Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the ALEXANDRA Garette,l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. a, 1884.

WASHlkGIUN, ~ ", JAIL AoO1'
Mr.. Lindsay, the chairman of the Malone
committee of Portsmouth, is again here.
He wants the postoffice of his city, which is
now held by straightout republican. Lind
saw is a rich man and has been supplying
the election money for Portsmouth for some
time past, but has become tired of doing
that and wants to be reimbursed. He has
held an interview with the dispenser of the
Virginia postofices, General Malone, and
will probably get the place, though the in
cumbent has some strong friends among the
republicans, and has the G. A. R., to back
him.
The new bill for redistricting Virginia for
Congressional representation does not meet
the approval of all the democrats in the
House. They don't talk about it much,
but some of them think more satisfactory
plan could have been arranged. By the
new bill three of the districts will possibly
be republican.
The impression of several well-informed
members of the House to-day is that the bill
making an appropriation fer paying the
tobacco rebate will become law at an early
date.
1t is currently reported that at yesterdays
executive session of the Senate there was
an acrimonious dispute between Messrs.
Edmonds and Lamar. The former when
irritated is disposed to be rough in his re-
marks, and the latter is one of the last men
in the Senate to permit rough remarks to be
addressed to him.
A well.known republican Mahoneite in
the city to day, but who is by no means as
much of a Malone man as he has been-and
there are thousands of such men in the Gen
erals party, says he believes that, let alone
republicans, if the democratic readjusters
we're to meet in convention, so overbearing
and autocratic has Malone been, that they
would depose him from his leadership. 1t is
we'll known here that he is now not liked by
one of his delegation in Congress, though
not one of them has stamina enough to op-
pose him openly.
Two-thirds Of the bar Of Wyoming Ter
ritory including majority in each circuit
| and judicial district have written individ-
dual letters to the President, referring to
| the able and impartial manner in which
Judge James B. Sener has discharged the
duties of his Office, as have also some of the
very best men in the territory including q
| number of the clergy.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Sherman pre-
sented bloody shirt petition prepared by
a committee appointed by the colored ma
tional convention held at Louisville last
fall. A similar one was presented by Mr..
Wilson, of Iowa. Tho "Danville Massacre"
is the capital of these petitions. 1t was ex-
pected that Mr.. Sherman would call up the
| Danville bloody shirt resolution he intro
duced yesterday at to-day's session, but it
is understood that he will postpone doing
so until Monday, when he will be replied to
| by MessrS. Vance, Vest and probably But
Ter, Morgan and others. Virginia has two
men in the Senate nominally representing
| her, but instead Of defending her from the
attacks of her enemies they leave that for
Senators from other States, and assist
| those enemies with all the little force
gone 50 far, with Mr.. Sims to get
up affidavits, and Mr.. Gorham to put
| them in shape, as to prepare a speech,
| which is already printed, and whichit is his
| intention to tad when the Sherman reso,u-
ton Comes up, in which he will agaiu abuse
and maign the people he has betrayed, and
make even republicans recol from him as
| from the bird that detiles its own nest.
No wonder the white people of his
State seem TO entertain personal
! hatred for him, for since he has been in the
Senate his sole object, save to get Offices for
his friends, apparently has been to so abuse
| and injure them as to make them hate him.
Senator Vance is well informed about Vir-
GINA affairs, and will ably repe the foul
and unjust accusations brought against her
people by Sherman and her own recreant
| sous who misrepresent her in the Senate.
There is no hope, or very little, of any re-
leffrom the Internal Revenue by the Ways
and Means Committee Of the present House.
but an effort will be made to obtain some
relief from the House itself, and as there are
numbers of republican Us well be democratic
members who are in favor of such relief
those who will engage in that effort are not
without hope Of success.
1t is understood that Mr.. George D. Wise
will at an early day introduce in the House
resolution in relation to Mahoneism in Vir-
gina, the tendency of which will be to OK
pose the iniquities of that ism to the country
at large.
The Senate to day was engaged upon the
House resolution providing for a relief par
ty to be sert after the Greedy arctic eXpe-
dition, and leaving the expense of the party
to the discretion of the President. During
the debate upon it Mr. Ingalls, said that a
monumental incapacty and stupidity that
terized the expenditure of money already
appropriated for the same purpose, and
there was nothing to indicate that what was
now to be appropriated would be expended
with any better results. He was therefore
in favor of restricting the appropriation to
definite amount. Old Captain Cash, of Gro
ton, Connecticut, is here to advise the Pres
ident to offer a reward of $50, 600 for the re-
covery of the survivors Of the Greedy
arctic expedition. He says if that be done
the whalers in the Arctic seas will make
it their business to search for the expedition,
and he has but little doubt that one of them
will be successful, and that, too, months be-
fore the relief expedition could start out.
The House Committee on Accounts is de-
veloping meaty exposures. Ia the matter
of funeral expenses they have gotten hold
of the separate bills, and by them it is ascer-
tanned that the liquor bills amounted to no
little part of those expenses.
Mr.. Dezendorf, chairman of the straight