Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-24
From Washington.
special Correspondence Of the Alexa. GAZETTE.


successor of the late Chief Justice is becom-
inp more and more rife. The circuit that
was presided over by Judge Waite is com
posed of Maryland. Virginia, West Virginia
North Carolina and South Carolina. When
Justice Lamar was appointed it was on inc
ayoWed policy that the justices must DC
residents of their respective circuits, ana all
of them now are except Justice Harlan, VINO
has moved from Kentucky to Illinois. me
States composing the circuit of the vacant
iudeeship eend ten Senators ana tnlfly
Representatives to Congress, one,eigntn VI
the Senate aud one.ninth of the house.
From 1900 to 1862 the justice Tor the circuit
wes taken from the circuit. From Inc iat-
far date until now he was taken from Chlo.
IF the man to be- appointed be not taken
from the circuit it will look very much as II
the President doesn't think the circuit con
tains a man fit for the place, that he Is
afraid 10 face the opposition he fears snch
an appointment would meet in the North, or
else that he repudiates the policy be avowed
in the Lamar case and recognizes and en-
dorses that of carpetbsgism.
Representative Burns, member OF tns
House Appropriations Committee, says the
claim of Won Hoffman against the govern
ment for rent of the Pioneer Mills in Alex
andria during the war, If prosecuted fur
ther, will have to be introduced as
new and separate bill, and that it would
have no chance of passing at this seSsloD'
and very little at any subsequent one.
The outside of the House and Senate ana
all the outside doors of the U. 3. Suprene
Court room, and the room Itself, are ofapeu
in mourning to day: and the fiags over .he
Capitol are flying at hal.-mast Tor Inc deatn
on his funeral met at the Capitol to-day TO
make the necessary arrangements. IL nau
not adjourned when this paragraph was
written. But at that time, from members
who came out of the room, it was learned
that it was probable the funeral services
here would take place on Tuesday or We'd
nesdsy. possibly in the chamber of the
House. which has been rendered for that
purpose. and the body be then taken to To.
iedo, and buried on Thursday, by which time
Mrs. Waite will have reached there from
California.
The fact has not been noted, but it ia re-
ported that an application for new hearing
in the Bell Telephone case was made last
Tuesday. With new man on the bench,
and Justices Lamar and Gray, who did not
act in last Mondays decision, it is by no
means improbable that the motion referred
to, if made, may be granted, and that the
next decision may ba reversal OF the one
that has been rendered.
In the House to day, Mr. Gaines, OF sir.
GINA, introduced bill to paS to the heirs OF
the late Theodorick Bland, of Prince George
county, Va, $4,000 for property taken or
destroyed by the federal army at Cabin
Point farm, James River, after the war.
This claim should be paid, as the owner OF
the property died before the war, and as his
heirs are all daughters, and at the time the
claim was created were minors.
A meeting of the promoters OF the centen-
nial celebration of the existing government,
in this city, and of the movement to pro-
vide for an annual celebration of the ami
versary OF that event, was held here last
night. All the Virginia Congressional
delegation were invited. but only Messrs.
Browne aud Bowden were present. The
success of this move would benefit Aexan-
dria no little, as it would facilitate the con-
construction of the proposed bridge at AR.
l:ngton and of Mt. Vernon Avenue, and bring
many visitors TO that city.
Among the strangers in the city to day Is
US. Marshal Scott, of the eastern district
of Virginia. He is on his return from AL
bany. to which place he carried q. III. Balm,
the Norfolk banker, recently sentenced 10
five years Imprisonment The Marshal says
the old man, for he Ia seventy years OF age,
bore up manfully, sleeping and eating well,
until they reached Albany, when he broke
down, and asked to be allowed to 90 to
| hotel for an hour or two to regain DIS
strength before being taken to the peniten'
tiary. The Marshal says the prisoners
commitment was very sad, indeed, SO sad
. N
dressed in his prison gasb or knowing TO
what work he was to be assigned.
The Senate committee appointed to investigate
certain alleged election outrages in Texas COM
menced its sessions this morning, but up to the
| hour at which this paragraph was written had
done nothing but talk about some missing sheets
| of short hand writer's report, and order moro
witnesses to Washington.
Representative Browne, of Virginia, has induced
| the Light House Board to recommend an appro-
| priation of $4,000 for light ship at Boushe's
Bluff bar, in Elizabeth river.
Regarding republican politics in Virginia, Rep
tentative Bowden says it will be found that all
| the newspaper and other talk about opposition to
General Malone within his own party will
amount to little or nothing, and that the General
will continue to be at the bead of the party as he
deserves to be, and that when the time comes for
| the members of his party to show their feeling
on the subject they will support the General with
Mr. Wise is noted for just such breaks as no has
recently made but that he will soon see the error
of his way aud go along with the rest of his party
Mr.. Yost says all the information he has from the
State is to the effect that if Mr. Wise shall oppose
General Mahones management, as he threatens to
do, on the floor of the convention he will find
| strong following behind him. Ex-Representative
| John Amber Smith says Mr.. Wise's recent letter
was put up job between Wise aud Malone, the
latter having found that his secret circular fell
still-born and that something had to be done to
cure his object, but that the trick was performed
so clumsily as to be detected by all Observers
Ex-Representative Brady, now here, says the
Wise letter is the cause of good deal of trouble
among the republicans of his, the Petersburg,
district and that the end is not yet seen. He
says Wise is regarded by General Malone as
"kicker," and that orders have already been is
sued from headquarters to crush him. All the
parties named in this paragraph are Virginia re-
publicans
Included in bill which is to be introduced in