Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-12-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
clal Correspondence Of the AlsxAndrla ,ia.etie


WASHINGTON, -. G.. Dec. ~, 1884.
A prominent democratic editor from
Georgia, in the city to day, who was a
strong Cleveland member of the delegation
from his State to the Chicago convention,
SAYS there are other people in his State who
think as Gov. joe Brown does about the re.
port that the Southern policy of the new
administration will be in accordance with
the views of Messrs. Hampton, Gordon and
Colquit all of whom were Bayard men which
L. that there are other Southern men who; sc
views are as worthy of the new Presidents
consideration as those of the gentlemen
named. He also says that he and many
others in his State think that Virginia, for
various apparent reasons, should be repre-
sented in the next Cabinet, aud that her
representative should be Mr. Barbour, who,
be says, takes hold of things with his
teeth"
1t is understood here to-day that the
prominent civil service reformers are urging
Senator Pendleton, who goes cut of The
Senate on the 4th of March, for position
in the Cabinet. This, of course, is by no
means agreeable to the Jackson democrats
those who believe that TO The victors belong
the spoils-and they say That Mr.. Pendle-
toms appointment can not be thought OF.
that his own State has repudiaLed hun foi
his civil service bill, aud that to appoint
him will. be sounding the deathknell of the
party.
At the meeting of the Springer Commit
tee this morning the witness Barker was
again under examination. While on the
stand Mr.. Millikin, republican from Maine,
asked him whether he or The judge who
had approved the accounts Of Certain court
officials the heftpr nra n n Ha1ilt
upon the correctness Of those accounts.
The witness replied that he was a gentle
man and would be treated as such. Mr..
Millikin said, I'VE are running this exami-
nation" To which the witness replied,
II am running this end of it," YES" said
Millikin, 1.-The butt end Of It," With this
little depression the examination was pro-
ceeded with, and, as on yesterday, was TO
the effect that no matter how business may
he conducted in other branches of the
Treasury Department, excessive crooked.
ness characterizes the conduct of that
transacted in the one presided over by
Comptroller Lawrence.
The New Hampshire Legislature will not
meet until June, from the 4th of March un
til which time there will be q vacancy in
the Senate from that State, caused by the
expiration of Mr.. Blaire's tenn, unless the
Governor shall make temporary appoint
ment. This the Governor will do, and it is
understood this morning that he will APP.
point Secretary Chandler, and thus give
him a substantial boom for election by the
Legislature when it shall meet.
Mr.. Foster, Minister to Spain,in reference
to the treaty he has just negotiated with
that country, says the treaty will not bring
slave labor into competition with that Of
this country, for the reason that an eman-
cipation proclamation has already been
Issued there, that most of the slaves there
have been liberated by their owners, aud
that, too, without compensation, ~ that
many of them have bought their liberty,
and that there are very few slaves now in
Cuba. He also says that, contrary to the
idea prevalent in this country, Cuba, so far
from being source of revenue to Spain, is
Q great expense to her.
Among the witnesses to be summoned
before the Springer committee to testify in
the o. 8. deputy marshaPs cases, is Thomas
Graham, q negro barber of Goldsboro', n.
c., who says that he and fourteen others
were appointed deputy marshals by Mar
sinai Keog, of his State, that they were paid
q dollar day and expenses, that they went
to Cincinnati and acted as deputy marshals |
there, and that he voted twice there, and
some of the o. hers as MANY as six times.
A conference of the democratic members |
Of the Virginia Congressional delegation |