Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
,orresnondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

WASHINGTON. ID. o., Nov. u.
Ex.Attorney General Garland, of Ar
kansas whose daughter Miss Daisy
Glrland) died under such tragic circum-
stances about ten days ago, said to-day
az have received thousands of the most
lender messages of condolence in every
shape, from persons, white and coloredi,
all over the country, and from friends
abroad, all of whom thank from the
bottom of my almost crushed heart. As
Ear as am able as yet to unraVel tins
strange occurrence, it seems the poor
pirl. Suffering from bad health for al
most the past year, with a very acute
nervous temperament naturally, and
wrestling with n study OF problems OF
future life and of religion, became sub
let to spells of depression and of deep
melancholy, to such an extent that her
reason was unsettled and in one of these
attacks she took her own life. This
is lust what all the surroundings up to
This time, after q most painful aud
misunderstanding inquiry and investi-
cation from every possible source OF
information, established. Should time
with further examination, which will
be most fully made, bring to light any
thing to change this aspect of the affair,
it will be made known, as those dear
relatives and friends who have suffered
and sorrowed with my desolate house
hold are entitled to know, and shall
know, everything touching it that !
now know or shall hereafter find out"
At the Capitol to-day it is said the
new tariff bill will be completed by the
Goth of this month, and be shown to the
republican members of the ways aud
means committee by that date, so that
they may have time to prepare their
report and have it ready to introduce
when the bill is reported. 1t is not yet
definitely known whether the bill will
provide for an income tax, but it is
GENERALLY supposed that it will.
Messrs. Parsons and Nipger, respect
iyely eX.district attorney and marshal
for the northern district of Alabama
were superseded by Messrs. O'Neal and
Musgrove in June last, at which time
the Judge of the District Court entered
an order directing them to turn over
their records and papers to their sue
cessors. Last week they made applica-
ton to the Supreme Court for writ of
mandamus to the Judge of the District
Court to vacate that order and to
reinstate them in their offices,
upon the ground that the President
had no power to remove them until
their terms had expired. To-day Chief
Justice Fuller announcing the decision
of the court, stated that the Supreme
Court could not direct lower court
how to proceed in a special case of
which it had jurisdiction, and that
the petition for writ of mandate must
therefore be denied. But the question
st;ll remains unanswered, "Has the
President power to remove an official
before his term OF office has expired ?"
There is no truth in the report which
has been printed in some newspapers
to the effect that Senator Ransom OF
North Carolina was offered Judge
Bonds successorship and has declined
it. The appointment was never offered
him and of course he could not have
declined it. AS stated in this correspon-
dence week ago, Senator Ransom SAID
his name, with his knowledge or con-
sent. would never be suggested to the
President in connection with the place;
and though not mentioned then, it may
be now, that he could not afford to &C
cept it if it should be.
The President came in from Wood
lev at ten o'clock this morning. He
shut himself up in the executive Office
of the White House, where he had an in
teryiew with Chairman Wilson of West
Virginia, of the House ways and means