Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
fCorrespondence Of the Ae1sndris 6aSetse.J
WASHINGTON, May E.

an assem- 0lage oil law anu iaity
O. the occasion of the Original aisu
meat. more than exhausted the accom-
modations of the small chamber III
which il wa; heard. For the frst ume
G; ,,... list November there was fuh
p mnlement of justices on the bench,
4 all nine of the large leather-cover-
arm chairs behind the desk that
sa,srated the court from the spectators
w[re occupied. Mr.. Justice jackson,
tbe Youngest member of the court, save
one. was at the extreme right OF the
clief Justice, aud was naturally the oo-
se.ved of ali observers. He took an
active interest in the proceedings, and
IL re was apparently nothing to war
rant the expectation that he might not
be able TO undergo the fatigue of the
hearing. Among those present in the
court room were the various counsel
engaged in the case or interested in the
result, Messrs. Joseph 81. Choate. ex-
Secretary B. II. Bristow, Clarence a.
Seward. William D. Guthrie. David
Wilcox, j. NJ. Wilson, Samuel Shell.
labarger, Attorney General Olney, and
assistants Whitney, Dickinson and Con-
rad; Representative McAlillin, the
author OF the income tax law;
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon: Hon.
John A. Kasson, of Iowa; Speaker
Crisp, who is in the city on on his way
home from visit to New York; eX-
Postmaster General Don N. Dickinson;
Richard Watson Glider, and many
ladies, who have from the first mani
tested an UNUSUAL interest in the case.
Mr.. w. D. Guthrie opened the argument
for the petitioners, Messrs. Hyde and
Pollock. who seek to eDjoin the direct
ors of the Farmers Loan and Trust
and Continental Trust Co., of New
York, from paying the tax on
the dividends declared on the stock
of those corporations, and in so doing
| attack the consttutionality of the law.
| The discussion of the case was limited
by the court to two counsel on each
side, and the time was fixed at five
hours on each side.
Chefoo dispatches stating that Russia
is making an imposing demonstration
in the Chinese harbor of Chefoo, mid
way between the japanese and Chinese
capitals, where the ratifcations of the
treaty are TO be exchanged tomorrow,
are regarded by the intelligence bureau
at the Navy Department with suspicion.
Commissioner Miller to-day desig
mated Samuel l.. Miller chief deputy to
take charge of the Office of the 9Th North
Carolina internal revenue district at
Asheville, \. c., and act as collector
| uutil a successor to Collector Melvin E.
Carter, who died Sunday, shall have
been appointed by the President.
10 the case of David B. Sayre, nav
al paymaster's clerk, sentenced by
court martial to two years imprison-
ment for ENLIGHTENMENT of paymsster's
funds, the Supreme Court of the United
States to-day, in an opinion rendered
bv Justice Gray, said that the mem
bers of the regular army and navy were
subject to military law at all times, and
the militia while in the service OF the
United States. The judgments of
courts martial were not subject to re-
view by civil courts on writs of
habeas corpus, and the judgment of
Judge Hughes, in the eastern district Of
Virginia, discharging Sayre, were re-
versed, with instructions to remand
him to the custody of the military Of
fcials.
The Indian bureau to-day received a
telegram from the agent of the Turtle
Mountain Indians stating that the an
icipated trouble with these Indians,
like so many previously advertised In
dian outbreaks, was about settled.
The prisoners had surrendered and the
mob had been disarmed without blood
shed.
The real estate and tax title laws
Of West Virginia were treated in an
exhaustive opinion rendered in the
supreme Court of the United States
to-day by Mr.. Justice Harlan, in the
case of Benjamin Rich ct al. VS.. Tam
lin Braxton ct al. Suit was begun in
the local courts of West Virginia by
Braxton and wife, who are heirs of the
late Allen T. CapertoD, against Rich ct
al, to annul certain deeds under which
the latter claimed title to various tracts
held by the plaintiffs, which were
claimed to be q cloud on the title of
| BraXton and wife. The case was
transferred to the United States court
and decree issued setting aside the
deeds to Rich ct al, as imperative,
fraudulent and void. and cloud upon
plaintiffs title so far as they overlap
and include any of the lands of the said
plaintiffs, as laid down and shown upon
| the map of the lands in the suit-about
2i,O00 acres all told. There had been
u tax sale deed to the defendants, and
redemption by the Braxtons. The
Supreme Court are of opinion that the
judgment of the Circuit Court, in favor
of the Braxtons, was correct, and it
was affirmed.
Senior Dupuy de LONE, the new
Spanish minister, was presented to the
President to-day by Acting Secretary
Uhl with all beftting ceremony and
was cordially received, but, contrary to
expectation, the prepared speeches de-
livered contained no direct references
! to the Alliance incident.
The President has offered the posi-
ton as civil service commissioner, made
vacant by the resignation of Mr.. Roose-
welt, to Colonel w. B. Rice, of Albany,
who will probably accept it. Mr.. Ly-
mans successor has not yet been fully
decided upon. Mr.. Proctor, the only mem
Der of the old board who will be allow
ed to remain, is trying to have the
deputy commissioners of internal rev.
enue brought within the scope of the
civil service law, but it is reported that
the President is opposed to that partic-
ular extension.
About one hundred men and fifty