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VOL. IT. CONGRESSIONAL. BOTH HOUSES OF THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE IN SESSION. Senate Debate on Civil Service Reform— Participated in by Pendletor, Daw<s and Hill— The Republican Record on the Question Shown up !>v Hill— A Purely Business Session in the House— After the Reference of 750 Bills it Adjourns to Friday Next. Senate. Washington, Dec. 13.— Senators Maxey, Vest, Groom and Ferry presented petitions for railroad charges. Senator Hoar, from the committee on rules, reported back the resolution for a select com mittee of seven to be appointed.by the chair, on the extension of suffrage to women or the removal of their legal disabilities. He asked unanimous consent for the present considera tion of the resolution. Vest objected. Senator Ransom submitted a resolution con stituting a select committee of five to inquire into and report as to the condition of the Po tomac river from the city of Washington, the navigability of said river, the effect of bridges across the same upon navigation, floods, and health of the city, and what action ought to be taken in the premises, etc. Adopted, and Senator Ransom, Jones, (Nev.), Helloes, con stituted such committee. At the close of forenoon business, Pendle ton took the floor upon his bill to regulate and improve the civil service. He defined the spoils system thus: The universal rule (if there be any exception, it only emphasizes the rule), is that service in office, was partisan work and official salary as pay, and a change in office holders. As soon as the salary shall have been paid for the work, or a better or newer worker appears. He traced Guiteau's motive in shooting President Garfleld, and the fact is potent that he wanted an office and did not get it, and he believed the president was responsible for his failure.He wanted a new deal a new distribution of offices. He believed a new president would make a new distribution and that he would have another chance. His desire for office and the belief that he had earned it, the belief that the president could and sought to divide the spoils among the vic tors, the brutality of our politics which tra duces character and vilifies motives wherever a difference of opinion or action exists, these made hig crime possible. For the assassin to assert that he thought he was doing his party and his country a service, these are fes tering beds in which such fools are born into such madness, and such schemes of wicked deviltry are hatched. The act of Guiteau is exceptional. The causes which con tributed to it are imbedded, in our system and are ever present. Of the effect of the spoils system on public men and public service Sena tor Pendltton said: "This system drives sena tors and representatives into such a position that not only do they neglect the chief duties of legislation, but too oiten they are tempted by their friends and supporters and are almost coerced to make support of the administra tion, conditional upon their obtaining offices for their friends. Nor is this alftior even the worst. His appeal to love of money and love of patronage as stimulants to exertion creates a fierce and brutal party spirit which Btops at no wrong in the accomplish ment of its end. It makes an intelligent exer cise of the elective franchise impossible. It makes a free election and fair count impossi ble. It levies contributions on the salaries of all officers and expends a vast sum thus col lected in corrupting votera. It lowers the tone and degrades the sentiment not only of public men, but, more important •still, of a whole people behind them. We must supplant this system. We must chase it out with hue and cry. In its place we must put another and better system, founded on the idea that public offices and public trusts, to be administered solely for public good; that the fittest man shall admin ister them until a still fitter and better man shall be found; that offices have no right to be, except that a faithful execution of the duties attached to them is necessary to the public welfare, and the maximum of efficiency and minimum of coat is the constitutional condition on which they should exist. We must establish the idea that the business of fifty million of people must be transacted by business men, upon busice?s principles, and all the more rigidly and faith fully because it is the business of the people." Pendleton then explained at length the scope of his bill, saying he invited criticisms and discussion of it. He closed as follows: "I appeal to the senators on the other side of this chamber. You have the administration. You have the offices. You are enjoying the power and emoluments. This bill does not disturb you in the possession of them. I ap peal to the senators on this side of the cham ber. We are in the minority. We have no of fices now. The chances of time will sooner or later put them in our grasp. Let us now de clare that we will have none of those offices, except those which may be won by merit. Let us give this earnest of our sincerity in this great reform. Let us give this token of purity and patriotism of our coming administration of the government. Let us convince the people, even our opponents, that we contend for power, not that we may enjoy the elements of office, but that we may lead the country in the pathways of advancement and beneficence under the inspiration of true Democracy.Patronage,however pleasant for the moment, is a curse to any man. Let us put it behind us now. Let us do the right now. Let us destroy it now, and we will in future reap our full inestimable reward in having dis engaged our party and our president from the influences of which will surely plant seeds of early defeat in our coming victory, and in having saved our country from the perils which now environ it.'" After Pendleton's remarks, Dawes, replying to the criticisms upon his position on the subject by Pendleion, said they were due to his own inability, both now and in the last congress, to support that feature of the sena tors measure providing for the establishment in Washington of a board of examiners, or im perium in impero, with no prescribed tenure, ■who are to superintend and control all exam inations in all departments and^Hß^l^Hl civil service covered by the bill. The eenater now argu«d that he (Dawes) for this reason, did not want to have any legislation on the subject. His own