Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-06-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
,pscial Correspondence of the Alexs. aAzKrr,

3pacial Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE J
WASHINGTON, d. c.. June IL, 1889.
AS stated In this correspondence yester.
day, some of the committee appointed by
the "kickersm meeting here last month to
present their eide of the Virginia republican
case to the President were here then. The
other members of the committee, including
General Groner and ex Gov. Cameron, ar
rived by the Norfolk boat this morning,
only to find, and stated 10 yesterdays GA,
ZETTE, that the President had postponed
hearing them from to-day, the appointed
tina, until tomorrow. The whole commit
ttee assembled at the Ebbitt House this
moraipg, talked over the matter that
brought them here, and made arrangements
for their call at .he White House tomorrow,
nn;i iieS-rn,ined what they should say to the
President sc that call. They seem to think
that unless the President shall give them
some assurance that he will not recognize
General Malone as the disposer OF the fede-
raj patronage 10 their State, the republi-
eau thereof may as we'll hang their harp Oh
the willow tree.
Senator Barbour will leave here this even
ing for New York to attend the meeting oil
the natl onal democratic committee to be
held thare to morrow. lie says he thinks
Mr.. Brice will be elected chairman without
Opposition, but that the election will signify
nothing. AS the present national democratic
committee will have nothing to do with the
next national democratic campaign EXCEPT
to make arrangements for the next ma
tion0l democratic convention. That con-
venton, he says, will appoint the commit
tee who will conduct the subsequent cam
paign. The election of the chairman of that
committee, he says, will be significant, but
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sent committee. About the Craftsmanship of
his own State democratic committee MIR.
Barbour says he doesn't know much, but
hears that SO far Mr.. Corbln is without op'
position for that place.
People who arrived here to-day from along
the line OF Midland Railroad report that
Captain Thomas Popham of Rappahannock
county, Virginia, yesterday, near the border
line between Culpeper and Rappabannock
counties, shot his former partner, man
name CoIvin, and negro, for maligniGg
member of his family.
A delegation of negroes from Norfolk will
arrive here to morrow TO call on the Presi-
dent and Secretary of the Navy and demand
the removal of the commandant and naval
constructor at the Norfolk navy yard for, as
they allege, retaining white democratic en-
pIoyees there to the exclusion OF negro re-
pubIicans. Both the commandant aod COD
structor are republicans, but they say that
they are responsible for the work 10 pro-
gress there, and that they will not discharge
competent mechanics on account OF their
politics. 1t is said that nearly all the demo-
Gratis in the yard, except those referred to,
who are employed on the new ship now in
process of construction there, have been re
moved. Some white stone cutters there
struck last week because among the negroes
put to work with them is an ex pententiary |
convict.
10 reference to the appointment of Major
Morgan, of Rhode Island. as Indian Com
missioner, Congressman Russell. of Connec
ticut, republican, says the Major is an In.
diana man and was lieutenant in Mr. Har-
rison's command during the war,
and that though it seems exceedingly DIFF
fcult for republicans from other States,
personally unknown to Mr.. Harrison,