The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-04-05
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Mar 30th, 1888.

WASHINGTON, Mar 30th, 1888.
Who is to succeed Chief Justice
That's what everybody wants
to know and what Mr.. Cleveland alone
has the power to decide. 1t is, owing i
to the present peculiar status of the
eight associate Justices of the Supreme
Court, the most important single ques-
tion perhaps that any President has
had to decide.
On more than one important ques. |
ton which is likely to come before the
Court for action the Justices ale known
to be evenly divided, which practically
gives Mr.. Cleveland an opportunity to
make the decisions himself by select
ing a man for the position who thinks
as he does.
Many men in different sections of
the country have been favorably men
toned for the honor it has even been
suggested that Mr.. Cleveland should
resign, and that Secretary Bayard, who
wouI d succeed him as President, should
appoint Mr.. Cleveland Chief Justice.
This arrangement would be an admir-
able one were it not for the fact that
the people of the country seem to have
made up their minds that Mr.. Cleve-
lands services are needed at the White
House four years longer from the fourth
of March next.
From the best information that can
be obtained at present, either POST
master General Dickinson or Speaker
Carlisle will be made Chief Justice.
But In any event the country may
saeely trust the whole matter to Mr..
Cleveland. He will take his own time
and select the very best man for the
nIsce, He has made no serious mis-
takes in his important appointments
M to this time and is not likely to
break his iecord now, on the eve OF
his re election.
The funeral of the late Chief Justice
Waite, on Wednesday, in the hall oil
the House of Representatives, was
largely attended by prominent officials
of our Government and by the foreign
legations. The services were very
simple, only the reading Of the Episeo
pal burial service, and did not last
more than twenty minutes. The body
accompanied by the Congressional
committees, Justices of the Supreme
Court, and relatives left Immediately
for Toledo, Ohio. on a special train.
Claus Spreckles, the California sugal
king, who is now in this city, TOLD
Commissioner of Agriculture Coleman
that he had imported 25 tons of bee
seed, which would be planted by l6t
California farmers on 1000 acres =
land this seasan. He is now erecting
an extensive and expensive plant a
Watsonville, California, to work vi
this product, and expects to max
5,OOl tons of beet sugar this year an'
to double it next year.
When Mr.. Coleman was asked if thi
beet project of Mr.. Spreckles woul'
autagonizs the sorghum industr.
which is just beginning to be yer.
valuable, owing to experiments by tn
Agricultural Department, he said
+. mot at all. The beet is only anothe
string to our bow We shall have
grand wedding between sorghum ant
beets, and manufacture enough sweet
not only for the nuptial festivities, bu
also to supply goodly share of whs
we now import"
r Representative Stewart, of Georgia
has introduced in the House bill +
r amend the naturalization laws so IS t
| require would be citizens to make oatl
that they are not polygamists, anal
chists or communists. The sooner tn
bill becomes q law the better.
. In special message to Congress th
President recommends the passage c
law to prevent the importation {
' hogs from France or Germany. OWN
, to the prevalence of disease among th
. hogs in various sections of thos
countries. 1t will probably strik
v those foreign authorities that Amer
# cans understand how to play littl
d game called tit for tat"
8 Hon. w. H. Barnum, chairman {
It the National Democratic Committe
b was in the city this week. but decline
. to be Interviewed further than to sa
If that he considered the outlook yer
d fiattering 1t is generally understoe
l. that Mr.. Barnum, who is not in entil
d sympathy with Mr.. Cleveland on tt
g tariff question, will retire from tt
chairmanship of the committee, at tt
o st. Louis convention, and that he wi
j. be succeeded by w. L. Scott, of Penn
IL sylvania, who is, in addition to bein
in line with Mr.. Cleveland's tariff r
! form ideas, warm personal friend
u the President.
d The Senate Committee on terTitori,
g has reported resolutions declarin
u against the admittance of Utah as
- State until poligamy is entirely aba
o ished and the control of the civil q
q fairs of tire territory taken from IL
l. priesthood of the Mormon Church.
q The International Council of wome
l. which has been in session in the Gran
Opera House all the week. has bee
's eminently successful so far as atten,
!. ance, both of the delegates and of IL
v public is concerned.
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