Show THIS I AND THAT Quite a Varictr of Eatertalnic Ilcadln Vnt Oat From ailiiaytoa THE CHOCTAW ASYLUM LOT TRY COMPANY Important Legal Decision Tlie Ciril Serrlce IiiTestlsatioi In Apache War Dr Telcrrarh to the SEaLS 3t IM Miurcrv IJIM SthIa Dnpnlrbni Irom Che IIIhl Two Ifirri WASHINGTON March 3A favorable I fav-orable rejiort lias been ordiml bj the Iou o committee on > ublic lands on lIe Senate bill to esuiblbh Washington two additional laud districts in VISITED TiE ItESIBtAT Secretary Blaine called on the President tills morning In conijauy with Charles Tupjxr of cm13Y TilE ° IOOL QUESTION In reply to 1 question from the Homo Market club of Itoston Sec rotary Iuk lisa written a letter in whIch I esajrs tint thereLi nothing In the toil and cliuute of tub runty run-ty t I < ircvtut thu production of every class oC wool remuneraUvel mil In ffmimpmtnl mifiiiHtfrxt Till production of car > t ri I lie says lIar not kej t IQCU with thu remarkably remark-ably rapid grow th of carjwt manu faciuriti Iu this country because tilt class of wool Ins been di crmi hosted a0iin iu Urn tiritl The lau also is to framed as r admit at crt wool rate many grades of tInier wool thus olmllu against homo wool production in UIOM clas ft of l sip100 TWO ICE The case of the Ix > ui vilf New Orleans i Texas 1acific railroad T5 thc state IuaUsippi was decided bj Juiticellnwer today The IUl1 tioninvoixed was the poutr ot thu State to compel railroid l couijianlus t provide M ilii theStateaccommo dations or the two races Judge Urtwcr holds the State has such 111cr rie scTe I most of its time In executive F iontoda > on the nomination of Governor Uanuouthj to bu collector of the port of Sew Orleans The pr vote on his confirmation stood Aye Sfi no H Waroiouth r evicts l the vote of all the li > ubi can Senators present except tliofc of Shermn annll and Wikoii Iowa Seven democrats also voted fur his confirmation TiE HOLDING OF ELECTIONS In the lous today McComasin troduccu a lull I which was refirred to regulate iu part the IrIr atoll manner of holding elections for npreyeutatives In Congress It t J ru video that in each State entitled to more Until one representative in the iiftj third and ub cquent Con grvssca fucli reprcMutattves shall L elected by districts which have at nearly as practicable an equal number num-ber of inhabitiuts s the mot populous popu-lous districts shall nut liavu 15UOJ inhabitants in excels of the least populous ditnLts and pbouid L composed of territory contiguous adjacent and compact It further prevents the ralhtncting of any date except on the occasion of the Federal censu and prohibits such redistrictiu for the election or i gress Dtmlen to tie Fifty MconJ Con HILLS bIt I VI LIC 1U1I > GS TJiu committee I on public build I Ingot and grounds oI reported faorabh the followIng bills fur the comtructlon of pulilic building satranifito Cola incrcising the appropriation S1MOOO Senate bill ortLind l Ore SJOOOOO Stockton Cai 75 0 MKXICAJ LAI1OK JJIlOirrATION The complaint h again been made to the Treasury Department tint Mexican laborers are being Imported Im-ported into Texas for wOrSt on the Texas de Pacific railway in viola ton of the alien contract labor lnv 1 I I said that in order to evade the law no contract I made with thai men until after they are in the United Status territory An Immigration Immi-gration Inspector will probably be matter orjrrcd to Texan to investigate thu I A CHCCTAW ASYLUM LOTTEJV Indian Agent licnuct located in IndIan Territory lisa reported to tlie Indian bureau that I has just come to his kllowlrtfgo thnt IllS art was pnved by tile legislative council of thu Choctaw nation alnut two mouths ngo incorporating the IncrprUnJ Choctaw Orphan A ilum lottery Company The ngent repoiU that great sicrvcy is maintained concern lug the ne and t was with the ut mot dhfilcuhly that he sueccetled in securing a copy of It WIL TIE GAIN ANITIIING An opinion was rendered by thl Supreme Court of the United Status Slc touaj allcmlnc the application b DIlmtoo Janus J ICelly ana Jamcs 1 Nonage for a writ of hateai corpiu They were couvitted in Arniahoe ar County Colo of murder and sentenced to b hanged TJio Jaw un d tr whIch tiny were sentetiurd < wur Intnc was passed after tile coinmi lon of the crime nn < llt was contended ilwas c pt fac and tlicrefnre uncon I Hilutional aid void In nipport ol uIJr tills tl mntntltfnn tf un0 nlTwn1 u amon oilier thing that the Hw under which sentence was oset iiitllcted greater punlahment than the law in force at the time of the commlfsion of tho < leI in Uiat it added solitary confinements forbid lbr cufuemeut orM ding relatives and friends visiting lsluS the condemned and made It uncer tain Ju ° when the convicted men would I e hanged cnlct Dell hnuge thereby putting them In fear that each pllng be their last 1 The court through Justice Fuller cur tce Fuler holds that the Ilrol ions of the nen law do add to the I tinWimcnt of condemned len antI It is therefore c x pun jatfo and void boll tary confinement I1nt he 1 i lOullnereul 8yS I decidedly an cxtn i nishmcnt having 1 decided tendency to make men fatuous and weak atous IU wek minded I I therefore held t be the duty of the court to discharge the prisoners but cnr dlchge Irrner bt a ther no 10 question that they vure lawfully Inlul convicted the sentence only beIng Irregular I I directed sat the warden of the penitentiary notify mtntary the AttorneyGeneral of the State of the time of their release F Itt he may immediately rearrest them and bring them to trial ouce nore nnt JtSTlCE Blf7EK vigorouslj dissented from the opin ion The substantial punishment under each statute Iunlshment wa ueaui uy Insln and the ditference In detail was iu his opinion too L trifling upon which 00 noteadcci Eon that would turn two redhanded murderers loose upon society SXtOIYANT