effort had been to awaken a public sentiment out of which would be evolved legislation of practical utili ty and he had stated and reiterated that for ten years the statute books had contained au thority enough to accomplish everything the most ardent reformer desired to hare accom plished. He believes a board, such as is pro posed, would depend for iU ef ficiency, solely upon the spirit of the executive who appointed it. His own conviction was that the remedy for abuses in the civil service was in the peo ple of the country, and could only be applied in full by them. "Hill, of Georgia, said ia his judgment the difficulty was not in want of legislation, and therefore it was very difficult to see how the remedy waß to be applied by legislation. One great difficulty, he thought, was that while everybody was preaching very earnestly on civil service reform, nobody was practising it, and it did not teem to make any difference to the people whether their representatives were practicing it or not. While the country was weeping over the tragic end of the president, a federal judge was soiling his ermine by indicting a letter to the successor of that president; one who by reason of the corrupt civil service complained of, had succeeded k> office, appeal ing to him to make appointments on purpose to please that judge and "cementiag our coa lition" in Virginia to control the state elec tion. What was that coalition? It was to secure to the Republicans the offices of the state. The senator from Ohio had said that much, but had not told the country that the president to whom that letter had been ad dressed, while yet the morning sobs of the people were echoing around him, sat down and made the very appointment which that judge had designated as "cementing our coali tion," and then perhaps with the same ink had written a homily on civil service reform, to be introduced into bis message to congress. This was the way we were expressing civil service reform, Was the president to be blamed for this? Had he not the right to assume that everybody in this country who talked about civil service reform was merely playing with the people? Were there not scores of men now present in the senate who had heard read from that very desk of the clerk a communication from a former secretary of the treasury, and a former president of the United States, insist ing upon the removal from the New York cus tom house of the man who was now that very president, upon the ground that he had made it the headquarters of a political party, and that his removal was necessary to insure an Latest administration of public office? yes, that very man who was removed from the New York custom house, on the grounds that an honest administration of his office required his removal was the man who was nominated for the next highest office in the gift of the people, and the men by whom those comunications were sent to the senate took the stump for his election. This was the civil service reform practiced by the leaders of the Republican party. And why should not snch things be done? Did not everybody know that every man, high or low, black or white, who was charged with cennec tion with the returning board frauds of 1876, received office from the administration, which obtained the presidency by virtue of those frauds ? Had not members now before him heard witnesses testify under oath in relation to that matter, that they had purposely com mitted perjury for the sake of obtaining office? The Senator from Mass., (Dawes), uttered one great truth when he said the trouble in all this was with the people. If the people would visit their condemnation on the politi cal party, or the members of that parjy, that thus degraded and bebauched the civil service the abuses would so»n cease. Voorhees said he had no speech, to make, but would ask for the reading of a joint resolution he had prepared on the subject. The joint resolution was read and referred to the com mittee on judiciiry. It proposes an amend ment to the constitution providing that all postmasters, revenue collectors, judges, mar shals, and United States district attorney for district courts of the United States shall be elected by the people of the state in which their duties are to be performed, and in such manner as the legislatures shall provide. Pendleton's bill was then informally laid on the table and Beck's presidential succession bill was taken up in order to have precedence to-morrow. Beck temporarily yielded the floor. Bills introduced and referred: To incorpor ate the inter-ocean ship railway company. Also, for commissioners to ascertain what just claims for services by officers and privates of military organizations in Missouri, in the suppression of the rebellion, in concert with and subject to the orders of the United States authorities, still remain unpaid and not as sumed by said state. Davis (West Virginia), submitted a resolu tion directing the secretary of the interior to furnish as early as possibly a statement show ing, first, what frauds, if any, been discovered in the department of pension?, the nature and character thereof, under the various pension acts, whether in the pension office, by pension agents, or in any bureau of any department in which information relative to tue granting of pensions is obtained, and what legislation, if any, he recommends to protect the gov ernment from such fraudulent blaira and honest pensioners from fraud and extortion; second, what amount of arrearages has been paid under the "arrears act" of 1879 up to Jan. 1, 1881, with the number of cases added to the pension roll, and the applications now pending under said act; third, the estimated amount reqnired annually to pay settlers and pending cases under said acts, the estimated total cost of arreaiages of pensions, the an nual amount after arrearages have been deter mined of the regular pension roll, and the to tal cost. Tabled and ordered printed. By Windom authorizing the construction of the north branch of the Union Pacific railroad and the telegraph line. It empowers the Mis souri & Niobrara Valley Railroad company to construct and operate said north branch from Sioux City, lowa, westward so as to connect with the Union Pacific west of Cheyenne under the conditions of the original Union Pacific charter of 186±, except the company is to receive no subsidy in bonds. Logan, from the committee on military af fairs, reported with amendments the bill