Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-12

had to be fulfilled He was obliged to vote
for Malone against GooGa, and he was sor-
re- for it, as he is ready to admit
The most extraordinary figure III this
whole affair is that OF mr.. Eyarts. He is .
member Of the Judiciary Committee, which
had charge of this nomination. On the first.
division in committee he voted with the
democrats, which produced the tic vote OF
Eve and five. Immediately the abuse OF
the Republican press and politicians began
to be poured upon him, and he was in
luenced to withdraw his vote entirely so
that the committee stood five against four
At the same time he reserved to himself the
right to vote US he might think right in the
Senate. All the time he was eloquent in
praise of Mr.. Goode as model Solicitor
General, and never onco breathed single
word of objection. Be- Mr.. Goodies friends
he was expected either to vote for !he nomi.
nation or to abstain from voting when the
question was put in the Senate in executive
session. But the expectation was disap-
pointed. Mr.. Evarts voted to reject Mr..
Goode He did not care much about Ma.
hone-he was not a Senator when Malone
struck the bargain in 1SSl-but the vitupera-
ton of his party organs ne could not with
stand. He, too, went to q democratic Soma
tor to explain why it was that ne hat to
vote against his conscience and his judg-
ment, but the democratic Senator did not
give him very attentive hearing. In the
warmth OF his Indignation he simply said
"Oh, damn coward" and then, turning
from Mr.. Evarts, he walked away.
Tue moral cowardice Of the republican,
Senators in this case has considerably ruff
fled personal friendships. When Senator
Van Wyck, after pledging himself to vote
for Goode, suffered himself to be coerced
into being paired against him, and returned
to the city to apologize, tho democratic
Senator to whom he offered the apology
waved his hand contemptuously and said
Don't speak to me, cir; dont want to
have any talk with you"
Senator Plumb stands solitary and con-
spicuou5 in having q clean record in tho
matter. He never pledged himself to vote
one way or the other, and when the roll was
called he did not vote at all. Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, is another who alb
stained from voting. He had promised to
vote for confirmation, and now he protests
that if his vote would have done it, he
would havo cast it for confirmation, but the
friends Of Goode hold that ho did not do his
whole duty when he failed to fulfill his
pledge 1t is true that the vote rs recorded
dleberger was omitted by mere slip. If
he had been recorded the numbers would
have stood twenty. eight to twenty six.
Senator Mitchell is classed with those who
voted against their convictions and broke
faith with their democratic friends, and lie
| had taken the trouble to inquire into the
matter. Being exercised about the ale
cations that there was corruption
connected with the election of Mr.. Goode
to tho House of Representatives, Mr..
Mitchell visited Mr.. DeZendortl. the
republican candidate against Goode for
| the election in 1850, and Mr.. Dezendorf as.
snrad him that if there .gas any rregll!arity
| Mr.. Goode was not coSnizlnt Of it or 70.
sponsible for it.
| Here it is not out OF place 10 say that in
the Senate on Friday, Mr.. Riddleherge- told
Mahcna that If there was any corruption it
was managed by bmssif, Mahone, who,
during tho years 1874, 1876, 1878 and 1850
was running the democratic campaign in
| Virginia. "Therc ought 10 he honor among
thieves" said Mr. Ridtlieherger. Senators
| Teller, of Colorado, aud Cuiiom, Of Illinois,
have said over again that they could not
discover the slightest reason for voting
against Goodies nomination. Yet at the
last moment, under the Malone bargain,
they voted. AIdriCh is in the same cate
CORY, and there was a time during tho pro-
| sent session when Senator Blair posed rs an.
out and out panegyrst Of Mr.. Goode. SEN
ator Blair once heard him daliver an al
dress in the National Theatre to the Nation
al Law University, and it is only since last
Friday that he has ceased TO praise that
address and eulOSiZe the man who made it.
The report that Senator Hoar alleged the
incompetency Of the officer "a one Of the
grounds for rejecting the nomination is in
correct. No such allegation was made by
any Senator. On the contrary, Past re-
porter has learned from! a republican SeDa-
| tor that the only mention of competency Or
incompetencv was contained in the testi.
| mony of Chief Justice Richardson that Mir.
| Goodies briefs are the ablest he has seen
since he has presided over the Court OF
Claims, and in communication in which
Justice Greece, of the Supreme Court OF
British Columbia, expressed the opinion
that Mr. Goodies brief in the Hibbs case
was entitled to rank as State paper on the
law of extradtion. That was case which
Mr.. Goode, on behalf of the Postofiice De-
partment, went to British Columbia to ar
quo year ago. Hibbs was fugitive from
the United States, and was charged with
the forgery OF certain postollice money or
ders.
Many of the republican Senators now own
to being heartily ashamed of the transaction
by which Goodies nomination has been re-
iected But mauy of them felt bound by
the compact of 1881 and others have been
influenced by the additional consideration
that Virginia will send twenty-four dele.
gates to the national convention that will
nominate the next republican candidate for
the Presidency of the United States. Several
Senators are looking forward to the honor
of that nomination, and Malone, they
know, will cast these twenty-four votes Just
however he may choose. They know that
at such time he would remember the
Goode case. No man did more TO down"
Malone in Virginia, and Malone wants his
revenge.
There will undoubtedly be either re-
nomination of Mr.. Goode or nomination
of Mr.. Goodies successor within very few
days. Under the revised statutes, section
1869, the only way in which the President
can have a Solicitor General during the re-