Nevada County picayune., 1888-04-04
WASHiNGTONTOPICS.
Weekly Budget of News From the
 National Capital.
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 men. which has been in session in the Grand Opera House all the week, has been eminentiy successful so far as attendance both of the delegates, and of the public is concerned.
 The Senate Committee on territo- rics has reported resolutions declar- inc against the adnittance of Utah a> a state until poiyga,ny is entirely aho:isilrd and the control of the civ. il affairs oi the territory taken from the priesthood of the Mormon Church.
 Representative stewart. of Geor- gia, has introduced in the House a bill to amend the naturalization laws so as to require would-be citizens to make oath that they are not polyga- mist, anarchists or communists The sooner the bill becomes law the better.
 In special message to Congress the President recommends the pas sage of q law to prevent the importa- ton of hogs from France or Gerina- ny. owing to the prevalence !of dis ease among the hogs in various sec tion7 of those countries It will probably strike those foreign author ities that Americans understand how to play a little game called "tH for tat.
 The funeral of the late Chief Jus ticc W aite. on Wednesday, in the hall of 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 Episcopal burial service, and did not last more than twenty min ute, The body. accompanied by the Congressional committees, .Dusti- ce+ of the Supreme Court, and rela- lives left immediately Y for Toledo, Ohio.
 Hon. W. H. Barnum, chairman of the National democratic committee, was in the city this week, but de clined to be interviewed further than to say that he considered the out look very llattering. It is generally understood here that Mir. Barnum. who is not in entire sympathy with MT. Cleveland on the tariff question. will retire from the chairmanship of the committee. at the St Louis con- ventiOn. and that he will be succeed eel by W. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, who s in addition to being in line with Mr Cleveland's tariff reform ideas. warm personal friend of the President.
 Claus SprecNles, the California su- gar King. who is now in this city, told Commissioner of Agriculture, Coleman. that he had imported D tons of beet seed, which would be planted by lG3 California farmers on 2OO0 acres of land this season. He is now erecting an extensive plant at Watsonville, California to work up this product and expects to make 5000 tons of beet sugar this year and to double it next year. When MT. Coleman was ask ed whether this beet project of Mir. Spreckles would antagonize the sor- ghum industry which is just begin ming to be very valuable owing to ex- periments by the Agricultural De partment he said: Not at all. The beet is only another string to our bow, -l.nh hara ,rrn,I YvnI,linCr hn- tween sorghum and beets, and man ufacturc enough sweets not only for mptiai festivities. but also to supply 2 goodly share ofwhat we now import,
 Who is to succeed Chief Justice Waites That's what every body wants to know and what Mir Cleve land alone has the power to decide. It is, owing to the present peculiar status of the eight associate Justices of the Supreme Court, the most i'm portant single question 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 are known to be evenly divided which practically gives MT. Cleveland an opportunity to make the decisions himself hy selecting q man for the po- siton who thinks as he does. From the best information that can he ob- taincd at present, either Postmaster General Dickinson or Speaker Car lilslc will be made Chief Justice. .-- But in any event, the country may safely trust the whole matter to MT. Cleveland. He will take his own time and select the very best man for the place. He has made no serious mis- take in his important appointments up to this time andis not likely to break his record now, on the eve of his re- election. (, A. $.