The Forrest City times., 1889-10-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFrom our Regular Corrcspondcnt.l
 WAsIrtNeroN, ID. C., Oct. IS

WASltlNGEoN. IL. C., Oct. lS. Last week the streets of Washington
 were the scene of pageantry that has never been cNcelled here, even by the splendid inaugural pageants of recent years. Fifteen thousand splendidly uniformed and bcdi2ened Knights Fem plar were in line. many of them on
 horseback. The blare of eighty four
 brass bands, playing every variety of
 music. from the most classic compost
 tions to "Where did you get that Ilaty" l filled the air with music. The weather
 was superb. and recalled that excep-
 tional fourth of March when Grover
 Cleveland and Chester A. Arthur rode to the Capitol. the bald pate of the l former rctlecting the noon-day sun as
 his hat went off to the acclamations of the shouting crowds. The Templars have fol,led up their uniforms, sheath ed their swords, and gone away; but
 the streets are still resplendent with the colored bunting with which the
 houses were decked.
 The return of number of members of Congress to Washington, with a sprinkling of Senators, is the first sug- gestion that the congressional session is not far off. and that political and legislative business will soon be re- sumed at the old stand. The Supreme Court resumed it's sessions 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 appellation is not without truth when applied to court which has the power to restrict and en- large the prcrogatives of the President and of Congress. In it's functions of interpreting the Constitution of the United States. it can extend or curtail even Federal or State sovereignty. 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 calendar which it will take at least three years to go through, and this delay involves a practical denial of justice. Congress should remedy this evil. To provide an intermediate court or to increase tie number of justices of the supreme bench. is Il duty which the legislative body should not neglect this session.
 \ distinguished presidential possibil ity, in the person of Governor Hill, of New York, stopped in Washington yes terday, on his way to the Atlanta Ex- position Governor Hill paid q visit to the White House, and was received by | the President iu his library. He after l wards drove up on Capitol Hill. and spent an hour with Congressman Ran | dal. who is slowly recovering from his late illness. It is said that Gov. Hill had in his pocket typewriter 1 copy of the speech which he proposed to deliver at Atlanta. and that Mir. Randall expressed desire to read it. The Governor handed over the manu 1 script, and ex-Speaker Randall read it carefully. until he came to what he considered some perilous stuff. This he scanned again and again, and raising himself from his pillow called on Gov erner 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 mem bers of the legislature in Montana is attracting some attention in political circles here. and it k said that mem hers of the administration are in direct c, mmnnieation with Republican agents at Helena. Several long telegrphie dispatches. some of them in cypher. were received here to-day. III which it is chargpd that both sides are trying to steal the legislature. The Democrats claim that money is being used, under Senator Quay's orders, to again enough pien to insure the election of two Re publican Senators.
 The State Department, 1t seems, has made n little blundcr. which partakes nf the nature of what the famous Fmichc would call crime. IL selected as n room for the International Marine Conference. now sitting. the lecture room of the Columbia law building.
 \ murs chcerless cavernous old cham her could scarcely hr found in any city. It tx without desks. without capets. and. having been nSe,l hy law students for number of wears. is. of course. net very sweet and clean. The spccta- cle of seyenty-iive dirnii3ed and dis tinguished gentlemen sitting in such a den is not creditable to the manage ment. Some of the Americans as we'll as the foreign delegates, who inspected the room today. used strong language in condemnation of the governments $ parsimony in offering such n place to the distinguished visitors who compose the larger part of the Conference.
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