to place Gen. Grant on the army retired list. Maxey, of the committee said the report just made was not unanimous, and he would indi cate his objections to it at the proper time. On motion of Edmunds, the committee on library was instructed to inquire into the ex pediency of purchasing for the congressional library the printad records and briefs of cases in the supreme court of the United States, now the property of the estate of the late M. H. Carpenter. Edmunds submitted a resolution, requesting the president, if, in his opinion, not incompat ible with public interest, to communicate to the senate all the correspondence between the government of the United States and its diplo matic agents in Peru and Chili since Arpil 1 , 1579, touching public affairs In or between these states, and also such correspondence on the subject as may be in possession of the de partment. Agreed to without dissent. A resolution was also adopted instructing the committee on military affairs to inquire what legislation isjneeded to enable the widows and heirs of soldiers to secure the benefits and bounties of said soldiers while living, and re maining unpaid at the time of their death. The report of the committee on privileges and elections, upon removals affecting the title of the New York senators to their seats, was laid on the table. After a statement by Garland that upon examination he saw noth ing to dissent from in the report, this action was regarded as a final disposition of the mat ter. Voorhees gave notice of his intention to speak to-morrow upon his resolution refer ring to the committee on finance, that por tion of the president's message in regard to the repeal of the silver acts authorizing silver coinage and the issue of silver certificate. Davis (Illinois) offered a bill for a second circuit judge for the Seventh judicial circuit of the United Btates. After a short executive cession the senate adjourned. House. Taylor offered a resolution, which was un animously adopted, for the appointment of a select committee of eleven members to audit all claims for services and expenses growing out of the illness and burial of the late Presi dent Garfield. Also, to consider whafcallow ance of pension or privilege be granted the widow and family of the late president. Robereon offered a resolution for the ap pointment of the following select committees: On census, reform in the civil service, law re specting the election of president and vice president, epidemic diseases, inter-oceanic ship canal, payment of pensions, bounty and back pay. Knott objected to the resolution on the ground that a majority of the committees were unnecessary. The resolution for the ap pointment of a committee on census was adopted. Bills introduced and referred: To repeal the internal revenue tax on matches, bank checks, snuff, cigars, asd spirits distilled from apples and other fruits. By Shelly, to equalize homestead. Also, to graduate and reduce the price of public lands to actual settlers. By Morrison, to reduce existing tariff duties on imported goods 10 per cent. By Springer, for the appraisement of telegraph lines, prop erty and effects, and to secure information concerning postal telegraph in other coun- A bill was also introduced to protect min ing and agricultural interests in California frum mining debris. By Phelps (Conn.) — Asserting the constitu tional prerogative of the* house of representa tives to originate all revenue measures, and providing for a revision of the tariff and internal revenue laws of the United States. Also, for the importation, free of doty, of ma terial or manufactories produced abroad, nee - ' A Daily essary in the construction, equipment ■: or ■ re pair of any vessel built, equipped or repaired in the United States engaged in either foreign or domestic trade. '<■: Also, making the • patent office a separate department. Also, ; for ' the appointment of a commission of colored men to enquire into the intellectual condition of the colored people in the ; South. Also mak ing the trade dollar a legal tender. Also, abolishing the tax on deposits In * savings' banks. Also - for repeal of the tax on bank checks. By Cook, to ' utilize the surplus waters of the hot springs to Arkansas. .By Marshall, authorizing taxation -by ■ states of United States legal tender notes. Also, to tax the manufacture of oleomagarlne. By She win, to apportion the reprsentatives in congress according to the tenth census. It fixes the number of representatives at 225. Also, to regulate the exportation of oleomar garine. By Townsend (Ills.) in relation to the admission of terrirories as states in the union. llt prohibits their admission until their population is equal to that required in a congressional district. Also, fixing the time for assembling of congress on the first Mon day in November. By Mr. Calkins, relative to civil service reform. By Sherwin, propos ing a constitutional . amendment . for the elec tion of postmasters by the people. By Brown (Ind.) proposing a constitu tional amendment fixing the number of | representatives of the house at 350. By Carpenter, for the protection of settlers on public lands. Also, proposing a constitution at amendment fixing the term of office of civil officers at four years . By Anderson, reducing the rate of letters and letter matter, at two cents. Also, amending the timber culture act. By Haskell,- for the allottment of lands in sev eral to Indians. Also, to establish an edu cational fund for the education of the people. It provides that the net proceeds of patents, and all sums . hereafter reported to the United i States government by railroad corporations : on loans of money, or credits, and five per cent, of the net proceeds of collections under internal revenue, shall be set apart for the ed ucation of the people. By Regan, for the appointment of a Missouri river commission.' By White, appropriating $10,000,900 for sup plemental aid to free public schools, to be distributed among the states and territories in proportion to the degree of illiteracy. Also, to lesson crime and human suffering from alco hoi by restricting its use to scientific mechanical and medical purposes. By McKen zie, abolishing the duty on salt. Also, to permit tobacco growers to sell $1,000 worth of their own growth free from internal rev* enue tax. By Turner, to abolish the duty on trace chains and all \ agricultural implements. By Enott, to repeal all laws imposing a tax on tobacco product within the United States. By Ellis, to abolish government directors on the Union Pacific railroad. Also, to secure from loss depositors in the Freedmen's Savings & Trust association. Also, requesting the president to notify Great Britain of the abrogation of the Clay ton -Bui treaty Also, to establish an ocean mail ser vice between certain ports of the United States. It appropriates $5,000,000 for carry ing the mails of the United States on the high seas. By Gilson, authorizing the Missis sippi River commission to make a survey and report as to the best way and by what method of connecting the lakes with the Mississippi river. Also, to abolish the tax on bank check*, matches and tobacco. Also, reducing the tax on distilled spirits to 50 per gallon. • When 756 bills had been referred the call ef states was suspended until Friday, until which time the bouse adjourned. FREE EXCURSION. jFrom St.