The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-08-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAsHINGT0N.D.C O., August 3. 1888
The proceedings had Wednesday in
the hall Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States we're of an unusual char.
acter. Justice Harlan occupied the
bench. a member of the bar entered
an appeal to the Supreme Court, from 8
recent decision, made by Justice Harlan
in the Circuit Court at Chicago. The
case involves the title to lake front prop.
erty in Chicago. The State of Illinois,
the city of Chicago, and the Illinois
Central r. R. are parties.
The name of the attorney who entered
this appeal is Melville W. Fuller,
recently nominated and confirmed, but
not get commissioned, Chief Justice of
the United States. Probably no such
event ever occurred before. Members Of
the Supreme Court are generally stran-
gers to the court room, until they enter
itas justices. Chief Justice Fuller is q
remarkable exception to the general
rule. His commission is delayed by the
absence of the President.
The report of q. B. Littlepage, spe.
cial agent of the Treasury Department,
exhibits bill Of particulars of property,
amounting to many millions of dollars,
which formerly belonged to the Confed-
eracy, and is now the property of the
United States. It is situated, for the
most part, in foreign countries.
The Government will not longer per-
nit the cattle men, in the Chickasaw
Nation, to defy the laws and the decis.,
ions Of the Secretary Of the Interior.
They are to be compelled to pay the
cattle tax. of S1.00 per head. q. s.
troops have been sent to Tishomingo,
and to Ardnore, in the Indian country !;
and the cattle men, who have armed
themselves, under the o. S. flag, and
forcibly resisted the execution Of the
laws, are to be arrested. Tardy justice
seems to have come at last.
The Nicaragua canal project is not
dead yet. The loss of Captain 8. l..
Phelps, late us. Minister to Peru, was
q serious blow to the scheme. But active
promoters still remain. The members Of
the surveying party, who have just
returned to Washington, are full of con-
fidence and enthusiasm. They say that
only twenty y.eight miles of excavation
will. be required, and that the level of
Lake Nicaragua, which is one hundred
and ten feet above the sea, will be the
highest grade Of the route. They
inspected the work of De; ;Lesseps, on the
Panama line, and think that not more
than one: tenth of the necessary excava-
tion is completed.
A few days since q bill passed the Sen.
ate, which was exceedingly distasteful to
one of the Southern Democratic members
.ofthat body. Itwas not party meas.
sure. The majority in its favor was only.
two. The Senator, who lis a man of
large mind, head, body, and heart,
scolded q good deal, in good. natured
way, at four of his Democratic brethren,
who. had voted for the bill. These votes,
he said, we're decisive of the result, aud
they were given for the bill because these
four representatives were scared to death
BY: the noisy clamor Of q few of their
constituents. They had been frightened
By a asmere scare.scrow. But the scare
scrow appeared to their disordered fam
cies more terrible than death itself. 1t
rem: lhim of q scare-crow set up BY
anol ,lanter in his country to keep the
crows out Of his corn field. 1t vas an
internal monster in appearance; and the
crows were so frightened that they not
only kept out of his corn.feld all that
summer, but actually brought back all
the corn they had pulled up the summer
before
z. TALIsMAN.