Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-11
FROM WASH NOTION.

| 1t is understood that the Lasker resolu-
ton will not be considered by the House
Foreign Affairs Committee until Thursday
Mr.. Ochiltree says he learns that Eaton and
Curtin, the two older democratic members
of that committee, are in favor of retalia-
tory measure, but that the dudes who dine
and wine with the German Minister are for
smoothing the affair over as quietly as
possible.
The President has nominated Mr. Van
derslice for pension agent at Philadelphia,
but Mr.. Kelly, the Presidents friend has
preferred charges of the gravest character
against the nominee, and is pressing them.
Mr.. John Amber Smith is q candidate
for the position of Solicitor of the Treasury,
made vacant by the death of Mr.. Kenneth
Rayner. He has the endorsement of several
Southern republican members of Congress,
among them, it is said, Messrs. Libby and
Bowen, of Virginia, but Mr.. Libby says he
will give hundred dollars to anybody who
will show him his name to any such paper.
Mr.. Riddleberger asked to be excused from
signing the application, and Gen. Malone,
it is understood, positively refused to sign
it. Ex-senator Pool, Of North Carolina, is
also candidate for the place. Some think
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be promoted.
Among the strangers on the floor Of the
House to-day was Daniel E. Sickles. From
the gallery he looked almost as young and
as handsome as he did more than quarter
Of century ago, when in the same city,
without warning to his victim, he shot and
killed Philip Barton Key.
The House to-day after passing bill
allowing American registers to foreign built
ships provided the cost Of repairs on them
made at American ship yards amounts to
double the cost of the ship, resumed the
consideration Of the Postofice Appropra-
ton Bill. The Senate after the regular
morning business went into executive ses-
sion on the Mexican Treaty. 1t is the i'm
preston now that the treaty will be ratified.
In the Senate to day Mr.. Blair presented
three petitions, one from the Loudoun Quar-
terly Meeting Of the Society of Friends,
against the manufacture of and traffic in
liquor
1t is understood that Mr.. Ingalls, will lead
the opposition TO the Fitz-John Porter bill
when it comes up in the Senate tomorrow.
Mr.. Dezendorf is preparing statement
for publication contradicting the one re-
Gently published by Collector Brady, re-
speeding the condition of political affairs in
Virginia. Mr. Brady is in the city to day
He says that General Malone is the favorte
of uine-teuths of the negroes of Virginia
that be could not please all the leaders ofthe
republican party there because he could not
give them all Offices that the General does
| not care whether they are pleased or not, that
the white republicans in Virginia never did
amount to much any how, and that those
without position have no influence. As re-
CARDS himself, Mr.. Brady says he does not
know yet awhile whether he will be can
didae for Congress or not in his district,
| but that if he shall be he will be elected by
a large majority.
At the star route examination to-day Mr..
| W. a. Cook was examined. He testified
that after he had been employed by the Gov
ernmeuL TO prosecute the swindlerS he was
offered retaining fee Of SO, 900 by COL W.
P. Wood if be would defend the Indicted
parties, but that he refused to accept it, Mr.
Cook testified to the effect that the assassi-
nation Of the President was due to the war
between the stalwarts and the half breeds ;
that he had warned President Garfield of
his danger; that Guteau had accomplices;
that the President urged the rosecution Of
the star reuters, though they had been his
friends; that Bliss didn't want the prosecu-
ton to succeed, and that Brewster did not
push Bliss, because he was the creature Of
Bliss, having been made Attorney General
through Blisss influence with "Chet."
The day before the President was shot,
when leaving him, the witness continued ::
a." said to the President that he should be careful
| of his movements bitterness had arisen be-
tween the stalwarts and the half-breeds and there
| were connected with these cases men of extreme
| training. said at the time that there might be
resort tn violence. Such the impres sion
| then on my mind. Ny suggestion for moment
| touched the President. but he responded that
there danger. The bitterness of feeling
| was so strong that would not have boon sur
prised had it carried itself against the Postmaster
| General aud the Attorney General
Mr.. Lowry, Of the subcommittee of the
| House Elections Committee, to whom was
| referred the O'Ferrall-Paul contested cleo
ton case, informed Mr.. O'Ferrall to-day
that the report in his case, giving him the
seat, would be reported to the full COM
mttee tomorrow.
Mr. Libby has bill to introduce for the
erection of customs house at Newport
News.
In the House to-day Mr.. Morrison report
ed his tariff bill, with majority report
signed by all the democrats on the commit
tee, Mr.. Mckinley at the same time pre-
senting minority report signed by all the
republicans on the committee. The bill
went on the calendar and will come up in
about two weeks.
At the Danville riot investigation to-day
the examination of Mr. Sims was continued
aud was to the same effect as that of
all the other Mahoneites. His evidence
contradicted in some particulars that of
Johnson, the Malone mayor of Danville
At the conclusion of his testimony Senator
Sherman told Senator Vance that it was needless
for him to summon his witnesses yet awhile, as
some of the appropriation asked for to continue
the investigation for the pay ofsecretaries, to
which the House would not agree and from which
the Senate would not recede