Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-18
FR0ag WASHINGTON.
T Correspondence of the Alexandria Gszette.l
WASHINGTON, May Is.

spiracy by deterrluS Ny 80 .ttorl
I,,ion or threats witnesses from attend
NV a U. S. court and testliying. Ia
.nr.nance of that conpiracy they whip
= II two men who had testified, or were
i,hout to testify in an examination OF
.ertaio prisoners before U. 5. Com
missioner. The case was argued before
the supreme Court of the United States
several weeks ago, and later the court
asked counsel TO present briefs upon
The question: "May commissioner OF
a u. S. circuit court, when holding
preliminary examination, be regarded
rs a court of the United States" In the
..rief fled for the government by Solicl
tor 6 neral Conrad he argues that
commissioner of a circuit court does ex-
ercise important judicial functions; does
hear and decide upon evidence laid be-
fore him, and has the power to sum
mon aud compel the attendance OF
witnesses. While he has not the
power to convict, be has the pow
er to discharge, and thus there
is lodged with him some of the
most important powers that are en-
trusted te the highest courts OF the
land. He further holds that while
commissioner of circuit court is not
court of the United States within the
meaning of article 8 of the constitution,
be NAV vet be a court of the United
States in the sense that committing
magistrate is court. or that the inter
state commi,si or the court OF priva'e
land claims is court. These are no.
courts whose Judges hold their Offices
during good behavior and receive com
ptn sation which cannot be diminished
during their continuance in office, oul
they are nevertheless courts of the
United States in very important
sense. On the other hand the counsel
for the defendants presents the view
hat commissioner of the circuit court
is simply person who exercises 1unc
tons partly judicial, partly admlnistra
tive, which may, and frequently do,
need judicial discrimination for their
proper exercise, but that when holding
their preliminary examination he Is IN
no sense "a court of the United States
The usual Saturday consultation OF
the Supreme Court was omitted o.day,
bee use of the annual planked shad din
ner of the District Bar Association,
which some Ct the justices desired to
attend. Income tax rumors remain as
10 reported, the probability of the tax
being declared off, having still the call.
Miss Mary A. Dodge (Gail Hamilton)
passed very bad night, and her con-
dition this morning is such as to justify
the belief that her end Is quite near.
For the past four or five days she has
been sinking gradually and growing
weaker. At the present time, al
though not entirely unconscious, Miss
Dodge lies in semi-conscious condi-
ton caused by the medicines. The pa
ralysis is confined to the left side. She
is apparently conscious when spoken
to by members of the family. The
physician gives the family no encour-
agement.
In dispatch to the State Depart
ment from Teheran, April 10, 1895,
Minister Mcdonald, of Virginia, stat
that he attended the commencem en-
exercises of the school for boys of the
American mission for Teheran. The
exercises took place in the American
church, which was filled with an as
semblage of both natives and foreign
ers. 1.-THE exercises" said Mr.. Nc
Donald, "were such as take place at an
American school of high grade.
Speeches in four languages were made
by the seven honor graduates, namely,
in Persian, Armenian, French and Eng
lish. The young men spoke with per
feet ease and fluency." The branches
taught in the school are the languages
already named with Arabic and He
brew added, arithmetic persian and
European algebra, book keeping, geog.
raphy, general history, etc. A girls
school conducted in a like manner is
regarded by Mr.. Mcdonald as being
equally worthy of praise. In it the
pupils receive board and lodging, either
free or at nominal rates. Girls are
sent out every year to support them
selves or become ornaments of society.
Secretary Carlisle has prepared the
speech he will deliver at the good
money meeting to be held in Memphis
next week, and mas given it to the press
to be printed when it shall have been
made. In it he says he is in favor OF
bimetalism whenever enough of the
gold using nations will agree upon a
fixed ratio, and he will declare himself
in favor of a reform in banking methods,
but not of the removal of the tax on
State banks.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Mr.. T. L. Worsley, ex- chairman of the
democratic committee of Loudoun
county. He says the Presidents re.
cent fishing party to Big Spring didn't
carry single drop of wine or spirits
with them, and that all they had dur
ing the whole day was one small drink
of good old mountain dew which they
were invited to take by the farmer at
whose spring they stopped for water.
He says the President, while sociable,
never forgot his dignity. Mr. Worsley
says the people of his county are inves-
tigating the silver question for them
selves, and that the silver feeling ALREADY
strong there, is increasing. He says
the whole democratic county ticket
will be elected without any treble, but
that in some few of the districts iEde-
pendent candidates for magistrate may
succeed.
Commonwealth Attorney Johnson
of Alexandria county, here to-day, says
the whole republican ticket there, with
the possible exception of the nominee
for sheriff, will be elected and that his
majority will be from three, to six
hundred. MIR. Douglass. his demo.