Show lp bill THE CHIEF JUSTICE s UPON WHOM JUDGE WASTES MANTLE falla speaker carlisle generally favored as alft chosen one ot the who is to succeed chief justice waito that is what everybody wants to know and what mr cleveland alono has tho power to decide it is owing to the present peculiar status of the eight associate justices of tho supreme court the most important single question perhaps that any president has had to decide on more than one important question which is likely to come before the court for action the justices are known to be evenly divided which practically gives air cleveland an opportunity to make the decisions himself by selecting a man for the position tiou who thinks as he does many men in different sections of the country have been favorably mentioned for the honor it has even been suggested that mr cleveland should resign and that secretary bayard who would succeed him as president should appoint mr cleveland chief justice this arrangement would bo an admirable one were it not for the fact that the people of the country seem to have made up their minds that mr Clev elands services are needed at the white house four years longer from the fourth of march next from the best information that can be obtained at present cither postmaster general dickinson or speaker carlisle will be made chief justice but in any event the country may safely trust the whole matter to mr cleveland he will tako his own time and select the very best has made no serious mistakes in his important appointments up to this time and is not likely to break his record now on the evo of his election reelection re the funeral of the late chief justice waite on wednesday in the hall of the house of representatives was largely attended by prominent officials of our government and by the foreign legations the services ware very simple only me reading u the episcopal burial service and did not last more than twenty minutes the body accompanied by the congressional committees justices of the supreme court and relatives left immediately fo toledo ohio on a special train clans tho california sugar king who is now in this city told commissioner of agriculture coleman that he had imported 25 tons of beet seed which would bo planted by california farmers on 2000 acres of land this season ho is naw erecting an extensive and expensive plant at watsonville Wat sonville california to work up this product and expects to make tons of beet sugar this year and to couple it next year when mr coleman was asked whether this beai project of mr would antagonize the sorghum industry which is just beginning to bevery valuable owing to experiments by the agricultural department he said not at all the beet is only another string to our bow we shall have a grand wedding between sorghum and beets and manufacture enough sweets not only for tho nuptial festivities but also to supply a goodly share of what we now import representative stewart of georgia has introduced in the house a bill to amend the naturalization naturalisation laws BO as to require would be citizens to make oath that they are not polygamists anarchists or communists in a special message to congress the president recommends the passage of a law to prevent the importation of hogs from france or germany owing to the prevalence of disease among the hogs in various sections of choso countries it will probably strike those foreign authorities that americans understand how to play a little game called tit for tat hon W H barhum chairman of the national democratic committee was in the city this week but declined to be interviewed further than to say that he considered the outlook very flattering it is generally understood here that mr badum who is not in on the tariff question will retire from the chairmanship of tho committee at the st louis convention and that he will be succeeded by W JL scott of pennsylvania who is in addition to being hinline inline with mr Clev elands tariff reform ideas a warm personal friend of the president the senate committee on territories has reported resolutions declaring against the admittance of utah as a state until polygamy is entirely abolished and the control of the civil affairs of the territory taken from the priesthood of tho mormon church the international council of wom ewh ich has been in session in the grand opera house all the weel has been eminently successful BO far as attendance both of the delegates and of the public is concerned WASHING march |