Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-08
LETTER FROM RICHMOND.


RICHMOND, Va, Feb. THE members
of the General Assembly are to he treated
to lecture or sermon by Rev John Jasper
the famous expounder of the theory "De
Sun do move" next Sunday morning at II
o'clock al his church, in the UPPER part of
the city. II is expected that quite a nun.
Der of the Legislators will go to hear Jasper,
whose sermon upon the sun has reached
that place upon the Calendar Of repetition,
which the legislative Statesmen might call
third reading"
The resolution requesting Malone to re-
sign his seat in the United States Senate
because OF his failure 10 represent the peo-
pie of Virginia in that great body was sent
TO the little autocrat the day before he came
to Richmond. The resolution was written
in clear bold hand by Mr.. Johnson, jour
nal clerk of the Senate, and the signatures
of Clerks Pendeton and Bigger of the Sen
ate and House respectively were attached
to the document The resolution reuched
Washington the day Malone arrived in
Richmond, and he did not receive it until
his return to Washington. What he did
with the document which will ever be
thorn in his side, is not generally known.
In fact only Il few of his more intimate fol-
lowers have heard him say anything upon
the subject.
1t matters not what he did with the reso
| luton which met with such decided en-
dorsement by the General Assembly, or
what bis feelings were when the wires con-
veyed TO him the intelligence that his old
enemy, General Newberry, had beaten him.
The first effort of any note at ilibusterng
on the part of the Mahoneites was made
Yesterday when the bill to provide for The
appointment OF all electoral board. whose
duty shall be to appoint judges of election
and registrars, came up on its passage. The
bill had previously passed the Senate and
was up on its passage in the House. when
Duff Green (Mahoneite) from Stafford, start
ed war of tilibustering which was kept
up fullr or five hours. Finally the bill was
passed, and Che democrats convinced the
Mahoneites that their filibustering would
amount to nothing
The last contested election cases in the
House wero decided to-day by the adoption
Of the report of the Committee on Privile
ges and Elections which was in favor of the
sitting members from Smyth and Bland and
Isle of Wight.
$. p. Mustard (Mahoueite) is the sitting
member from Smythe and Bland, and Dr.
J. w. Lawson is the sitting member from
Isle of Wight.
The committee have had great deal of
work to perform and met twice nearly every
day.
A bill was reported from the committe g
on the Chesapeake and its tributaries to-
day repeating the act establishing bounda-
ry line between Maryland and Virginia, &c,
passed in 1882. Nine tenths, if not all the
members of the General Assembly are in
favor of repeating this law because Mary
land would not pass a similar law, as the
General Assembly Of Virginia in 1882 were
led to believe would be done by the Legis-
ature of Maryland
When the bill to amend the charter Of the
city Of Petersburg came up on its third read
ing to-day, Harris, of Dinwddia, q c,ltred
NIahonele and one Of the leaders Of the
Malone party in the House spoke against
the measure. In his speech he hoped that
it would not be long before the two races
are amagamated. He was asked to define
and in response said, 81 mean political
amalgamation, nothing more or nothing less.
do not believe in that sort of amalgamation
hat Fred. Douglass, one of our leaders, be.
ieves in. Right here | will say | do not
believe Fred. Douglass got good woman !;
he got the worst sort of woman-in fact a
very common woman Laughter.
1t vaa suid to-day that tho resolution in
troduced in the Senate by Senator Townes,
Mahoneite, which caused such breeze in
that body yesterday and which induced
several democratic Senators TO boldly de-
clare that the resolution was improper and
indecent, was written hy one who stands
pretty near the front of the coalition van,
but whose name was not divulged. Quite
IL number of pereons on the floor were
struck with the similarity of the writing of
a leading Mahoneite to that Of the resolu-
ton, and had the resolution been referred
the name of the mysterious author would
have been made public. STRoNGBOw.