The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-02
HOW GEN. MALONE Won.
Backed by the Senate Poker Club ana
Other Friends.

The New York Sun prints this special
from Washington:
"Alahone of Virginia" backed up by the
Senatorial Poker CLUB, and other friends
IN ana out Ot Congress, TO-DAY Won inc
first round of his long fight 10 compel
the Government to buy square OF SIouHu
which he owns in this city as q site toL
a new Government printing once. OF
several years a determined enOrt mas
been made TO erect new building IN
place OF the rickciy, ramshackle SlIuc-
ture in which the thousands oi pIlhtlH5
office employees now Work, ana III when
they are mOmentarily in danger Of their
lives from lire and accident, sucH as
caused the death Of twenty-One az De
partment clerks In the fall Of the Ford
Theatre building last summer III the
Fifty-SecOnd Congress $ID,WJ was dppIo-
priated 10 begin work, but the struggle
between the friends Of the various Itti
estate sVndtcates who have sites 10 sell
has been 50 determined that no site mas
been selected, and the money appropriated
has long ago been turned back into the
Treasury. The friends Of the Malone
site" were opposed by the friends oil Il
dozen other sites in various paris
OF the city, and the fight finally
became a dog I'm the manager
one, in which the boomers Of each site
proposed sWore that no building snouli
be erected unless their particular piece
Of ground should be chosen. Each site
had its advocates and defenders on the
floor Of the Senate, and all were sur
prised when a few months ago a sepa-
rate bill authorizing the selection Of the
"MahOne site" was put through the Sem
ate 10y q very close yea and nay vote.
The bill went 10 the House of Representa-
tives, where the real estate spectators
Immediately attacked ii by presenting
their various schemes, aud the result was
that the whole subject was pigeonholed.
For more than a year ex-senator Ma
hon hoo In .l.fs.
stantly. engaged in the work Of making
friends for his proposition. ana so effec-
lively and quietly did he pull his wires
that his enemies learned with surprise
yesterday that the Committee on Appro-
priations had inserted an item I'm Inc
sundry civil bill providing for the pur-
chase Of the Malone site" The friends
OF ak the other sites thereupon united
their forces to-day and made raid on
the amendment. More than "A dozen sena-
tors delivered speeches and all sorts OF
destinations with regard 10 the methods
used In favor OF THE Malone site" were
made. Senator Henderson led the attack.
and Senators sherman and Teller were
its chief advocates and defenders Sena-
tors German and Cockrel. the leading
members of the Appropriations Com
mittee, both expressed their dsapprOval
Of the amendment, and said that they
voted aginst IL I'm committee
During the discussion three or four
shrewd gentlemen who have had long
experience In assisting" legislation sat
in the galleries, while Malone himself. I'm
charge of all the forces, paced up and
down In the corridor outside the Senate
chamber nervous and excited Occasion
ally he would send in card to a senator.
and after quick word with him resume
his rand promenade a vote was finally
reached, and. without a division, the Ma
hone site won. The fight will now be
transferred to the conference committee.
and IL Will be interesting to see whether
Malone, who has often been called a
prince of politicians will be able 10
maintain the very clever campaign In
so long.
II the statements of Senator's Sherman.
Teller and other men interested in Sc
curing the prompt construction OF a new
Government printing Office are 10 be
believed. the Malone site" won the fight
because IL is the most desirable and
cheapest piece Of ground offered 10 the
Government for the purpose desired. But
In any event Malone and his friends i'm
and out Of the Senatorial Poker Club
deserve credit for the persistency ana
OF their campaign that was
opposed by all OF the real estate specu-
iators not interested in the sale OF THE
Malone Site"