Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1914-07-28
Washington Letter.
From Geo. w. Summers. I

From Geo. w. Summers
Washington, July 2l.John w. Davis
of Clarksburg, formerly representative
of the first district in the House of |
Representatives, and now solicitor gen.
eral of the United States, is being dis
cussed in connection with the appoint |
ment to the Supreme Court bench to
succeed the late Justice Horace H.
Lurton, who died July IL. 1t is known
that Mr.. Davis stands very high in the
estimation of the President, who was
first attracted to him when his recon-
mendations for Judge of the fourth ju-
dicial circuit to succeed Judge Golf,
when the latter entered the Senate.
The President could not appoint Mr..
Davis at that time but when a Solicitor
General had to be named he remember
ed the legal attainments of Mr.. Davis
and selected him without the knowi-
edge or request of Mr.. Davis. 1t is
said there is now possibility that he
may be selected for the vacancy on the
Supreme Court in the same way.
AS was expected, the Senate com
pletely exonerated Senator Chiffon and
Senator Overman of the charge of US
ing Senate stationery to exploit gold
mining proposition in which they were
interested in North Carolina The re-
port stated that stationery of the SEN
ate had been used for the purpose but
that Senators Chiffon and Overman
had no knowledge of the use of the sta
tionery till after the matter was called
up in the Senate.
West Virginia has risen to first place
among all the States in the production
of glass sand, according to a recent re-
port of the U. S. Geological Survey.
The value of the glass sand produced
is not as great as that produced in
Pennsylvania, but the quantity is great
err, and the increase in the production
of 1913 was vastly greater than that of
1872. The value of the total produc-
ton Of sand and gravel in West Vir-
ginia for 1918 was 1899, 933, compared
with $3.50, OPS in 1912. The value of
the glass sand produced in West Vir-
ginia in 1912 was $287, 038. while the
value of the glass sand produced in the
State in 1913 was $668. PA, an increase
in year of almost $500, 900. The re-
port of the Geological Survey says:
'The revision of the tariff on glass
seems to have had no effect on the pro-
duction of glass sand, if we may judge
by the quantity sold. F."
The acceptance by DR.. Thomas E.
Hodges of the Democratic nomination
for Congressman at-Large completes
the Democratic ticket for the congress-
ional election this year. The Republi-
cans have nominations to make in the
first and second districts, while the
ProgressiYes have candidates to name
in the second, third and fourth dis
tricts and the State at large.
The first claim from West Virginia
for damages against Mexico for the
killing of an American citizen in the
Mexican revolution has been filed with
the State Department by Congressman
Brown. 1t is for Mrs. Harriet L, Gil
martin, of Davis, for the killing of her
husband, who met his death in the tun-
mel disaster at Cumbre, Feb. IA, 1914,
when revoIutionists blew up a tunnel
with passenger train in it. No spe-
cific amount of damages is asked.
W. Taylor George, the stand pat Re-
publican speaker of the House of Dele
gates of West Virginia. has surprised
ProgressIves of the second district with
his nerve by undertaking to get the
Progressive nomination for Congress-
man, stating that if he does he will get
the endorsement of the Republicans.
and would then hope to defeat Junior"
Brown The convention of the Pro-
gressives will be held at Keyser, July
%, and it is almost certain that Mr..
George will not be its nominee The
efforts of Mr.. George to have Judge
Dayton removed and his antagonism to
Theodore Roosevelt will not make him
particularly strong with Progressives.
Geo. NJ. Bowers has decided it would
be useless to run for Congress this
year on the Republican ticket and is
said to have stated positively that he
would NOT ARGENT the nomination undar
any circumstances.