Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandris Gazette
1v.,u>-croN March &c,


GO, e. nonulists in his county, Elizabeth
CITY, and that at the coming local elec-
ton in May there will be the regular
d smocratic and republican tickets.
Mrs. M. J. Written was appointed
postmaster at Willow, Amherst county,
Va, to-day vice a. D. Written, re-
signed.
Col. George II. Elliott, of the Engi-
peer Corps, will be placed on the re-
tired list of the army on Monday next.
That the cuckoos knew which side
of their bread was buttered Is proved
bv the fact that so many of them who
were defeated for reelection have al
ready been we'll provided for by the
President. Among them are ex-Rep-
resentatives O'Neil, Breckenridge, Will
son, Springer, Kilgore, Cultivate and
Bra wiley. More of them expect SINH
lar fi,yors and are waiting here to re-
c.ive them, among them being
Representative Cabannls ana
Montgomery, the former, it is reported,
to be given a judgeship or a marshal
ship in Oklahoma, and the latter, o
place in the new Indian commission;
Ex-senator Butler, it is said, would
have been appointed member OF the
commission referred to but for the TACT
that Secretary Smith is not well dis.
| posed toward him.
Elk. Governor Fitz Lee of Virginia
has accepted an invitation to denver
an address at Chicago during the latter
part of May, the occasion being the
dedication of q monument to the six
thousand unknown Confederate prison.
ers who died from deliberate privation
and inattention at the Johnson's Island
prison during the war between the
States. 1t is for that reason that he is
unable to tell whether he can attend
the excursion to- be given about the
same time by the Virginia democratic
| association of this city to Marshall Hall;
Vice President Stevenson is expected
to attend the latter.
Governor O'Ferrall of Virginia and
Mr.. Wyndham Meredith of Richmond
are expected here to invite the Presi-
| dent to attend the reception to be given
by the University of Virginia Alumni
Association of Richmond to Postmaster
General Wilson at their annual meet
| ing next month.
1t seems to be pretty we'll UNDER
stood at the State Department that
this government, having nothing to do
with the expulsion of the British consul
from Nicaragua, will not interfere with
the British demand for damages from
the Nicaraguan government for that
expulsion.
The argument in the Debs case was
resumed in the United States Supreme
| Court to-day. Attorney General o.
ney argued against the granting of the
writ of habeas corpus. He said in Jul
", 1894, interstate railroad transporta-
ton was being interfered with in the
State of Illinois and the city of Chicago.
| The interference was on an immense
scale. Il included all the twenty-one
or two railroads centreiDg in Chicago,
with their 100, 1000 miles of track, all OF
whose operations were practically pa
ralyzed. The interference was not
sentimental, nor brought about by per-
suasion or cajolery nor even by threats
only. 1t was accompanied with the
burning of cars, with the derailment Of
trains, with tho destruction of signal
towers and other appliances for the
safe operation of trains, with assaults
upon passengers and employees by
which many were killed and many
more wounded, with bowling and
excited mobs in full occupation Of
entire districts, and terrorizing en-
tire communities. 1t was an inter
ference for which, with all its con-
sequences and incidents, the pres.
ent petitioners are to the fullest extent
responsible, unless it be true that men
can wantonly touch the match to pow
der and get be blameless because not
rightly realizing the ensuing devasta-
ton unless it be true that men can
make vehement appeals for some
thing 10 be done and yet plead
not guilty when their tools and
dupes resort to the only means by
which that something can be done; un-
less it be true that those who seek to
execute plot by the only means pos
sible, in the open, and taking the legal
consequences upon their heads, are to
be branded as criminals, while these
who sit in an office and hatch the plot
and urge OH its consummation are
to go unwhipped of justice because
of loud mouthed professions of vlr-
tue in general and respect for law
and order in particular. 1t was
an interference with interstate rail-
road transportation involving con-
sequences of the most extensive, the
most ruinous and the most irreparable
character. The metropolis of the west,
the great centre for the reception of
food products and for their distribution
north and south and east, was not sim
ply deprived of its trade and subjected
| 70 the immense pecuniary loss arising
| from such deprivation. 1t was not
simply cut OFF from social and CONNER
cial intercourse with the outer world
except through the imperfect media OF
the telegraph and telephone, but
its men, women and children, number
| ing more than million and a quar-
ter of souls, were fast being de-
prived of the very necessaries OF
fife-of ice and of milk and of coal and
of the thousand and one other articles
so essential in these days of comfort, if
not to existence itself. Except, indeed,
that her besiegers were from within,
Chicago was very much in the position
of beleaguered city about to be re-
duced to submission by the slow, but
sure, process of starvation and famine.
The duty of relieving interstate railroad
transportation from the letters the pre-
GENT petitioners and their confederates
were putting upon it at Chicago in the