Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-15
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette

FRUM WASHlNUIUN.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Since the investigations into the con-
duct of letter carriers by secret agents
of the Postofice Department have be-
come general, persons representing the
accused have called upon department
officials in defense of the carriers, who,
they claim, have not been accorded a
fair and just showing. They say that
the charges made against the carriers
of drinking and lettering while on duty
are not brought to the attention of the
accused until a long time has elapsed,
which makes it difficult for the car
rier to state accurately and in
detail just what he was engaged
in at the time the secret agent
secured basis for the charges. They
also contend that it is no great in
fraction of rules for o carrier on his
route to accept the invitation OF sa-
loon keeper and take a drink while
delivering a letter. They also argue
that had the Dockery commission, in
making an investigation of the executive
departments at Washington, adopted
the methods employed by the secret
agents of the Post Office Department,
the United States Civil Service Com
mission would have been unable to
secure ar eligible register fast enough
to fill the vacancies of those dropped
as result of such an investigation.
The silver conference adjourned to-
day. It adopted 8 platform declaring
for the free coinage of both silver and
gold at 8 ratio of Is to 1, to be used at
the pleasure of the government in the
redemption of its paper currency, and
against the issue of any more bonds,
and programme providing for gen.
eral committee of one member from
each State and Territory and the Dis
trict of Columbia, an executive COM
mittee, and for tho thorough and i'm
mediate organization of the silver
men in every State of the coun-
try. Among the speakers at this
mornings session were Mr.. Andrew
Lipscomb and Congressman Jones
of Virginia, the latter of whom said
he firmly believed that with q sill
YER platform the democratic party could
elect to the next Presidency man who
would be democrat. Mr.. Hill of Mis-
souri, made severe attack upon the
President, which, of course, will do the
latter more good than harm. The
convention was closed with a short
speech by Senator Daniel, who said he
was democrat, that silver and gold
were the money Of the democratic party,
and that what democracy had joined to-
gether, plutocracy could not put asund-
er. During the whole conference there
was not word said that intimated any
action of the silverites outside the lines
Of the democratic party.
Senator Daniel of Virginia, to-day, in
talking about the silver conference here
in which he took prominent part said
the country now, apparently at least,
is in the hands of the plutocrats and
that as the fight between gold and sill
YER had to come, it might as we'll come
now as at any other time. Congress
man Livingstone of Georgia said he
thought the effect of the conference
would be to inspire every silver man in
the country to renewed efforts, ar. tai
! he was convinced .tA next national
democratic convention would be con-
trolled by the silver men.
The first patent effect of Secretary
Norton boom of land near Manassas
was made manifest this morning whe n
Mr.. J. E. Clements, n real estate agent of
this city, sold forty acre farm near
Lawton Station, about eight miles from
Manassas, belonging to Walter Hall, to
John Palmer, of Washington, for 81 600.
JIM. Langston, the negro e1-Con-
gresham from the Petersburg, Virginia,
district, who was at the Treasury De-
partment this morning, said the repub-
licans In his State would make no al
lance with the populists or any other
party, and in the coming campaign
would fight IS straighout republicans,
sink or swim, and, that from the way
things were going, he thought they
would do the latter.
The Treasury Department seems to
be good place now in which to pick
up large rolls of money lying about
loose. A package of $500 in notes was
found in toilet room there yesterday.
How it got there, or where it came
from, has not yet been discovered, but
the fact that though the notes were
cancelled, the cancellation marks were
so indistinct as to escape the observa-
ton of all but experts, shows that it
was stolen.
The tunnel connecting the Capitol
with the new Congressional Library
will be completed in about a month,
when the work of transferring the
books in the former to the latter will be
commenced.
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