The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-02
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constitution Will Die.
The. N ORTIZ CAROLINAMA
gyxhYiitli is So Often Late Made Clear
Richmond Couple Were Pardoned
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from Here Given Limit.
14mes-Dispatch Bureau,
III No. 1417 G Street.,fN, Nv.

Washing ton, D. c., May 1st, 1908.
jsBa, An officer Of the Supreme Court on be-
ing asked to-day when the court would
u FIX q date for the hearing Of the Virginia
cases replied: ~ Fl
455s.I hardly think the Virginia cases will
ever be heard Of again, In view Of the
&{decislon of the court In the Alabama case.
Ut will not be rea ched inside Of a year
Ri in the regular order Of business, and Mr..
Wise will hardly ask that II be, moved
up on he docket. In view Of tho other
decision. The Attorney General Of the
4 State might ask to have the case moved
up to an earlier date, but I think that
II lle,s too, will be content to let the matter
n rest where 1t is. The Alabama case
practically decides the Virginia case SO
SitSis hardly probable that tho Virginia
81 controversy will ever be heard in the
u court 81
The opinion expressed by the official
a just quoted. to The Times-Dlspatch cor
respondent seems to obtain here among
4 all who have watched the case. t will
probably be the end OF all threats Of
Il carrying the cases of individuals to the
II Supreme Court for relief and also the.
X end Of all efforts to have the Constitution
4 declared invalid. Nothing has been
( heard from Ilhn S. Wise rs to what he
NJ thinks OF the decision. ,,5i t& a iSt
t53s DELAYED MAILS. "A nv ~
s,{3 Perhaps the people Of North Carolina.
II have wondered why their mail from the
West reaches them so late, but II they
would come to Washington and see some
f&of the things The Times Dispa tch COR
respondent has seen, they would have it.
explained The Chesapeake and Ohio
train, which reaches Washington in the
h early morning, about G O'CLOCK, carries
a great! deal of North Carolina mail. In
fact, 1t brings more North Carolina mail
from the West than any other train
.efrom the West proba bly,. III \
III West OF Hinton. w. Va. they have
Ill forty-three clerks on the Chesapeake and
Ohio who in shifts from day to day,
4 work thes Virginia mall At Hinton the
4 same mail practically Is turned over to
The twenty-seven clerks and helpers In
Sthesthird division r. F. O, between Wash
@ington and Hinton, The North Carolina
mail rs turned over solid" as the mail
clerks say; that H. unworked. to the
tTenty-seyen clerks and helpers of the
a Washington and Hinton r. p. O. by the
forty-three clerks of the Hinton and Gin
H cinnati r. p. O. The distance Is the same
practically. and the work tho same yet
why the twenty-seven clerks at this end
.8arc required to do tho work OF the forty
three at the other end Is a mystery,
4 running to separate that mail 1t could 80
of at Basic, Va. and connecting with
the southbound Norfolk and Western
train. could DO In North Carolina In al
most the Same time 1t gets to Washing
ton. But It Is not UP. and consequently
It is brought on to Washington II 1t
had all been distributed 1t could 30 out
s.fron Washington shortly after s o'clock
In the morning Instead, the clerks have
b rome In Stuck as they say. and have
10 work until 10 and sometimes II o'clock
Y before they get their mails ready to leave
K the ear. Then at lo:5l o'clock. some eight
hours after It would have left Basic for
Y North Carolina. 1t leaves Washington,
Is mic hundred and forty miles this side. II
e ~ undoubtedly a bad condition of affairs,
md 1t seems that the officials OF the Third
H Division OF the Railway Postal Service
ought to have the matter brought to their
attention, 80 thar they might correct It.
4 Tho Times Dispatch correspondent has
been assured by the office of the general
superintendent In another case that the
q service seeks to deliver mail In the
p,omptest manner possible, and It is be-
4 j.eved that II they were asked TO investi-
II gaze the conditions. steps would be taken
( 4, remedy the notoriously had delay In
tho handling OF the great volume Of mail.
if5 BACK TO RICHA,1.,D
ldr. and ,rs. John ]. Jones, OF Rich-
mond, whose honeymoon here was SO sud
denly clouded by the arrest Of Mr., Jones
VI for writing the name Of his wife on the
Washington Monument. have returned to
Richmond, Mr. Jones and his BRIDE were
sigft-seeing. and while visiting the monu-
Ment seeing the names Of hundreds Of