Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Ale1a. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D. c. Dec, 16, 1885.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 16, 1885.
The debate which Mr.. Frye, of Maine, for
personal partisan capital in his own state,
instigated in the U. s. Senate yesterday
evening respecting the use OF liquor IN the
Capitol, removed almost the entire remain
ing reasons the country has for paying re-
spect to that body, and properly reduced II
in the esteem of the people to point even
below that in which the House is held.
Senators boldly avowed that other Senators
had appeared in that body in o state of m.
toxication 80 evident that adjournment had
TO be carried in order to shield them from
the public gaze. Mr.. Riddleberger took
part in the debate, contending that the rule
was delusion and snare unless liquors
were excluded from the committee rooms
a. we'll as from the restaurant; but little or
no attention was paid to what he said
Virginia people here to-day say the edu'
cational and moral qualifications of Mr..
Buchanan, of Washington county, Virginia,
who has been nominated by the democratic
caucus of the Virginia Legislature for Super
intendent of Public Instruction of that
State, in place of Mr.. r. r. Farr, the IN
cumbent, are rarely equaled and cannot be
excelled in his State.
There is some talk on the Senate side of
the Capitol to-day of the Sepate's recess
being divided into periods of three days, the
two houses of Congress meeting at the ex-
piration of those periods so as to be ready
to transact any business that may be press
| ing. Such project, it is hardly necessary
| to saw. meets with little or no favor on the
House side.
The debate on the proposed new rules for
the House was resumed the first thing to-
day, and will be continued until a vote on
| them shall be reached, which, their sup.
evening. The debate 80 far has not altered
any votes, and the friends of the proposed
change say they are confident it will be
made.
The fact that General Malone received
every republican vote in the Virginia Legis-
lature yesterday for reelection as Senator,
is said by his friends here to indicate that
he is still regarded as the head of the party
in his State, and that next year he will lead
and govern it as he has done heretofore.
Republicans from his State now in the city
say they are afraid this may be so, but that
fit shall be, the majority against him will
be twice as large as it was last fall.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Malone in
troduced bill to pay J. r. Jones $s5, which
amount is the excess of what he should
have paid the Government. Jones is ex-
postmaster at Boydton, and is the colored
member of the Virginia Legislature from
Mecklenburg county, in that State. He was
recently tried for robbing the mail.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. German in
PRODUCED bill to refer to the accounting
officers of the Treasury the claim of ]. II.
Maddox for tobacco seized by the Govern
ment at Richmond after the war. MIR. Mad
dox has recently become property owner
in Alexandria.
Adelegation of Congressman, among them
some from Kentucky, Indiana and New
York, waited upon the President this morn
ing in the interest of Mr.. Eb. Henderson,
who is an applicant for the place of Third
Assistant Postmaster General, which is still
held by republican. Mr.. Henderson is
| chairman of the State democratic committee
of Indiana. The position is the one for
| which the friends of Judge Goolrick, of Vir-
ginia, have been pressing him; but the i'm.
preston at and about the departments here
seems to be that Virginia has received her
| full share of federal patronage, and should
be content with what she has. The fact
that very little of the little she has got
| was satisfactory to the people of the State
is entirely unknown here.
| Should the House be in session next Mon
day, and the condition of the rules permit,
Mr.. O'Ferrall will introduce the Blair edu-
cational bill. Ifnot, he will introduce it at
the first opportunity.
In the Senate to day the consideration of the
Presidential succession bill was resumed immo-
| diately after the regular morning business.