Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-06-14
FROM WASHINGTON.

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two best offices in that city are still in the
hands OF Mahone's enemies; certainly one
of them he has not dared yet to touch and
probably will not. Not only does Captain
Cook, 4 Northern man and al intense Ma
hone hater still hold the fort against all
assaults Of the coalitonists but he even re-
tains as his chief assistant a Mr.. Splitter,
who for years has been Il secretary for all
the straightout conventions, and all the anti
Malone meetings that have been held in
the State. Splitter, however, is at last scared
and the other day he resigned from the
committee Of straighouts and proposed TO
accompany his resignation with an endorse
ment of Arthnr and Mahone's policy
Whether this will save his bacon or not re-
mains to be seen, as he is said by his course to
have assured for himself the contempt Of all
parties. Tinsley, Delegate from New Kent
county to the Legislature, is spoken of as
the coming Internal Revenue Collector in
place of Russell Malone is troubled as to
Cooks successor, Cook being a one-armed
Union soldier, whom to turn out the Senator
thinks might raise q howl from the Union
like his vote in the Tcbbs case did amongst
the Confederate soldiers Malone, how
ever, it is believed, will flank" this diff
Guilty by recommending some Union soldier
Il rcadjuStcr, of coursc,-for the position.
There are 4 number ofeX- Union soldiers who,
it is said are getting ready to devour their
poor onc-armcd comradc-in other words to
Cook his goose.
Mr.. Prescott, special commissioner to
Chill and Peru, was examined by the For
eign Affairs Committee Of the House to-day.
His testimony was to the effect that the
Credit Industriel was the only available
source of pccuniary help for Peru in case Il
money indemnity were required of her. that
he could see, but that whether Mr. Blaine,
in his official dispatches really intended to
benefit that company was more than he
could tell.
Well informed and intelligent people, not
professional politicians, or Office holders or
Office seekers, from various parts Of Eir-
ginia. at the Capitol to-day concur in the
opinion that MIR. Massey is the strongest
man the democrats can support for Congress-
man at large 1t now seems to be conceded
that Capt. John Wise will receive and will
accept the Malone nomination for that posi-
ton and as the fight against him must be
an aggressive one, there is no man in the
State more fitted to lead it than the Parson.
! The opposition the Mahoneites are already
making to his nomination is the best evil
drncc of his strength, and of the fear they
entertain of his ability to injure them.
! Mr.. Buell., the editor Of the critic and
| Capifm newspapers of this city, was again
I before the Whskcy committee Of the Sen
ate to-day. He read long written state
mcnt concerning the inaccuracy of the pub
! lishcd reports of his previous testimony,
Which. inaccuracy was more apparent to him
than TO amy one else under examination; he
again confessed that he had no personal
knowledge of the approachablity of the gem
! tlcmcn whose integrity he had impugncd
and that he had only aspcrscd their charac-
ter upon irresponsible rumors, the names of
| the rcpcatcrs of which he would not make
public but. if demanded, would give to the
committee privately.
The Senate to-day, by vote of SO to 81,
took up the bill to pay the claims Of South
era mail contractors which were due but
could not be collected by reason of the
( breaking out of the civil war. AS these
claims are owned by Southern men, and as
/ General Malone seems to imagine that it is
! incumbent upon him, in order TO remain
solid with the radicals, to oppose any and
! every thing THAT will benefit the South or
any of its people, he voted, as did all the
other republicans present. against taking up
| the bill.
Senator Davis, Of West Virginia, was one
of those present nj the conference of the
| Virginia members of the House Yesterday
| in reference to the ACCESSIBILITY Of asking
! Congress for an appropriation for the relief
of the Patrick county sufferers, was among
those who wisely determined that Virginia
should not appear at the bar Of Congress as
il heggar, and subscribed literally out of his
own pocket to supply the wants Of the re-
ported sufferers.
Mr.. Best, the head of the syndicate that
recently purchased the Washington and
| Western Railroad, has been in this city for
the last two or three days, but has now gone
to North Carolina. When here he stated
that the road would certainly be produced
to Winchester, and that, too, in as short n
time rs possible.
In the debate Oh the Japan indemnity
fund in the Senate on Monday Mr.. Morgan
having characterized statement OF MI
ingalls, as historically untrue" Mr. Ingalls,
retorted by comparing Mr.. Morgan to a
donkey engine. Mr. Morgan retalated by
saying that Mr.. Ingalls, could afford to have
| his name mixed up with lobbyists, but that
he, Morgan, could not Such are examples
of the modern courtesy of the Senate"
The most disgraccful exhibition about the
Capitol now is the almost daily appearance
of ex-Secretary Belknap in the republican
lobby and cloak room of the Senate button
holing republican Senators and whispering
i'll their ears. The Infamous crime to avoid
impeachment for which he hastily resigned
his seat in Grants cabinet, doesn't seem to
have lowered him at all in the estimation of
the republican members of the Senate, and
he is said to be one Of the most successful
lobbyists at Washington.
Among the petitions presented in the
House yesterday was one by Mr.. Barbour
for the relief of Mary M. Tuley
To show the estimate put upon the late fraudu-
lent President by the present accidental occupant
| of the White House. it needs only to be said that
| though some Ohoans werp hero for three weeks
in the vain attempt to have Mr.. Comley, Hayess
| right hand man. retained Us U. S. Minister to the
| Hawaiian Islands, they never in all their visits
| to the President mentioned the name of Mr. Hayes
once, nor did they bring letter from Mr. Hayes
| y beautiful bouquet was laid upon the desk of
Senator Anthony to-day by friends who took that
way of expressing their qualification mt his fifth
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