Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-11-04
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington. d. c., Nov. 4.


The visible supply of Cabinet mem
bers has been reduced to two. AT to-
dty's regular semi-weekly meeting,
Postmaster General Wynne and Secre-
tary Morton, of the Navy Department,
we're the only ones who appe lred. Sec
retary Hay is in town but is suffering
from cold and did not leave his house
during the morning. The six remaining
members of the Presidents official family
are out stumping for their chief. Sec
rotary Morton will make his maiden
speech in Maryland tomorrow night.
Judge Parker's charges of corruption
aimed at Chairman Cortelyou, of the re-
publican national committee, and Presi-
dent Roosevelt will be replied to again
by Senator Knox at Pittsburgh tonight.
Senator Knox spent all last evening
at the White House and practically all
of this forenoon consulting with the Presi-
dent, it is supposed, over the principal
points of the address. Some comment
was caused by the circumstance of the
Senator supposed presence at the Cabin
meeting. He was in the Presidents Of
flee when Postmaster General Wynne and
Secretary Morton, the only members
present, came to the White House, and,
as he remained there during the brief
session it is presumed that he was pres
ent during the council. As be is one Of
the Presidents most trusted lieutenants
and an ex-member of the Cabinet, it is
supposed that the President urged him
TO remain when the members arrived.
If the rumor, now revived, that Chief
Justice Fuller is soon to retire from the
Supreme Court bench shall prove cor
rect, new precedent will have been
established. No chief justice has ever
resigned. All have died on the bench.
Chief Justice Fuller will be II years old
in February and will then be entitled
retire with $40, 500 pension. 1t
1t was said some time ago that be would
soon give up the place and the late
President Mckinley is said to have Sc
lected VIM. II. TAFT as his successor.
President Roosevelt also is known to
have chosen his present war secretary for
chief Justice, in the event the place
should become vacant 1t has ever
been the ambition Of Secretary
Taft to take place on the Supreme Court
bench and his selection for the chief
iusliceship would be clearly in lihe with
his most ardent desires. But since his
entry into the field Of national politics
his friends have continued to groom him
for even higher honors than the chief
justiceship and it is possible that his
presidential aspirations or their presi-
Dental aspiration for him might remove
him from selection to the Supreme Court
Of the United States. Nor is there any
assurance that Chief Justice Fuller, who
remains in full possession of physical
and mental vigor, will do otherwise than
did his predecessors doff their courtly
robes only at the behest of the man with
the scythe.
Eyeglasses are to be plaques of the
past and the eyesight of mankind re-
stored by new treatment discovered by
an English surgeon, according to report
received by the State Department from
United States Consul Mahin, at Noting
ham. 1t is called manipulation of the
eve" writes Mr. Mahin, "and was
thought out and developed by DR.. Ste
phen Smith of the Battersea Park Hos
pital. The treatment is described as
gentle and gradual, few minutes daily,
causing no pain and having no injurious
effect of any sort. Some patients are
cured in week and in all cases improve
ment is rapid. The cures apply to
short sight, long sight and irregularity
in the shape of the eye and are claimed
to be permanent.