Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is.

of State from the vice consul at Gaude-
loupe, West Indies, shows that Japan
ESQ coolie labor has been a failure on
the island. The sugar planters who
EMPLOYED this class of labor, encour-
aged by an immigration society, are
dissatisfied. Strikes occurred, and the
strikers, despite the efforts of the po-
lice, refused 10 leave and we're devas-
tating the plantations. The governor
was obliged to use force to master the
rikers, lao of whom were arrested
aud jailed.
The conviction of Clune and others,
local officers of the American Railway
Union, for conspiracy to obstruct the
passage of mails on the Southern Pacific
e. r. in California during the railroad
strike of 1894, was affirmed in the U. S.
Supreme Court to-day, Judge Brewer
delivering the opinion. The sentence
Imposed upon the prisoners by Judge
Ross was Imprisonment for Is months.
The U. S. Supreme Court today de-
cided that the contracts between the
Union Pacific Railroad Company and
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, by which the latter WIS given the
sole right to maintain its telegraph
lines on the right of way OF the railroad
company are null and void and cannot
be enforced. Justice Harlan said that
any telegraph company which accepted
the terms of the act of 1866 had the
right to place its poles on any postal
route of the United States provided it
did not interfere with the railroad COM
pany in the operation of its road.
At the adjourned meeting of the bar
of the U. S. Supreme Court to-day
Secretary Olney presided. Assistant
Attorney General Dickinson reported
appropriate resolutions in commemora-
ton of the late Justice Jackson. Sect.
Olney said Tennessee boasts long
line ofillustrious public men, but cannot
point to any one among them that does
her greatest honor She has indeed had
sons whose lives were fuller of incident
and motion and dramatic surprises.
There was the Jackson of "The Her
mitage," the Jackson who triumphed
at New Orleans, who hanged Arbuth-
not, who made Peggy O'Neil a charac-
ter of national consequence, who re-
moved the deposits, who fought with
equal energy notification and United
States bank, and whose erect, COM
handing person, crowned with its
wealth of whitened hair, SPY the Eter-
nap on his lips and in his grasp both
the baton of the political leader and the
sword of the soldier, forms one of the
most picturesque figures on the whole
canvas of modern history. If such a
life as Jackson's be phenomenal in its
power to fix the public gaze
and fascinate the popular i'm
agination, that Of Judge Jackson cannot
be too much extelled as potent centre
of benefcent influence, none the less
valuable and far-reacbing in its
effects because neither glittering
nor noisy.n Remarks were also
made by Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Dickinson, W. A. Marry,
ex-Assistant Acknowledgement, and
Mr.. Harold G. Underwood, of Wiscon-
sin. In the course of his remarks Mr..
Maury read the following letter from
President Harrison to Justice Jackson :
"My Dear Sir: have your telegram
thanking me for sending your name to
the Senate for the vacant position on
the Supreme bench. My acquaintance
with you in the Senate and the informa-
ton have had since from the bar of
your circuit gave me, | thought, the
needed assurance that you would exer-
else the duties of this very high and
responsible Office with industry, fidelity
and patriotism. l have never believed
in q partizan judiciary. Only politics
in the larger sense should have any
thing to do with such appointments. |
would not, of course, appoint to
the Supreme bench a man who
held views of the constitution and
and of the powers of the general gov
eminent that J thought subverted or
diminished those necessary powers.
7 have believed from my knowledge of
you and representations of others that
you were a believer in the nation and
did not sympatize with the opinion
that United States marshal was an
alien official or that election frauds Or
any other infraction of the federal sta
tutes were deserving of aught but in.
dignant condemnation and punishment.
know you to be a conscientious and
industrious Judge, and a God-fearing
man, and if the Senate shall ratify your
nomination I do not fear that any pass
ing criticisms, which have fallen upon
me for your selection, will endure. 1
have been most sincerely DESTROYS of
celebrating all sectional divisions; have
not been oblivious to the difficulties
under which the South has labored;
but have been always most insistent
that everybody must obey the law and
must yield to every other man his
rights under the law"
at Earls, Amelia county, Va, G. s.
Bowles was appointed postmaster to-
day, vice J. D. Hite, resigned.
The race tracks in Alexandria coun.
ty having revoked their order exclud-
ing the horses that were taken from
those tracks to more northern tracks
in the early part of the fall, many of
them have returned, and there is an
appreciable increase in horses, books
and spectators at those tracks.
DR.. Riley, the colored man who is
threatened with suit for libel by Tay-
lor, the colored recorder of wills here,
will haye, ip addition to ex.Attorney
General Garland and Mr.. Davis, of this
city, as bis counsel, ex-senator Ed
munds.
A resolution was introduced in the
general assembly of the Knights of
Labor to-day demanding that justices
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