Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-12-15
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WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec, 10, 1883.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec. 10, 1883.
An old AID well known Northern re
publican in talking to the GAzETTE's cor.
respondent to-day about the possibility OF
Tho recognition of General Malone by the
incoming administration, said no such pos.
,ibi.ity existed. He said Mr.. Quay, the on
Is Influential republican who was friendly
with ,he General, would do nothing 10 have
HIM appointed to any position, even 10 q
second Glass foreign mission, AID that the
idea Of the General being in the Cabinet
was Absurd, ss he and Mr.. Blaine we're
4vuWed snen :es. and The Cabinet could DOT
hs disturbed By personal ars.
The tue gist OF the proceedings Of the
recent conference of Gen. Mahone's follow
era held at Petersburg, as reported by one
Of the conierees, is as follows. Ii was de-
terminsd that no contest for the electoral
vote If the State should be made, as there
is no way by which such q contest could OBJ
lain a holding IN court. IL wes also
doleiminei that the congressional con-
teRis to be- supported are those OF Mr.. Wal
dill III The Richmond district ard of Mr..
Bowen In the Abingdon district. if the lat
ter iri1ks he can nuke a good case. IL was
also determined that the Virginia members
OF a Southern republican conference to be
held here on the Is b inst, at the call Of
Representative Houk, of Tennessee, shall
10 what they can toward inducing the coz
ference to recommend Gen. Malone as the
Southern representative il Mr.. Harrison's
Cabinet, provided the South shall have a
representative in that body. Mr. FAIR
and NJ. Fam wore two OF the three rep
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ended the Petersburg conference. The
conference took no notice of the Lang
stor contest, as most If not all its members
I OF only think LANCET n vas fairly defeated,
but that FIR tho good of The party he should
have been. The L1ug5ton contest is being
prosecuted By OIL. Brady, an anti Mahone-
ito, for the purpose, it is said, of showing to
the republicans of the North that but for
General Mahons's Interference in the 4th
district that district would not only have
elected a republican congressman, but given
u republican majority sufficiently large TO
have carried the State for Harrison. No
body was recommended for any federal
Office. but 1t was Incidentally mentioned in
the conference that Mr.. Martin Of the Nor
fox district wanted o second GLASS foreign
mission.
Senator Rddleberger says be hopes Mr..
Iugaiis will have The courtesy to vacate the
chair of tho presiding officer OF the Senate
on Monday next, when his motion for the
consid GRAFTON Of the British eXtra0ition
treaty in opeu session will come up under
the rules. He says the republicans availed
themselves of the Irish vote in order TO
achieve success, but that their gratitude for
that assistance has been growing colder
since the day it was rendered.
Representative Browne of Virginia called
at the pension bureau this morning in refer
eccs to the disallowed applications for pen
sious under the Mexican pension act to
soldiers of the Mexican war who subse-
qnently entered the Confederate service.
He was told that Commissioner Blacks
order prohibiting the granting OF such PEN
sions had been revoked upon the opinion
of Judge Hawkins, the law officer OF the de-
partment, more than a year ago, but that
Secretarg Villas had MT yet officially mott
fed the buresu Of that revocation, and that
until he dos the applications referred 10
could not be granted.
Mr. Biaino has telegraphed to friends
here that he mas a. yet received no tender
of q place in Mr.. Harrison's cabinet.
Those republicans who don't want an ex
ira session OF Congress hope that the demo-
Gratis at the present session will be 80 liber-
al in their appropriations that nearly all the
surplus in the Treasury will be expended, so
that there need be DO cause for an extra
session. But all such hope is vain, as the
democrats, il anything, intend to be more
economical than ever. Before they came
into power twenty thousand dollars
was the yearly appropriation for cleaning
snow from the pavements around the de.
psrtmen,s. The democrats cut that down
TO 81, GOO. They pursued q similar course
With all other extraVagant appropriations,
and will continue TO 40 So as long as they
retain bold of The peoples purse strings.
Representative Hatch told the GAZETTE's
correspondent this morning that the bill en-
lareing the agricultural bureau TO tie digni-
~ of a department aud making The head
Cabinet officer. was now in the
hands OF o conference committee, who, he
said, would certainly conc to an agreement,
so that the bill would pass. He said he was
rot sure whether the section transferring
he signal service from the war to the agri.
department. would be stricken out,
Dnt that his impression VAS hat it would
1ot he.
1t is reported thst Representative Gaines, of
Petersburg district. Will be an applicant for
he place of internal revenue collector in his, :he
Richmond district. and thst Representative Brown,
# the Danville dise- ct. would not decline q SIM
lar position in his, the only other collection dis
net in his State.
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