Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-28
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette


WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. %, 1885.
A well-known regular lecturer in the
temperance cause in Virginia, just here from
Danville, where he has been in attendance
upon the meeting of the Grand Lodge OF
Good Templars, says the temperance 1eeing
in Virginia is on the rapid increase and that
from what he saw and heard at Danville, he
will be surprised ifthe temperance candidate
for President shall not get a large vote IN
that State at the next election. He says
that so far the temperance people In Vlr.
pinia have not interferred with politics, but
that he does not know how long it will be
before they may do so. He also says he
met people from all parts of the State at
Danville, and that from those he talked with
on the subject he is induced to think that
MIR. Barbour will be the next Senator.
Several people, republicans as well as
democrats, have. advised the President
against going to Indianapolis to attend the
| funeral of Mr.. Hendricks lest either by &C.
cident or design he may never return alive,
| and the government be left without head.
All his best and real friends, however, hope
he will 60. There is rumor current on
the streets this evening to the effect that ne
has asked the private secretary of Mr.. Hen
bricks 10 telegraph to Mrs. Hendricks and
find out if his attendance is desired, with a
view of remaining here if it be not; but
familiars at the White House say he has
done nothing OF the kind, and that if alive
he will go.
It is reported here from Richmond to-day
that the remains of the Wing newspaper OF
that city are held at eight thousand dollars,
and that among those who have viewed
them with the idea of buying are Mes5rs.
| sc {1,a NTne rpyfno
and Mr.. Frank Richardson, of the Balti-
more Sun.
A called meeting of the Virginia demo.
cratic club, of this city, was held last night,
at which several eulogies were pronounced
upon the late Vice President, and resolu.
tions adopted in respect of his memory.
There are sixty members of the .. S.
House of Representatives in the city, who
have come for the the winter. The only
one among them from Virginia is Mr.. Bar
bour. Mr.. Tucker was here yesterday, but
went away this morning. Mr.. Tucker is
among those whose friends are urging him
for the Senatorship from his State.
The talk here about there being no va
cancy in the Office of the pro tempore presi-
dency of the Senate, and that Mr.. Edmunds
having been elected as such during the last
Congress, and no successor having been ap.
pointed since remains SO, as the Senate is
a continuous body, amounts to nothing, and
was so decided by the Senate in 1876, when
it adopted the report Of Senator Morton on
that subject.
The recent elaborate newspaper article
first published in the New York Tribune
and extensively copied by the press of the
North and South alike, forecasting General
Fitz. Lee as the next democratic Vice Pres
idential nominee, was written by Col.
John r. Popham, of Virginia, now resident
in this city, whose political sagacity is rec
ognized and acknowledged throughout the
limits of his State.
i The Congressional committee to attend
the funeral of the late Vice President, com
posed of Senators and Representatives, and
the two members of the =. S. Supreme Court
who intend to 60, accompanied by the SER
peants-at-arms of the two houses of Con.
gress, will leave here by the Pennsylvania
Railroad at $50 o. m. Monday, and return
ing will leave Indianapolis on the evening
of tho day Of the funeral.
The Capitol is more deliberately draped il
mourning than on any previous occasion in
its history.
Congressman Springer's proposed new
rules for the government of the House are
completed and are now in the hands of the
printer, and will probably be ready by Wed
nesday next They are oil in the line Of
progress and business. They will not only
have the support of many democrats, but
several republicans who have read them
say they also will vote to adopt them.