Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.1
WASHINGTON. Nov. %.

Speaker Reed Dy previous sppolnt-
ment. the result of which will be that
Mr.. Walker will be put upon the House
elections committee, which position
will give him an opportunity OF saying
what he chooses upon the floor of the
House of Virginia elections and of
urging the speedy seating of the repub-
lens who are contesting seats from
I at State, and that in exchange. Mr..
Iced will receive the vote of some, Ii
not Of the majority, of the Virginia del-
@ alton to the next national republican
@ ryention. Mr.. Walker will support
me House combine, but at first will
vote for Fsirless for postmaster.
Mr.. D. S. Lewis of Virginia, who
thought about becoming candidate
f,r one of the elective offices OF the
H ,use, finding that the combine had
barred him out, is now looking about
tor one of the lucrative appointment
positions in that body.
The Southern republican members
of the House have been called togetner
tonight to determine upon what action
thew shall take in respect of the com
bine'' that has been made for the ap-
nointment of the elective officers of the
House. 1t is reported that Messrs.
Ssttle and Pierson, of North Carolina,
and possibly others, will not even at.
tend, and that even those who may,
will not agree to vote as unit, as each
one is intent upon getting all the pa
tronage no can for his own con-
stituents, and will vote accordingly.
Indeed if some of the Southern repub-
lican congressman make good their
threats the prospects of two Presi-
DENTAL possibilities may be injured by
the action of the Ohin and Indiana del
ega,iops last night in voting to support
the combination. When the news
reached the headquarters of MIR. Tip
ton OF Tennessee at midnight, great in-
dignation was expressed. There were
present iu Mr.. Npton's room at that
time Congressman Brewer, Mccall.
Gibson and Anderson Of Tennessee,
J. B. Fortune of Virginia, ex Collector
Archie Hughes, of Tennessee, and a
lumber of State politicians from Ken
tucky and North Carolina. A heated
discussion of the situation followed, in
which it was repeatedly asserted that
neither Mckinley nor Harrison could
secure the delegations from several
Southern States at the next President
ial convention after the refusal Of the
delegations from their States to support
the Southern candidate for doorkeeper.
TWENTY-FIVE of the twenty-tour South
ern congressman will caucus tonight
to decide whom they will support Tor
one of the House offices, notwithstand-
ing the general belief that the Com.
binationn will win without material
opposition.
The action of the republican commit
tee of Virginia at Petersburg early this
morning in continuing the bossship OF
their party in their State by electing
Colonel Lamb to both the positions
General Malone held, chairman of that
committee, and the Virginia member OF
the national republican committee, is
not agreeable to all the Virginia repub-
licans here. They say republican
honors in their State are not numerous
enough to be heapiug them upon one
man, no matter how worthy he may
be, and that the result of such action
IN the past is not calculated to inspire
hope of future success. The delicate
tribute that Mr. Butler Malone
thought his selection as member of the
national republican committee would
be to his fathers memory, was not paid.
The prevailing impression on the sub
ject here to-day is that what is general
ly known ss the Platt-Quay combine
has succeeded, and that as the conse-
quence Mcdowell of Pennsylvania will
be clerk of the House, Russell of Mis-
souri, be sergeant-at-arms, Glenn Of
New York be doorkeeper, and McElroy
of Ohio be postmaster. The chaplain
cy has been left open. Upton of Ten
nessee, who was a candidate for door
keeper, says the Southern republicans
have been slaughtered by Ohio, and
that the result will be that four South,
ern States that would have voted for
Mckinley in the national convention,
will now vote for somebody else.
A civil service examination will be
held here on the 9th proximo to fill 3
vacancy in the position of engineer in
the government printing Office. The
wages of the place are 81 day. All
the eligibles on civil service list at the
government printing Office have been
set to work.
The only places that are by
custom allowed 10 the minori
ty party in the House are those
of whipper-in, a pageship, messen-
er's and one other of even smaller sal
airy. Mr.. Ike Hill, the deputy ser
geant-at-arms of the last and of many
previous democratic Houses, and the
whipper-in in republican houses, will,
it is suppose d, be selected for that po-
sition, and for each OF the others there
are hundreds of applicants.
MIR. Ryan, member of the Virginia
House of Delegates from Loudoun coun.
ty, was here yesterday. He is certain
OF his reelection as speaker ofthat body
which will meet next Wednesday, and
so are all the other Virginieps here.
Mr.. Ryan's friends say he will be n
strong candidate for the next congre :
sioual nomination in his district.
President and Mrs. Cleveland attend
ed the First Presbyterian Church this
morning. Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage
preached the sermon. A large crowd
was present. On their return to
their country home Mr.. and Mrs.
Cleveland stopped for few minutes
at the White House. They spent the rest of
the day quietly at Woodley, and ate thei,
turkey without the presence of any invited
guest. All the members of the Cabinet,
with the exception of Secretary Morton, who