Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
rspsc al Correspondence of the Alexs. GAzErrn]
WASHING TON, D. c.. Nov. %. 1889.
There Ia q rumor ahoat here to the effect
that ga soon as the O. 8. House of Repre-
septatiyes shall be called to order by the
old clerk next Monday week, q resolution
will be introduced for admitting all the con-
testsnts from Virginia, West Virginia and
Maryland at once upon prlma Jdcle evidence
and without referring their cases TO tne
elections committee. The republicans say
thew have a precedent for such action III
tina 25th Congress, when the contestants
from New Jersey were 30 admitted ouI
that was no precedent at all, as 10 tnat case
both sets of applicants for admission nau
certificates of election, one signed ny the
Governor and the other by the Secretary OF
the State, while in the present case the con-
testants have no certificates from any BODY:
A democratic politician from kicnmono
here oday, says TIE dispatch published IN
some of the morning papers ABOUT tne Vo.e
of Virginia at the recent election Ia mlsleau
inc. He saws that while the aggregate vote
was fourteen thousand less than that cast at
the Presidential election, the democratic
vote was ten thousand more, and the repuo
lican vote thirty thousand less.
Among the strangers at the Capitol TO.
day was General Joe Johnston. The General
Ia quite an old man now, but though he
doesn't walk IS rapidly or 80 firmly as 10
his more youthful age, he is as erect as ever
and does not use cane The General, as
nearly all the other reputable Virglnians
here are, Is greatly delighted at the large
meiority by which General Malone was re-
GENTLY defeated in his State, and when told
that his letter to the GAZETTE before the
election had changed the opinion of some
Virginians respecting the Generals pluck
ness" in the war between the States, and
might have helped to increase that maj ority,
he replied that nothing was required TO In
crease that majority as the people had de
termined to make it large.
Rev. Mr.. Newman, one Of Mahons's ne
gro preachers, who during the recent cam
paign frequently went to Virginia to preach
and speak for the success of Malone and
his ticket, is in jail near this city for selling
whiskey illegally.
Among the strangers here to-day are ex.
Congressman Mayo, and U. s. Marshal
Watts of the western district OF Virginia,
both republicans and both of whom support.
ed Gen. Malone at the late election. The
former says he never had any hope of the
Generals election, and that Ii the thirty
thousand names stricken from the'poll book 8
had been untouched the General would
still have been defeated. Col. Mayo said
the white people of Virginia, the young men
more than the old ones, and his own son
! among the number, have gotten it Into their
heads that a republican majority In the
State means negro domination, that that
idea is bound to stay, and that as long as II
does the democrats will have control OF the
State. With regard to the purging OF the
registration books, he says IL WAS done &C
cordiug to law, and that there was little or
no fraud In his district on election day, and
never has been much. He says the ques'
ton of negro outrage in the South ia very
serious one and that the 14th amendment
to the Constitution is unconstitutional,
as the southern States, which the U. 5. Su.
preme Court has decided were never out of
the Union, were not represented in Congress
when that amendment was passed by
that body, but that while it might probably
be better for the southern people to lose
come of their congressiona! and electoral
representation by denying the negroes the
privilege of voting, he doubts whether the
southern dem ocrats would Do willing to
submit...o that loss. Marshals Watts says
he agrees with Gen. Malone that thirty
thousand republican votes were stricken
from the registration books, but could not
explain how the remaining thirteen thou.
sand democratic sjority could be accounted
for, so far, at least, as his county, faz'well,
is concerned, for there was no cheating
there, he aays, on election day.
Secretary Blaine denies the report pub
lsbed in some of the papers to The effect
that the State Department had instructed
its minister to Brazil to recognize the revo-
lutionary government of that country. Inc
Secretary doubtless thinks that what MIR.
Henderson did in the PanAmerican Con-
gress Yesterday in the direction referred to,
was sufficient.
The following changes 10 the 4.h class
postoflices of Virginia were made to-day
Dug Spur, Carroll county. S. Alderman ap
pointed postmaster vice e Branslow, re-
moved; Hansonville, Russell county, }.
Slower, vice d. F. Slower, resigned Hupp,
Rockingham county. J. D. Mills, vice w. A.
Ssyards, resigned; Old Town. Grayson
county, James Williams. je, vice A. n.
Grub, removed; Pool. GIayson county
John b. Pool, vice L. b. Moore: de-
clined; Rakes, Floyd county, William
Bower, vice ]. F. Williams, removed ;
Riversvile, Amherst county, j. NJ. Howerton,
vice W. E. Moore, resigned; Rural Home. Gray
! son county. Mary Wsrrick, vice g. W. Atkins,
deceased Sandy Hook, Goochland county E. l..
Burrow, vice VIM. f. Branch, resigned; scotts-
ford, Rockingham county, Thomas D. hippetoe'
vice s. H. Crown, resigned Sentinel Warren
county, Cora B. Winsbur;ow, vice S. A. Mitchell
| removed Stapleton Mills, Amerst county, Wood
Marks vice Lille L. scruges removed stokes
land, Pittsylvania county, w. 81. Jacobs, vice w.
p. Pennick, removed
General Malone and his family arc expected
here this evening or tomorrow. The General
will, it is expected, stop here for few days. bus
family will go through to Petersburg without
stopping
VIRGINIA NEWS.
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