Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-04-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Regular Correspondence of the Standard.
WASHINGTON, March 30, 1888.

WASHINGTON, March 80, 1888.
Who Is to succeed Chief Justice
Waite? That's what every body wants
to know and what Mr.. Cleveland
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 important
single question perhaps that any Pres
ident 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 OPP
portunity to make the decision him
self by selecting Il man for the posi-
ton who thinks as he does. Many
men in different sections of the cOun-
try have been favorably mentioned for
the honor; it has even been sug-
gcsted that Mr.. Cleveland should re-
sign and that Secretary Bayard, who
would succeed him as President,
should appoint Mr.. Cleveland Chief
Justice This arrangement would be
|
fact that the people OF the country
seem to have made up their minds
that Mr.. Clevcland's 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
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 mis-
takes in his important appointments
up to this time and is not likely to
break his record now, on the eve of his
reelection.
The funeral of the late Chief Justice
Waite, on Wednesday, in the hall of
the House Of Representatives, was
largely attended by prominent officials
of our Government and by foreign le-
cations. The services were very
simple, only the reading of the Epis-
copal burial service, and did not last
IuihutCoe uO
body, accompanied, by the Congress
Isionsl committees, Justices of the Su-
Ipreme Court, and relatives left i'm
Emediately Z for Toledo, Ohio, on !.
special train.
Claus Spreckles, the California
sugar king, who is now in this city,
told Commissioner of Agriculture
Coleman that he had imported %
tons of beet seed, which would be
planted by 163 California farmers on
1000 acres of land this season. He is
now erecting an extensive and ex-
pensive plant at Watsonville, Cali
fornia, 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
\ Iwllether this beet project of Mr..
4 Bpreckles would antagonize the
sksorghurn, ,industry which 10 just be-
4 ginning 10 be very valuable, owing to
4experimehts by the Agricultural De-
fpartment, he said: Not at all. The
beet is only another string to our bow
We shall have grand wedding be-
tween sorghum and beets, and manu-
facture enough sweets not only for the
tnuptial Festivities, but also to supply a
goodly share of what we now import" !"
+ Representative Stewart, of Georgia,
has introduced in the House bill to
amend the naturalization laws so as
to require would-be citizens to make
oath that they are not polygamists,
anarchists or communists. The SOON
er the bill becomes u law the better.
In u special message to Congress
the President recommends the passage
of a law to prevent the importation of
hogs from France or Germany, owing
to the prevalence of disease among the
h6gsin various sections nf those coun-
tries. 1t will probably strike those
4 foreign authorities that Americans un-
derstand how to play little game
called tit for tat"
Hon. w. H. Barnum, chairman OF
the National Democratic Committee
was in the city this week, but declined
to be interviewed further than to say
that he considered the. outlook very
flattering. 1t is generally understood
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entire sympathy with Mr.. Cleveland
on the tariff question, will retire from
, the craftsmanship of the committee, at
the st. Louis convention, and that he
will be succeeded by w. L. Scott, OF
Pennsylvania, who is, in addition to
being in line with Mr.. Cleveland's
tariff reform ideas, warm personal
| fr;opI of tho Droc;dopf
The Senate Committee on Terri
tories has reported resolutions declar-
4 ing against the admittance OF Utah as
q State until poiygamy is entirely
abolished and the control of the civil
laffairs of the Territory taken from the
priesthood of the Norman Church.
The International Council Of WO
man, which has been in session in the
Grand Opera House all the week, ,hai
been !eminentlyi successful so far as at
tendance both of the delegates and o.
the public is concerned. REN.