Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-16

u the Fourth Congressional district has had Speaker Since 1862 New Haven county
 has had eight Speakers, Hartford has had
 three and Holland one, making four in the
 First district, and Windham,has had four and New London three. making seven Speakers
 in the Third Congressional district. From
 the above it will be seen that MT. Case. ot Granby, in addition to his qualifications fo1 the place, which are unsurpassed among the candidates, has also the 'Esecond best' locali- ity claim.
 Hanlan, who by his victory yesterday over
 Trickett showed himself the first oarsman of
 the world, is only twenty-six years old. He
 made his first appearance in an important race in 1873, when he won the championship of Toronto Bay from Williams and Mackay
 In the following year he defeated Loudon,
 of Toronto, for the championship of Bur-
 hngton Bay, performance which he repeat
 ed in 1875. In 1876 he won the champion
 ship belt of Ontario, and in the later centen-
 nial races he carried everything before him.
 Harry Coulter, H. Thomas, Frederick Plais-
 ted and Alexander Brayley were beaten in
 rapid succession, and the young Canadian
 was everywhere accepted as a phenomenon
 At the Silver Lake regatta in 1877 broken
 outrigger compelled him to strike his colors to Plaisted, but he vanquished "Frenchy' Johnson, Driscon and Wallace Ross; and in
 1878 PIaisted was in his turn obliged to en- counter defeat. In 1879 he crossed the At lantic and added to his fame by defeating Hawdon and the English champion Elliott, who had no chance against him, and later in the year at Chautauqua he rowed five miles in B minutes 564 seconds the quickest time ever made
 The good people of Washington, D. C., do not feel encouraged by the prospect that Postmaster General Maynard will be over ruled in his courageous attempt to secure such an enforcement of the laws of the Dis trict as would drive the numerous rum-holes which are now located about the government buildings into less prominent quarters. The law regulating the matter of license in Wash ington contemplated the protection of every neighborhood by requiring those desirous to open bar-rooms to obtain the consent of the property owners and the tenants on both sides of the street or the square where it was intended to begin business. MT. Maynard made this law the basis of 8 protest against nest of saloons on the square opposite his rooms, and claimed that license could not be renewed to them without his signature to their petitions, since the government occu- pied the whole square opposite their loca- tions. The barkeepers carried the matter be- fore the commissioners of the District, who that the government was not tenant of it's property within the meaning of the law. The Commissioners had conference with the President in regard to the matter, and were by him that he had been examining the laws regulating the matter, and he had reached pretty much the sames conclusion as the Commissioners namely, that head of a department had no legal right to prevent the issue of license for the sale of liquor on the squares fronting his department. The Pres ident said, however, that he would not com init himself finally until he had received the opinion of the Attorney General. There is great interest felt in Washington in this opinion because, if it agrees with the opinion of the President, there will be no means for the present of breaking up some of the worst nests of rum-holes that exist in the city. A large body of the best citizens, without re- gard to party, have been moving for some weeks in the matter of enforcing the strict letter of the law against those applying for IioeDco