Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.

Three senators anu b low cA-mcui-
bsrs of the House were in the city yes
and to-day. OF the latter quite
a number have now q local habitation
here and are engaged in what may be
appropriately styled the general prac-
tsce of the law, not in the courts alone,
but in all the executive departments,
departmental bureaus, before commit
tees Of Congress and, generally, where
ever q lawyer or lobbyist may have his
professional, political or personal SER
vices brought into play or pay. A
number of Virginians are here, Of
course, as attorneys and counsellors-at-
law, and in the majority of instances
it may fairly be said they have con-
Quoted their professional affairs with
out smirch or blemish on the high
title of lawyer and gentleman. Judge
Leonidas D. Yarrell, formerly a county
Judge of Greensville county, Virginia,
and q State Senator from that section
of the State some years ago.. is the
attest acquisition to the extensive heid
of practice in this city. He CHANGED
to meet the Hon. Elijah v. Brook
shire, of Indiana, a few weeks ago and
circumstances at once induced the
formation of a partnership between
them for the courts and departments
of the District. "a member of the 5lst,
Sud and 53rd Congresses from Indi-
ana" "Six years. experience on the
bench in Virginia." are the words
printed underneath the names of each
of the members Of the firm and de-
signed doubtless to intelligently de-
scribe the public character and SER
vices of the attorneys in question. MIR.
Brookshire served with credit in the
Congresses named and Judge Yarrell
ENJOYS the distinction of being the
youngest ex-county judge in his native
State. The three Senators referred to
are Pugh, of Alabama; Mills, of Texas,
and German, of Maryland. "The politi-
cal atmosphere of Alabama is cold now"
said Senator Pugh. "Later on the signs
are that we shall have a warm wave.
I must defer opinions of a political
character until Them Regarding the
"gibberish" and monkey %chattering
about a third term for President
Cleveland, that was an idea for
eign, he thought, to the mird
of any san man. he believed
that a proper reference of that subject
would be to the superintendent of in
sane asylums throughout the country.
AS to Senator Mills, of Texas, he was
viewed a moment only while striding
down the avenue buried as he usually
is in o profound study and q sickly
melancholy, moving mechanically along
without apparent knowledge that he
was living himself, dead to the world,
and walking around to save the ex-
pensea of a funeral. Toward all earth
" and every day surroundings this
Senator is perhaps the most distracted
of all the abstractionists whoever dark
ened the Capitol d%oorways. To-day he
was more wan, lonely and gloomy than
ever, q ft companion of Campbeils
"Last Man" for whom the poet said:
..Earth's cities bad no sound or tread
And ships went drifting with the dead
To shores where all was dumb"
The distracted Senator had heard moth
Ing, thought of nothing, knew nothing.
and had nothing to say on any subject
whatever. The political world was q
blank; not even the faintest sound had
reached him of the coming battle at
Dallas, between Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons; he had not heard of the Gov
ernor's pronunciamento; of Attorney
General Cranes edict, nor of the ha-
beas corpus proceedings for testing the
validity of the Texas statute prohibit
ing pugilistic combats. HI was allow
ed to move on. Last was Senator
German, the man of rare sense,
rare force and rare manners. BE
could talk, and in no gloomy mood
either, of the political conditions affect
ing his own State and the country at
large. For him it can be stated that
while he is not boasting with brass
lungs in %stentorian tones, he begs his
Virginia friends to believe not one word
of the story that Maryland is lost to
the democratic column. Victory, he
says, is absolutely assured, neither
time nor his prudence would justify
him in giving details and particulars of
the work to be done or of that already
accomplished in the campaign. Person
ally as we'll as politically he loved the
democratic people of Virginia and de-
clared he should ever be proud of the
priceless friendship shown for him by
one of their former lamented Senators,
his own beloved and best friend, John
S. Barbour. When asked if he remem-
bered that Mr.. Barbour, towards the
closing days of his life, had announced
his intention of supporting him (Gor-
many for the presidential nomination at
Chicago, be indicated in answer that he
had been so informed, and at the recol-
lection of this was visibly affected. He
will go into the fight in person and is
in it to win.
Under the act of Congress authoriz-
ing the Atlanta exhibition it is provid
ed that the Chinese restriction
acts shall not be construed to pre-
vent any foreign exhibitor at
the fair from bringing into the
United States, under contract, such
natives as they may deem necessary I. r
conducting their exhibits. Treasury
officials anticipate that under this pro-
vision of the law, many Chinese with no
connection with the Atlantic exposition
will attempt to enter this country and
to prevent fraud instructions have been
sent to observe extra precautions in ex-
aiming all Chinese who present them
selves for admission.
A nice fat plum is dangling from the
administration tree. It is the Fish
oa.- L.Iha