on
Elections this morning. He appeared for
the contestant. The committee will not
make their report for day or two. Mr..
Goode, counsel for Mr.. Cabell, says the re-
port must be in favor of the contestec a.
there are no reasons why it should be other
wise.
The House committee on public buildings
and grounds have agreed to report t;lvora-
bly, on bill appropriating ten thousand dol
lars to complete the unfinished monument
to Mary, the mother of Washington, at
Fredericksburg in accordance with the
recommendation of the select committee
Oh the Washington National Monu-
mcnt, provided that no part of the
sum shall be 50 expended until the lot Of
land on which the monument is situated
(being thlrty-tour feet square) shall be con.
veyed, with all the right, title, and interest
therein Of the owner thereof, to the United
States, and the deed duly recorded. This
bill has not yet been acted upon by the
Senate.
The House committee on war claims
agreed this morning to report favorably on
bill authorizing the Secretary of the Urea.
sury out of amy moneys in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated. to pay to Louis A.
Van Hoffman and William A. Mertens
trading under the name of l.. Van Hoffman
and Company, and William II. Newman
the sum of IGhtcrn thousand four hundred
and thirty dollars and sixty. seven cents, in
full for the Use Of the Pioneer Mills in Alex
andria, Virginia. by the United States au
thOrlirS during the war This bill has al
ready passed the Senate
From the 18th, or Petersburg, district it is
SAID that Notwithstanding Gen. Mahone's
previous supcrciliOus treatment of Mr. Jor
gcnScr. his party cVinceS such degree Of
decentralization that he has become alarmed
and in order to make sure of that district
has agreed to accept the advances of Mr.
JorSenacn, which heretofore he has con
tenptollsy ignored, and to allow him to be
his candidate for Congress from that dis
! trict. He and MIR. Jorgenscn, whom hi:
home and Washington organs have hereto
fore taken such delight in denouncing, hat
long consultation on the floor of the Sen
| ate to-day.
Judge Harris. who formerly represented
the 9TH Virginia district, when asked by thu
GNZErrEa correspondent to-day what foun
datlon there was for the reports about hi
bSiuS q ttlH'ilIitlc lOI HIS Olu seat, fcDileC
that he had retired from politics in gool
faith in 1850. and that under no crcum
stances would he consent to be candidate
for reelection.
1t is said at the Navy Department thai
the report about Admiral Nicholson, ir
charge Of the American squadron off Alex
andria, saying that he would remain where
he was, and if fired upon would return the
fire, is all gabblc, and that if he were to dc
such foolish thing he would he "fired out
OF his position us soon as a dispatch coulC
reach him. The result Of the fight at Alex
andria is awaited with good deal of curios
ity at the Navy Department, as it is the first
decisive test that has been applied to mod
crn armor-plated ships.
Senator Johnston was before the Senate Finance
Committee to-day and induced them to agree t
report iav"rahly upon the bill repeating the I'm
| constitutional export tax tobacco. The tax j:
ten cents on every package exported, and six
| seventies Of il is collected in Virginia.
The sugar men, producers and importers, are
here to-day i'll force to prevent if pnssihle the
adoption of the proposed amendment to the inter.
! nal rcvcnIIc bill respecting sugar
Among those who will attend the meeting OF
| the Virginia democratic state committee to be
held in Richmond Tomorrow, is Representative
J. s. Barbour.
General Malone and tie leader of his party i'm
Alexandria, Mr.. d. a. Windsor, were riding to,
gcthcr on the avenue this morning