*P*u! to Minneapolis— A Magnifi cent Entertainment and Bide Tendered by Cotton, the Bonanza Book, Stationery and Bazaar Man. This morning at 10 a. in. the Colton excur sion train will leave St. Paul for Minneapolis. This excursion is free to all . and is tendered to the citizens of St. Paul in order that they may have an opportunity of visiting the mag nificent establishment of Colton & Co. at the corner of Sixth street and Nicollel avenue. - This edifice, constructed by the firm during the past fall, is probably the finest and show iest • structure west of New . York, and is a . standing monument to the • energy, grit and enterprise of the firm and presents a street frontage of nearly 250 feet, and all of French plate glass. . A full brass band will accompany the ex cursion and form one of the most interesting features of the day's pleasure. As soon as the excursion party shall reach the building of the Messrs. Cotton & Co. they will be taken in charge by gentlemanly at tendants and the lady clerks and introduced throughout to the most costly and extrava gant display of stationery, books, papers, : toys, dolls, knick-knacks and Christmas goods everoffered at retail under one roof. Inorder to give the public a fair under standing of the magnitude of the business reprsented in this establishment we will state that on Mr. Col ton's late visit east .he pur chased at one invoice and shipped to Minne apolis forty carloads, nearly or quite 400 tons of goods in their line of trade. - ' By reason of these princely purchases Mr. Colton is enabled to obtain figures never be fore given to merchants, and giving as he has received, ' the firm offers this immense stock, from a china doll to an outfit for an orphan asylum or a church fair, at from 25 to '50 per cent, below what any other merchant can - afford to tell. Every body come. Train leaves Union depot; St. Paul, at 10 a. m. to-day. 1 . The Col tons are doing a business that war rants all and more than can be said for them, and believing that when people see their stock and learn their prices, that they will become patrons, they again say come. PERSONAL. . : Mr. R. S. Munger, Duluth, at the Metro politan. - . Dr. S. S. Wallbank, Duluth, is in the city on his way south to spend the winter. Hon. M. S. Chandler, of Red Wing, was among the visitors to St. Paul yesterday. Gen. Jas. H. Biker, Mankato, railroad com missioner elect, is in the city with headquar ters at the Merchants. Capt. M. L. McCormick, one of the wide awake master spirits of Grand Forks, D. T., is visiting St. Paul with headquarters at the Merchants. Got. Pillsbury, following the instructions of his physicians, remained quietly at his res idence yesterday. He expects to be at the capitol to-day. At the Merchants: J. Goldsmith, Brainerd; W. Lyon, Winona: D. Shotwell, Fargo; W. Sargent, Duluth; W. Wilkes, Winnipeg; S. Peterson, New Ulm. Hon. Fred. Yon Baumbach, secretary of state, was in his office yesterday, though still not fully recovered from the indisposition confining him to his home for two weeks past. Hon. W. H. Gale, Hon. C. H. Berry, Hon. Thomas Simpson, and Hon. J. J. Randall, are among the Winonians in the city in attend* ance upon the sessions of the claims commis sion. Col. Wm. Crooks and bride arrived home yesterday morning. During the day the Col onel was the recipient of heat ty congratula tions of friends, and especially from his brother senators, called together by the im peachment proceedings in the case of Judge Cox. Chloero Xotes. Chicago, Dec. 13.— A1l the roads have re duced rates and now carry wheat to Baltimore for 12 cents, Philadelphia 13 cents, New York 14 cents, and Boston 20 cents. Policeman here are to be paid hereafter six, eight and ten hundred dollars, according to grade. A gang of roughs attacked R. E. Smith, corner of Sixth and Halsted streets, and rob bed him. He fatally shot one of them. The small pox is Increasing. The 99-cent Store is fall of elegant Christ mas goods. Go at once and avoid the great rush that is sure to come. ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY MOENING, DECEMBER 14, 1881. GAIOLMTEAU. BE DID MOST OF THE TALKING IX r COURT YESTERDAY. Testimony of Dr. Spltzka Concluded— And is the Best Tet Produced for the Defense . — Ihe Assassin Tries to Choke Off Other Witnesses by Abuse -—Also Pays His : Hsu -.1 Compliment to Corkhlll. - Washington, Dec. 18.— Spitika resumed his testimony in the Guiteau case to-day. Corkhill handed to the witness slips of papers on which were drawn diagrams of the human head, and eald: "Now, doctor, supposing this to be the prisoner's head, will you please point out the inequalities to which you re ferred yesterday?" Before any reply could be made, Guiteau raised a laugh by saying: "That accounts for it. A hatter came to see me this morning and offered me a hat if I would let him take my head. I got the hat but you don't pay for it, Corkhill. Oh, no. The government will have to do so. Witness went on giving his reasons for considering the prisoner insane. Again a question being asked by Corkhill, Guiteau broke in with, "I have been looking up your record, Corkhill, and I'll show you up." Subsequently Guiteua again tnterrupted the examination and shouted: "I see that crank, Talmage, has been doing some sensationalism business in this case; He had better go slow. He has been before the synod several times for lying, and has a reputation in New York for running for houses of prostitution. I have got my eye on several of these cranks, and if