Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-03
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
(Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.
MIR. Andrew Lipscomb, of Alexandria
county, the democratic elector for bis
district at the last Presidential election,
and q delegate from his county to the
late democratic convention of hls State
at Roanoke, who has been mentioned
in connection with the democratic
nomination for the Virginia House OF
Delegates in tie district composed OF
Alexandria city and county, was seen
on Pennsylvania avenue here to day,
and in response to an inquiry about his
reported candidacy, said it was not
true; that his law business was of more
value to him than politics, but that II
Alexandria city would send q delega.
ton to the convention in his favor, ne
would accept the nomination; he did
not want it, however, from men who
called themselves democrats, but who
we're either active or passive opponents
of the democratic party at last fairs
election, for if he despisss any people,
they are the ones. He had no use for
them at all, and availed himself OF all
opportunities to tell them so; they
positively provoke him and make him
forget his philosophy.
As Colonel Sumner, the commanding
officer at Fort Myer is away, and went
away without leaving documentary,
as he had his verbal approval OF
the order allowing the Washing
ton and Falls Church electric
railroad to construct its pro.
posed branch to the Alexandria Theo.
logical Seminary through the Arlington
reservation, the work on that branch
within the limits of that reservation that
was suspended by order of the Quarter
master General two or three days ago,
has not yet been resumed.
A sportsman of this city says he had
a fine days sport in "Pompingale's'
Marsh, Oh Hunting Creek, back of Alex
andria, yesterday. His skiff, he says,
was pushed by Bill Sisson, and he kill
ed one hundred and twenty FIVE sora on
one tide, not missing single bird.
For the first time in its history, the
Navy Department was informed, by
carrier pigeon, to-day of the movements
of squadron.
Congressman Lamb, of the Rich
mond, Virginia, district, is here to-day.
He says the Postofice Department
promised him months ago that free
mail delivered would be established In
Manchester on the LIST of last July. 1t
is is now the Ord of September, but the
people of Manchester have no free mail
delivery. Mr.. Lamb was informed at
the department this morning that the
question of establishing free delivery
at Manchester would be considered
there to-day. Mr.. Lamb has also call
ed at the civil service and at the inter
nal revenue bureau in reference to Col.
Brady's action ct Richmond, but get
ting little satisfaction at either he has
telegraphed the discharged employees
there to institute legal proceedings at
once for reinstatement.
Chairman Ellyson, of the Virginia
State democratic committee, is here to-
day, on mis- way back to Richmond from
the Shiloh Baptist Association, in Cul.
pepper, one of the largest, he says, be
ever attended.
1t is said at the Internal Revenue
Bureau to-day that the statement to the
effect that the Secretary OF the Treas
ury sustains Collector Brady, of the
lower district of Virginia, in his late &C
ton in respect of his subordinates, is
entirely incorrect ; also that nearly all
of Col. Brady's appointees, except
the two who were on the eligible list,
are Temporary appointments, whose
places, under the Law, must be filed by
people who have passed successful com
petitive examinations; also that it is
not the duty of the bureau, but of
the executive, to see that the laws are
executed, and the Colonel's action has
already been reported to the Secretary
of the Treasury, and will be by him
laid before the President. In the case
of the upper district of Virginia there
are thirteen names on the eligible list,
and unless as little regard be paid to
the civil service law and rules there as
in the lower, such vacancies as may be
made there will have to be supplied
from that list. In the upper district,
too, all of the old deputies had been re-
appointed and sworn in, while in the
lower district none of them had been,
which fact, by bubble of one law, en-
abled Colonel Brady to override
another. The humbpggery of the
civil service law has often been exposed
before in various other parts of the
country, but in the case of Col. Brady
1t has been made patent to everybody
In Virginia. 1t is said at the Treasury
Department this afternoon that the
refusal OF Colonel Brady to re-
appoint the deputies of his predecessor
has been informally called to the at
tention of Secretary Gage. 1t seems
that while civil service examinations
have been held in that district the
pressure of business has prevented the
civil service commission from certify.
ing an eligible list so that the Colonel
in appointing outsiders was acting with
in the emergency of the law. These
appointments are however, temporary.
Secretary Gage, it is. understood, does
not approve Of any attempt to disre-
gard the civil service law and it is
probable that within very short time
an eligible list will be certified for the
Richmond district and that the perma-
nent appointments will have to be
made from that list. The civil service
commission, at the request of Secretary