Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Oct. II.

Tie condition of Mrs. Harrison is re-
rorted about the same to-day and 1t is
said at the White House that no ma
terial change is noticeable from yester-
tav evening. She passed fairly COM
Portable night and this morning was
stronger, brighter and livclier than she
has been ut any time within the past
three days. While it is sadly realized
that this apparent Improvement is tenn
porary only, it served to cheer the
Presidents house for the day at least,
and the general air Of the mansion was
less di5piriting than it has been for days
past. The President, as well us the
rest of the household, is fully aware Of
the serious condition OF his wife, but
will not despair entirely while there is
the least hope Of her recovery. The
President gave reception to visitors
in the East Room of the White House
rs ,.sual this afternoon. He shook
hands with about one hundred and fifty
persons. DIR. Gardner paid visit to
Mrs. Harrison about noon. lie said
that although she was better this after
noon she was nevertheless steadily
losing ground. She displayed a great
deal Of vitality, he said, and was not so
exhausted as the public seemed to think.
He thought she might linser on for
month vet, unless some new anG UNI
fcreseen complication arose, i'll which
event the end might follow within
short time after the appearance OF the
fresh complication.
Intelligence received here to-day is
to the effect that the marines sent
ashore from the L. S. ship Chicago to
protect the property Of American citi-
zens at I.agura, Venezuela, when that
city was evacuated by Pulido, and was
being looted By his unpaid soldiers,
threw away their guns and joined the
hooters.
Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms Coakley of
the L. S. House Of Representatives to-
day served subpoena on Secretary
Foster to supply at once to the House
committee now investigating the con-
duet of Mr.. John Davenport, supervisor
of elections in New York, copies of all
the vouchers said Davenport has pre-
scented for the immense sums of money
lie has drawn from the I. S Treasury.
The United States Supreme Court, by
Chief Justice Fuller, to-day affirmed
the Judgment of the Michigan Supreme
Court upholding the constitutionality
of the famous Miner law, providing for
the election of Presidential electors by
Congressional districts instead of by the
State rs a whole. The court holds that
the 18th amendment did not limit the
right of State to fix mode of choos
ing electors. The conceded effect Of the
decision is to give part at least Of the
Michigan vote to Cleveland. Chief JUS
tice Fuller, in announcing the decision,
said "NNe are clear that the clause OF
the 1st section of article Of the Con-
stitution has not been changed by the
l4th amendment, and that the law is
not obnoxious to that amendment
Col. DufIield of Detroit in arguing the
case for the republicans, mad insisted
that the 18th amendment established
the citizenship Of the United States
where the State citizenship had hereto
fore been supreme, and that its lam
guage, forbidding the abridgemcnt of
the privileges of citizens, had the effect
Of preventing the State from changing
the method of choosing electors then in
vogue. The decision to-day obliterates
the last hope of the republicans that the
Miner law might be invalidated in
court and that the election in the COM
ing Presidential contest might be de-
aided on the old plan of giving the
whole vote OF the State to the party
having a plurality in the State at large.
1t is conceded that the result will be to
give at least a part of the electoral vote
of Michigan to the democrats. The
opinion was unanimous.
Col. Boyce. of Clarke county, Va, is
among the visitors here to-day. He
says Mr.. Lewis, the third party's candi-
date for Congress in his district, will
cut down Colonel O'Ferrall's majority
about one thousand in that district, but
that the Cleveland majority there will
probably be larger than usual, as the
republicans asa demoralized and many
of them will not vote for Weaver.
The famous COL Cab Maddux of Nir-
ginia is also here to-day. He is just
aom the southwest section of bis State.
He says that shortly after Cleveland's
nomination he thought his State would
go republican, but he L. CERTAIN now
that she will give Cleveland large