The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-09
Ak. GRANT PARISH. La, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9. 1889.
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Oct, 1889.

Our Washington Letter.
WARRINGTON. Oct. 1889.
Last week the streets of WASH
ington were the scene of pageantry
that has never been excelled here,
even by the inaugural pageants of
recent years. Fifteen thousand
splendidly uniformed and bedizen-
ed Knights Templar were in line,
many Of them on horseback. The
blare of eighty-four brass bands
-Rlaying every variety of music
sbm the most classic composition
70 "Where did you get that hat"
filed the air with music. The
weather was superb, and recalled
that exceptional fourth of March,
when Grover Cleveland and Chester
A. Arthur rode to the Capitol, the
bald pate of the former rejecting
the MONDAY sun as his hat went
off to the acclamations of the
shouting crowds. The Templars
have folded up their uniforms,
sheathed their swords, and gone
away. But the streets are still re-
splendent with the colored bunting
with which the houses were draped.
The return of a number of men,
bers of Congress to Washington,
with sprinkling of Senators, is
the first suggestion that the Con-
gressional session is not far off,
and that political and Legislative
business will soon be resumed at
the old stand. The Supreme Court
resumed its session yesterday with
still one vacant seat. It has be-
come quite common to speak of
this court as the greatest judicial
tribunal in the world, and the APP
pelation is not without truth when
applied to a court which has the
power to restrict and enlarge the
prerogatives of the President and
of Congress. In its functions of
interpreting the constitution of the
United States, it can extend or cur
tail either federal or state sover-
eighty, and even modify the frame
of government No other judicial
tribunal in the world has such
power. How important then the
duty which President Harrison has
to perform, of filling the vacancy
which now exists on the Supreme
Bench. The court opens with a
calendar which it will take at least
three years to go through, and this
delay involves q practical denial of
justice. Congress should remedy
this evil. To provide an interme-
diate court, or to increase the num-
Der of Justices of the Supreme
Bench, is duty which the legis-
lative body should not neglect this
session.
A distinguished Presidential pos
sibility in the person of Governor
Hill of New York, stopped in
Washington yesterday on his way
to the Atlanta Exposition. Gov.
Hill paid a visit to the White
House, and was received by the
President in his library. He after
wards drove up on Capitol Hill and
spent an hour with Congressman
Randall, who is slowly recovering
from his late illness. It is said
that Governor Hill had in his
pocket typewriter copy of the
speech which he proposed to de-
liver at Atlanta and that Mr.. Ran
dali expressed q desire to read it.
The Governor handed over the
manuscript, and ex-Speaker Ran
dali read it carefully until he came
to what he considered some peril
GUS stuff in it. This he scanned
again and again. and raising him
self from his pillow, called on
Governor Hill for his pencil, and
having received it drew the lead
carefully across several paragraphs;
handing the manuscript back with
the remark that it was now q pretty
good speech.
The contest over the election of
members of the Legislature in
Montana is attracting some atten-
ton in political circles here, and
it is said that members of the adj
ministration are in direct commu-
nication with Republican agents at
Helena. Several long telegraphic
dispatches, some of them in cipher,
were received here to-day, in which
it is charged that both sides are
trying to steal the legislature. The