Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-23
would get others to do it for mir,
the fiuaucial failures caused by his re-
cent acts would add an uusavory flavor
10 his Christmas mince pie.
FROM WASHINGTON.
fCorres pondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WARRINGTON Dec %

moved the q. S. Supreme Court to adj
vance on the docket the appeal of F.
A Coffin from the judgment of the
District Court of Indiana sentencing
him to imprisonment for seven years
for conspiring with President Haughey
10 wreck the Indianapolis National
Bank which failed in August 1893.
Coffin has been twice convicted OF the
charge.
It's reported today that President
Cleveland will place an engineer officer
of the army on the Venezuelan bound
ary commission.
The U. S. Supreme Court adjourned
to-day until January 6.
The Supreme Court to day affirmed
the judgment of the Circuit Court for
the third circuit. denying writ OF
habeas corpus to Henry Kohl, the New
Jersey murderer, who sought release
thereby from the custody of Herman
Lehlbacb. A mandate was ordered to
issue at once. The effect of this de-
cision is to remand Kohl to the State
authorities to have the sentence OF
death executed upon him.
In the House to-day Mr.. Brewster,
republican, of New York, introduced
resolution providing that hereafter no
gold coin of q less denCmiaat than
ten dollars shall be coined, nor shall
there be issued any legal tender notes
or paper currency of any kind of less
denomination than $40.
One phase of the silver question came
up in the u. s. Supreme Court to-day.
James E. Morgan and wife were on q
car of the JERSEY City and Bergen Rail
road Company. The conductor refused
to accept for their fare ten cent piece
because he thought it was not worth
par, being worn by abrasion. Morgan
was elected and brought suit against
the railroad company for damages
therefore. He recovered judgment for
$3l5 and costs, and the judgment was
affirmed by the Supreme Court OF the
State. The railroad company sued ont
writ of error and brought the case to
the q. S. Supreme Court. In disposi'g
of it, the chief justice stated that there
was no provision against the passage OF
silver coins which were abraded only
by circulation, and that they were q
legal tender as long as they bore the
semblance of the coin. The judgment
of the lower court was affirmed.
The best information obtainable at
the Treasury Department. is to the
effect that the President will moi
authorize q new issue of bonds until
Congress has had opportunity to pass a
relief measure, or it has been demon
strated that such a measure as will
meet the approval of The executive
cannot be passed. Mr.. Cleveland has
announced repeatedly that in such an
emergency he will resort TO the present
laws rs long as they remain on the
statute books.
The Court of Claims to-day heard ar
gument in the case of Morris keim ys.
the United States on the novel PROPOSE
ton that a soldier honorably discharged
from the service and who entered the
executive service of the United States
under "civil service examination !"
could not be discharged by the head OF
an executive department as long as he
was efficient, and when, in case of ne
cessary reduction, there were other
clerks who entered the service in the
same manner but were not union sol
diers. This is the first time case IT,
volving such question has ever been
taken before United States court.
Facts stated in this correspondence
some months!ago, to. the effect that the
democrats might expect high presi.
dental politics in the organization OF
Speaker Reeds House committees, will
not hereafter be disputed by either re
publicans or democrats. The three
elections committees organized for pur
poses of rapid work on Southern con.
tested election cases came very near
having no Virginia democrat on either
of them. 1t now turns out that Repre-
sentative Jones of the First district,
who succeeded to the now Governor
O'Ferrall's place on that committee,
was marked for decapitation by Speak
or Reed. On discovery of this inten-
ton the democrats visited Mr.. Reed
and requested the re.appointment of
Mr.. Jones. They simply said, "Mr.
Jones was member of the committee
in the preceding House. He is our
choice and we would like him on the
democratic minority; we see no reason
for his being refused" Mr.. Reed replied
blandly, but firmly, that he wanted not
only faciittation of election cases, but
he wanted their determination to be on
8 higher and more non-partisan plane
than ever before. He didn't doubt, he
said, the sincerity, integrity or ability
of Mr.. Jones, but he did doubt his free
dom from party bias and prejudice,
therefore he must take the matter under
advisement. The result is known. The
Speaker weakened and Representative
Jones is on the same committee that
General Walker is, and will keep his
eye on the cases not only from Virginia
out other Southern States. The two
doubtful cases from Virginia, those OF
Thorp vs.. McKenney, and Yost VS..
Tucker, have been referred to the COM
mittee of which both General Walker
and Mr. Jones are members, and of which
Mr.. Mccall, of Massachusetts,, is chair
man. When the question of appor-
tioning the thirty-odd contested cases
among the three election committees
was up in the House to-day, Mr.. Crisp
suggested that it would be more seemly
if the democratic minority were allow
ed to participate in the superintendent,
and mentioned one case in which the
contestee naturally objects to being tried
by committee with the chairman of
which he is not on amicable terms.
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