San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-04-05
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(from Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Mar. 80, 1888.
Who is to succeed Chief Justice
Waite? That's what every body
wants to know and what Mr.. Cleve-
land alone has the power to decide.
1t is, owing to the present peculiar
status of the eight associate Justices
of the Supreme Court, the most i'm
port 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 Mr.. Cleveland an op
portunity to make the decisions him
self by selecting q man for the posi-
ton who thinks as he does.
Many men in different sections of
the country have been favorably
mentioned for the honor; it has even
been suggested that Mr.. Cleveland
should resign and that Secretary
Bayard, who would succeed him as
President, should appoint Mr.. Cleve-
land Chief Justice. This arrange
ment would be an admirable one
were it not for the fact that the peo-
Pile of the country seem to have made
up their minds that Mr.. Clevelands
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
Postmaster. General Dickinson or
Speaker Carlisle will be made Chief
Justice. But in any event the coun-
try may safely trust the whole matter
to MIR. Cleveland. He will take his
own time and select the very best
man for the place. He has made no
serious mistakes in his important APP.
pointments up to this time and is
not likely to break his record now,
on the eve of his re- election.
The funeral of the late Chief JUS
tice Waite, 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 moro than twenty min
utes. The body, accompanied ny
the Congressional committees, jus
tees of the Supreme Court, and rela,
tives left immediately for Toledo,
Ohio, on a special train.
Claus Spreckles, the California
sugar king, who is now in the city.
told Commissioner of Agriculture,
Coleman, that he had imported 25
tons of best seed, which would be
planted by 1913 California farmers on
1000 acres of land this season. He
is now erecting an extensive and ex-
pensive plant at jacksonville, Califor-
mia, to work up this product and ex-
poets to make 5000 tons of beet
sugar this year and to double it next
year
When Mr.. Coleman was asked
whether this beet project of Mr..
Spreckles would antagonize the sor-
ghum industry which is just begin
ming to be very valuable owing to
by the Agricultural De
partment he said: Not at all. The
beet Is only another string to our
bow. We shall have a grand we'd
ding between sorghum and beets,
and manufacture enough sweets not
only for the nuptial festivities. but
also to supply a goodly share OF what
we now import.
Representative Stewart. Of Geor-
GA. has introduced in the House a
bill 10 amend the naturalization laws
50 as to require would be citizens to
make cath that they are not Polyes-
mists. anarchists OF communists
The sooner the bin becomes q lau
tie Jei,Cr
IN g. SPECIAL ues~aGs g. C-u-ress
tue Pres51e1t reoamlsu.is tie pas
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