Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-12-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria SSse''o'

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Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria oA.e.'el
WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec. 8. 1884.
The Springer committee met inns moln
ing. The first witness examined Dy Inem
was J. ]. Barker, the clerk IN the treasury
DEPARTMENT who recently tenderea MS res
ignation. His testimony was 10 Inc enecI
20, be became aware more than year
GOO Of the crookeduess in that department,
,bot nnon one occasion he went to Mr..
laurence. informed him of his discovery,
onG advised him against approving the
crooked accounts, and when Mr.. Lawrence
said he would approve them, told him he
could not afford to do so; but that Mr.. Law.
renee replied that he could afford it, and
that to prove it, had already done 80. Bar
ker testified that he then went to Senator
Van Wyck and others, and informed them
of what he knew, but that none of them ola
any thing. He said he did not want to be
considered as the furnisher of the evidence
in the case, as the evidence was supplied
nv the vouchers on file in the Treasury De
partment. He also said it had been report
ed that he made the revelations because he
was sore, but that that could not be SO, as
he made them year ago, when be had no
cause 10 be sore and when no body said he
was.
MIR. J. R. Tucker, of Virginia, has gone
to Middleburg, in that State, to see bis
brother there, who is i'll.
Navigation on the Alexandria Canal will
be suspended for the season at ! p. No., to-
morrow night.
Col. Morehead Commissioner General
of the New Orleans Exposition, s in the city.
He says that every thing will be ready for
the formal opening on the 10th, and that the
managers are assured that the affair will be
grand succ, IS.
In order to avoid all possible risk about
the reception Of The Presidential electoral
vote, the national democratic committee sug
pested to the electors in the several States
that went democratic that in addition to the
usual plumber of copies of that vote, copy
be sent to the Speaker Of the House. The
suggestion Was adopted and five such copies
were received yesterday, the first being that
of the vote of Connecticut.
Judge Brstow, judge of Middlesex and
Mathews counties, in Virginia, passed
through here yesterday on his way to Gin.
cnnati, where his daughter who recently
went there on visits lying at the point OF
death
The term for which the 7. S. Marshal
and T. S. Attorney for the western district
of Virginia were appointed will expire In
March. 1886, that of those who hold the
same offices in the eastern district of the
State, in May oftbe same year.
A scheme is on foot to have all the rags
imported into this country disinfected upon
their arrival, and by patented process.
About five hundred thousand tons of rags
are annually imported. The cost of the
process referred to will be S. ton, which
will give the proprietors $500, 900 a year
quite snug little sum. The paper makers
are considerably alarmed at the possible
success of such q scheme, and their friends
in Congress will resist it strenuously.
Mr.. Blaine has positively declined pub
lie reception upon the occasion of his ar
rival here, in doing which he shows better
taste than Mr.. Logan.
Among the U. 8. deputy marshals at
Cincinnati at the recent election was T. NJ.
Cariwell, postmaster at Harrodsburg, Ken
lucky. I: is said that in a row there his
badge was taken away from him. He will
be one OF the witnesses to be summoned
before the Springer committee under the
resolution for impeachiug Lot Wright, u. S.
Marshal for Ohio.
Upon consulting the revised statutes a
doubt has arisen as to whether the inaugu-
ration procession can enter the Capitol
grounds.
The fiends of low tariff bill in the
House were 10 have held conference last
night, but did not do so because Mr.. Hewitt
was in New York When he returns the
Conference will be held, and if the republi
cans show disposition to abate their op
position to q reduction, a bill for that pur-
pose may possibly be prepared
Mr. Aleck Boteer, of West Virginia, who
has just heen appointed pardon clerk at the
Deparime of Justice, is very old man
now. He was a member Of Congress before
the war, when he affiliated with the know
nothing party.
Mr.. McCulloch, the Secretary of the
Treasury. was born in Maine, but was APP
| pointed to the first Office he held in the
| Treasury from Indiana, to which State he
| had removed. He now halls from Mary
| land. His nomination was not confirmed
| yesterday for the reason, it is reported, that
Senator asked that it be held over as he
| might want To say something about it, and
one objection is sufficient for that purpose
1t is also reported that Senator Riddle
berger is opposed to the confirmation, says
The nomination defeated Blaine in Virginia
as Mr. McCulloch was the author of the
| bill beuring his name for the settlement Of
the Virginia debt, and that he will demand
an aye and no vote upon the question of his
confirmation.