Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-02
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
NUosb;roton ID C. May 2.

James Nj. IyneT, lHulClou Will NO "'-N
nephew. Harrison j. Barrett, who served
as his assistant when he was the Assls'
tant ATTORNEY General for the Postof1ce
DEPARTMENT. we're to have been arraigned
on the charge ofconspiracy to deiraud the
government in that they conspired to
violate their oath in administering the
law in decisions pertinent to bond invest
ment companies, which. Barrett later rep
resented to his personal advantage.
General Tyner, Postmaster General IN
Grant administration and for many years
prior TO last summer the Assistant AT.
torney General for the Postoffice Depart
ment was not present when the court
was called to order shortly after ten
O'Clock. He has been i'll for over year,
paraletic stroke leaving him ahopeless
invalid. His counsel informed the court
that it would be impossible to have him
in the court room before the afternoon.
He will have to be brought in IN an
invalid chair. 1t being impossible under
the law to impanel the jury until after
the two indicted former postofiice Of
ficials are arraigned aud plead, the court
recessed until l:20. Tyner was brought
into court shortly after one O'Clock IN an
invalid chair, attended by his wife,
physician and a nurse, and pleaded not
guilty. Barrett also pleaded not guilty,
and the impaneling of the jury began.
Judge Wing, of the district court for
the northern district of Ohio, was de-
clared by the Supreme Court today to
have made a mistake in his decision in
volving the discharge from custody OF
number OF Cinnamon. The Cinnamon
we've ordered deported by a commits
sioner. An appeal was taken to the
district court and Judge Wing ordered
the discharge of the men. A bill OF ex-
ceptions was offered and Judge Wing
refused to allow them to be filed, hold
ing that he had acted as a judge and
not as a court. The proceedings in the
Supreme Court were on a writ OF
mandamus to compel him to entertain
the appeal. The Supreme Court in an
opinion delivered by the Chief Justice
announced that it differed with Judge
Wing, that he had acted as a court not
as Judge, and the petitioner-being the
U. S. attorney, is entitled to the writ OF
mandamus as claimed.
The Supreme Court recessed today
until May 16. On May l6 there will be
another recess until May 81. On May
81, the court will adjourn for the term.
Vincent Walsh, son of Thomas f.
Walsh, the Colorado millionaire, paid
$50 in police court this morning, for
overspeeding his cred devil. "
Interstate Commerce Commission has
ordered a hearing in Chicago on June 3
of charges made against the Michigan
Central and Pere Marquette railroad
companies, who are accused by fruit
shippers of maintaining unjust contracts
with the Armour Car Lines, whereby
shippers are forced to pay excessive rates
for refrigerating and shipping fruit over
the lines of the two companies. Discrim-
nation and prejudice to competition are
alleged.
Fraud orders have been issued by the
Postoffice Department against Shoe
maker & Co. and r. l.. Litsey, of Har-
rockville, KY; the Financial Brokerage
Co., of New York city, and against the
Eastern Trade Co., of New York city.
Angus NJ. Cannon, jr., son Of the for
mer apostle of the Mormon church who
was deposed from that Office because of
his refusal to subscribe to the political
domination Of the church, was examined
by the Senate committee on privileges
and elections this morning in continual
ton of the Reed Smoot inquiry. Presi-
dent Smith had personally denied all
knowledge of having ever performed the
marriage ceremony between Abraham ii.
Cannon and one Lillian Hamlin. Cues
toned as to his relationship with Cannon
witness said that he was a cousin. Can
non died July 1896. AT the time of his
death he had three wives, Sarah Ann,
Wilhelmina NJ, and and Mary E. Crox-
all, and had children by all. Witness
had always been on friendly terms with
Abraham Cannon and had lent him his
buggy to take Lillian Hamlin out riding.
Lillian Hamlin had been engaged to
Abraham's brother, who died while abb
sent on mission to Germany about 1892
Witness did not see the marriage OF the
Hamlin woman to Abraham Cannon and
while he admitted that he had told sew
eral persons that he had been present on
the occasion of the marriage, that state
ment was shot air." 1t was very dis
gusted lot of Senators and Attorneys
that listened to the continuation OF the
testimony in the Smoot case. What they
heard was a man named Angus Nj. Can
non. IT.. confess that he had while drunk,
told story about witnessing an alleged
plural marriage performed by President
smith in California since the manifesto.
That story, he declared, was entirely I'M
true.
Representative Lilley, of Connecticut,
and his two sons, Theodore and John
L., engaged in a fight at the b. d ..
station last night, and this morning in
Police Court Robert Emmert and Albert
Anderson, forfeited ten dollars and forty
dollars each, respectively, for being ag-
gressors in fight which grew out of
dispute over seats in train.
Governor Franklin Murphy, of New
Jersey, is said TO have been practically
agreed upon by President Roosevelt and
his congressional advisers at the White
House conference last night for chairman
of the republican national committee.
Although il is not probable that the an