Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-01-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondence. /

Court this week, Justice Brewer was
sworn in. The ceremony was of the
simplest sort. \ few of the friends of
the new Justice arrived quite early and
pre- empted the seats inside the rail, the
little remaining room being soon taken.
Among those present were Senator
Plumb, who is popularity credited with
being the leading influence in securing
Justice Brewers appointment, Senators
Dolph and Teller, Congressman Morril,
of Kansas and Morrow and Elk senator
Mcdonald. All the Justices except Mr..
Gray, who is i'll, having arrived, Judge
Brewer retired to the rObing room with
the justices, and came into the chamber
at the tail of the procession, dressed in
the robes of office. He stopped at the
clerk desk. The Chief Justice then an
nounccd in the simplest manner the pres
arose, and in voice rendered oppressive
ly digniiied by the grip, read the oath OF
Office. The marshal of the court then
held up to him the small Bible that has
SO long seen service in the court The
new Justice fervently kissed the volume,
and walked up and took his seat on the
bench.
The new member of the bench comes
upon it at time when it is over fourteen
b,,,, hal
the docket swelling, and, work as il may,
the court can have no hope of catching
up with the cases. In the natural order
of events, three years would he taken up
with the work, if not another case was
ever filed. The court and the appellants
look to Congress for relief, but seeming
ly without avail, Mr.. Cleveland recon-.
mended in two of his messages immedi
ate appellants court, and Mr.. Harrison
has also asked that the court be relieved,
but the matter received little attention
By the death of Justice Mathews and
his long illness the court has for very
long time been one member short. This
has caused a large number
OF important cases, in which it Is
deemed essential to have argument be-
fore full bench. to stand over. The APP
pOintment of Judge Brewer makes it
finally possible to hear these cases, and
they will now be proceeded with at once
Chief Justice Fuller is doing his best to
make harmonious arrangement of the
calendar of these cases.
The present administration gave its
first state dinner on Tuesday night, and
the decorations of the White House were
on a graEder scale than ever before. In
the east room flowers were everywhere,
in pots and banked. The main effects
were made with palm and crotOns. The
portiercs were removed from the doors
to the grand corridor and graceful hang
ings of smilaX substituted. In the Green
room were pink and white hyacinths,
with pale lcaved ferns, everywhere In
the dining room the leading flowers were
carnations and aZalias. Covers were
laid for thirty six guests, the centre piece
being the somewhat hackneyed subject
of a ship of state of white and red carna-
tons.
The toilets of the ladies were of the
most magnificent character.
Its probable that Judge Willim ID.
II nlla-- hog n..rn;al In H.,
House for the last time The prices ma
ture of his malady was not made fully
public until this week when it was an
nounccd to be cancer under the lower
jaw. Owing to the advanced age of the
patient. there is little hope even that the
disease will be slow in its progress. Pain
Is severe and ny movement, locomotion,
causes severe suffering. Mr.. Kelley's
loss would be greatly felt by the republi-
cans. though during the last two sessions
he has done comparatively no duty on the
floor He is seventy six years of age and
has continuously represented one district
in Philadelphia.
The Indian chiefs now in pow WOW
with the departmental officers have as
many grievances as savages with brand
new ready made clothes, paper collars
and full stomachs decently can have.
They spend their time between the va
ricty theatres and the department build
ings, much preferring the former These
are great treats to the res
ervation Indian. and he will invent any
excuse to come east. He loves junket-
ing as much as Congressman. They
are agreed, however. on one sensible
They want the Eastern
schools for Indians abolished and the
Indians educated on the reservation.
They say that children sent East came |
back discontinued with their lot and half |
of their ignorant parents. |
They have been weaned away from home
Beside, the change of climate, and more
especially the constant indoor life, ruins
their constitutions and in three or four
years after returning to the reservation
they die.
The members of the International
American Conference are actively engag-
ID daily hearing arguments from mer-
chants and others interested in the COM
nerce of the Western hemisphere and
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