Show A CHAT WITH THE CHIEF JUSTICE Ills Trip to Alaska and Ills Visit to California During the reception at Governor Wests quarters this morning a reporter of the DEMOCUAT was favored by Chief Justice Waite with a little chat upon his trip to Alaska his summer in California and things in general Justice Waite says he never submits toI I a formal interview but as he has always been treated well by the press he is always glad to meet its representatives He left Washington last May and after a short visit to his home in Toledo he started on his journey to the Northwest North-west Arriving at Portland Oregon after but few stops on the way he sailed for Alaska visiting only the seaports of that Territory He then sailed to California and has since that time been summering at Monterey San Diego Los Angeles and other resorts lie has enjoyed his out immensely and has been much benefitted by the trip He is now on his way back to Washington to resume his duties in the Supreme Court which goes into session I ses-sion again next month Mr Waite would not of course express ex-press himself upon the t national political or upon the local politicoreligious question ques-tion though in fact he states that he has devoted no attention to either of late He has not so far interested himself in the coming presidential campaign and he has made no study of the Mormon question ques-tion Mr Waite was appointed to his present pre-sent position by President Grant in 1874 and has since proven himself to be a conscientious con-scientious and unprejudiced judge |