Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
THE CAPITAL In MOURNING.
Public Buildings Draped in Honor
Of the Chief Justice,
FUNERAL FIXED FOR WEDNESDAY
Several Additional Names Mentioned
For the Vacant Place, With
Judges Miller and Field
the Most Prominent.
Public Buildings Draped.
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
5i3 FOURTEENTH STREET,

WASHINGTON, ID. ", March "A.
The public buildings have been draped in
mourning and an immense quantity Of Grape
has been hung, not only about the room and
offices OF the supreme court, but about the
halls of congress and the outside Of the
capitol building. The funeral services are
to take place in the hall of the house of rep
resentatives at noon on Wednesday next and
the details of all the services are left TO COM
mittees and the sergeants-at-arms of the two
houses of congress, There will be a great
demand for admission to the capitol on that
day, and | 1t will be very difficult to keep the
public outside. An opportunity, however,
will be offered for the public to view the re-
mains. The congressional committee Will
take the remains to Toledo, leaving here on
Wednesday evening. The interment will be
at Toledo Thursday. Mrs. Waite win arrive
at Toledo on Wednesday night or Thursday
morning, and will return here with the con-
gressional committee.
SPECIALIZING ON THE SUCCESSION.
While employees of the capitol were placing
Grape around the doors to the room to the
supreme court to-day, prominent men con-
nected with both houses of congress and
politicians who linger here stopped, gazed.
solemnly upon the drapery and in expressing
their bereavement over the death of the
distinguished chief justice commented upon
who would likely be his successor. Opinion
seems to be about equally divided as to
whether the president, in selecting a success
sor to Chief Justice Waite, will strictly OBJ
serve partisan lines. There is no doubt that
a great many men of influence will recon-
mend to him the Importance which attached
to selecting a man without regard to politics.
Many have already stated that Justice Miller,
who ranks the other Justices in length of
service on the bench and ability, shouldbe pro-
NOTED. Judge Culbertson, of Texas, who pre-
sides over the house committee on judiciary,
said to-day that if he were president he
would k to honor himself by appointing
Justice Miller to the vacancy. A great deal
of pressure will be brought to bear to have
Justice Field appointed to the place. Be-
sides the names / mentioned last night, there
are suggested for the vacancy eX-Representa-
tive j. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, a good
lawyer and an active democrat; Judge Jack
son, of Tennessee, well known for his con-
federate bias and utterances; Judge Sims, of
Alabama; Representative Pat Collins, of
Massachusetts Secretary Bayard, of Della
ware; Melville +. Fuller and Judge Goudy.
of Chicago; Acknowledgements Garland, of
Arkansas; Assistant Postmaster-Genera
Stevenson, of Illinois; Chief Justice Bing-
ham, of the supreme court of the District of
SOlOEubO, ldhS u oIlo tDthdto 'Idl, SlC-
cessor in the senate to Secretary Bayard,
and formerly Encouragement of Delaware;
Judge Thomas Wilson, a prominent democrat
of Minnesota and at present representative in
congress from that state, for four years chief
Justice of Minnesota; Minister Phelps, of
Vermont, now at the post of London: eX-
Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, now practicing
law IN New York; George w. Blddle, of
Philadelphia; Rufus w. Peckham; Secretary
of War Endicott, of Massachusetts; ex-Gov-
arnnr .JOhn M Palmer. of Illinois THE mama
of Speaker Carlisle is continually mentioned
and it is stated that he can have the position
if he wants it. 1t is simply a question of
whether he is especially needed in his pres
ent position after the tariff bill has been dis
posed OF.
LOOKING FAT AHEAD.
In the event of the elevation of Speaker
Carlisle to the vacant chief justiceship the
fight over the speakership will be between
two. men-Judge Crisp, of Georgia, and
Samuel Cox, of New York. No one here
doubts that Crisp would win, as he is n south
ern man. A majority of the democratic men,
bers are southerners, and he is very popular,
able and fair-minded. He IS a splendid par
Humanitarian, and as such takes high rank.
He was chosen chairman of the committee on
elections by the house, which demonstrated
his popularity.
SENSATIONAL DIVERSION IN INDIAN TERRITORY
During last summer Senators Platte, Gull
lon and Blackburn, under a resolution of the
senate, visited the Indian Territory to inves-
tigate the disposition under the present adj
ministration of Indian traderships. The
committee reached the indian territory at a
a very desirable season of the year and dur
ing the pleasant weather they managed to
employ themselves in making inquiries about
traderships until in the due course of days
and nights Sunday came. Senator Black
burn had been inquiring of the few persons
about the reservation who could speak En-
glish as to the streams and the kind of fish
they produced. He had learned that SOM
of the finest black bass streams IN the coun-
try were within easy reach, so he proposed
to his colleagues that they turn what would
otherwise be a dull Sunday into a day of rec
reation by angling. But Senators Platte
and Cullom objected to fishing on Sunday.
"We did not go tishing,n remarked Senator
Blackburn, giving an account of that Sunday,
but Il tell you how we spent the day. In
the forenoon we went to an Indian wardance,
at which the Indians exhibited the scalps
they had taken. All the afternoon we spent
in looking at races between Indian ponies.
Talk about horses running! | tell you those
Indians have some that seem fairly to fly.
They run in a straight line and on the turf
for about three-eighths or half a mile. l saw
an Indian lead a pony by a halter to the top
of a hill in full view. He stood there hold
ing the halter and | inquired what it meant,
and was told that it was his challenge to a
race. Very soon an Indian near us led out a
pony and that was "A signal that the challenge
was accepted. They run from fifteen to
twenty-five ponies in a race, and keep it up
for hours. Before a race is started two In
dians-one in front of the other and carrying
a long pole on their sholders-march
through the village. All the Indians
who want to bet on the race. hang
their wagers, consisting of wearing apparel,
blankets, furs, ammunition, beads, etc, on
that pole as the two Indians bear it through
the village. When all the wagers have been
collected the whole mass is dumped in a pile
on the grass near to half a dozen or more of
the old men of the tribe. There are no
starters. The riders are all bareback, and
each, armed with a long whip, go to the
starting post and start as they please. One
may get off twenty or thirty yards in front,
and that is all right. Nor is any attention
paid to weight. One rider will be a boy
weighing about sixty pounds and beside him
a mar weighing 200 will be mounted in the
same race. When nearing the finish each
rider leans forward and from beneath the
neck of his pony he whips the others in the
face so as TO keep them back"
PERSONAL.
{ John A. Horbach, of Omaha, is here and
will leave for his home on Monday.
REPORT ON THE TARIFF BILL.
The majority of the committee onSways and
means haYe had their report in support of
the Mills tariff bill put in print. The proof
sheets of itarriyed at the committee rooms
to-day and were held in the ~strictest secrecy
by the majority members. None of the mi
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