New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-07
WASHINGTON.
q Female Lawyer Rejected by the Su.
d emo Court.

CHIC SOuFSs
WASHINGTON, November 6.-Miss Belva
A. Lock wood made application to practice
before the Supreme Court. In making mo-
ton 10 admit her, Mr.. 0. g. Riddle said
Mise Lockwood had practced at the bar of
the district court more than three years
and was, therefore, within the rule OF the
court in this respect. Chief Justice Waite
said he had been instructed by the court to
announce the following decision:
BY the uniform practice OF the court,
from it's organization to the present time,
and by the fair construction of it's rules,
none but men are admitted to practice be-
fore it as attorneys and councillors. This
Is in accordance with immt mortal usage
in England, and the law aud practice Of all
the States, until within a recent period,
and the court does not feel called upon to
make q change until such change is re-
4uired by statute, or more extended prsc-
tice in the highest courts of the Stale.
Whereupon Miss Lock wood aud her
friend withdrew.
Supreme Court Decisions.
The CASE of the United Stated vs. Farrary
q at ais. From East Tennessee. Reversed.
The Home Insurance Company vs.. the
City Council, of Augusta, Georgia. Error
TO the Supreme Court of Georgia. In this
case the court eustains tax of $3.50 imposed
by the City Council of Augusta On all fire.
marine and accidental insurance companies
located or dong business within the limits
in the law against nonresident companies
and the authority therefore being found in
che police power of the State, the deci.
Ai0n was unanimOus.
Personal.
Secretary Morrill, and Attorney General
Taft were here to-day.
Our Affairs with ENGLAND.
Secretary Fish authorizes the statement
that England being the first to break must
he the first to mend the extraditi0n treaty.
No negotiations are pending on the subject.
Political Prospects and Predictions.
The Star says Judge J. NJ. Edmunds,
aseretary and the executive officer of the
republican Congressional Committee, Gays
Se has received no news Of any interest re-
lative to the election tomorrow. He pre-
serves his usual plaeidity of demeanor and
thinks there is no doubt of the election of
Hayes and Wheeler. The departments are
almost entirely deserted. most of the clerks
having gone home to vote. Among those
remaining there lie the greatest anxiety to
hear the latest news IN reference to the re.
suit tomorrow. The feeling is one of eus-
pence, the impression being that the else. |
ton will be very close.
There il no Democratic paper here |
to quote. Mr.. Harvey, secretary of the |
Democratic Congressional committee, has |
no doubt of q favorable issue.
Another extract from the Star: 1.-THE pc |
itieal talk about town. At the heaquartels |
of the Democratic Congressional committee |
there is red white heat Of enthus asm
inspired by the reports received from var.
ioos sections of the country. Mr.. Harvey, |
day to the reporter of the Star: 'Tilden
will be elected as surely a. you are stand.
ing in this ROOM In this opinion he is TO-
dOrsed solidly by bis colleagues of the com.
mittee. There is good deal of side bet
ting outside of the professional gambling
circles. In the majority of instances the
odds are given to Tllden in the proportion
Of ten to nine ON the general result.
Smaller bets, and good many others, GOV.
ering elk hate, overcosts, suits of clothes,
etc., are also made. The Democrats bet
with . good deal Of confidence. but as a
said today, a bobtsil flush is
not worth anything when you have to
lhow your hand
THE excitement in the departments has
Subsided because all the voting material is
away. There is hardly more than one clerk
per room left in any of the rooms of the
Treasury, and until the election is over
Uncle Sam will tax the energies of the
women employees to keep the machine
running while the more fortunate masculines
y voting right at least, are away At the
'front.' At the pools and eample rooms the
impending conflict is the only topic Of in.
'erest. Opinions of course are divided and
'ome sharp personal episodes are the
,esult. The Democrats, Judging from
heir exultati0n, take the ground that Til.
len will be elected, not because they have
positive ground upon which to base the
'laim. bat because ell Of their party hope
10, and display nerve not made manifest |
a sixteen years. Per contra. The R-pub-
leans are 10th to believe that q majority of
he 40, 0OO, 600 of people of the country are
esdy for the sweeping change in the ma.
aonal and financial policy which Demo-
ratio success would bring about. In an
way they express a good
1eal Of faith that all is WE'LL" ,