Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
-,o,nondorco NJ the Alexandra Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May %, 1894:

ocratic association at MS noAhe On oiio
Chevy Chase road, near this city, on
The 59th. when he will celebrate his
50th birthday.
on the Jackson City track VIII certainty
commence tomorrow. They also say
that the work of preparing the Driving
PARK track, near Alexandria, for racing
has been resumed and wiz now DC
pushed to completion as rapidly as pos
sible.
Congressman Meredith was at the
bureau of printing and engraving to-
dav to try to secure the reinstatement
of a discharged employee named Car
son from Alexandria, but failed. lie
also called at the government printing
Office to try to have some of the dis
charged employees of that Office also re-
instated. He was informed there that
if the word of the employees could be
taken. there is not one of them, dis
charged or retained, who isn't true
blue democrat. He was also informed
that seven hundred employees had
been discharged and that nine hundred
more would be, that no appointments
would be made until the list of removals
was complete, and that hereafter two
thousand employees would do what
thirty-six hundred had been doing.
Mr.. Mere dith also called at the Post
Office Department to have changed the
hour at which the mail now leaves Cliff
ton, on the Virginia Midland Railroad,
for Centrevlle.
Senator elect Martin of Virginia is
expected here to-day.
4 bill was introduced in the Senate
to-day 10 reduce telephone rents in this
city.
General Field, Col. Beverly and other
prominent Virginia populists were IN
conference here to-day.
The light weights among the repu0-
licans in the Senate, like Messrs. Chand-
Ter and Hale, have .n cred into an
agreement 10 resort to every kind OF fill
clustering to defeat the tariff bill but
such men as Messrs. Sherman and Alli
son will lend them no assistance. In
the vote to lay the bill on the table to-
lay, all the republicans, including the
silverites among them, voted aye, ana
all the democrats, including Mr.. Hill,
and all the populsts voted no.
c. w. Buttz, the alleged briber, who
was much wanted by the Senatorial
bribery committee yesterday, but failed
to appear, was on hand when the com
mittee met this morning. Mr.. Buttz
was accompanied by his attorney, ex-
Congressman MCGOWAN. All other
persons were excluded. Mr.. Buttz de-
clined TO state what the nature of his
evidence had been, as he was again
cautioned by the committee not to talk.
He did say, however, that he had moth
ing to conceal, but was prevented from
talking by the committee. One thing
he wanted the public to know was that
would never run away, and when 1t
vas reported that he had left the city,
it could be depended upon that he would
be back. 81 never ran from an enemy,
neither during the war nor SINCE" ne
said, "and do not propose to begin now.
Referring to the reasons for this action
against him, Mr.. Buttz said, "Why was
it that the Press published that long ar
ticlc on the sugar trust one day and tie
Sun published this attack on me the
next? Sugar fell rapidly from 100 tc
almost 80 as the result of these newspa-
per statements. Who sold sugar. and
why was it done These are matters
that could be very protitably looked
into and might afford some clue as to
why l am made the subject of this at
tack" Mr.. Buttz gave the committee
the name of the man for whom he was
looking yesterday, but whom he failed
to find. The gentleman is in Virginia
on business, but will be back in day
or two, end it is probable that the
committee will summon him. AT
ter Mr.. Buttz had finished, Mr..
Z. S. Holman, an attorney of this
city, was put upon the stand.
The testimony of Mr.. Holman showed
apparently the mysterious reasons back
of BUTTS alleged attempt to bride Sen
ators Hunton and Kyle, in fact what
be said as the principal witness for
Buttz discloses the basis for the whole
scheme of the eX-congressman from
South Carolina. Mr.. Holman told the
committee that early in April last he
was attending to some legal business in
committee room in the Capitol while
Buttz was present. The witness said
he was assisted by o Mr.. Aleck Har-
ris. and the latter said he would
give thousand dollars to know
how the populist Senators would
vote on the tariff bill, because his know
ledge would be worth money to him
through speculation. Mr.. Holman said
there was no offer made and Mr.. Har-
ris had made the remark in merely
conversational way as any other man
might make it. The witness character
lied the efforts of Buttz to make money
out ofan idle remark as a Colonel Sell
cr's proposition" When Mr.. Holman
was asked as to the whereabouts of Mr..
Harris he said the latter was dead.
The conversation took place early in
April and Harris died on the 11th of
that month.
Mr.. Tucker, introC uced in the House
oday resolution, in eilet t, requestil
the committee on rules TO set apart two
days for the consideration in the House
of the resolution proposing an amend
ment to the constitution by providing
+ the election of Senators by the d.
rect vote of the people.
fPublic Printer Benedict says he will
make no appointments in the printing
office until after July l.
Representative Wilson. author of the Will
| son tariff bill, was in his seat in the House
to-day He seems to be, and says he Is, III
| better health than he was before he went
away He says he doesn't think failure
to provide for the support of the civil service
commission will abolish that commission, as