Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The United States Supreme Court has denied the application of Eugene V. Debs, the strike leader, for a writ of habeas corpus. This is a victory for the Government. It is intimated in official circles at Washington that Secretary Gresham’s successor in the cabinet will not be named for ■several weeks, and that in the meantime Assistant Secretary Uhl will perform the duties. Grave international problems are pressing for solution, but the President has always taken such a deep interest in every detail of State Department affairs that a Secretary is nos a strict necessity of the moment. Many names figure in the calculations as reasonable probabilities for Secretary of State. Don M. Dickinson is easily at the head of this, having declined the office at the cont* meneement of the administration; William C. Whitney occupies a place in the minds of many, while, not a few believe that Bayard may be transferred from the court of St. James to his old post as chief adviser to the President. All honors that are for a dead soldier were accorded Wednesday at Washington to the remains of Walter Quinton Gresham. That surpassing tribute—a military funeral —all the nation can do for the very best of its sons in death, wa's paid to mm. The wheels of .the Government at home and in the remote corners of the earth where it is represented by ministers and consuls, stopped still while the ceremonies of the burial progressed. Every official flag on the department buildings, on the far-away frontier posts, on post offices and on custom houses all over the United States fluttered at half-mast. The President and his ministers laid aside their bore away the body to its last rest. The fondest wish of statesman or soldier could ask no more. All through the ceremonies President Cleveland’s gaze was riveted upon the casket which contained the remains of his friend. Mr. Cleveland was greatly affected, and of all those in the great room none showed more clearly his depth of feeling.