Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. MAY 81.

Z 10 .. to report in favor of the demo
cratic sitting member, Mr.. Turpin, in
the contested election case Of McDuihe
VS.. Turpin. frcm Alabama.
/. n. Hoge was to-day appointed
postmaster at Friends Mission, Patrick
county, Va, vice Julia a. Kirkman, re-
signed
county, Va, recently appointed U.
Consul at Colon (AspinwalD, and who
sailed for his post Of duty to-day, Was
rendered complimentary banquet on
Saturday night by his numerous friends
in Washington, and at which several
Alcyandrians were present. The menu
was faultlcss. the wines were superb,
the speeches were eloquent. and the
..feast OF reason and flow of soul" were
only curtailed by the hands ofthe clock
Indicating the hour of midnight. Col.
Driver presided and Col. John r. Pop
ham paid Il glowing tribute to the
Young consul. Messrs. Neale, Gunnell.
Merrill and others were happy in their
remarks.
A conference of some of the most in
nuential democrats of the country vii!
be held here during the current week,
At which the affairs of their party Wall
be carefully considered, and if the re-
suit of that consideration be the coaclu-
sion that the ex-President is not the
most available candidate that can be
nominated, be will be so informed. VI
the conierrees referred to, a majority OF
them will be friends of Mr.. Cleveland.
The President has returned from
Rochester, and he and his whole Ca5i-
net are all torn up at the prospect q
Mr. Blaine's nomination at Minneapo-
lis. MIR. EIkins practically comedies
Blaine's nomination, and says there Is
no help for it, as the leaders OF the liar
rison forces at Minneapolis can not
compete with the astute and willy poll
ticians who will lead the Blaine men
there. lie says he can not understand
Dir. Blaine, as the latter had told him
with his own mouth that he would not
be candidate. He does know, how
ever. that Blaine despises Harrison and
eli the members of his Cabinet except
himself, and that in this he is joined by
Platt. QUAY. Foraker, Clarkson and
most all the other crafty members OF
the party, and that Mrs. Blaine is spur
ring her husband on, as she has never
forgiven the President for positively re-
fusin@ to make her son assistant Secre-
taly OF State and to promote herson-in-
law from Colonel 10 Brigadicr General.
When Senator Hill was informed to-
Gay that the Syracuse convention had
determined to send ccntestirg delega-
ton TO Chicago, he said that was just
what his friends wanted it to do, and
that now there would be plain sailing.
Private dispatches received here say
the platform adopted by the convention
referred to will declare for the equal
valuation of all dollars, and refers to
the previous democratic convention as
an .-oligarchic" assemblage.
Among the strangers i'll the city to-
day are Mcssrs. Basil Gordon, chairman
of the democratic State committee OF
Virginia and one of the delegates at
large TO the Chicago convention. and j..
:. z. Thompson, assistant general su-
perintendent of the L. q ID. r. Il. The
former says that while the newspaper
talk is to the effect that the delegation
from his State to the Chicago conven-
tor is about equally divided between
Hill and Cleveland, the truth is that
The delegation is unpledged to anybody
and the delegates 20 to Chicago with
the determination of supporting the
man who, it shall seem to them when
they reach The c, stands the best chance
OF being elected, rs democratic success
is w lat Virginians desire. Senator
Daniel, who is also a delegate at large
to the Chicago convention, who has re-
turned, and was in his seat to-day, is in
thorough accord with Mr.. Gordon on
the subject referred TO.
In the House to-day Mr. Meredith
introduced bill TO increase the pension
of Francis n Lake of Orange county,
Virginia, a Mexican war soldier and
bills to pay the war claims of. L. Car
ter of Stafford county, $1,000; Mrs.
Doggett CT Culpepcr county, $207, and
the legal representatives of G. W. Har-
per, Louisa county, $1,000.
The pony race ut Jennings here yes
tcrday was won ny Master Wade Hamp-
ton Brown, son Of Mr. Jack Brown, the
Alexandria miller. The prize was a
handsome pony.
Senator German being asked to-day
if the delegation from his State to
the national democratic convention
would be instructed, replied that they
would not be, that such had never been
the case before, and he doubted if six
teen democrats could be found in the
State Of Marland who would consent to
go to Chicago wearing any body's col
lar but their own.
President Oakman ofthe r. & d. Rail
road system. and MIR. Spencer, the rep
resentative Of Drexel Il Co., who have
undertaken to rcorganiZc that system,
left here to-day on tour of inspection
over the whole line of that road. The
impression in railroad circles here is
that reorganization will be effected,
the Georgia Central be left out of the
system ;nl tie line only reach from
this city to the Mississippi, and the
chief Office be brought back to Wash
ington.
As an evidence of the impoverished
condition Of the Treasury, occasioned
by the eXtravagant appropriations by
The republican "billion-dollar" Con-
gress, it was stated to the GAzETTEs
correspondent to-day, by republican
official who is in position to know
whereof he speaks, that it is now the
practice ofthe pension office to delay
the consideration Of all original claims
which carry with them lack pensions
to the date of filing the same. A large
number of such claims, involving many