Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-04-24
FROM WASHINGTON.

Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., April "a, 1886.
The nomination ofSolicitor General Goode
is still before the Judiciary Committee OF
the Senate. On Friday last Capt. Lassiter
and Major Walden of the Norfolk Congress
sional district, in Virginia, were examined in
reference to the charges of fraud in his elec'
ton to Congress which General Malone has
brought against Mr.. Goode. Capt. Lassiter
tried to avoid the summons and had to be
sent after. On Tuesday next three more
witnesses will be examined by the commit
tee in reference to the same charges. Some
of The democratic Senators think the way
the republican members of the Judiciary
Committee have allowed General Malone to
make the U. S. Senate the means OF crafty
inc his personal enmity toward MIR. Goode
a great shame TO that body, an insult to the
President, and an outrage upon Mr.. Gcode.
The fact that new witnesses have been sum
moned by General Malone shows his de-
termination 70 hunt Goode, if possible, TO
the death. The testimony of the fresh wit
nesses is to the effect that Goodies son dis
tributed great number of tissue ballots on
the eve of the election; that he was minor
at the time and more or less under The con-
troll of bis father. etc, etc. One OF the
Judges of election, then democrat: now
Mahoneite, has also testified within the past
day or two. He testiGes to having given O
negro preacher $100-and thinks Goode di-
rected or approved it. Goode, it is believed,
will show conclusively the falsity of every
thing impugning his personal integrity: but
Malone is lighting him with great persist.
ence and venom.
CONGRESSMAN Barbour was mob in the
House to-day, having gone few miles in
the country to get sniff of fresh air and a
sight of green fields and apple blossoms
Congressman Croxton says that when he
saw him riding of yesterday evening he en-
We'd him, ard felt like giving days wages
for a good square meal of fresh, country tur-
niptops and smoked jowl, with the tongue
in"
The Senate was not in session to-day,
having adjourned over on Thursday until
Monday. The House was in session to-day,
but with only lew members present. lis
time was devoted to the consideration OF
bills previously reported from the Judiciary
Committee.
Mr.. Lailerty, of Virginia, one of the new
" appointed committee stenographers OF
the House, having been temporarily dis
abled by an injury to his ann, his duties are
being discharged by Mr.. Linney, formerly
of Alexandria.
The House committee Oh war claims has
agreed to report in favor Of giving the vol
unteer female nurses during the civil war
S25 month for the time they served.
A telegram received here this morning
announces the death of Mrs. Judge Edmund
Pendleton, of Winchester, Virginia, the
mother OF Mr.. Alick Pendleton, of that
town. Congressman Tucker and OFerrall
will leave here to attend her funeral.
There is report in circulation here that
Mr.. Button, of Lyncbbnrg, has employed
Mr.. W. f. Sims, of Danvile massacre fame,
10 try to influence certain republican Sena.
tors to vote for reconsideration of the ad-
verse report that has been made by the SEN
ate PostofIice Committee upon his nomina
ton for postmaster at Lynch5urg. Both
MIR. Button and Mr.. Sims deny the story in
part and in whole.
1t is reported to day that Thomas Curtin,
ex.chief of police Of Buffalo, N. Y, will be
appointed chief of the secret service of the
Treasury, vice Brooks, who rendered his
resignation long time ago.
The republican Congressional Committee
profess to be certain that the republicans
will have majority in the next House.
They say they will make gains even in
Virginia.
Ex-Gov. Smith, of Virginia, who has been
spending some time in the city, addressed
the Virginia democratic association of Wash.
ipgton last night, and won the applause of
the entire audience by saying that the in
spring motive of the civil service law was
to stop the practice which had sprung up
under the prolonged republican sway ofper-
hitting the elections to be controlled by the
federal administration and by federal Of
fcers who were forced to contribute part Of
their salaries to election funds. ut wasthis
atrocious outrage" he said, that gave birth
to the cvil-service act, the object of which
was to put a stop to this thing, for I cannot
suppose that auyb body in this assembly would
think for an instant that the democrats
would blindly legislate upon an act whose
object they thought was simply to keep
those in power who had been in power for
twenty-four years. l wont think our party
has been fool enough to do that.
A one eyed negro, named William Wash
ingtop, accidentally fell overheard from the
pungy boat Annie Lawrence at the fish
wharf here this afternoon, and was drowned.