they don't go slow I'll give some of them some free advertising. The enlightened portion of the American people are beginning to take a right view of -this case." Scoville endeavored to introduce as evidence what he (Scoville) had said in relation to Shaw, a witness for the prosecution, by ask ing witness to state to the jury what he (Sco- Vila) had told him. Witness— "He said he had learned in rela tion to Shaw—" Objection was made and sustained, when Guiteau shouted out: "We have found out that Shaw was guilty of perjury in New Jer sey, and was told by the judge from the bench that ha ought to be convicted and Bent to prison. We also know that English was con victed of a low crime in Ireland. The Jury ought to know what kind of witnesses you are bringing here to ruin my reputation." Witness thought the proper way to sum mon experts would be for the court to sum mon them, irrespective of the chances what their testimony might be. Corkhill insisted that witness had attacked the character and honesty of experts who were supposed to en tertain an opposite opinion from himself on the prisoners sanity. Guiteau interrupted in his worst angry mood, and, shaking his head at Col. Corkhill, shouted: "It is the unanimous judgment of the American people that you are a consum mate Jackass, Corkhill. This gentleman is an honest man, and if your skull was not so thick you would see it " Witness desired to explain his position, and said: "I do not hesitate to reiterate my opin ion that an expert, who will in this court tes tify that the prisoner is sane is in my opinion is no expert, or a dishonest one." Dr Fordece Barker, of New York, was next examined. The audience listened intently as the distinguished physician defined insanity and the general phases thereof. Dr. Barker's com prehensive and positive conclusions were all in accord with the theory of the prosecution. Judge Cox requested witness to explain to the jury what he meant by "Irresistible impulse," and the answer was: "Perversions of emotion to such a decree as to produce conduct entire ly at variance with the individuals former life, and to such a degree as to completely control the will power, would constitute an irresistible impulse. "| Guiteau — "Doctor, I want to ask you, when a man is impelled to commit a crime by an impulse he cannot resist, is he sane or insane?" Ans.— "When that fact be proved, sir, it is insanity." Guiteau— "That's Just my case, sir," with an air of perfect satisfaction. Then turning to Scoville, "come, that's the whole case. Let's have recess. I'm getting hungry." Mrs. Scoville desired to ask a question. Guiteau (impatiently) — "Oh, you keep still. Its all they can do to put up with me." Judge Cox assented and Mrs. Scoville asked: "Can a man be born insane?" Ans.— "No, madame; he could be born an idiot, or an im becile. Insanity is an acquired state after birth." Recess. After recess L. 8. Gobell, of New York, took the witness stand. Guiteau— "lf your honor, please, I would like to know what they expect to prove by this witness? I think we have had about enough of this kind of testi mony. I only know this man slightly." Judge Cox— "lt is no necessary to state in advance. Go on Mr. witness." Witness was in the life insurance business. Prisoner decided to solicit for him. Witness paid him $200, but never realized any business from his efforts. Prisoner told witness he was about to marry a wealthy lady and was to have the Austrian mission, and wanted to borrow $200. Pris oner did not evince evidence of unsound mind. W. P. Copeland, Journalist, callnd, and iden tified some newspaper slips. Guiteau— •*¥ou are no lawer, Copeland." H. L. Ketcham, of New York, attorney a law, knew prisoner in 1873, when he occupied a desk in the office of Judge Hawes. Witness related the instance of Guiteau's obtaining money under false pretenses. Scoville objected* to all testimony going to show the commission of any other crime or misdemeanor by the prisoner. Guiteau (indignantly)— "l never got a cent from this man in my life. He was only a poor clerk. I didn't consider him a proper asso ciate for a high-toned lawyer like myself." The prisoner continually interrupted, and insisted the evidence was entirely irrelevant. Finally turning to Scoville, he said: "You are getting badly cranked on this matter. If you had any sense you would know it doesn't do our cate any good. You'll' be on trial as a crank yourself if you don't look out. Why, you are getting worse than Corkhill." Henry Wood, of Philadelphia, had known prisoner some yeif'. Never saw anything to indicate he was < ; unsound mind. Always thonjjht he was r > > --essed of good intelligence. Witness knew Guiteau's wife, some of his family having rendered her service. Guiteau called upon him to thank the family for their kindness. Guiteau here took occasion to slander bis wife In the most outrageous terms. "This man," he said, "knew her before I did. You can draw your own inference." Samuel B. Phelpe, of New York, had known the prisoner since 1868. First knew him in Chicago. Guiteau became extremely angry at state ments made by witness, and rattled a perfect tirade of abuse. Several minutes elapsed be fore the examination could proceed. Witness In past years had known the prisoner, and never saw anything to indicate he was of unsound mind. The cross examination was continued till adjournment, and was frequently interrupted by Guiteau with contradictions and denials. When witness said Guiteau had desired him (witness) to act as editor-in-chief of one of his newspaper projects, Guiteau laughed im moderately for some minutes and shouted: "Oh, Phelps! that is certainly a down right absurdity. You for chief editor." Adjourned. Chicago Scale company platform scale, en tirely new, win be sold cheap. Apply at Globs office. 54-inch Cloaking, $1.23 a yard, at H. E. Mann, 432 Wabasha w street. (Rlnbe. J^hb^* <SP^ FOREM AFFAIRS. T. P. O'Connor and Father Healy Threat ened With Indictment for Conspiracy— English Vlewson " Blalne's Diplomacy— Latest From the Vienna Holocaust-Gen . eral Foreign News. ' IRELAND. London, Dec 13.— The - World says it is reported in Irish legal circles that the law officers of , the crown ' have been considering the advisability of . indicting T. P. ; O'Connor and Healy for conspiracy on their arrival in England. ,; The part they took in the proceed ings of the land league convention at Chicago is relied upon as sufficient to insure convic tion, y , f Dublin, Dec 13.