Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-23

ance OF suuClcuG eupPoAu
republican majority of the SENATE
to make the rejection Of any one ortnese a Is
pointees at all certain but it is believed no
is enough encouraged to 60 on WIN !ne
and despicable work OF orlgl.
mating objections and causing charges to be
formulated and laid before the several com
mittees having the Virginia cases of charge,
to the end of procuring the rejection OF
number of worthy democrats who now MI
the places lately occupied by his unworthy
henchmen. 1t is we'll, therefore, for the
new appointees to be on their guard against
false accusations lodged with republican
members of these various committees, as
there is little question of Mahone's determl-
nation to make all the trouble he can In
each and every one of the Virginia cases.
leading republican, the nearest to him OF
any member Of that party in the State,
declared yesterday that the fight against
these officials must be made. Party
policy,n said he, should compel it to
saw nothing of any other consideration.
None of our suspended officers would be
restored to their old places know ; but in
rejecting those whose names have been sent
in there would come confusion and trouble
to the democrats. A new swarm OF appli-
cants would appear to torment the Presl'
dent and his party. Continuing, he said,
'there would be greater scrambing than be-
fore and greater dissatisfaction than ever IN
the camp of the hungry democrats, 49, tI ho
talked the friend of Mahorc, saa snat of
spoke the sentiment -, t I wIi hs No con.
l, 1,.e.. 1 of the Virginia cases, nor any
consideration of them as whole. Each
case will be treated separately both IN the
Committee and in the Senate. So the point
to guard is the one already noted in this
correspondence Whether Riddleberger
will unite in the action now contemplate
ed by Malone is not known. Major
Glennan, of the Norfolk Trginian,
most excellent and able gentleman, who
was appointed postmaster of his city in
place of suspended Mahoneite named
Long, will, it is said, certainly be opposed
by Malone. Longs term had not expired
by about two years and a-half when Glennan
was appointed. 1t is gratifying to be able
to state that this last malignant move of Ma.
hone is likely to come to grief, as it is not
probable he will be able to master the re-
publican majority for his scheme.
It. Gov. Lewis, of Virginia, is among the
strangers in the city to day. He sympa-
thizes sincerely with the Rev. Mr.. Murray,
the Episcopal minister at his home, Lin.
wood, Rockingham county, whose young
brother, as reported in the newspapers, has
just attempted to commit suicide and shoot
his wife in New York. The Governor says
he is out of politics now, and too old to do
any political work if 30 disposed, but that
he would like to live long enough to see
first Mahonesm and then democracy killed
in Virginia. Regarding the republican par
ty in his State, he is not at all hopeful, and
says if the republicans should attempt to run
the party enough Mahoneites would 60 off
to defeat them, and that if Malone or any
of his "aunkies," as he calls them, should
make similar attempt, it could not and
would not receive the support of the true
A Virginia democrat, who enquirod at
the Treasury Department yesterday about
the number of appointees therein from
the several congressional districts in his
State, says he was informed that forty-nine
hailed from the 9Th district. He says he
then made the same inquiry at the Agr-
cultural Department and was informed That
the 9Th district had twice as many appoint
ees there as any other district in the State.
Messrs. Cabell, Croxton and Libby are
the only members of the House from Vir
ginia who have not as yet left the city for
the holidays, but it is probable they will go
in time to reach home by Christmas.
Of all the q. S. Senators none is more be.
set by Office seekers than Mr.. German, of
Maryland. A gentleman who was invited
to call upon him at an early hour yesterday,
says sixty:tWo cards had reached him before
his was sent in, and that during the inter-
view the Senator told the door boy not to
bring him any more cards during the day as
it would be impossible for him to see the
callers. 1t is said the pulls at the Senator's
door bell commence soon after daylight
and don't end until late at night. Mr.. Bar
bour's troubles are bad enough as it is but
they are as nothing to those he has escaped.
1t seems now to be pretty certain that
Secretary Lamar will decide that the oppo.
nents of the Bell Telephone patent have the
right to test the validity of that patent in
the courts.
A member of the Virginia Legislature,
here to day on his way home for the holi.
days, says the probable policy of that body
respecting the State debt will be to reduce
the taxes from forty: cents, the present rate,
to thirty, and to make the tax bills for less
those in excess of that sum payable quarter
ly, and the treasurers required to collect
and pay over to the State each installment
as it falls due This, of course, is to render
the thirty dollar coupons worthless. BUTT,
like all the other schemes for defrauding
the States creditors, will surely fail.
One of Mr.. Beck's schemes for getting the
seventy odd millions of surplus silver into
circulation is to spend it in the erection of
public buildings in every town of three thou
sand inhabitants in the country. 1t could be
spent that way to be sure, but the most of it
would find its road back to the Treasury
vaults in a short time, as the people don't
want that kind of money.
Charged with Conspiracy