The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-30
ALABAMA
CASE like
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d, MS q B. aiss
Does Not Affect Validity.
Of Constitution.
SHOWS TENDENCY
OF THE COURT .).7
As Forerunnersof the Virginia
NJ Case.
GENERAL MILES
FOR PRESIDENT
( General Of the Army Admiral of the
Navy and Next in Command Are AZ!
Democrats Thevisit Of Pres
ident Roosevelt to Univer- .
slty Virginia viii oc-
so cupy Few Hours.
GENERAL MILES
FOR PRESIDENT
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w G@ApL4lE
Y ID The Virginia Constitution case will not
u b heard until the full term Of the court
Il which opens October I'd. 1t was thought
Ethe case would come up on The 9Th Of
\ May, but. as usual. the docket is very
n much crowded and the cause had to be
& 4ararced to the fall term.
S Interest in the Virginia case will be less
4 now, owing to tho decision in the Ala
j bamG case. which is looked upon as a
3,sure forerunner OF that which will be
|; rendered when Mr.. Wises case to test
tie Virginia Constitution comes up.
II Tie general impression that the court
4 was loath to undertake to undo what the
i Southern States were doing in tho way
OF restricting the franchise, is gaining
ground, and is stronghold by the recent
Edecision. (. Va "a .5 (. 5S n
l;sA SHOWS TTID TENDENCY.
"a & Tho Alabama case did not Involve the
direct question Of tho validity OF the
4 Stat to Constitution. but the decision goes
Tar to indicate the tendency Of the court.
There Is no way to approximate the ma
ture OF decision the court has not yet
II handed down, but It generally believed
the Supreme Court will not Interfere to
declare tho suffrage provisions Of Viz
EElnia S Constitution contrary to the Or
ganic law Of the United States.
THE decision In the Alabama case will
IL be given out tomorrow afternoon or
Friday II. J., is now In the hands of tho
government printer.
\ 58s MILES FOR PRESIDENT.
nv Some people are saying that the report
95$of General Miles. In which he criticised
1.-THE conduct Of American officers in the
Philippines, was only bid for the Dem
ocratic nomination to the presidency next
year and is but the beginning Of n sys-
tematic campaign for the honor. OF
course Ill this is but GOSSIP. with about
"a us little foundation in reason as in truth
u General Miles perhaps would If he could
Sfhe certainly could not II he would.
4 5Dcwey's miserable fasco when he an
8 hornced himself candidate for the pres
X ldtncy, and set the world laughing. has
6 no. been forgotten by General Miles.
ys BY the way, Miles, Dewey, and Schley
$shre all Democrats Of rather stronger
Il type of political belief than Is usually
IA navy. ISL &c 5Ga
DIR. PRITCHETT COMING.
KIM DR.. Henry 8. Pritchett, president Of
1.-The Massachusetts Institute OF Technol-
ogy, has accepted an Invitation to deliver
~ the annual address before the Washing
~ ton and Jefferson Literary Societies It
2SS the University. of Virginia on June 18th,
VI The invitation was ..extended through Or.
@ Thomas NelSUh Page. DR.. Pr!tchett has
had brilliant. career. After having
graduated ata college In Missouri he
went to Munich, where he took the high
& est degree that cnn be taken at that In
4 stitution. one which had not been con-
sferred there since the time OF the great
tEAgassiz. He then became assistant as
Fl tronomer OF the Naval Observatory. and
was tho astronomer Of tho Transit OF
Venus Expedition to New Zealand In 1882
then professor Of astronomy and director
OF the University OF Washington, st,
IL Louis. and was in charge OF tho govern
q ment party, which went to observe the
IA California eclispe In 1889. The United
n States Coast and Geodetic Survey, need
K Ing a practical and able, us well as n
hscientiflc man at Its head Mr. PrItchett
z was appointed its superintendent early
Il IN McIkinley's administration and cum
Quoted 1t with signal success. Two or
A three years ago he was elected president
of the Massachusetts Institute OF Tech
X nology and has conducted that insttt7,-
3jtion 80 ably that snce that time he has
G been elected president Of John Hopkins
4 University and president of the univer-
= slty of Wisconsin, positions which he
H found himself unable to accept owing to
his engagements as head of the Massa-
Z chusetts Institute of Technology.
ROOSEVEI.T'S VISIT.
The alumni and others most deeply
Interested, ARE striving to make the Uni,
& yersity finals this year the most interest
Ing In many years A feature of com,
mencement week will be the visit OF
M President Roosevelt on June 18TH His
3s train, to which will be attached the prl
vate car bearing Mr.. Roosevelt, will leave
this city few minutes after 10 o'clock %
the morning OF June 10Th and the return
trip from Charlottesville Will begin u
4tP. NJ
81 Mr. Moses .Si,shaum, well kwowns q,
one Of the most enterprslng OF The
younger business mon Of Norfolk. ex
y pressed himself most enthusiastically a
The Irbbitt House to-day concerning The
Jamestown Exposition.
~ Is bound 10 be a great success" ht
said. ~ am sure Virginia will tell ths
world much 1t has not known regarding