— The Marquis of Harting ton ,visited . Ireland, it is supposed to obtain information in | regard to the condition ! of the country for the benefit of the cabinet. - . "i. Four arrests under the coercion act ; were made yesterday in Ireland. V ' Earl Dunrovens tenants paid their arrears In rent aid have accepted the offer of 33 per cent, reduction conditional upon a revaluation of the land, a - - Fishermen from North Island report an earthquake yesterday and thousands of . fish thrown on the beach. V*. , - - The treasurer of the Ladies' Land League announces the receipts of the ; past • week for the prisoner's fund amounted to £1,150, and for the general fund £264. n. - «* : The men arrested in connection with Land movements, are committed for trial on the charge of treason, felony and conspiracy. ; ENGLAND. . . ;. . B&AINB'S DIPLOMACY. r London, Dec. 13.— The Standard, in a lead ing article on Blame's instructions sent to the American minister at Lima, says: It may be absurd, but it is only carrying the Monroe doc trine to its legitimate conclusion, to assume that by and by, we shall see representatives deputed from Washington to control the re lations of the Emperor of Brazil with the European powers, and the savages of Pata gonia, invoking the aid of the United States commission to compose these differences. What is the temper of the cabinet at the pres ent moment? We can only infer from the growth of the Chauvinist sentiment which has confused th« discussion of the canal question as well as Peru. It is not wholly perhaps a matter of sentiment. It is true Blame has re signed and the Americans will have no longer to admire the glowing period in which he has maintained the pretensions of his country, but American diplomacy is uniform. It will be much the same whether the dispatches are penned by Frelinghausen or Blame. It is not improbable that President Arthur may soon announce that peace is restored and a new pro tectorate be established. Maitland, one of the proprietors of the Liv erpool Mercury, and president of the Press As sociation is dead. The absence of news from the balloon in which Walter Powell was carried to sea Satur day causes a great sensation. Poweli had a project to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. At a meeting of the royal geograpical soci ety last night a proposition was made that a ship be sent next summer to aid in the search for the Jeannette. A meeting will be held at Chapter house, Westminster abbey, to-day, to consider the subject of creating a fund for a memorial of the late Dean Stanley. The Prince of Wales will move the resolutions which will be sec onded by Lord Granville and supported by Lowell, American minister. AUSTRIA. Vienna, Dec. 13.— Seventy-seven bodies were removed from tha ruins of the theater yesterday, also a quantity of fragments of bodies, feet and hands, which were not bnrn ed. On uncovering some of the debris from the ruins of the theater to-day, additional bodies were discovered in a good state of pres ervation. Information received up to this forenoon shows] that fifty persons who were reported missing still survive, but these fifty are counter-balanced by tha transmissions of names of persons who are really missing. The investigation with the cause of the disaster being made by the tri bunal for criminal offenses, apart from that instituted by the police authorities, is intended to examine persons who have communicated to the newspapers their experience the night of the fire. AFTERNOON SESSION. F..r Sale. A Floed ef Novell. Why do so many people write novels? Are they moved by a desire for fame? Who reaches fame nowadays »y the math of fiction? Two or three in a asMmfion, perhaps, and the meet that ue otken gain is a little noteotety — sach a little! All the dozens ef ladies amd gentleman who produce three-volume novels can not in their wildest dreams believe them* selves Austens or Thaokerays. Is money the bait? Alas! a cemmedity so very abundant cannot be otherwise than cheap; and novels arc like fish in one re spect at least— the profit made on them goes chiefly to the middle-Mea. Is there, then, a veritable charm to many peeple in seeing themselves in print? Perhaps that may account for ii Whatever the motive maybe, it must surely be a pretty strong one that induces anybody to go through the mere manual labor of writ ing five hundred pages er so; and there are floods of novels being poused upon us every month, every week— every day, almost a perfect sea el literature, in which wit and wisdom axe caning nearer and nearer to the meagre prepor tionsof Falstaffs pennyworth of sack. Things have already reached such a pass, that the critic is thankful when he finds a book not very dull er very vul gar — a tissue of impossibilities, or a far rago of foolishness. One amnwng ohap ter refreshes his spirit, one natural chap ter makes him feel that he has found a spring in the desert If he neither goes to sleep over the second volume nor throws it away from him in uncontrol able exasperation, he is so pleased at the end that he says, "Really that is a very good story, not at all bad company for an hour or two," and straightway sets to work to inform the public that they can not do better than to read Mr. So-and- So's hist book. The Beer Problem. "Boy, do you know what that r eon-" tains?" said a tramp ; to a lad who was hurrying along with a tin pail full of lager, r ; • '.-^ '■-'■' \ ■--■'.> ':■. : ~\ y.- "Beer," responded the stripling, very promptly. -• : - ir "Exactly, r that is beer," con tinned the tramp, "and that beer con tains glucose, occulus £ indicus, corn starch, rice meal and raw grape sugar, all :>: > deadly poisons, and enough to kill . any man." ; „ '.-\i - :V . -cc : "->5 The lad set the pail down i and moved off a little from it, whereupon the cramp picked '- it up and was ■ raising it to his lips when the boy i interrupted him to say: : " vv :^'-s~: ■"-.•■ ; :-<■■'-. ••Ain't you afraid of it?" ■■"■'. 