Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-29
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

next Legislature provided they play the
cards they hold properly He thinks his
party should hold State convention in the
spring and declare for o permanent settle
ment Of the State debt on terms satisfactory
TO the creditors. For he himself, he would
be willing to accept tie terms now proposed
by the c:eGitors.
TIL, IS 1uit which Was made by the negro
cleIE: :; Lamar's department., last week,
on Mir. / ase, iii excellent lady from North
Carolina, WAS too horrible aud british TO
contemplate, much less to condone. The
negro, West, holding q high position of trust
in the Interio. Department. experimenting
the work CT white ladies in that department,
emboldened by the confidence reposed in
him and instigated by his british nature,
stealthily enters the private bed room of
Mrs. Page ct the dead hour of night, armed
with bottle of chloroform, which he was
unable TO use because his intended victim
was awakened from her sleep, but knocks
her senseless to the floor, and is frightened
off by the appearance Of the lady's aged
mother and the screams of her little orphan
children. This liend, making his escape,
spends e few days of safety in Boston and
then returns TO Washington to be bailed By
another negro office holder And, what is
worse the press, instead of stigmatizing this
hellish crime, publishes apologize articles
that West was probably insaneas he was sub
ject to iits. Is this not sad commentary on o
democratic administration. A vllainous
radical negro kept in high and RESPONSE
BILE position to boss over ladies, and when
he commits q horrible crime, the plea of in
sanity is interposed. And poor Mrs. Page,
Frustrated by the injury she received. is I'm.
able to appear in court as witness. Where
is the sympathy for the poor aud innocent
lady? How long shall such things continue?
Why, oh, why, Mr.Lamar, will you not clean
ont the augoan stables and put honest, re.
liable democrats in all the places, which
they are entitled to? The democrats are
not satisfied, and they ought not to be.
The police scandal of this city continues
to be the chief topic Of conversation here
among those who have any interests in this
city. The public meeting held Saturday
night 10 protest against the removal of the
officers who had given information Of the
outrage was composed CT some of the lead.
Ing residents of the city. No chief has yet
been appointed Among the candidates for
the place is Col. Cummings, who resided in
Alexandria last winter; but the fact that he
is On ex- Confederate will it is supposed be
an ensctual bar TO his appointment in view
of the fact that the President wouldn't take
his wife to Richmond because she would
have met Mss Davis there This scandal
has led to s.ron" suspicious of others, and
it is by no Il eaI Improbable that thorough
investigation Of the affairs of the DISTRICT of
Columbia will be made, and that its findings
will be anything else but agreeable to some
OF the present district officers 1t is pretty
vel! ascettained that several Of these Off
GERS are included ii the land ring interested
in the proposed extension Of Massachusetts
avenue
The President to day denied himself to
ali callers, special as we'll rs general. A
large crowd of the latter were in the East
Room Of the White House when informed
that he would no; see them.
Senator CuiIom and Representative Rea.
gan had Il conference at the Capitol to-day
on the subject CT gu interstate commerce
bill. At the last session of Congress the
Senate passed the formers bill creating q
commission TO determine what is necessary
TO be done, and the House passed the lat.
ter's bill prohibiting discriminating rates.
The conference to-day was to see if the two
Bills could not be made to conform.
The administration could not stand the
appointment Of Senator Pugh's son to 6
place in the Treasury, bat a family connec.
,ioo of Secretary Lamar has been promoted
twice in the last six months. A republican
Chief of division in the Treasury Depart
ment, from North Carolina, with a salary OF
$4,000 was removed recently and demo.
crat from the same State appointed in his
place. But The displaced republican was
not dismissed. The civil service rules APP
ply TO places from 5000 to 81, $780, and under
those rnies all who Gre appointed to such
places ;..l stand competitive examinations.
The r y oican referred to though not
standing any examination was appointed to
an $500 place. OF such is civil service re-
form.
1t is said that Fred Douglas saved fifty
thousand dollars out of the fees of the Dis.
trict office be held here, and that those OF
his successor, another colored man, now
| amonnt TO about two hundred and fifty dol
lars day.
The chief Of tho watchmcn in the State Army
and Navy Building is negro who draws salary
Of 81 300, and who is retained there for the sole
assigned reason that he drove the White House
| carriage the night Mr.. Lincoln was assassinatcd