Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-14
From Washington.
I Special Correspondence OF the Alexis GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D c. MAY IA. 1889.

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Special Correspondence OF the Ale1s. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c.. May IA, 1889.
Mr.. Morgan Treat of Virginia, who was
an applicant for the place recently given TO
Mr.. Farr, is member of the Virginia legis'
lature. He says he will now 60 back to
Virginia and investigate the oysterlndustry.
as be has just been notified by the CLERK oil
the legislative committee on that INDUSTRY,
of which he is member, that they VIII
commence their investigations next "eeh.
Mr.. Treat says be has nothing TO say against
Mr.. Farr, but that he thinks 1t rlght stiahee
that the place should have Deen given 10 d
man who was opposed to Harrlson's noun
nation over one who had better ehoofse'
mani and was from the first Harrison
man. He says such appointments are ,. not
calculated to strengthen the republican
psrty in his State.
Judge Montgomery yesterday filed an
oninion in the Supreme Court of the District,
refusing to grant q new trial in the suit OF
Rose Meade of Alexandria against the hlcn-
mond and Danvlle railroad company. The
Judge reviewed the law applicable to the
case and the testimony on both sides ana
held that the verdict of the jury for i've
thousand dollars damages was sustained
both by the law and the facts. No appeal
has as vet been taken in the case.
Private letters received here from General
W. H. F. Lee at Lexington say that he may
be expected at bis home, Ravensworth,
Fairfax county, within the next few days.
Richmond democrats now here say that
Mr.. Ellyson of their city is one OF the
sbrewdest and most active politicians in Vir'
einia and that the democrats there have com
menced to talk about him as the probable
chairman of their State committee. They
also saw that not the State committee, but
the State convention will select that chair
man.
Senator Barbour has returned from New
York where he he's been in attendance upon
a session of the Senate committee on inter-
state commerce, Of which he is member,
which has been investigating matters In
relation to the competition between Amerl-
can and Canadian railroads. The commit
| tee will meet again in Boston early In July
and then 90 to Montreal, and probably to
other places in Canada during the warmer
weeks of the summer.
News received here from the political cam
paign that has already commenced in the
sterritories for whose admission into the
Union as States provision has been made
is by no means satisfactory to the repub!i'
cans. Indeed it is not only unsatisfactory
to them but positively alarming, for 1t s &c
the effect that the probabilities are hlgniS
favorable to the election of sufficient mum
Der Of democratic senators and representa-
tiyes to make both houses of the next Con
press democratic, and that, too, though tb'
republican members of the next House art
now squabbiug and fighting over thei
nominee for the speakership OF that DoGy
The territories referred to have heretofore
baen giving republican malorlties, but wei
informed republicans from them say tha
cumstances have changed and that they
are afraid the democrats will win the mex
election.
| 1t is evident that the Virginia MahoneiteE
look upon the recent appointments in theil
State as conclusive evidence that the Presl
dent has made up his mind tosllow Genera
Malone to distribute the federal patronage
in Virginia. for they ale reassembing here
in large numbers. Among those seen in anC
about the Metropolitan Hotel this morning
were Messrs Broyles, VanAukep, Biail
Morris, Brown Allen, Stovali, Psnnell
Strother, Johnson, Lindsay, and others. IL
respect of the last named however, it is sur
missed from what he said 10 40 acquaintance
this morning, that the appointment OF ex
Congressman Brady, an anti Malone man, to
be oollec or of internal revenue for the
Richmond district, would not bs at all OBJ
| iectioDable to him.
Elk Senator Riddleberger is still here. He
has recovered from his recent indisposi-
ton, and though now weak, is looking in
better health than for many months past
He says he is not seeking any Office for him
self; that all he has done in that Iine has
been for his friends, and that even for them
he has only called once npon the President
and two of the members Of the Cabinet. lie
expects, however, to call upon them all IL
a short time, and after his calls Will be aDle
to form an opinion as to the purposes of the
Administration, if it have any, in respect
Of Virginia affairs.