Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-21
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
rspecal Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gsxettel
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Nov. 81, 1885.
Ofthe democrats on the Naval Committee
of the last House of Representatives only
two are members of the House to meet two
weeks from next Monday-Messrs. Wise OF
Virginia and McAdoo of New Jersey,-tne
former, the senior member by one term. &C
cording to custom one of these two Will De
chairman of the next Naval Committee, ana
though Mr.. Wise opposed Mr.: Carlisle LOT
Speaker, it is thought, as he is the senior
member. that he will be the one. During
the next Congress an attempt VIII De mace
to build nayy, and immense sums OF mon
ey will be spent with that object in view, of
which a large portion will be disbursed at
the Norfolk navy yard. 1t will thus be seen
how easy it will be to change the political
complexion of the I'd Congressional district
of Virginia, in which is the particular navy
ward referred to, which is now strongly re-
publican, but which with only ordinary
management can be made just as strongly
democratic. The Virginia Congressional
delegation, with the power and the recently
renewed prestige of their State behind them,
will have an unusual opportunity for bene-
filing their State during the next session OF
Congress The question now among the
friends of that State here is, will they do it?
Appointment Clerk Higgins, of the Treas
ury Department, now reports to Assistant
Secretary Smith, instead of to Secretary
Manning, as heretofore, and as Mr.. Smith
is believer in practical politics, it is sur
missed that changes in the Treasury service
will be expedited.
The truth of the published report that ex-
Congressman Post, of Pennsylvania, is a
candidate for the position of doorkeeper OF
the House is denied by MIR. Posts friends.
| A prominent member elect OF the vlr-
ginia Legislature in the city to-day says that
Court of Appeals of his State, in the case
involving the right of Attorney GeneralBlair
| to exact fees from the State in addition to
his prescribed salary was so remarkable, to
say the least, that it is almost certain it will
be brought to the attention of the Legsla-
| ture and be matter for investigation.
The prevailing impression among those
| members of the House now in the city re-
speeding the proposed change in the rules
| Of the House is that a change will be made,
unless those anomalies, the democratic pro-
tectionists, prove to be more numerous than
is thought to be possible--so many that by
uniting with the republicans they will con-
stitute majority of tho body. They did
this, it will be recollected, in the last Con-
gress, but though the democratic majority
will be less in the next one than it was in
that, tits not believed the anomalies referred
to are as numerous now as then.
Judge Bristow, present readjuster-repub-
lican county Judge of Middlesex and Mat
thews county, Va, whom Stubs, of Glou-
cester, in the late election, defeated after a
close contest in the extensive Senatorial
/ - Iotk Glnnnaetnr
Essex, and King and Queen, was in the
city to-day, and frankly gave to his frien ds
some points of quite general interest. The
Judge is not cast down at his defeat, since,
| if he had been elected, he would only have
made the forty and one out Of possible forty
and one hundred. When asked how thing
like that could happen in district regard
ed by Malone to have been safe, he ex-
hibited no special wonder, only remarking
| that he had beaten Stubs in his (Bristow's)
own county; also in Stubbs's county; also in
Essex, but that Matthews and King and
Queen had upset all his calculations. In
those two counties he said the work had
been we'll done, and under direction of the
Barbour management special pains taken
to capture the republican vote. Fitzhugh
Lee, he said, came there on the eve of
election with his pyrotechnics, adding en-
thusiasm to the cold iron of Barbour's
methods and management by which the
lines of his party had already been pene.
trated. "Who will your opponent and the
other representatives of your section sup.
port for Senator?" was asked the Judge.
"Oh, my twas the response" they are all for
the democratic management, as we under
stand it. Stubs is certainly for Barbour, and
so are all the others, I presume" "That,"
said he, sis at all events the general under
standing" Then, after question or two
regarding the policy Of Mr.. Cleveland, which
the Judge did not appear to comprehend,
the would be senator departed for his tide
water home, trhe sadder but unquestion-
ably wiser man than before the late cy-
clone struck his part of the State.
Some ofthe newspaper correspondents of
this city have just gotten hold of the story
about the horse said to have been given to
Senator Riddleberger for his support of
measure in the Virginia Legislature, and of
the controversy concerning it that some
time ago was in progress between the
Senator in his newspaper and democratic
paper in his county. As what the Senator
says has long since ceased to be of any con-
sequence,an as dueling has no favor in Fir-
ginia now, it is said by people from that
State that outside of the parties immedi-
ately engaged in the controversy referred to,
even when it was in progress nobody paid
any attention to it.
Yesterday was one of the days On which
the President receives callers who don't
come to see him about Offices Among those
who did call were several Congressman,
who, when informed that they could not
have an audience because the President was
otherwise engaged, withdrew with tempers
which, though attempted to be concealed,
were nevertheless conspicuously apparent.
How Nipple Mitchell Stands