Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-06-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
special Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gasette.l
WARRINGTON. D. c., June IL, 1885.


report that the President was determined TO
allow the extensively partisan MahoDeite
postmasters at Petersburg and Woodstock
to retain their positions on the ground that
Senators should have the designation OF the
postmasters at their own homes, said ne
had never heard of such custom before, ana
did not believe it was ever practlced; Dut
that, if otherwise, there was no good reason
for it. and that the known partlsansnlp OF
Mahone's postmastcrs afforded good OPP
portunity for abolshng it. But said he,
if the report be true, how eau the President
reconcile his action with the assertion
of his first assistant Postmaster General,
to the effect that in the appointment
of postmasters the wishes of II majority OF
the democrats served by mail at the Office
respecting the appointments the postmaster
shall be complied with, utterly irrespective
of the recommendations of either Senators
or Representatives that he does not know
that Senators and Representatives nave
any prerogatives in the matter, and tnaC ne
is entirely ignorant of any law or correct
principle which directs that the Postotlce
Department must at all conform to the dc
tates of Senator or any number OF oena-
tors in its appointments he says tne
President, in this matter, as III others, musI
have had bad advisers. 1t is needless 10
say that if any Virginia democrat was con:
suited upon this subject and recommended
the reported action, he has not deemed IL
advisable to make public avowal Of that
fact.
The office Of Assistant Secretary OF the
Interior was created at the last session OF
Congress. Ex- Congressman Post, OF Penn
sylyania who was secretary of the Congress
sional campaign committee during the last
Presidential campaign, has been expecting
to receive that appointment, but ex-Con-
gresham Jencks, of the same State, who
made the famous speech before the infamous
electoral commission, was telegraphed Tor
to-day to come on and see if he would &C
cept the position.
A well informed Virginia republican, in the
city to-day, says that there is so much luxe
warmness and dissatisfaction among the
democrats of his State now, that if Malone
and Mahoneism be "downed" in the Malone
State convention, he really believes Virginia
would go republican next fall; but that ne
is almost certain all the delegates to the
convention referred to will either be Ma
hone men before they get to Richmond or
soon after they get there.
The conference of the democratic mem
bers of the Virginia Congressional delega-
ton was not in session to-day, having adj
journed yesterday until tomorrow. AS
stated yesterday, they are chiefly engaged
in determining whom to recommend Tor the
postoffices in the 4th district OF their State,
which is represented by republican. Inc
matter of recommendation for the "a dis
trict, the other republican or black district
in the State has been, at the request OF the
democrats OF that district, referred 10 Mr.
Marshall, the democratic Candidate Tor Con-
gress at the last election il that district.
Mr. Tenney, the proprietor oi the National
Hotel in this city, who has been the lessee
of the Fauquicr White Sulphur Springs Tor
several wears past, says those springs will
not be open this year. They would, lie
said, be profitable if the accommodations
were enlarged and lhe facilities for reaching
them were better
The affair in which Congressman King. of
Louisiana, is now engaged has directed at
tention to that gentleman, and if reports be
true the opinions he entertalus about the
| women Of the South are by no means COM
plimentary TO them nor to bin, though he
is the son Of 4 Northern man.
Ex-Gov and present Congressman Curtin,
OF Pennsylvania. in an interview with As
sistant Postmaster General Hay, Il day or
two ago, was told that if every Congress
gressmen took up al much A.! his time AZ he
did there would DO little left lor him
in which to attend IL the duties "f hls olce.
It is needless Lo say Mr.. Curtin has not
bothered him since.
The proposition rf Treasurer Jordan, now
under consideration III tn" Treasury Depart
ment, to make the national banks ut the
cities in which there are sub treasures the
repositories OF the Governments money, so
l l.
that the sub treasurer shall only keep the
account between the Government and The
banks, thereby lessening the risk OF such
defalcations as the recent one at the SUB
treasury in New Orleans, is the subject OF
much talk here, and is generally comment
ed upon favorably, though OF course there
are some democratic congressman who OPP
pose tit couldn't be otherwise.
A Virginia democrat, from the Northern
Neck, who was seeking an Office at the
Postoflice Department this morning, told
the Postmaster General that the way the
administration is distributing its patron
age was not all satisfactory to the people of
his State. By doing so it is thought be has
effectually destroyed all the chances he may
have had for place in that Department.
Ex-Congressman E. John Ellis, of Louis
lana meeting three Virginia congressman in
the Office of one Of the Assistant Secretaries
of the Treasury this morning, turned to the
secretary and said 10 him, Mr.. Secretary,
trust you will not let these gentlemen go
away empty handed. One of them, | know,
will be moderate in his demands; give him
at least one place. The second is more
hungry, give him at least five. The thirds
capacity is still larger; nothing less than
twenty will do for him."
The President has received n letter from
Mr.. Waddill. who has just been removed
from the position Of U. 5 district attorney
for the eastern district Of Virginia, stating
that his official term will not expire for two
years; that he has discharged the duties of
his Office, and that he wants to know the
character of the charges that have been
brought against him. In this MI. Waddill
has only followed the example of postmas
ter Windsor, of Alexandria.
NEWS OF TIE DAY