'Yes; it is dreadful \to die ' this X way, but I don't care to live," and draining it empty, handed it back. 7 r • r 1 t "He's a goner," muttered the boy, as he walked thoughtfully - off. "Lord, what a narrow escape dad had!" ALL ABOUND THE GLOBE. Arthur B. Dean, of Louisville, By., died of yellow fever at Havana yesterday. Gen. John H. Martindale, ex-attorney gen eral of New York state, died at Nice, Italy. Hon. J. W. Clayton, presiding Jodge of the Oldham county (Ky.) court, died Monday ev ening, aged 80, At the municipal election in Bost on yester day, the vote was nearly 2tol in favor of granting license. The creditor's committee of the A. W. Sprague estate report the total liabilities at $8,921,872, and the assets at $5,282,: 1 1. Geo. W. Hinchman, of New Brunswick, N. J., was sent to prison for ten yet.rs for in humanly beating his two little daughters, The Cincinnati <fc Eastern narrow gauge road is to be changed to a standard gauge and extended to Portsmouth, with a branch to Gallipohs. The storage tank of the Standard Oil com pany, Chicago, sprung a leak yeste rday, and before it could be stopped a loss of o: 1 occurred amounting to $12,000. James Walker and Thomas Bogg - v >re killed and three others wounded, by tne filling of a shelf of cement in the Esmeralda mine yester day morning at Deadwood. The machine shops and other prop :i ty of the New Brunswick & Canada railroad company St. Andrews, N. 8., were burned yesterday. Loss $60,000; insurance slight. The sale of reserved seats for tin oratorio of "The Messiah," at Cincinnati, is unpre cedented. In two days over 2,700 teats have been sold at an average of $5 a seat. I A New York dispatch states that at a meet ing of railroad presidents Monday a system of rates was agreed on, in order to ten l.nate the existing war between the companies. Returns from all but two wards i i the Bos ton municipal election yesterday, indicate the election of 3. A. Green, Republican and citi zens nominee, by 582 mrjority, over Albert Palmer, Democrat. & Martin Pachette, who shot and killed James Barnes in January, 1880, was found guilty of murder in the first degree yesterday, at New Madrid, Mo., and sentenced to be h inged the 20th of January. A bill was submitted in the French cham ber of deputies yesterday, embody in,; the for mer prohibiting decree against the importa tion of American pork, which the govern ment had withdtawn. Lambertua Voskamp was found guilty, at Kalamazoo, Mich., yesterday, of the murder of Lyman Cody, in Ottowa county, in May last. He was given the extreme penalty in that state, penitentiary for life. J. W. Dixon, the man arrested on t i ; charge of murdering W. J. Phillips, a c rover, in Sanilac county, Mich., died yesterdi y morn ing in the jail from the effects of laudanum taken early Monday morning. At the Atlanta exposition yesterday, D. Hqulton, president of the International Dairy Fair association, spoke in opposition to making the United States commissioner of agriculture a cabinet officer. Receiver Hunter informed the con mission investigating the frauds in Philadelphia, that he would show that one clerk, in tie month of March, in various years, had real zed from $5 to $500 by sheriff's sales. In the session of the Spanish senate yester day, the minister of finance said th i excom munication of editors for criticisu.s of the clergy, would be inquired into. The treasury department sends fifteen millions ;k stas to Cuba. The eighth annual session of the lowa Im proved Live Stock Breeders' association was opened at lowa City yesterday, i.ddressts were made by Hon. James Wilson aid Dr. J. M. Shaffer. After appointing comm ttees the session adjourned till to-morrow. A Dayton, 0., special says that Mason P. Hamilton shot himself yesterday anc. cannot recever. In a letter to the coroner 1 c stated he was unable to longer enjoy life. He was a captain of Indiana cavalry during .lie war, and for the last two years had been an inmate of the Soldiers' Home. Riddle berger Nominated. Richmond, Dec. 13.— The caucus if read juster members of the general assembly to night nominated H. H. Riddleber j-:r for United States senator to succeed Senator J. W. Johnston. Every readjuster member present except two, Riddleberger himself and mother. Riddleberger received the unanimoi c vote. No other candidate was mentioned. Riddle berger was sent for, and when he entered the hall was greeted with prolonged cheers. He briefly addres sed the caucus, expressing how ready aid how willing he was to accept, but he couldn't ex press how grateful he was for the honor be stowed. He promised to carry out the will of the people of Virginia, as he knew it from the most intimate association with th ;n dur ing the last canvass. Everything enunciated in the platform of the Readjnster part} should be his guide in all things that he we uld un dertake for the welfare of the statj. The election takes place Tuesday next. Relapses In Typhoid Fever. Some people depend wholly on domes tic treatment in typhoid fever. They seem to be successful; for, in the large majority of cases — eight out of ten — the system throws it off wholly apart from medicine, especially if there is a itrong circulation of pure air in tho room, and the body is frequently sponged wit i cold water, or better, with a weak solution of common soda. The fact, however, that one cannot know beforehand the c i. trac tor of the case, makes it always safest in the hand of a faithful physician wl .o can watch it and care for it according ;<» the symptoms. This seems the more important ii view of the discovery recently made b;r the late Dr. Irvine, of England, respocting relapses of typhoid fever, of which the London Lancet says, "To most of us it comes like a revelation." He has shown that these most trc able some contingencies are much more fre quent than is generally supposed by the profession; that, in fact, there are often several, the first predisposing to a sec ond, that a real relapse may set in arith ont any interval of covanLascence and that many cases of the disease, when they first come under the notice oi the physician, ate relapses, following v wn a mi£d primary attack. The fever normally lasts twenty- right days. A first relapse, where thers are no complications, huts twenty or twenty one days* subsequent relapses are each shorter than that immediately prece. ting. The interval of convalescence between the first attack and the first relipee, averages about five days, during which the temperature is natural, or nearl j so. The onset of the relapse is marked by a sudden rise of temperature, which reaches its height by the fifth day, Tnarnf^ipiT^ a high level until the eight or ninth, when it falls decidedly, bat again rises and gradually declines t<> the end on the twentieth or twenty- first day. When Disraeli first came forward at Wy combe as a parliamentary candic ate, he was opposed by a territorial magi ate. Of course the friends of tho latter made much of the connection of the mag i ite with tie county, etc, at the hustLigs. "On what de you stand?" shouted a nan in the crowd to Disraeli. "I stand, 'he replied, "on what you never will— on my head." NO. 348 NATIONAL DOINGS. Sherman's Three Per Cent. In Favor-Retal iating on the South for Rejecting Curiln -A Clip at BUlne-Declslon for Pre emption by Secretary of Interior. Washington, Dec. 13.