Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-16
From Washington.
Especial Core ,pondence OF the Aleza. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. d. O.. Jan. 16. 1883

Especial Core ,pondence OF the AleXa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. d. O.. Jan. 16. 1888
Oaly four opinions were rendered in the
u. S. Supreme Court to-day, and none OF
them we're of any general Importance.
All the Virginia republican congressman
in this city will go to Richmond to-
morrow to attend the meeting to be held
there to morrow night TO make arrange
monts for the organization of republican
clubs in all the counties Of the State, as
recommended by the recent national coE-
vention Of republican clubs held in New
York.
Mr.. Hopkins, the labor congressman from
the Lynchburg district in Virginia, in talk
ing TO. day about the Carlisle contested cleo.
ton case, said the republican press and re-
publican politicians are doing all they can
to gain the support of the labor party, but
that as the democratic party Away has been,
and always must continue to be, the friend
of the laboring man. his idea is to seek for
labor's rights within that party and from
labor's friends, than from its enemies, the
republican party.
In the Senate to day Mr.. Blair asked to
have memorial signed by Mr.. Powderly,
chief workman of the knights of labor,
printed in the Record, but Mr.. Harris OBJ
jecting, he read it ut length. The purport
of it was that Congress should have the
work OF the bureau of printing and engrav-
ing done by hand instead of by machine.
The Senate Committee on Public Lands
agreed this morning to report favorably upon
the nomination of Edward Burgess as land
agent in Arizona.
Mr.. W. II. Bigelow, of Maine, formerly a
special agent of the Post-ofice Department,
has been appointed postmaster of the United
States Senate.
The Senate Post Office Committee this
morning ordered q favorable report on the
permissible marks bill, which has already
passed the House
The Senate Judiciary Committee today
agreed to send for all the papers in the De.
partment of Justice relating to the alleged
suppression OF the colored vote at the recent
election in Jackson Mississippi, and that if
those papers warrant second Danvlle IN.
vestigation, to have one. 1t was also deter.
mined to consider the Lamar case In execu.
tive session to-day and to decide it before
considering any other nominations Mt.
Riddleberger told the GAzETTE's cores
pondent to-day that he meant to move to
go into executive session at as early an hour
to-day as possible and to force the fighting
on the nomlnaLlon fe1erreO 10, OF tDe COLI
6rmaton of which he is now the champion.
In this connection it may be mentioned that
when Mr.. Lamar, last week, was taking
leave of the employees of the finance divi.
sion of the Interior Department, his only re.
lation with which was to draw his salary,
he told them he had derived more solid per-
sone comfort from them than from all the
other employees in the Department.. Among
al. q, Grpo
ton is that of Mrs. Chisholm, whose hus-
band was shot during political disturbance
iu Mississippi some years ago. In it she
says that when she gathered out of the soil
of Mississippi the slaughtered body of Der
husband and had it removed to Pennsylva.
mia, where it now sleeps with the free air
aud the American flag above it, she did not
think man like Mr.. Lamar would ever be
put on the bench, from which she yet hopes
to obtain justice"