Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-04-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the ALEXANDRIA GasetteI
WASHINGTON u q A mil Is. 1891.


gon, introduced bill appropriating 81, 665
to NJ. D. Ball, for expenses and compensa- /
ton as delegate and agent of the people ofthe
Territory Of Alaska to the 47th Congress. |
Dir. Riddleberger from the District of Col
umbia Committee reported in favor Of a bill
to establish chaplaincy for the Jail and the
institutions of charity and reform in the
District of Columbia. After the routine
business the Senate took up the postoffice
appropriation bill, which Mr.. Plumb said he
would endeayor to have considered and
passed before any other bill be taken up
1t is understood to-day that next Tuesday
the Ways and Means Committee of the House
will fix the day for limiting the debate on
the Morrison bill to the five minutes rule, $50
that he can,- by that means and leave to
print, have vote on it by the middle ct
Iay without resorting to night sessions.
Collector Brady, of Petersburg, was at the
Capitol to-day when there was u sort OF
conference of Mahoneites, Messrs. Wise,
Hooper, Riddleberger, Popham, Brady and
others being in apparent consultation. Tie
Collector says that the convention to meet
10 Richmond on the 23d will contain repre-
sentatives from every county in the State,
and that it will endorse Malone and all his
works, and appoint delegation to the ma
tional republican convention who will when
there do just as he may want them to do.
He says he has heard before of opponents to
the General in his Own party when at their
own homes, but that III convention they
sing as sHeetly to him as cooling doves.
With regard TO the Alexandria delegation to
the Richmond convention, he said he had
heard that Mr. Edmund Burke was kicker,
but that he would be overcome by thenegro
delegates from that city, all Of whom, he
was certain, would be for Malone when in
the convention.
Mr.. Emory Storrs, who was left out Of the
list of delegates appointed to the national
republican convention by the republicans
of Illinois, was friend of Logan's, but, it is
said, has been so affronted by this indignity
that he has transfured his support to
Arthur
This is private bill day in the House, but
before the private calendar was reached the
bill to limit the time during which cases
arising under the internal revenue laws can
be tried to two instead of five years, as at
present. was taken up, Mr.. White, scalawag
from Kentucky, apparently makinga speech
upon it, but really delivering an irrele-
want and denunciatory harangue upon the
Springer committee aud Gov. Murray, Of
Utah, a witness before it. During his
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Speaker and directed to contine his remarks
to the bill before the House. To this he
replied that the difference between himself
and the Speaker was that while during his
term in Congress he had always worked in
the interest Of the poor people Of Kentucky,
| the Speaker had always been the staunch
supporter of the rich and grasping monopo
lists. Mr.. Miller, republican of Pennsyl-
vauia, demanded that his words be taken
down, but the Speaker said he hoped not,
az the best way to treat him would be to
take no notice of him. This incident Gre
ated some little excitement and caused the
area in front Of the Speakers chair TO be
filed at once with members.
The House Postoffice Committee agreed
to-day, by vote of ten to one, to recon-
mend the making of contract with some
telegraph company for postal telegraph
service. 1t is very probable that bill will
be passed at this session by which the peo
pie of the country will be supplied with
cheap telegraph postal facilities.
1t is thought by Nirginians now here, that
though there will be strong opposition 10
Malone in his own convention, he will, by
his methods" applied to the colored dele
gates, secure the appointment Of delega-
ton to the national republican convention
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fancy, but that, should he do SO, there will
be revolt, in which many of his white re.
publican followers will take part.
With regard to the proposed free bridge
across the Potomac at Georgetown, it is now
safe to say that the speech of Mr. Wise in
the House, and the newspaper interviews of
Mr.. Riddleberger, On the subject, have sue
ceeded, not only unintentionaly, but direct
" contrary to their wishes, in locating the
bridge upon the piers of the Alexandria
Canal aqueduct, or in preventing the erec-
ton Of any bridge at all.
A large gang of negro laborers from Fir-
ginia passed through here to-day for Penn
sylvania, to work on railroad there They
all said, however, they would go back home
next November to vote for boss Malone
Rumors of the most damaging character
are current at the Capitol to-day about Mr.
Sims, a witness for the prosecution before
the Malone Sherman committee. 1t is said
that be stole ten thousand dollars worth
of bonds from a lady-one of his family con-
nections-sold them, and appropriated the
money to his own use, and that when she
| threatened him with disclosure, he induced
her to keep quiet by promise of restitution
when he became q. S. District Attorney,
for which place he was an aspirant, and
| by telling her that if she revealed his crime
it would prevent him from getting that office
and she thereby lose all chance of recovering
her money. 1t is said that Sims will not
only be removed from the place in the Sen
ate, given him by General Malone, but that
the lady referred to, who, with other wit
nesses, was here 10 prove this charge to the
| Danvile committee if she had been allowed
to testify, intends to have him indicted for
his alleged crime. If these rlmors be true,
they will show, as was said at first about
the Danville affair, that the more that is
known about it, the worse will it be for the
man who originated it, General Malone,
and all connected with him.
The Libary Committee OF the Senate to
day reported adversely on Mr. Watterson's
newspaper copyright bill also adversely on
bill for the erection of statue to General
Bolivar in this city, but this, it is under
stood, was done at the instance of the Ven
eZuelan Minister.