-The senate commit, tee on flnaace approve Sherman'* bill for the issue of 3 per cent, bonds. Secretary Folger will appear before the committee on Thursday and give his views on the subject. Chief of naval construction, John W. Elzley, was to-day placed ou the retired list Vest to-day introduced Eads' bill for the con struction of a ship railway across the Isthmus ofTehuantepec. THE CONTESTED CASES. There was quite a talk among some of the Democrats of the house, in connection with the coming contested cases, about a report that Curtin or other Democratic members from Pennsylvania threatening to retaliate upon the rebel brigadiers for voting against Curtin in his contest for Yocums seat in the last con gress. Curtin and friends allege that the ex confederates voted against him because of his record as the war governor of Pennsylvania and his services in putting down the rebellion. Chalmers voted against Curtin, and now it is whispered that Curtin, Beltzehoover and other Democrats will, iv retaliation, vote against Chalmers when the contest for his seat comes up. There have been open threats indulgsd in, and some of the southern Demo crats, are stirred up about the matter, and if retaliatory action of that begins, they will keep it up. A southern member said this morning that the time for northern Democrats to dictate to southern was passed, and that dictation drove Mahone out of the party and would drive more out. A STRIKE AT BLAINE. The introduction of a resolution to-day in the senate, calling for copies of the corres pondence between the state department and the ministers to Peru and Chili, in relation to the affairs of those governments, is said to be a strike at Blame from the 6talwart quarter. It is claimed that Blame has only given out such of this correspondence as tends to relieve the state department from the responsibility for any misunderstanding, but that the entire correspondence will show that the best adviceß of the United States were against the course adopted by Blame, and that the state depart ment is to blame for the trouble. NOMINATIONS. The president nominated to-day Pay Mrect or James G. Watmough to be chief of bureau • and provisions and clothing, and paymaster general; Paymaster John H. Stevenson pay inspector; Wm. W. Postlewaite, chaplain and professor of history at West Point. The postmasters nominated number over 100. The secretary of the interior decided that the mere filing a declaratory statement by an al leged preemptor cannot be considered of its self sufficient to defeat the entry of a prior settler who has failed to offer his final proof within the statutory time required, but who, ■ in all other respects, has complied with the iequirement3 of law. The governor of New York has respited Ostrander, who was to be hung at Rome Thursday. CITY NOTICES. Black Alpacca 25 cents a yard at H. E. Mann, 422 Wabashaw street. Great reduction on dolmans and cloaks at Fischbein Bro's, 7 Corners. Black Silk Velvet, 25-inch, at $3.85 a yard, worth $5, at H. E. Mann, 423 Wabashaw street. Fancy Goods . At Mrs. Herwegen's can be found a large variety of fancy goods suitable for Holiday gifts. Winter Shawls, Hoods, and all winter goods sold at reduced prices at Fischbein Bros., 7 Corners. Wedding Cards and Party Invitations, writ ten, printed or eB graved to order, at Sherwood Hough's, corner Wabashaw and Third streets. Turkey-Red Table Cloth, 45 cent* a yard, at H. E. Mann, 422 Wabashaw street. i . Elegant Holiday Goods at Sherwood Hough's, corner Wabashaw and Third street* For Sale. One thousand cords of dry slabs, retail price $4 per cord, delivered. John Dowlan, Corner Fifth and Wabashaw streets. Silk Plushes in all shades at $2.95 a yard at H. E. Mann, 422 Wabashaw street. Dr. Talbot Jones is to give a lecture on "Sleep and its Derangements," to-morrow evening at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. Go 10 C. A. Dibble's (or Holiday Presents You will find there an elegant assortment to select from. Scarlet Flannels 34 cents a yard at H. E. Mann, 422 Wabasha w street. At Fischbein Bro'a, ladies will find the finest line of Papetrie in the city. Hand-knitted and crocheted articles of all kinds, shawls, eilk hoods for ladies and children, and a variety of children's garments, at Mrs. Herwegen.s, 28 West Third street. Bemntiful Goods. Real Point and Duchese Laces. Silk and Lisle Ho3e lor Ladies and Misses. Silk Handkerchiefs and Mufflers. Fine Fans, Jewelry and Bracelets. Newest Styles in Neckwear. New Laces and Ruchings. Spanish Lace Scarfs and Fischus. Embroidered Linen Handkerchiefs. Colored Bordered Handkerchiefs. Kid Gloves, Knit Mittens, Wristers, And many other Articles suitable for Pres ents, at c. A. Dibble*, 75 East Third Street. Holiday goods of all kinds, for ladies, gents and children, at Fischbein Bros. , 7 Corners. Jewelry. A large line of the latest styles of fancy jewelry, in plated and Jet goods, at Mrs. Her wegen's, 28 West Third. If you want a really first-class heater or cook stove, wood or coal, got* Wolterstorff A Moritz, 183 (new number) East Seventh slreet, and examine the elegant "invincible" heater, and the "Early Breakfast" cook stove, which this firm for the next ten days are going to offer at remarkably low prices. Now is the chance to buy the best stoves Made for lowest figures ever offered. Headquarter* for Kid Gloves- The genuine Foster patent-lacing Kid Gloves in all colors and sizes, for both Ladies and Gentlemen. Also, the Charlotte Kid Gloves, in four, six and ten-button lengths for Ladles, and two-buttons for Gentlemen. Children's three-button Kid Gloves, All Kid Gloves neatly fitted to the hands of purchasers, at C. A. DIBBLB'B. A good seller are the ladies and gents' re versible mitts, at Fischbein Bro's, 7 Corners. Dressmaking done in the latest styles at Miss Peterson's, 33 West Third street. En trance in Woman's Art Exchange. Brocaded Dress Goods at 9 cents a yard at H. E. Mann, 422 Wabashaw street.