Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-01

porter was the private secretary of Mr.. |
sherman. He asked Mr.. Sherman if it |
would be allowable for one of the white |
witnesses who was not certain about state
ment he had made to have the report of his
testimony altered in that respect? Mr.. Sher-
man replied it would, remarking that Mr..
Wise had made some changes in his testl-
mony. Mr.. Vance then had the report in-
spected, when it was found that Mr.. Wise's
testimony in regard to receiving negroes in
his kitchen had been marked out and sub
stituted by an entirely different statment.
1t is understood to-day that the attention OF
the Senate will be called to this remarkable
proceeding.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee seems bent on making MIR. Bar
bour the chairman Of that committee, though
Mr.. Barbour has requested the executive
committee to appoint some one else, as ne
has enough political work TO do as chair
man of the Virginia State Committee, aud
as it is likely he will be member of the
National Democratic Committee.
The House Committee on Rules has
agreed to report rule allowing the District
Of Columbia Committee the End and 4th
Mondays in each month as days on which
to report their bills and have them consid-
cred.
When Hon. John S. Wise heard of the
speech of ArmisteadGreen in the Legislature,
rejecting on his kitchen testimony before
the Danvile committee, Gilman, the. Wash
ington correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch says he soliloquized as follows:
Arrnistend Green had better stop raren and pchn
For mighty lucky he will be to get to Heavens Kitchen
And instead doing nothiu in the Green fields of Eden
He waites the table while the white folks is feeder
Or drinks his milk and honey from common kind OF
dppcrs.
And walks the golden in second hand slippers.
The investigation Of the Keifer- Boynton
affair was resumed this morning, when
Messrs. Elder, Green and Boynton were ex-
amined. Elder corroborated the testimony
of Garfield, given last week, to the effect
that he heard BoyntOn say that Keller was
going out Of office poor man and could
not be bribed in the McGarrahau case. Ev-
idence in witnesses divorce case and in the
Spofford election case was offered to prove
his utter unreliability, but it was ruled out.
Mr.. Boynton was then examined. His tes-
timony was calculated to produce the i'm
preston that the veracity Of the ex. Speaker
was nothing 10 brag of.
With regard to the joint resolution max
ing an neutrality-suspicious. for the Sher-
man Malone investigation, it is understood
that the Mahonetes, having gotten in all
the strong points of their evidence, did not
care much whether or not any more money
was granted, but that the democrats having
had their strong witnesses, such for instance
as General Wick ham, Mr.. Massey and others,
shut of, demand that the appropriation
shall be made The House Appropriations
Committee have therefore agreed to report
the resolution tayorably, and Mr.. Randall
II =. IL
tunity.
Under orders from here and in conse-
quence Of the exhaustion of the appropria-
ton for that purpose, all the employees in
the construction department of the Norfolk
Navy Yard was discharged yesterday.
The investigation of the Department Of
Justice this morning showed that in the
Northwest ern States, as in the South the
officials of the l. > Courts have conducted
the business Of their offices in their own,
rather than in the interests OF the Gov
eminent, and with the object Of making all
the money it was possible to make out Of
them, and to hesitate at but little rascality
to accomplish that object.
In the House OH Monday next Mr.. Libby
of Virginia will introduce bill appropriate
ing $50, 900 for the erection of q coppersmith
shop at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
1t seems to he the impression now that
the new tax bill for the District OF Columbia
will impose the same tax upon personal
property other than that subject to the Ii
cense tax, as that upon real estate.
Mr.. Morrison said this morning that if
much opposition among his party was map
ifested to putting coal on the free list be
he on lumber and salt, though he
thought several States in the North
west, the people of which wanted
Canadian lumber and salt, could be
Carl led if those articles were made free, but
that he would insist upon the horizontal re-
duction of 20 per ct. upon all articles. This
looks as if the tariff will not split the dem
ocratic party, as the republicans have proph.
esed.
General Longstreet left for his home in
Georgia to day. The committee which iu-
vestigated him is satisfied that the apparent
crookedness in his Office is due to his sub
ordinates.
In the House yesterday evening, when the
Pleasantou bill was up, Mr.. Rosecrans in
q low tone cast doubt about the mental
ability of Mr.. White, the scalawag member
from Kentucky, to which the latter replied
by accusing him of defrauding soldiers out
of thousands of acres of land in California.
Mr.. Rcsecrans instantly demanded that he
should repeat that remark distinctly and say
what he meant by it. Mr.. White replied
"The record will show what l said,
and l stand by the record" Lo,
and behold the Record this morning says
not word of it, nor was Mr.. White in his
seat to-day.
Mr.. Caulkins OF Indiana is set back. Be.
ing uncertain about his denomination and
election, he set his plans for the Governor
ship of Indiana, and they were working
smoothly when who should step in as his
opponent for the republican nomination but
Commissioner Dudley, of the Pension b.
reau-a more popular man, and to beat
whom the democrats will have to put up
their strongest man, probably Senator Voor-
hees.
Mr. McAddo, member Of the House from
New Jersey, will, it is said, soon lead to the
marriage altar Miss Tardy, a beautiful and
accomplished young lady from Pittsylvania
county, Virginia.