DECISION The court also rendered a deci sion In the care of Bernard Hans plaintlir in error vs thu State of iouislam Hans is the owner of a considerable quantity of Ixjulsl ana consolidated bonds l When these were issued the Bbl made prod Io PrTI Ion for a special tax to meet the Interest ont principal and declared the bonds to create I contract be tween the State and l bonJholders whIch should l not b impaired The constitution adopted in IS79 how ever partly repudiated this agree ment and directs UII agI meut lud dirct that the revenue from the special tax be diverted renue to defray the expenses of lao State cplC government Hans brought milt to have the new constitution de dared invalid so far as I impaired his contract The State JWplr I plea that I could not be sued by one of its own citizens without Jt consent con-sent and the Circuit I CourLfdecId I 1 00g log In favor of the SV the case came here Tho Supreme Court affirms the finding of the Circuit I Court nnd in reference to the Stnte from exemption of a sovereign Stlte rm prosecution rays n the suit of individual 1 The legislative department or I State represents its policy and Ito will and Is called upon to preserve and hold inviolate the obligations lulolt ofthefetate To deprive the legislature legis-lature of the power of judging what tho honor and l KiMy of the State may reijulreevcn 51 tile expen of 1 temporary failurcr to discharge public debIt would bu attended with greater evil than such failure could cause I would in 15C buepoto 0 me SLate oC that sovereignty and independence inde-pendence in lie management of its atlalrs which are ewentlal t its autonomy au-tonomy and which always understood nnt stood 10 lie Its prfrcjra1 by all private partles that deal with IU It is I said from ten to twelve million < lou dollars are Involved In the cieThe court aba reversal Judgment In the case of thai btatu of North Carolina anj noliert auditor against Temple for thai same reasons stated in tlie Hans cft l TIiU a ako iu Involved several millions ANOTHER The curt also rendered an opinion opin-ion in an important lank case grow ing out of the wellknown failure fail-ure of the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati Tho suit was tint of David Armstrong receiver against < the American llxchango National Bank Chicago The Fidelity flank dew a draft for S100000 on the Chemical National Bank New York payable to tile Ameilcan Ex chjn e National Chicago Till vas given to Ivenhau b COr Chicago Chi-cago who placed It to their credit in the American Ljcehangu National Bank Harper icepresident of the FlJellly Wits using lila banks money in hi famous wheat deal l and had i sued various drafts without with-out consideration When ho saw the deal was hopeless lie wired thu Chemical Hank r stop luyment The fidelity l failed and on the refusal re-fusal of the receiver r allow the claims thu American Exchange nUon31 OIl tile document It hoc < ho-c hl in o filth the bank sued tlie receiver to recover The Supreme Court adlrms the judgment of the lower court holding hold-ing tin thebunk was an innocent purchaser and ordering the reeeher to allow the claim CIVIL Edit ICE ESTIQATIOX In tho Investigation against the Civil SerVice Commission today Haton of the IM who in the absence ab-sence of Ijwart conducted the pross cutlun all attention to the remaining maining charges against the Com mLsIon Thuc were that the Commission since Its organization to the present time liy i mnnipula I lon of tile rules and regulation II had l brought about results in violation I I viola-tion of the fjilrlt and l letter of the law that they hid by collusion with the departmental officer dfr II cr Ult JUIt Wll UIU r ference to quilitlcatiou tint to nCto of officers of the Conimision attaciied to the Comml ion had been gaining 1 knowledge of the secrets of the Commission prh lieges denied t senators and representatives and In direct violation of lie Ins that ofleu < cs which liad l rule in the dlOihfal officers of one political party wins condoned when committed party commit-ted toy oncr of the other political fr regard to the first charge Hat ton saId that Kopnjt ntative Butter worth wanted It araenJed sons to find how it r that unUrr a repub len adniinitration ninctenthbof lie appointees to lie civil service were republicaus l under democratic dem-ocratic administration the same pr iodioli I were democrats The porion wer demorls scope of tho amendment would bring the maier t the attention of the committee com-mittee when it discussed the mltt t U g ne IInt tem rOll workings of the eli service fJ terC3UIS10Un C3UIS10Un TI0311 = in reply tr > n qiugllon by Hatton said the Civil Service Committal had not taken any tJ > s to secur bhidys removal Irom the ceusu oflice where lie is now empoyetl and ho Thompson did not jirojcs to take any further steps for o against him clVtmater Im a tlien called He 0 nppointei I1pplnte postmaster by 1re lent Clevclim inlSS9aud l it the time was vice president eta Civil SeniceAssocIi ton nt that city Of the lortjflvi Ignations in thc t Iilnaukee post ollicu during lila I term only one Imc been asked for The rct were volun tanly given Politics Ind l nothinj t do with the question of theft resignations rClgnntons Iroceeilingtothcqiied ton of the civil service cnmluloJ board of the po tofflce raulsaidthi duties of the board were dl chirgei entirely Independent nf himtlf I l < tmaUr ilul said he never hat d asserted advied controlled Shidj in the discharge of his duties The commission ho saU was wholly < wholJ mMead by I Ute cunning and waul of veracity of bbid It wu Shidis lilunJerirjr records thai t caued all the trouble although he did not think It was done with criminal intent on Ids part but lib blunders were Innocent Paul said iiu never Ilad access t the records of the local tl lol iminlng hoard |